At 10:02 pm 18/05/2005 -0400, you wrote: > I think it remarkable how this discussion > spun out of control by misunderstanding the > original post. And this is a group that is > supposed to be analysing new science in a > meaningful way.
"Spun out of control"? What a cheek! We've not spun out of control at all but merely indulged in some lateral thinking a la de Bono. 8-) =========================================== http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/lateral.htm ------------------------------------------- 1. "You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper" This means that trying harder in the same direction may not be as useful as changing direction. Effort in the same direction (approach) will not necessarily succeed. 2. "Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions" With logic you start out with certain ingredients just as in playing chess you start out with given pieces. But what are those pieces? In most real life situations the pieces are not given, we just assume they are there. We assume certain perceptions, certain concepts and certain boundaries. Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. Lateral thinking is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'. =========================================== Frank Grimer
