¶ Restraints
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Restraints:
"The Platonic Solids do not stand
nothing stands in a vacuum of Universe. Nothing can change
locally without changing everything else. We have to look
for conditions where there is permitted transformability
and where there is some really great unanimity and I have
been looking for degrees of freedom-- ways in which this
could happen, the kinds of patterns that accrue to one
restraint, two restraints and so forth. You could see how
linear things could happen as the consequence of three
restraints and how planar things could happen as the
consequence of two restraints, and so forth. We then get
into a Universe of a certain number of permitted freedoms
and I have discovered that nothing was-- you might say–
rigidly related to anything else unless there were twelve
restraints so there was a minimum of twelve restraints to
develop anything we might call rigidly related set of events."
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #8, p. 285. 12 Jul’62
