A biographer is like a contractor who builds roads: It is terribly messy, mud everywhere, and when you get done, people travel over the road at a fast clip. We must not think of ourselves as having boundaries as definite as a shall round an egg. It is like believing that objects are separated from each other by black pencil lines, the way they are drawings. Physically we are all separate. My eyes are mine, not yours. Your digestion is yours, not mine His measles are his, not ours. Psychologically this simply is not so. “My” mother is more than “my” teacher is; “my” apple is even more under my control but it is less reciprocal. I am my mother’s son, my teacher’s pupil, but hardly my apple’s eater. Then again, my mother is also my sister’s mother; and interestingly, “my mother” may be more mine than “our mother’ is—or less, it depends on the facts of the situation. However, what is not in dispute is that, when I say “my mother and I,” the boundaries between and around us are different from what I say “our mother and I.” Again, I can think of “I” in a very narrow sense as in “I am going to Australia”—the boundaries round my person and my plans sound clear. However, what is I say, “We are thinking of going to Australia”? Does this represent a picture of me thinking, and of my two friends, each also thinking? Or does it represent the result of our discussion in which each of us has contributed? #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

How are to think of “us” and “we”? We go wrong, I think, when we cling too tenaciously to metaphors which makes our psychological boundaries correspond to our bodily ones. Our digestive processes happen in a place—the stomach—which has a distinct skin round it, but we do not have skins round our minds. Our boundaries are where we are in touch with other people and things. To keep fresh, we need from time to time to re-examine the language in terms of which we try to understand our relationships to others. We are trying to get away from too strong a reliance on the distinction between inner and outer Worlds. This has in my view created some unnecessary problems, not least because of the emphasis it places on the separateness of you from me. To some extent, the distinction between inner and outer Worlds derives from our experience of our bodily self. The senses develop in a sequence which, if all goes well, brings the infant only very gradually into encounters with other people and things. The two most important senses that provide the perceptions which form the basis for the discover of “objects” are sight and touch. Both of them are undeveloped in the first postnatal months, as they need a considerable degree of muscular co-ordination to work properly; as is well known, binocular vision does not exist in the first weeks of life. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

Moreover both sight and touch, together with hearing, are projective sense; they feel, place or construct the object outside the body, either at a distance (sight and hearing) or at it surface (touch). The situation is utterly different with the two-lower sense, which are well, perhaps even fully, operative at birth. In their function there is hardly any projection; we feel small and tase inside our body—in our mouth or in our nose; moreover, the sensations themselves, more often than not, have nothing to do with objects, only with substances. Here we get some idea of how and why the mixup between ourselves and the World around us has come about. Looking at it as an external detached observer, we recognize that it is based on an interaction between the individual and the external World; one may say that the World has intruded or penetrated into the individual’s mouth or nose, and equally correctly that the individual has taken in parts of the external World—penetrated into it. The same kind of mixup occurs with the sense of temperature, though to a lesser degree. In fact, it forms a transition between the lower and the higher senses, id est, those based on mixup and those using projection. Cold and warmth are felt partly as coming from outside, partly as a state of our own body or even of ourselves: we feel warm or it is warm. Also, the organization of our sense is the cause of the way we think about “in here” and “out there.” By virtue of having two eyes and two ears we can locate stimuli whose source is “out there,” as it were stereoscopically. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

From the energy configurations that excite some of our receptors, we are able to construct a “World-Out-There.” The excitations of sight and hearing we especially tend to interpret as distant from the receptors excited. We sense we are touching, tasting, or smelling something apart from our own receptor reactions. When our perceptions are patterned in conditions of bilateral symmetry, the sum of such perceptions constitutes our World-Out-There. When these conditions are not present, we do not perceive objects and occurrences; instead we construct a World-within on the basis of our subjective feelings. In contrast to perceptions, subjective feelings are those phenomena, those ghosts which we immediately attribute to what is within the boundary, that bag we call the skin, which demarcates “Us” from the “Other.” It is not surprising that some thoughtful minds which were once prone to believe sincerely in the existence of such a faculty as intuition and willing to accept its revelations, as made by others, found their confidence in it gravely shaken. We ventured to point out that egoistic emotions and unconscious complexes frequently masquerade as mystical intuitions, that criticism should be directed solely against such pseudo-institutions and should not be casting doubts upon the existence of genuine intuition itself. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

It is admittedly hard to distinguish intuition from its counterfeits, but one way to do so is that it often opposes personal emotions. Thus we may feel strongly and naturally prejudiced against a certain course of action yet a gentler feeling may be in its favour. If it is authentic intuition, one will feel increasingly convinced by it as days and weeks pass until in the end its truth will seem unarguable to one. When one’s self-training and checked experience have gone far enough, the doubts and uncertainties regarding these intuitive feelings will vanish. By that time, they will appear in one’s consciousness as peculiar and unmistakable. What intuition reveals the deepest thought confirms. Of every individual who has reached the stage of being a unit (with a limiting membrane and an outside and an inside), it can be said that there is an inner reality to that individual, an inner World which can be rich or poor and can be at peace or in a stage of war. This way of thinking is very common—in the West at least—and it usually works well enough as a metaphor, providing we do not go constructing the World in this way and then believing that that is the way the World is. There is also a third area, neither inner nor outer, a potential space, a culture space. Christian theologians and probably mystics of many persuasions have had conceptual problems of exactly the same nature. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

While the devout are said to live in Christ, Christ is also said to live in them. The process of differentiation of the object derives particular significance from the fact that infantile dependence is characterized not only by identification, but also b an oral attitude of incorporation. In virtue of this fact, that object with which the individual is identified becomes equivalent to an incorporated object, or, to put the matter in a more arresting fashion, the object in which the individual is incorporated is incorporated in the individual. This strange psychological anomaly may well prove the key to many metaphysical puzzles. Be that as it may, however, it is common to find in dreams a remarkable equivalence between being inside an object and having the object inside. Thinking about ourselves in terms of an inside and an outside can lead us into some tenacious traps. This kind of allocation creates a spatial phantasy of our psychic World: an inner World with an outer World around it, like the pre-Galilean system of the Earth with the sun, stars, and the planets circling round it. This spatial way of thinking has proved so powerful that people have drawn conclusions from it which might perhaps be warranted if there really were such spaces, but which can also cause confusion. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

Admittedly, in the history of thought it has proved a useful discipline to regard some facts as subjective and others as objective: facts which several people agree on have normally been regarded as more objective than those which are held only by a single person. Facts held by only one person are usually not called facts, but views, opinions, or less politely, delusions or hallucinations, and they are regarded as subjective, not objective. The more people agree on a fact or on the scientific propriety with which something has been established as a fact, the more objective that fact is considered to be. It is, therefore, not surprising that objective facts have come to be thought of as belonging to a realm called “the outer World”: the World of shared reality. Similarly, the subjective experiences of individuals have been allocated to a realm called the “the inner World.” But is this the best way to think of my experience of you? The notion that God’s voice is necessarily accompanied by occult phenomena or heard clairaudiently inside oneself is a very limited one. It may be totally unaccompanied by anything strange or, as if it were conscience, felt rather than heard. Or it may speak to one indirectly through any other person or any circumstantial event that touches one’s path. The passing of time will either disprove one’s judgements or prove them correct. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

One ought to note carefully this eventual result and compare it with the feelings which possessed one at the tie of making one’s original decisions. In this way one can learn to see for oneself the difference between the marks of a true intuition and those of a false one. An intuition comes into the mind suddenly. However, so does an impulse. Therefore it is not enough to take this mark alone to identify it. It is strong; so is an impulse. It is clear; so is an impulse. To separate the deceptive appearance from the genuine reality of an intuition, look for the trail of assurance, relief, ad peace to follow in its wake. It is never present without certain qualities being present with it, too. There is first an utter serenity, then a steady joy, next an absolute conviction of its truth and reality, finally the paradoxical feelings of a rock-firm security despite any appearance of adverse outer circumstances. The process is partly an unconscious one, they know, because something is being done to them by this higher power. They cannot exactly define why they must accept its truth, but its mental effect is almost hypnotic. It is an intuition which is self-supporting, which must be accepted upon its own mysterious authority. Nor do they accept it because of its inherent strength alone. They accept it also because of its inherent beauty. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Intuitive feelings hover in one, half-guessed at, half-doubted: one does not know what to accept, what to reject, because one does not feel certain whether they are mere ordinary thoughts or authentic messages from Heaven. Raising and training animals may be expensive, but what happens when we go down the evolutionary scale to the level of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms? Here we can harness life in its primitive forms just as we once harnessed the horse. Today emerging and it promises to chance the very nature of industry as we know. Our ancestors domesticated various plant and animal species in the prehistoric past. However, microorganisms were not domesticated until very recently, primarily because humans did not know of their existence. Today they do, and they are already used in the large-scale production of vitamins, enzymes, antibiotics, citric acid and other useful compounds. Edible microbial biomass derived from bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi or microalgae has become a promising alternative to conventional forces of food and feed. Microorganisms are a good source of protein, vitamins and, in some cases, also contain beneficial lipids. The ability of microorganisms to use simple organic substrates for growth permits industrial-scale cultivation of edible microbial biomass in geographical locations that will not compete with agricultural production. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

Only a handful of microbial products are currently available for human consumption. However, it was predicted in 1960s, that if the pressure for food continues to intensify, biologist will be growing microorganism for use as animal feed and human food by the year 2000. The use of microbial biomass for animal feed is limited by access to low-cost growth substrates and competition from conventional feed sources such as soy and fishmeal. At a time when the global food production system is threatened by human activity, the production of edible microorganisms has the potential to circumvent many of the current environmental boundaries of food production as well as reducing its environmental impact. Photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria and microalgae can be cultivated for food and feed independently of arable land. In addition, recent technological developments in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, extraction and catalytic conversion into simple organic compounds can be used for cultivation of edible microbial biomass for food and feed in a manner that is wholly independent of photosynthesis. The future possibilities, challenges and risks of scaled-up production of edible microbial biomass in relation to the global food system something we really need to consider. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Population growth, changing consumption patters and changing climates are collectively putting a strain on the global food production system. The human population is estimated to reach 9.6 – 12.3 billion people by the year 2100. Retaining the current food production model to satisfy future global food demand therefore has the potential to trap humanity in a vicious spiral of gradually decreasing agricultural output. Because of operating costs and global trends, agricultural yields for the major crops suggest that yield increasing alone will be insufficient for adequately feeing the human population by 2050. The majority of land area currently dedicated to food production is used for feeing animals—either as pasture or cultivation. The current global trends is we see with improving living standards that they are causing an increase in the per capita consumption of animal proteins such as meat, eggs, and dairy products. We need to increase food production by 70 percent.  Microorganisms can be used as alternatives to conventional means of food production by facilitating the creation of lab-grown meat and vertical farming crops. Vertical farming or “plant factories”—terms which describe vertically-stacked, fully controlled environments used to produce food—have the potentials to help societies meet this elevated demand, without the need for additional farmland. Vertical farming will also decrease the need to import fresh fruits and vegetables. Lab-grown meat or culture meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal has been approved in some countries like Singapore. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

No-kill, lab-grown meat called “chicken bites,” produced by the United States of America company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to a future when all meat is produced without the killing of livestock. Dozens of firms are developing cultivated chicken, beef, and pork. The cells for Eat Just’s product are grown in a 1,200-litre bioreactor and then combined with plant-based ingredients. The cells used to start the process came from a cell bank and did not require the slaughter of a chicken because cells can be taken from biopsies of live animals. The nutrients supplied to the growing cells were all from plants. The growth medium for the Singapore production lines includes foetal bovine serum, which is extracted from foetal blood, but this is largely removed before consumption. And a plant-based serum is expected to be used in the next production line. The product was significantly more expensive than conventional chicken until production was scaled up, but Eat Just said it would ultimately be more cost efficient. New technology is always very expensive, until it becomes widely used. A series of scientific studies have shown that people in rich nations eat more meat than their ancestors, and that with lab-grown meat, it should wean committed meat-eaters off traditional sources, which will reduce the strain on the environment and animal population. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Vegan diets are viewed as unappealing by some, and plant-based meat replacements are not always regarded as replicating the texture and flavour of conventional meant. Meat cultivated in bioreactors will meet or exceed standards and avoids the issues of bacterial contamination from animal waste and the overuse of antibiotics and hormones in animals. Once scaled up, the small scale of current cultured meat produced is expected to produce much lower emissions and use far less water and land than conventional meat. “I think the approval is one of the most significant milestones in the food industry in the last handful of decades. It is an open door and it is up to us and other companies to take that opportunity. My hope is this leads to a World in the next handful of years where the majority of meat does not require killing a single animal or tearing down a single tree,” reports Josh Tetrick, of Eat Just. The cultured chicken is nutritionally the same as conventional meat. Some challenged are, however, getting regulatory approval in other nations. Another company, Supermeat.co in Israel, has just begun free public tastings involving a “crispy cultured chicken.” Industry experts said other companies including Memphis Meats, Mosa Meat, and Aleph Farms, might do well in future as they were working on textured products such as steaks and were able to produce significant amounts of lab-grown meat from the starts. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

A new space face for the future of food is underway. Tyson and Cargill, two of the World’s biggest conventional meat companies, now have a stake in Memphis Meats. It is predicted that by 2040 most meat will not come from conventional sources. Cultured meat production is expected to take the World by storm, and experts are convinced that cultured meat will address the health and environmental impact issues that traditional meat has when produced in a highly industrialized way. Cultured meat is expected to be a household favourite and replace traditional meat. At Uppsala University in Sweden, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Arne Tiselius, the Nobel prizewinning biochemist who was once president of the Nobel Foundation itself. “Is it conceivable,” I asked, “that one day we shall create, in effect, biological machines—systems that can be used for productive purposes and will be composed not of plastic or metal parts, but of living organisms?” His answer was roundabout, but unequivocal: We are already there. The great future industry will come from biology. In fact, one of the most striking things about the tremendous technological development of Japan since the war has been not only its shipbuilding, but its microbiology. Japan is now the greatest power in the World in industry based on microbiology. Much of their food and food industry is based on processes in which bacteria are used. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

Now Japan will produce all sorts of useful things—amino acids, for example. In Sweden everybody now talks about the need to strengthen our position in microbiology. You see, one need not think in terms of bacteria and viruses alone. The industrial processes, in general, are based on humanmade processes. You make steel by a reduction of iron ore with coal. Think of the plastic industries, artificial products made originally from petroleum. Yet it is remarkable that even today, with the tremendous development of chemistry and chemical technology, there is no single food-stuff produced industrially which can compete with what the farmers grow. In this field, and in a great many fields, nature is far superior to humans, even to the most advanced chemical engineers and researchers. Now what is the consequences of that? When we gradually get to know how nature makes these things, and when we can imitate nature, we will have processes of an entirely new kind. These will form the basis for industries of a new kind—a sort of bio-technical factory, a biological technology. The green plants make starch with the assistance of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the sun. This is an extremely efficient machine. The green leaf is a marvelous machine. We know a great deal more about it today than sixty or seventy years ago. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

 We admire plants and their use of solar energy. They have an unparalleled mastery of photochemical synthesis—the way they use light to synthesize energy from the most fundamental of substances—and how they reverse the ordinary process of combustion is amazing. In photosynthesis, law an entirely renewable process of energy creation. When sunlight reached the surface of a green leaf, it sets off a reaction inside the leaf. Chloroplasts, energize by the light, trigger the production of chemical products—essentially sugars—which store the energy such that the plant can later access it for its biological needs. It is an entirely renewable process; the plant harvests the immense and constant supply of solar energy, absorbs carbon dioxide and water, and releases oxygen. There is no waste. If scientists could learn to imitate photosynthesis by providing concentrated carbon dioxide and suitable catalyzers, they could create fuels from solar energy. With well-adapted systems of cultivation and timely intervention, we may succeed in causing plants to produce, in quantities much larger than the normal ones, the substances which are useful to our modern life. Dr. Peidong Yang, a chemist at UC Berkeley, successfully created the first photosynthetic biohybrid system (PBS) 22 April 2015. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

The first-generation PBS uses semiconductors and live bacteria to do the photosynthetic work that real leaves do—absorb solar energy and create a chemical product using water and carbon dioxide, while releasing oxygen—but it creates liquid fuels. The process is called artificial photosynthesis, and if the technology continues to improve, it may become the future of energy. How does this system work? Dr. Yang’s PBS can be thought of as a synthetic lead. It is a one-square-inch tray that contains silicon semiconductors and living bacteria; what Dr’ Yang calls a semiconductor-bacteria interface. In order to initiate the process of artificial photosynthesis, Dr. Yang dips the tray of materials into water, pumps carbon dioxide into the water, and shines a solar light on it. As the semiconductors harvest solar energy, they generate charges to carry out reactions within the solution. The bacteria take electrons from the semiconductors and sue them to transform, or reduce, carbon dioxide molecules and create liquid fuels. In the meantime, water is oxidized on the surface of another semiconductor to release oxygen. After several hours or several days of this process, the chemist can collect the product. With this first-generation system, Dr. Yang successfully produced butanol, acetate, polymers, and pharmaceutical precursors, imitating plants to create the fuels that we need. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

The PBS achieved a solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency of 0.38 percent, which is comparable to the conversion efficiency in a natural, green leaf. “Our system has the potential to fundamentally change the chemical and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep blow the ground,” reports Dr. Yang. If Dr. Yang’s system can be successfully scaled up, businesses could build artificial forests that produce the fuel for our Ultimate Driving Machines, planes, and power plants by following the same laws and processes that natural forests allow. Ince artificial photosynthesis would absorb and reduce carbon dioxide in order to create fuels, we could continue to use liquid in order to create fuels, we could continue to use liquid fuel without destroying the environment or warming the planet. In August of 2015, Dr. Yang and his tea tested his system with a different type of bacteria. The method is the same, expect instead of electrons, the bacteria used molecular hydrogen from water molecules to reduce carbon dioxide and create methane, the primary component of natural gas. This process is projected to have an impressive conversion efficiency of 10 percent, which is much higher than the conversion efficiency in natural leaves. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

There are many such machines in nature. Such processes will be put to work. Rather than trying to synthesize products chemically, we will, in effect grow them to specification. One might even conceive of biological components in machines—in computers, for example. It is quite obvious that computers so far are just imitations of our brains. Once we learn more about how the brain acts, I would be surprised if we could not construct a sort of biological components in the real brain. And at some distant point in the future it is conceivable that biological elements themselves might be part of the machine. BMW already has this technology. Since the electric drive system of the BMW iX requires only a small amount of cooling air, the kidney grille is completely blanked off. Its role has duly turned digital and it now functions as an “intelligence panel.” Camera technology, radar functions and other sensors are integrated seamlessly into the grille behind a transparent surface. The heating elements and cleaning system for the sensors are also embedded in the grille front. The self-healing effect of its surface can repair minor scratches, for example—within 24 hours at room temperature or through a five-minute supply of warm air. BMW called the grille an example of “shy tech,” such features incorporated into the vehicle subtly enough that they go unnoticed until you use them. Humans are on the path toward integrating living tissues in the processes of physical mechanism. We shall have in the near future machines constituted at one and the same time of metal and of living substance. In the light of this, the human body itself takes on new meaning. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

I pray today to the King of Fire, great God, triple God. There is someone here who needs you, someone who is sick. I ask you to being your healing flame, the warmth of life, into one, burning away all that is making one sick, that I might always have a cause to praise you. Please guide us to the right path, protector of the way. Please steer us toward the proper goal, guardian of the path. Please open the road that should be traveled to us, Lord of going. May you walk with me, as I go on my way, walking yourself in front, clearing the way. The Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: Speak unto the children of America, and bid them make fringes in the corners of their garments throughout their generations, putting upon the fringe of each corner a thread of blue. And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray: That ye may remember to do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the Town to be your God; I am the Lord your God. True and firm, right and faithful, beloved and precious, good and beautiful is this Thy teaching unto us forever and ever. It is true that the God of the Universe is our King, and the Rock of Jacob is our protecting shield and Jesus Christ is our Saviour. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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