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Local vs. Comprehensive:
"I guess as a consequence of trends that I observe that we will always have a limited function, that we are meant to be a local function and not the comprehensive function. This is the nearest thing we’ve come to what we probably mean by the word ‘god’: it’s a great comprehensive integrity, the all-knowing integrity of the Universe.
"I discuss this in The Game of Life, Chapter 43 of NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON. (I took it out just before it got published because I was afraid it would be much too esoteric for people in the 1930’s; I thought it might hurt the credibility of the rest of the book at that time.) In it I have god deciding to test his own infallibility, the real integrity of the Universe, himself; and we have a totality of the time which is for the moment expressed as a sphere, which looks like a circle; and we have then a dropout, an ego dropout, that’s a tiny little section of arc of the enormous circle, so short that it looks like a straight line; and it thinks it’s straight and breaks out and starts falling away.
“So at first there’s a great big circle with this tiny little line dropping away from it; and as it gets further and further”
