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Elaboration 37.1
The mind-scientist encounters sheer art in, for instance Wyndham.
When studying digitalization and the concept of 'now', (now being
non-existent) he may find?"Duration is nothing ... The importance of
a point is in its existence; it has no dimensions". And then?"For
intelligent life is the only thing that gives meaning to the
universe". This is admirable! Or see?"The passion for order is a
manifestation for the deep desire for security." It is basic
ideation theory and 'Ordening Theory'. There is his: "Nature is a
process (analog) not a state (digit) - a continuous process". Then,
there is?"Most people prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even
driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's
always due to something or somebody else. They have minds of their
own - mostly peasant minds, at their easiest when they are in the
familiar furrow". There is plenty more in Wyndham apart from all
that is already used in our text. Compare Wyndham's "Vision is a
poor word - all quantity and no quality." with Hoyle's? "Our
appreciation of music has really nothing to do with sound, although
I know that at first sight it seems otherwise". Forester shows us
the 3 rd degree in ideation, intelligent ideation?"But more than
that; he was making a bow not for instant use, but against a future
need, displaying that thought for the morrow which enables man to
rise superior to the animals about him". This is in line with
mind-science which expressed it as man being not different in using
tools (as most animals do), but by his being a bag carrying ape (see
Scientific American, January 1970 page 52), indicating his
preserving of tools, is foresight, is intelligence. And is it not
pure gold to read in Wells' s. f. The Holy Terror, how?"Mrs. Whitlow
was a woman of some intelligence and she had had a good, modern,
education which had confused her mind considerably." No
mind-scientist, educator or sociologist, as said before, can do
without Spencer's Essays. But can he do without grasping the
quotation of Wyndham: 'there is no you, you are ... ?'
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2007-09-11