Reductionism Is Merciless.

No Matter What Verbal Space You Try To Enclose Zen In, It Resists, And Spills Over... The Zen Attitude Is That Words And Truth Are Incompatible, Or At Least That No Words Can Capture Truth.

This Idea That There Is Generality In The Specific Is Of Far-reaching Importance.

You Make Decisions, Take Actions, Affect The World, Receive Feedback From The World, Incorporate It Into Yourself, Then The Updated 'you' Makes More Decisions, And So Forth, 'round And 'round.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.

It Is An Inherent Property Of Intelligence That It Can Jump Out Of A Task Which It Is Performing And Survey What It Has Done.