Creative Thought Must Always Contain A Random

In The Transmission Of Human Culture, People Always Attempt To Replicate, To Pass On To The Next Generation The Skills And Values Of The Parents, But The Attempt Always Fails Because Cultural Transmission Is Geared To Learning, Not Dna.

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future. We Shall Never Be Able To Say, "ha! My Perception, My Accounting For That Series, Will Indeed Cover Its Next And Future Components," Or "next Time I Meet With These Phenomena, I Shall Be Able To Predict Their Total Course."

Number Is Different From Quantity. This Difference Is Basic For Any Sort Of Theorizing In Behavioral Science, Any Sort Of Imagining Of What Goes On Between Organisms Or Inside Organisms As Part Of Their Processes Of Thought.

I Shall Argue That The Problem Of Grace Is Fundamentally A Problem Of Integration And What Is To Be Integrated Is The Diverse Parts Of The Mind - Especially Those Multiple Levels Of Which One Extreme Is Called 'consciousness' And The Other The 'unconscious'