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• 1973 :: chance-fields = chance-felder
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  chance-fields = chance-felder (1973)
  from these years of transition, chance-fields chance-felder draws the final conclusion. it represents a turning point, to which herman de vries attaches the greatest importance. [20] the book holds a selection of abstract drawings accomponied by mathematical formulae that allowed a choice between a great number of other possibilities. but herman de vries writes: "in fact, it is more an essay on the endlessness of chance. the numbers that are calculated for the amount of possibilities in these pages are overastronomic." [21] the very expression of 'chance-fields' originates from contemporary physics and it expresses a new concept of causality. the relation between cause and effect is no longer understood as linear, irreversible and simple, but is characterized by reciprocity (feed-back), reversibility and complexity. by bringing into question the so-called intangible principles of classical physics and metaphysics (principle of contradiction and principle of causality) the most recent science seems to acknowledge the intuitions of buddhist thought which favours a non-dualistic, non-binary unfixed understanding of nature with its infinite manifoldness and constant movement.
• it is significant that the introduction to the book this time has been reduced to a single sentence. it does not explain anything but defines the best way to read the book, which is to go beyond it, toword actual reality [22] which is both its origin and its end, the question and the answer: "look back, any place, any time, to actuality, when you have read chance-fields." this book, and probably all books, is useless unless it teaches the reader to transcend it toward what herman de vries calls "actuality" (from "act") or in german wirklichkeit (from "wirken").
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