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Extraordinary Discourse 395

Think Otherwise The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time....Under the rocks are the words… Norman Maclean

Extraordinary Discourse 394

Surprises Palaver I poke about quite a good deal. Walt Whitman

Extraordinary Discourse 393

Genius Junkpile I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men [sic] behind whom were centuries of work … progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. Henry Ford The Business of America

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Hey! This Is Intelligent! There's everything to be said. William Little

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Neo- Schola As [Ann] Casement points [out], Jung was a bricoleur , i.e., one who assembles something useful from whatever materials are available: 'borrowing a metaphorical screw from here, a figurative nut from there and, from elsewhere, an imaginative bolt. This 'bricolage' reflects Jung's view of diversity and complexity of the psyche. Mark Winborn, PhD, Jungian analyst Interpretatiopn in Jungian analysis. P. 171

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From the Pieholes of Makebaters Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

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Ludic Cerebration The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority Nassim Nicholas Taleb Incerto