¶ Synergetic Hierarchies
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"Gibbs gives you is energy associative as matter, and what the degrees of freedom are within it, and what amounts of energy would have to be added to bring about the different states.
"I find the two coming together in vertexial bonds; it has nothing to do really with faces and with edges. One bond gives me a universal joint. Mass attraction is in there. You couldn’t have the bond without mass attraction-- which is another point that isn’t in Euler at all. Gibbs really requires the mass attraction without saying so. Euler tends to be superficial and Gibbs is internal.
"Now again, I have given you circumferential complementarity and I have given you inward and outward complementarity. I have given you circumferential twoness and inward and outward twones. And I have given you circumferential oscillation. I say Gibbs is dealing in the internal angles and Euler is dealing in the external angles. This is now the integration of the topological and the quantum hierarchies… and the epistemological. It’s really very exciting that the internal angles give us what we call the chords of the arcs… This
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- RBF to EJA & BO’R, tape transcript, Chicago, 31 May’71
