Every Move We Make In Fear Of

After Mastery Comes Artistry And Not Before.

We Can Never Be Quite Clear Whether We Are Referring To The World As It Is Or To The World As We See It.

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.

What Is The Pattern That Connects The Crab To The Lobster And The Primrose To The Orchid, And All Of Them To Me, And Me To You?

Our Initial Sensory Data Are Always "first Derivatives," Statements About Differences Which Exist Among External Objects Or Statements About Changes Which Occur Either In Them Or In Our Relationship To Them. Objects And Circumstances Which Remain Absolutely Constant Relative To The Observer, Unchanged Either By His Own Movement Or By External Events, Are In General Difficult And Perhaps Always Impossible To Perceive. What We Perceive Easily Is Difference And Change And Difference Is A Relationship.