¶ Vessel
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"Inspired by nature’s nut, mollusk, egg, and vegetable shells, men learned, hundreds of milleniums ago, how to hollow out or build up and bind together hydraulic containers or vessels. Learning gradually how to expand the vessel-making art, men finally hollowed out largelogs and then later shaped and tied together tree planks, later bent around stout frames. They pitch-sealed the seams between planks to exclude, rather than include, the hydraulic element, as had their earlier water-holding vessel, the vase-- yes, short for vessel.
“Vessels represent man’s discovery not only of the generalized principles governing stabilized separations of liquids and gases anywhere locally in Universe, but also of the generalized solution of local environment pattern-controlling by man within the otherwise frequently hostile, if not lethal, environment event patterning of total energetic Universe. Vessels embrace the fundamental principle of finite local system mathematics. Vessels, as systems, divide the Universe into two main parts-- the withinness and the withoutness.”
