¶ Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System
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Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System:
"No otherness, no awareness. But a physicist has told me that there are philosophers who will not go along with me on that proposition of self and otherness because you can also be aware of yourself. So then I say you can be aware of yourself as a system. You have your insideness and your outsideness and there is your otherness right there. Any one aspect of the minimum system aspects may be observing the others. There is always otherness because the system (which includes the self as system) is a complex of 30-fold irreducible aspects.
"You can be either a system looking at another system or you can be a system looking at yourself. But that is otherness. Unity is plural and at minimum 30. Isn’t that nice? I used to talk about unity as plural and at minimum two, but if you want to separate out, then there is really an inherent 30.
“That is really so incontrovertible. This is how the mind starts… Those are the edges of an icosahedron. They are aspects. So I see that is the otherness, the other system. The electron is the icosahedron, that 30-otherness lurking around there that refuses to compound with the otherness. You cannot add the Icosa to the VE; you can add it to itself and it comes back and makes an octahedron again.”
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- RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.6; 8 Jun’75
