Life And 'mind' Are Systemic Processes.

The Major Problems In The World Are The Result Of The Difference Between How Nature Works And The Way People Think.

No Organism Can Afford To Be Conscious Of Matters With Which It Could Deal At Unconscious Levels. Broadly, We Can Afford To Sink Those Sorts Of Knowledge Which Continue To Be True Regardless Of Changes In The Environment, But We Must Maintain In An Accessible Place All Those Controls Of Behavior Which Must Be Modified For Every Instance. The Economics Of The System, In Fact, Pushes Organisms Toward Sinking Into The Unconscious Those Generalities Of Relationship Which Remain Permanently True And Toward Keeping Within The Conscious The Pragmatic Of Particular Instances.

There Is A Strong Tendency In Explanatory Prose To Invoke Quantities Of Tension, Energy, And Whatnot To Explain The Genesis Of Pattern. I Believe That All Such Explanations Are Inappropriate Or Wrong.

Official Education Was Telling People Almost Nothing Of The Nature Of All Those Things On The Seashores, And In The Redwood Forests, In The Deserts And In The Plains.

Somebody Was Saying To Picasso That He Ought To Make Pictures Of Things The Way They Are-objective Pictures. He Mumbled That He Wasn't Quite Sure What That Would Be. The Person Who Was Bullying Him Produced A Photograph Of His Wife From His Wallet And Said, "there, You See, That Is A Picture Of How She Really Is." Picasso Looked At It And Said, "she Is Rather Small, Isn't She? And Flat?"