From: Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@factory.net)
Date: Tue Jul 30 1996 - 18:29:41 MDT
>I think so, but you have to temporarily leave the analytic/sceptic way of
>thinking. It is a great tool to use to orient oneself, but slightly
>limiting when you have set your course and want to DO it. Always finding
>new possibilities and evaluating them reduces our mental focus, sometimes
>we have to "be one" with the task, and just do it.
There's a lot more computational power in the human brain than just the
pieces that are good at handling formal systems and simulating von Neumann
devices. One doesn't have to be a Zen Buddhist to recognize this fact. (But
it doesn't hurt.)
Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@pobox.com> http://www.c2.org/~arkuat/
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