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Tao Stoic 168

"I still do not see Master, why the Mind cannot just take the whole of Reality, in order to understand it, instead of this bother to digitalise/analogise/dig/an/ etc.?"

"But don't you see, it would mean having an exact-, perfect-, copy of Reality IN Mind. That is impossible. In its stead, one can only have a MODEL of Reality, an extract, a clumsy rough. Even then, COMPARISON remains impossible without cutting the model into parts. This an/dig/an makes the comparison possible, but also ATTENTION, being occupied with 'a' part of Reality, a choice phenomenon. It makes choice possible, and classification, and standardisation, symbolisation, all of which are only synonyms for Ideation. Without this basic trickery of an/dig/an/dig/ etc. we simply could not 'Think', therefore we would not even have a housing, a body for a Mind, we just would not BE alive."


Ven 2005-01-24