Spencer Heath Archive

Item 363

Penciled by Heath on notepad paper.

No date

Quantum, as particle, is mass having a property called force or inertia in virtue of which property the mass has motion and resists change of motion.

A particle — a particular mass — always has motion, hence never any particular position.

Particular masses, in virtue of particular motion undergo change of relationship

All action presupposes whatever acts, every verb a subject. Every action includes reaction. That which reacts is called the object of the subject. The subject acts upon the object; the object reacts upon the object /subject?/.

All action (and reaction) is discontinuous — made up of discrete events

In human action, the subject acts, the object reacts. This is called experience.

EXPERIENCE

Action that takes place within the individual is called subjective action or experience —

Action in which the individual has no part is wholly objective or abstract and plays no part in human experience.

Experience has two sides, action by the individual and reaction by environment.

Action and reaction between or among individuals is inter-action.

Life for an individual consists of interactions within the individual — those actions that are integrative (anabolic) prevailing over those that are disintegrative (catabolic).

Life for a Society consists of interactions among its individuals — those actions that are integrative (contractual and creative) prevailing over those that are disintegrative (coercive and destructive — disintegrative).

Individual life apart from Society is at the expense of environment — diminishes the order (rationality) in the environment.

Individual life interacting creatively with individual life constitutes the life, the functioning, of the Society.

Society acts creatively on its environment. It increases the order in the environment.

Society thus builds its environment into higher degrees of order. It dominates disorder by creating order to prevail over disorder — an order greater than the needs of its individuals can destroy.

Society creates in its environment ever increasing order and abundance to sustain ever increasing life and length of days for its individuals.