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Christopher Alexander writes of how every act of creation is creating something here, locally, and also accreting to the larger whole, globally. I am perceiving that what we are doing, in conversation as in building, is enhancing the whole by acts in the parts. Not constructing the whole from discrete parts. It is the whole doing the unfolding as David Bohm tells us. Not building blocks. We cannot know the whole human from the cells in her knee. It is the whole we are working on, even if only putting a stamp on an envelope.

:- Doug.

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:- Doug.

Conversation is high adventure, too: “Very few see science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever undertaken by human beings, the chance to catch close views of things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.” Lewis Thomas, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, p 154. Then again, science is a conversation—in theorems, studies, papers, and books.

:- Doug.

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Our opposing views are not either/or, nor even both/and, but intertwining. Vine from the same root. They are mutually nourishing, even at times convivial.

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