It's Hard To Decide Who's

Increasingly, The Mathematics Will Demand The Courage To Face Its Implications.

Cut Off From Direct Experience, Cut Off From Our Own Feelings And Sometimes Our Own Sensations, We Are Only Too Ready To Adopt A Viewpoint Or Perspective That Is Handed To Us, And Is Not Our Own.

I Eventually Realized That Direct Experience Is The Most Valuable Experience I Can Have. Western Man Is So Surrounded By Ideas, So Bombarded With Opinions, Concepts, And Information Structures Of All Sorts, That It Becomes Difficult To Experience Anything Without The Intervening Filter Of These Structures.

Expectation Works In Mysterious Ways---and Totally Unconsciously.

But Complex Animals Had Obtained Their Adaptive Flexibility At Some Cost--they Had Traded One Dependency For Another. It Was No Longer Necessary To Change Their Bodies To Adapt, Because Now Their Adaptation Was Behavior, Socially Determined. That Behavior Required Learning. In A Sense, Among Higher Animals Adaptive Fitness Was No Longer Transmitted To The Next Generation By Dna At All. It Was Now Carried By Teaching.