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BLACKBOX

Perhaps an important Bateson        
notion: The Freudians often         BATESON
imply that all that is
unconscious should be made
conscious.

Bateson pointed out that
many things the mind does
may need to be unconscious,
e.g. control of autonomic
functions.

All questions can not be
asked at once.  Engineers
use tricks of abstraction,
and treat sub-assemblies like
"black boxes" to manage this
problem.

When you ask "What would be
a good thing for me to do
this morning?"  To deal with
the question, many things
must be kept in black boxes:
 
  What is the GOOD?
  What is the SELF?

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