The Map Is Not The Territory (coined

In The Nature Of The Case, An Explorer Can Never Know What He Is Exploring Until It Has Been Explored.

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

Let's Not Pretend That Mental Phenomena Can Be Mapped On To The Characteristics Of Billiard Balls.

Wisdom Is The Intelligence Of The System As A Whole.

No Organism Can Afford To Be Conscious Of Matters With Which It Could Deal At Unconscious Levels.