¶ Tension
Index Entry
Tension:
"is simply a storing and retrieving system for all the special-case experiences. But once you and I have resolved it, and the mind resolves the generalized principle… but once the mind has discovered the generalized principle, then it deposits it in the brain as another kind of special case. Generalization becomes storable in the special case words, because we do it in words, we do it in concepts-- that gets to be storable. It’s quite a different kind of storage from the original special case. I think there are a great many people who just really live in the special case and don’t really tend to generalize as much. What they have are some rules. Those are special cases because they remeber that their minister told them always to do this-- Raise your hat going by church… Those are conditioned reflexes.
“I think we really have given you the prime entry here.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to VERNER Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, p.11, 11 Mar’69
