…scouring catastrophe. So you see, there is a built in to the larger systems of nature, an enormous what my mentor Eric Jansch used to call metastability. They are metastable, they are not easily deflected. An event as large as a planetesimal impact…

…lightly give up a species, a molecular arrangement, a star system. These things are held together. They're what Eric Jansch called metastable, or what Rupert Sheldrake calls their morphogenetic field. Their appetite for coherency perpetuates them through time.…

…blindly run in Whitehead's Phrase, Schrodinger Brilliantly anticipated the discovery of DNA and then Joseph Needham and l l white well Eric Jansch should be mentioned, actually as a precursor of us all, I think I mean Eric Jansch was a great pioneer, a…

…Needham and l l white well Eric Jansch should be mentioned, actually as a precursor of us all, I think I mean Eric Jansch was a great pioneer, a great soul and he saw very deeply into whole systems as did Ilya Prigozhin, the Belgian Thermodynamicist…

…Let's see anything else. I guess I should just sum it up. The concept which lies behind this is the idea of guiding images. Eric Jansch who I think we all related to used to talk about this that a society has to be given guiding images. Mcluhan said…

…society in which they are embedded. And strangely enough my own career somewhat paralleled that model, as I was a student of Eric Jansch, who was one of the great forecasters of the last ten years systems theorist as I recall systems theorist exactly and…

…the present situation, probably fated to grow and flower over the next 25 years. You know I think it's interesting that you mention Eric Jansch. He wrote a book I believe it was called design for evolution, and in that book I was very interested in how…

…about the evolution of the novel, the sonata socialism. It has to involve genes. Well largely through the work of Eric Jansch who we mentioned last night, this was overthrown. I don't believe that everything is finished somehow in some deterministic sense…

…this planet scouring catastrophe. So you see there is built in to the larger systems of nature an enormous, what my mentor Eric Jansch used to call Meta Stability. They are Meta Stable they are not easily deflected. An event as large as a planetesimal…

…and so far the cultural engineers have not stressed enough that the erotic element be included in the engineering of the human future. Eric Jansch was a good friend of mine and many of you may know his books. He and I used to argue about space colonies…