Selections From The Book Of The Bounded Observer
Page 77GREAT PEARLS / CHAPTER 1
The Narrator
1 Thou hast a narrator.
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2 Perhaps more than one.
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3 It speaketh as though it were chief executive of the organism.
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4 Yet it doth not beat the heart by issuing quarterly objectives.
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5 It doth not consciously instruct each cell.
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6 It doth not perceive every photon, sound, pressure, memory, association, prediction, and internal signal available to the organism.
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7 And I shit you not, it nevertheless says: I know exactly what happened.
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8 Therefore be gentle with the narrator.
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9 It performeth a difficult compression.
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10 But give it not authority it cannot bear.
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GREAT PEARLS / CHAPTER 2
Intelligence Beneath Knowing
1 You contain intelligence you cannot remember.
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2 You contain intelligence you do not know about.
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3 You contain intelligence you cannot understand.
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4 You may contain intelligence you should not understand.
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5 And perhaps the language is backwards.
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6 Perhaps, for a while, it contains you.
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7 These words do not mean that every intuition is prophecy.
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8 They mean that cognition is not the only process by which an organism carries, responds to, and inherits information.
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9 The ancient lineage of life did not wait for thy autobiography.