¶ Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System
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Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System:
"Considering just that which is thinkable or any convergence of events that is think-aboutable, if you are dealing with what you would call substance then you must be dealing with insideness and outsideness. The insideness and outsideness divides the macrocosmic and the microcosmic. Two points do not have insideness. Three points do not have insideness. One point defines a point. Two points define a line. Three points define a plane. Four points define volume: an insideness and outsideness.
"So we come to a system that consists of a number of irreducible aspects. The four points have six lines connecting them and there are four triangular windows and 12 angles. This gives you a total of four points plus six edges plus four windows, that makes 14; plus 12 angles, makes 26; plus a concave and a convex, which is 28; and there is also the outsideness and the insideness, for a total of 30. I find that there are 30 irreducible aspects of anything. If you come to anything it has a 30-foldedness. This is quite exciting.
“Now I have said that there is only one word that I can find that gives me an operational definition of what we call life–what I am experiencing–and it is ‘awareness.’ And I’ve said”
