Logic Is A Poor Model Of Cause

Members Of Weakly Religious Families Get, Of Course, No Religious Training From Any Source Outside The Family.

There Are Times When I Catch Myself Believing That There Is Such A Thing As Something; Which Is Separate From Something Else.

Schizophrenia --its Nature, Etiology, And The Kind Of Therapy To Use For It--remains One Of The Most Puzzling Of The Mental Illnesses. The Theory Of Schizophrenia Presented Here Is Based On Communications Analysis, And Specifically On The Theory Of Logical Types. From This Theory And From Observations Of Schizophrenic Patients Is Derived A Description, And The Necessary Conditions For, A Situation Called The "double Bind"--a Situation In Which No Matter What A Person Does, He "can't Win." It Is Hypothesized That A Person Caught In The Double Bind May Develop Schizophrenic Symptoms

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future. We Shall Never Be Able To Say, "ha! My Perception, My Accounting For That Series, Will Indeed Cover Its Next And Future Components," Or "next Time I Meet With These Phenomena, I Shall Be Able To Predict Their Total Course."

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.