Spencer Heath Archive

Item 310

Penciling by Heath on lined notepad paper

Spring 1958

     There is organization in the physical world — a rational order that physical science seeks to understand and explain — so that there may be mental conceptions of it correspondingly organized as is the thing itself.

     Physics, as such, is quantitative, without regard to any human aspirations, ideals or desires — except the desire and aspiration to understand. Being quantitative it can be rational through there being ratios between and among the quantities observed or ascertained. Thus the quantities may be numerically ascertained and this presupposes units of measurement.

     The phenomenal world is a world not merely of structures, substances, masses or particles; it is a world of happenings, action or events. And events constitute the whole world of objective experience — the objective side of the interaction between that which is conscious and that which it is conscious of.