We Do Not Know Enough About How

There Is A Strong Tendency In Explanatory Prose To Invoke Quantities Of Tension, Energy, And Whatnot To Explain The Genesis Of Pattern. I Believe That All Such Explanations Are Inappropriate Or Wrong.

Whatever The Ups And Downs Of Detail Within Our Limited Experience, The Larger Whole Is Primarily Beautiful.

It Is Of First-class Importance That Our Answer To The Riddle Of The Sphinx Should Be In Step With How We Conduct Our Civilisation, And This Should In Turn Be In Step With The Actual Workings Of Living Systems.

What We Mean By Information - The Elementary Unit Of Information - Is A Difference Which Makes A Difference, And It Is Able To Make A Difference Because The Neural Pathways Along Which It Travels And Is Continually Transformed Are Themselves Provided With Energy. The Pathways Are Ready To Be Triggered. We May Even Say That The Question Is Already Implicit In Them.

Multiple Descriptions Are Better Than One.