Theft at the Public Till
which only qualitative speculations can be made. The upshot is that the proposition and evaluation of policy alternatives can be determined to a significant degree by the technique, or medium, of expression and represen- tation. Furthermore, there may also be a tendency to incorporate variables that are statistically relevant, although no really satisfactory nonstatistical explanation can be provided. This is tantamount to analog takeover, in that the use of the medium in its own terms far outstrips the message. We could attempt a test of fit rather than match. The quest for truth has been dominated by an idea of a perfect match between cosmic reality and human understanding of it. The idea of a fit leads to a more pragmatic way of looking at things. A philosophical system a scientific theory a religion or even a personal identity does not have to be a precise mirror of ultimate reality as long as it works more or less well in its context. Consider the met- aphor of a key and a lock: a key fits if it opens a lock but we know firm our experience with burglars' tools and passkeys; that a number of different keys may work. This metaphor that suggests only one test-the key fits or it doesn't. But the fit concept goes far beyond that in directions that amplify our understanding of evolution and of what we mean in the postmodern world when we talk of truth. Our hope for an outside event is a vision of a belief about the internal landscape but our articulation ability for such a description is limited and we lack the words to do so. Further, the actual articulation if it occurred or we had the words would then evoke an equivalent of the Heisenberg principle: to wit the act would risk changing the landscape and thus the basis of the decision itself: and if we have an awareness of this risk we take it into ac- count. For example, within this landscape we might consider a Laffer curve between involvement and escape where the outside edges represent happi- ness and the inside middle represents unhappiness -- over involvement then becomes the equivalent of a moblus strip as a perceived inability to escape -- i.e. commitment. Commitment without involvement is imprisonment. Complexify thus directly raises the question of trust versus involvement on this curve. The concept of a holographic memory form seems to match the notion
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