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"I am quite confident that, in terms of the 70 tons approximately of vegetables and cows that we process, and enormous tons of water that each of our 170 pounds processes, that we are not the water, and so forth, any more than the knot is the rope that it is sliding along. In other words, I would say that what you call the tangible me is like the water that told me that a wave went by… That I am a pattern integrity is the information relayed to you by virtue of the vegetables I happened to eat and the water I happened to drink, but which was neither you nor me, and of whwhich there were, say, 70 tons which got processed by a pattern that doesn’t weigh anything.
“Therefore I look at human beings as a complex of patterns–as enormous knoats, like the knot on the rope, a fabulous number of knots, all of them sliding along on various inhibit- able patterns. I could put tracers on the food that you and I are going to eat. In fact, all of us, a month from today are going to be eating something. If we found out where and what we are going to eat next month–where it is right now-- that might be interesting. It might be some spinach in Texas. But at any rate there will be some air that is going over the”
