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<span style="font-weight:700"><font size="4">Matter
Aspires</font></span></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>MATTER holds and expresses material energy, the subtlest
and highest form of which is electric energy. Should Matter be
confined to that alone or can it express or create, by and out of
itself, non-material energy also? What about mental energy and
thought movements-can they too be made a function of Matter?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>For example, the computing machine. It has been
developed to a marvellous extent. Not only big but complicated
calculations are done by it, not only the four major arithmetical
operations, but higher algebraic and trigonometrical problems too are
tackled successfully. The electronic computer seems to possess a
veritable mathematical brain.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It is asked now if the machine is capable of so much
mathematics, may it not be capable also of poetic creation? The
possibility has been discussed in a very lively and interesting
manner in <I>The Hibbert Journal </I>(October, '49 and january, '50).
The writer Sir Robert Watson-Watt thinks it is not impossible, indeed
quite possible, for a machine to write, for example, a sonnet. Only
the question will be with regard to the kind-the quality and
standard--of the poetic creation. What will come out of the machine
will depend upon what has been put into it, that is to say, what the
brain that constructed it succeeded in transplanting into it. The
writer after weighing the pros and cons arrives at the remarkable and
amusing conclusion that a machine built by a second class brain may
succeed in producing a poem of third class merit, but it can never
produce anything first class. To produce a first class poem through a
machine at least a first class brain' must work at it. But the pity
is that a Shakespeare or a Milton would prefer to write straight away
a poem himself instead</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>of trying to work it out through a machine which <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">may
give </FONT>out in the end only a second class or worse production.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I said it is an amusing discussion. But what is apt to
be forgotten in such &quot;scientific&quot; discussions is, as has
been pointed out by Rev. Trethowan in his criticism of Sir Robert,
that all genuine creation is <I>a freak, </I>that is to say, it is a
movement of freedom, of incalculable spontaneity. A machine is
exactly the sum of its component parts; it can give that work (both
as regards quantity and quality) which is confined within the frame
and function of the parts. Man's creative <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">power
</FONT>is precisely this that it can make two and two not merely four
but infinity. There is a force of intervention in him which &nbsp;upsets the rule of the parallelogram of forces that normally
governs Matter and even his own physical brain and mind. There is in
him truly a <I>deus ex machina. </I>Poetry, art, all creative act is
a revelation, an intrusion of a truth, a reality <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">from
</FONT>another plane, of quite a different order, into the rigid
actuality and factual determinism.. Man's secret person is a
sovereignly free will. A machine is wholly composed of
actualities-the given-and brings out only a resultant of the
permutation and combination of the data: it is a pure deduction.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But there is another even more interesting aspect of the
matter. The attempt of the machine to embody or express something
non-mechanical, to leap as high as possible from material objects to
psychological values has a special signi&shy;ficance for us today and
is not all an amusing or crazy affair. It indicates, what we have
been always saying, an involved pressure in Matter, a presence, a
force of consciousness secreted there that seeks release and growth
and expression.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The scientific spirit, that is to say, man's inquiring
mind, even when it specifically deals with Matter and material
phenomena, cannot be made to confine, to limit itself <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">to
</FONT>that region alone. It always overleaps itself and stretches
beyond its habitual and conventional frontiers. The yearning of
Matter for Light is an extraordinary phenomenon of Nature: physically
speaking, we have reached the equation of the two. But that light is
only a first signpost or symbol: it invites Matter towards higher and
freer vibration. The old determinism has given place in the heart of
Matter to significant eccentricities which seem to release other
types of <I><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&eacute;</FONT>lan. </I>When</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>the brain-mind indulges in fabricating clay-images of
God, it is not merely a foolish or idle pastime: it indicates a deep
ingrained hunger. All this reveals a will or aspiration in Matter, in
what is apparently dead and obscure <I>(acit), </I>to move and reach
out towards what is living and luminous and supremely living and
luminous <I>(cit). </I>Matter finally is to embody and express the
Spirit.</FONT><BR>
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