¶ Thinking
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Thinking:
"If we can’t think about the whole universe at one time then what is thinking? We said that thinking was treating with some subdivision of universe. There is apparently a thinking set because we think. Out thoughts are then increments of the total experience, our retreatments, reconsiderations of the local increments in the total experience and what we are interested in from time to time is the interconnectedness of these local increments which we can only think about one experience at a time. We apparently can think about two fairly contiguous things and that is how we are trying to find the relationships. That is the way we find our way. It is extremely interesting to find that this is the way we are designed. We apparently are not designed to think about the totality. And yet we can treat with it and we can collect something like the dictionary which has all the words developed by all men in attempting to communicate all their experiences. We can look at all that collection and we can carry the dictionary around, but we can’t read all the words at once. We are continually reminded of the fact that we are able to deal with increments, and then we get big patterns, and we are
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #3, p.83, 5 Jul’62
