Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic. Useful to you, gentlemen, but no longer so to us here. If you want the truth _ I know I presume _ you must look into the technology of these matters. Even into the hearts of certain molecules _ it is they after all which dictate temperatures, pressures, rates of flow, costs, profits, the shapes of towers_''You must ask two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control?
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These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic. Useful to you, gentlemen, but no longer so to us here. If you want the truth _ I know I presume _ you must look into the technology of these matters. Even into the hearts of certain molecules _ it is they after all which dictate temperatures, pressures, rates of flow, costs, profits, the shapes of towers_''You must ask two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control?
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