There Are No Monotone "values" In Biology.

We Are Most Of Us Governed By Epistemologies That We Know To Be Wrong

Yes, Metaphor. That's How The Whole Fabric Of Mental Interconnections Holds Together. Metaphor Is Right At The Bottom Of Being Alive.

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.

Science, Like Art, Religion, Commerce, Warfare, And Even Sleep, Is Based On Presuppositions. It Differs, However, From Most Other Branches Of Human Activity In That Not Only Are The Pathways Of Scientific Thought Determined By The Presuppositions Of The Scientists But Their Goals Are The Testing And Revision Of Old Presuppositions And The Creation Of New.

There Are Many Matters And Many Circumstances In Which Consciousness Is Undesirable And Silence Is Golden, So That Secrecy Can Be Used As A Marker To Tell Us That We Are Approaching The Holy.