¶ Minimum Set of Patterns
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Minimum Set of Patterns:
“There is a minimum set of patterns that is a consequence of this set of patterns reacting with that set of patterns. In order to have a monkey wrench you also have got to have a store, and in order to have a store you have to have other things. You have to have all the great complex of events, and we get then to a minimum set of complementary events where the system then regenerates itself and we come to what we might call Universe. It is interesting then to discover that this tends to be a clearly defined inventory of relative abundance of the various chemical element patterns in the Universe so that you need then a great deal of the pattern hydrogen and you don’t need as much of the pattern Uranium.”
- Revised context at Monkey Wrench, 30 Oct’73
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 167-168. 9 Jul’62
