No Organism Can Afford To Be Conscious

Interesting Phenomena Occur When Two Or More Rhythmic Patterns Are Combined, And These Phenomena Illustrate Very Aptly The Enrichment Of Information That Occurs When One Description Is Combined With Another.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

Our Initial Sensory Data Are Always "first Derivatives," Statements About Differences Which Exist Among External Objects Or Statements About Changes Which Occur Either In Them Or In Our Relationship To Them. Objects And Circumstances Which Remain Absolutely Constant Relative To The Observer, Unchanged Either By His Own Movement Or By External Events, Are In General Difficult And Perhaps Always Impossible To Perceive. What We Perceive Easily Is Difference And Change And Difference Is A Relationship.

Logic Can Often Be Reversed, But The Effect Does Not Precede The Cause.

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.