¶ Periodic Experience
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Periodic Experience:
"accumulated experience to which the new experience must always be dissynchronous, but only at the moment of original interference, else the new interaction of the greater complex of truth would not have been recognizable and acquirable as new experience and tactical advantage.
"The greatest overall misapprehension regarding the complex-continuities is that which assigns a static or ‘at rest’ analysis to the sum total sensation of individual experience and consequently to the sum total of all individuals’ experience. Against the inertia of a seemingly static whole, each new harmonic incorporation of life therefore seemingly impinges as a dynamic perversity. This is why we frequently remark, ‘Man tends to back up into his future.’
“In addition to the simple arithmetical, algebraic, and geometrical progressions of the first, second, and third degrees of acceleration, mathematics discloses other series, and superseries, of superficially unpredictable mathematical frequencies because they are composed of complementary and reciprocal numbers whose products alone, though never occurring”
