¶ Man as a Function of Universe
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Man as a Function of Universe:
“than is given off. And the energies are impounded by the green vegetation on the dry land, which is a quarter of the Earth, and by the algae in the sea-- this is done by photosynthesis, and photosynthesis is an extraordinary process where beautiful molecules are built; and these beautiful molecules become orderly structures. This is the first transition from this increasing disorderliness, where the disorderliness has been picked up as random radiation and suddenly put into orderly form. In fact all the biologicals are developing beautiful orderly structures. And amongst all the biologicals we find by far the most interesting to us is the human being, with this drive to apprehend and comprehend and order and sort out and rearrange in more favorable ways, the same fundamental drive toward what we call antientropy. And we find the human being to have this capability of the mind over the brain, and find that the brain then is physical and it’s weighable, and it dies with the man. But what is unique to each of those lives is its weightless mind, then, metaphysical, and the metaphysical’s function apparently is to apprehend, comprehend, the physical disorder and to bring it back towards order.”
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- RBF in ‘The Listener,’ transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep’68
