¶ Man: Relative Abundance of Chemical Elements in Man and Universe (1)
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Man: Relative Abundance of Chemical Elements in Man and Universe:
"I began to ponder on ways of looking at the human being as a complex of patterns and I began to look at the inventorying being done by the physicist, particularly the astrophysicists, when they began to look at some relatively large patterns of what they call the relative abundance of the chemical elements occurring in the different local systems of universe. . .
"I began to play a game of looking at relative total abundances of various patterns in various systems and looking at a daisy and looking at a tortoise and looking at a waste basket, and I found that the relative abundance of the fundamental patterns called chemical elements vary greatly. . .
"What began to interest me very much was the fact that human beings have many more chemical elements or patterns in their total relative abundance of all the patterns. They have many more patterns than you have in the daisy or tortoise and they have many more than you have in the Sun. . .
"What do I find that in any way looks like the fundamental inventory of relative abundance of patterns called chemical elements in man? What does he match if he doesn’t match
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- Oregon Lecture #5, 9 Jul’62
