You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The structural differential diagram / 31
“If we take something, anything, let us say the object . .
.called pencil, and inquire what it represents, according to
science 1933, we find that the scientific object represents
an event, a mad dance of electrons, which is different
every instant, which never repeats itself, which is known
to consist of extremely complex dynamic processes of
very fine structure, acted upon by, and reacting upon,
the rest of the universe, inextricably connected with
everything else and dependent upon everything else.”
(Korzybski, Science and Sanity, p. 387)
This constant movement of “energy” now becomes subatomic
‘energies’ of the universe, which we will represent as
the physics level (D) and the microscopic level (E) in the
ONE SUBSTANCE Diagram.
“We do not know how big the universe is; we only
can say that it appears to be indefinitely large, extending
very far but we do not know how far.” (Pula, General
Semantics Seminar, Tape 103-A)
“The universe [at this level] consists of indefinitely
many subatomic energies, which we can represent as
dots in the parabola (see Structural Differential Diagram
pg. 41)—each dot representing some sort of subatomic
energy particle . . . Korzybski called this part of the
diagram the event or process level (Korzybski, Science
and Sanity, p. 387). I will use the term process level to
remind us of the dynamic quality of the universe [which
for Korzybski begins at the process or quantum level].”
(Sawin)
This place is critical to note. THAT SUBSTANCE contracts
forming consciousness, when in movement Korzybski calls it
Please note, that Korzybski via Sawin does not begin with THAT ONE
SUBSTANCE. Before the concept of large or small, infinite or large, etc.,
is THAT ONE SUBSTANCE, all else follows.