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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
There are two levers for moving man
interest and fear.
The purpose creates the machine.
I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
This web of intricate connections
The grasp of objects that bind us to some betokening.
Behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve ... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
As D. H. Lawrence said, I am not a mechanism.
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING
The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect ... it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
Chance and necessity.
Pressing a note on the harpsichord's keyboard would, via an elaborate mechanical action,
Actions are stairs and reactions are slides
I just wondered how things were put together.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only physical conditions but also emotions. They can touch the nerves, the blood, the muscles, the eyes and the moods of people.
Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.
Attack by Stratagem
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.
Choice and chance structure art and nature.
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.
The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
it was not so much the new machines that revolutionized the world, impressive and important as they were. The truly heroic invention was the economic, social, and political institutions in which these machines were embedded.
itself. The bypass was originally conceived with no
The Secret: Law of Attraction
Having a powerful enough WHY will provide you with the necessary HOW
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
Occasionally one speaks ... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order ...
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.
To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
Coffee, creativity, keyboard. The plot thickens.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.
I watch them through the glass: specimens. Flies. I watch them. And I know. In ways normal men cannot: I know. I see thing: beyond things. I see the strands of fate that bind us: victims to victor. So let them scream; let them shout my name. My ears hear nothing but the weaving of the web.
Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
There is beauty not only in that things work, but how they work.
If you look hard enough at any system, at some point it is going to reveal its patterns, habits, and operations.
Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play ... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.
This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance ...
magic redistribution.
Cleverly designed experiments are the key.
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things.
Something ... activated ... by psychic power. Do I have to explain weaponry, or can you manage that alone?' - Gabriel
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Through measurement to knowledge.
Tactics are manipulative.
It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied - what
A technique is a trick that works.
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets ...
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design ... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
It is human choices that move events.
Behavior of a system whose parts display a choice cannot be explained by mechanical or biological models.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms ... against the unconscious.
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals.
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
Methods are the masters of masters.