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The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Gregory Bateson
Thinking, Perception, Process

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.

Gregory Bateson
Perception, Would Be, Matter
"Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course."

Gregory Bateson
Perception, Able, Next
"Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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