PREREQUISITE FOR PERSONAL GENIUS 39 shut them down two at a time then restarted. Next they shut down three of the four engines successfully restarting. Finally the pilot shut down all four engines. A deafening silence ensued. At just about the same time both the co-pilot and the pilot remembered an interesting clause out of the specs manual which noted that an engine can only be started or restarted if (a) one of the other engines is going or (b) there is an outside power source as a booster. It was at this point that the co-pilot turned to the pilot and said, "Boy! are you in trouble!" (laughter) . . . However it wasn't long ago that in standard business practice, the water used to cool the plants and to take the effluents from the processing, the air into which we put the residue that we created as by-products of manufacturing process, those were literally called "externalities." They were externalities because they were not required on a balance sheet as part of the costs of doing business. There is no wisdom there—strictly first attention. Judy: But think about it, that's what first attention is for, short-term outcomes. Woman: You can see this in India in the taboo against killing cows. The cow's sacred status developed out of the cost /benefit relationship between eating your cow during an extended drought or else going hungry and saving the animal so that when it starts to rain again you'll be able to farm. Eventually this was brought into the cultural wisdom through the Hindu religion and now it's become a taboo to kill a cow. John; It is important in biological systems, living systems, that the triggering mechanism for any critical response in some part of our physiology not be a deficit of the very thing that that circuit is designed to supply. The breathing cycle, which is unconscious for most purposes in us, is not triggered by a deficit of oxygen. There would be no wisdom in a circuit like that. It's triggered by an excess of CO;. So the automatic
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