patterns, gave me an exquisite confidence in the superior effec-
tiveness potential to the individual in the direction of com-
petently apprehended, analyzed and design-applied principles
integrated to anticipate forward needs by physical translation
of the associable principles into event-control mechanisms. Tools
were consummately wedded principles, as function couples, as
variably functioning couples, differentiated out of experience,
abstracted (or generalized), in terms of ratios of advantage and
ratios of anticipated stress proportionment -- all objectively trans-
lated into the mathematically manageable but infra-sensorial
principles governing synergetic chemical structures.

I learned the process of conscious self-attunement toward
the understanding of principles and their subsequent teleologi-
cally translated anticipating effectiveness, as demonstrated in:
navigation, ballistics, logistics, ship-squadron and fleet handling
(at sea and in port), all of which attuned comprehension of
principles invariably was reduced to generalized complex equa-
tion by a process of incisive and swift differentiating-out of the
problems' complementary functions, not only from one another
but also from all of the entirely impertinent and unfavourable
a priori association factors. Then came the effective reassociation
of the selected and separated pertinent factors within a recipro-
cating, dynamic totality of now relevant but complex interactions
which methodically processed the variables in respect to the
constants.

I was fortunate in having Navy commands and very live ex-
perience in exercising comprehensive responsibility for the safety,
comfort and organizational effectiveness of large numbers of men,
as associated with, and advantaged by, a complex of exquisite
tooling. This tooling, it was clear to see, had accrued only to the
whole history of man's experiences and subsequent irrepressible
teleologic reflexes toward further anticipatory design.

Thus I saw that the teleologic design process was ever regen-
erative -- within the plurality of progressively harvested physical
principles of experience which could be converted, through ini-
tiative, to articulatable advantages, thus in turn progressively
modifying man's a priori physical environmental-hazard patterns,
and thereby bettering his effective survival chances. The tele-

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