¶ Generalization Sequence (2)
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Generalization Sequence:
"We find that ‘Universe’ itself has to be complementary because there is the conceptual and the nonconceptual automatically.
"We have nothing else to indicate mind present anywhere in other animals, or in mountains, or in the physical. There is nothing in our experience with little dogs, our affection for a little dog, or whatever it might be, to suggest that little dogs could develop the theory of functions. We find that the ability to generalize is absolutely unique to mind and that the little dog has brains, beautiful brains, but not mind.
“We have no experience of the mind except in terms of the human being; the mind of the human being, which is able to apprehend and comprehend generalized principles. All the generalized principles have been discovered by human mind. The people who have discovered them are usually called scientists. Sometimes there’s a poet, but really the sort of artist-scientist is the one who discovers them, and every time he discovers them, he’s prone to make a record of the fact that he discovered it, and that he didn’t invent it.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul’69
