The Bucky Call

Proposed by Matt. Chapter 2. Humans in Universe We read Bucky to discern the truth in our lives and in the world. As we read Critical Path it is wise to consider applying the material to what you witness in final examination. For this week we will consider three topics for discussion. Topic One: On page 25 of Critical Path Bucky writes, “throughout all earlier times until yesterday, the ruling social powers assumed the human masses to be universally ignorant” Question: In what ways... Click Here to Continue Reading

  Following last week Bucky Call about Scenario Universe, I thought it would be a good idea to study what Buckminster Fuller really had in mind when talking about Universe and how precisely he defined it. Bucky always started with the universe: we must sensorialy and holisticaly experience his starting point… One bite size chunks of co-exploration... Click Here to Continue Reading

From Synergetics, by R. Buckminster Fuller. 321.01 When people say of Universe, “I wonder what is outside its outside?” they are trying to conjure a unitary conception and are asking for a single picture of an infinitely transforming, nonsimultaneous scenario. Therefore, their question is not only unanswerable but unrealistic, and... Click Here to Continue Reading

From Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth – R. Buckminster Fuller – 1969.   This “sovereign–meaning top-weapons enforced‹”national” claim upon humans born in various lands leads to ever more severely specialized servitude and highly personalized identity classification. As a consequence of the slavish “categoryitis”... Click Here to Continue Reading

  The Euclidean Greeks assumed not only that the millions of points and instant planes existed independently of one another, but that the complex was always the product of endlessly multipliable simplexes to be furnished by an infinite resource of additional components.   The persistence of the Greeks’ original mis-conceptioning of geometry... Click Here to Continue Reading

Just as you all thought I had forgotten, here is the copy of the ZhuangZi Butterfly Dream I promised to send out: Once upon a time, Chuang Chou dreamed that he was a butterfly, flying about enjoying itself. It did not know that it was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he awoke, and veritably was Chuang Chou again. He did not know whether it was Chuang Chou dreaming... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is the second part of TheBuckyCall Darwin 200 years anniversary special; see the first part: The Reality of Natural Selection. 5.15 Natural Selection and the Malthusian Principle or Competition for Limited Resources   It is a well-known fact that Darwin borrowed heavily from Thomas Malthus’s Essay on Population in his initial conception... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is the first part of TheBuckyCall Darwin 200 years anniversary special; see the second part: Natural Selection and the Malthusian Principle or Competition for Limited Resources . Natural Selection But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal,... Click Here to Continue Reading

The Bucky Call will celebrate the coming anniversary of Charles Darwin, with two special calls: Next week February 12th, we will talk about: Evolution, Specialization and Extinction… With the world specializing more and more almost exclusively on making money, isn’t the banking crisis the, in the nick of time, ‘gentle tap on the... Click Here to Continue Reading

Though Systems Minds think exploratorially, sort and compose one thought, which is one metaphysically conceptual system, which at a minimum is one tetrahedron, can interrelate any four event points or subsystems, in non-simultaneous Universe. Because of inherent non-simultaneity all thinking is tetra-tuning. The (system- thoughts) can and always does... Click Here to Continue Reading

Provided by Wayne Palmer. By Henry Meyer and Ayesha Daya Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion, suggesting the banking system is “effectively insolvent,” said New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who predicted last year’s economic crisis. “I’ve found... Click Here to Continue Reading