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Without Context Words And Actions Have No Meaning At All

But The Myth Of Power Is, Of Course, A Very Powerful Myth, And Probably Most People In This World More Or Less Believe In It. It Is A Myth, Which, If Everybody Believes In It, Becomes To That Extent Self-validating. But It Is Still Epistemological Lunacy And Leads Inevitably To Various Sorts Of Disaster.

Information Is A Difference That Makes A Difference.

No Organism Can Afford To Be Conscious Of Matters With Which It Could Deal At Unconscious Levels. Broadly, We Can Afford To Sink Those Sorts Of Knowledge Which Continue To Be True Regardless Of Changes In The Environment, But We Must Maintain In An Accessible Place All Those Controls Of Behavior Which Must Be Modified For Every Instance. The Economics Of The System, In Fact, Pushes Organisms Toward Sinking Into The Unconscious Those Generalities Of Relationship Which Remain Permanently True And Toward Keeping Within The Conscious The Pragmatic Of Particular Instances.

Yes, Metaphor. That's How The Whole Fabric Of Mental Interconnections Holds Together. Metaphor Is Right At The Bottom Of Being Alive.