Wolfgang:

It needs to be kept in mind, as I have mentioned before, that there is an important difference between material elements and spiritual elements used in a controled situation for experimentation. Some of your descriptions sound like an effort to reduce all possible factors down to just one factor by hammering away at eliminating possible influences and repeating the test or tests with more and more controls until the isolation of cause-and-effect conclusions reaches a certainty. This is excellent if you are dropping balls from a tower, or measuring the delay in electrons responding, or measure a coefficient of friction as influenced by humidity or any other combination of material variables.

But life doesn't respond that way; if you reject its performance and add more conditions, submit it to a pronounced skepticism, inform it or imply to it that it isn't good enough, or some similar form of coercion it will respond in unpredictable ways, not uniform ways.

Life is sensitive to the degree of communication going on in an environment, as well as to to her kinds of thought. In fact you are trying to take measuring systems from materiaL frames and then apply them to the framework of thought itself. This is a sure recipe for uncertain results.



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