The Unifying Factor
(The Value: Character)

Introduction

During a four year collegiate association two of the main characters, Carlos Fontana (poet) and Gilbert Shasta (mathematician), chat their way through a different view of life based on a very simple concept: everything in life, from the smallest divisible particle, to the all inclusive Universe, have their own independent intent vectors.

This is the same as saying: a young man needs a job (this is his intent vector), while over there an established company needs to find another worker (that's their intent vector). The resultant convergence of their relationship either provides a mutual solution or results in a frictional breakdown.
The wonder of this simple description is that according to Gilbert, "...it applies even to objects which at first appear to have no mind at all." It was this assertion which Gilbert made to the scientific community that immediately set them against him.
Deciding he didn't need the help of anyone who could not see the "mind" behind the chaos Gilbert turned to his college friend Carlos; concluding the young man who helped him formulate the hypothesis would likely understand the proposition. Furthermore Gilbert felt Carlos was very likely going to help him see the deeper poetry of life. Even so Gilbert was quite aware he would have to explain, in great detail, the concepts behind his new mathematical principals to a man who only responds to direct experience.

The Unifying Factor
(The Value: Character)

"Character is a self-definition of relational associations; even with the very small (protons, gluons, quarks...) this is an important fact. In life this is as simple as saying: "That's just the way they are." ---> In Matrimatics it's about orders of magnitude.
[Gilbert Shasta]

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