“ Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. ”
Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
~ Gregory Bateson
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?
Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.
