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"The physicists . . . had deliberately excluded what we call metaphysics. They only included ponderables-- those things they could weigh. They had great success, but at the expense of many human occupations. My definition of Universe became important because I included the dreaming, and not just the other good disciplines, but some of the nondisciplining. Now inasmuch as all our experiences begin and end, they are all finite. It is very important for us to realize that our experiences are a set of discontinuous finite packages of our awakenings and our going to sleeps and we get very finite increments. Because our experiences consist of finite packages, the aggregate of finites is finite, so my definition of Universe is finite. Now this gives me the same kind of advantage that accrued to the physicist regarding just what we call the energy universe. At least I seem theoretically to be in that position. I am used to generalization and to my mathematics, so once I have accomplished what seems to be a finite definition of Universe I wonder if this cannot be turned to advantage because one of the corollaries of synergy was that the known behavior of
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- Oregon Lecture #2, pp.58-59, 2 Jul’62
