It Is Impossible, In Principle, To Explain

Those Who Lack All Idea That It Is Possible To Be Wrong Can Learn Nothing Except Know-how.

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.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next. Between Two And Three There Is A Jump. In The Case Of Quantity, There Is No Such Jump; And Because Jump Is Missing In The World Of Quantity, It Is Impossible For Any Quantity To Be Exact. You Can Have Exactly Three Tomatoes. You Can Never Have Exactly Three Gallons Of Water. Always Quantity Is Approximate.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

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?