Since Mechanically Obtained Randomness Contains All Kinds

Every Act Is A Visual Judgement.

Nothing Is More Humbling Than To Look With A Strong Magnifying Glass At An Insect So Tiny That The Naked Eye Sees Only The Barest Speck And To Discover That Nevertheless It Is Sculpted And Articulated And Striped With The Same Care And Imagination.

All Perceiving Is Also Thinking, All Reasoning Is Also Intuition, All Observation Is Also Invention.

What, Then, Is The Basic Difference Between Today's Computer And An Intelligent Being? It Is That The Computer Can Be Made To Seebut Not To Perceive. What Matters Here Is Not That The Computer Is Without Consciousness But That Thus Far It Is Incapable Of The Spontaneous Grasp Of Pattern--a Capacity Essential To Perception And Intelligence.

Television Is A New, Hard Test Of Our Wisdom. If We Succeed In Mastering The New Medium It Will Enrich Us. But It Can Also Put Our Mind To Sleep. We Must Not Forget That In The Past The Inability To Transport Immediate Experience And To Convey It To Others Made The Use Of Language Necessary And Thus Compelled The Human Mind To Develop Concepts. For In Order To Describe Things One Must Draw The General From The Specific; One Must Select, Compare, Think. When Communication Can Be Achieved By Pointing With The Finger, However, The Mouth Grows Silent, The Writing Hand Stops, And The Mind Shrinks.