¶ Tension (3)
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Tension:
"inside. In other words, we have special-case experiences originally and out of those special-case experiences we resolve generalized principles. And I find what I call a generalization of a generalization, so that brings us into a layer further still. It could be that our generalizations come again close toward center and we finally get to the center one which is called the Universe and that involves them all. This is pretty much the way our thought processes work. We begin to have a whole lot of experiences with tears and so forth, and gradually with experiences we get wiser and we see generalized principles. You really resolve something out of that and as you get older and older you resolve more and more generalized principles. And the reason you get quite full of equanimity and confidence is because you have generalized so many that you can handle any special case. I think these balls schematically are really the way our thought processes work. We are trying to identify what we do here. It is like the brain. This is the way the brain handles… We have discovered that the difference between the brain and the mind is that the brain "
¶ Citations
- RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, pp.10-11, 11 Mar’69
