Replying to LO29009 --
Dear Ken,
Thank you for your wise words.
One moment I have thought to change the subject in "Split mind", not
referring to left and right in the brain, but two worlds of 'believe' and
'truth'. You have pointed very nicely to these two worlds. These worlds
could possibly also be called 'imagination' and 'observation'. Ken, don't
be afraid that I will suffer because of the presence of these two worlds
in my mind. Maybe my original words suggested this. but they were written
with a smile on my face.
On the contrary, these two worlds are very important for me. Some time ago
I used to fiinish my mails with a signature in which I wrote: "Let your
thoughts meander to a sea of ideas". I am sure that "mind meandering" is
the way people should use their brains for problem solving, creative
thinking, systems thinking, and all sorts of other thinking under a scala
of different labels. It is a flexible flow of the mind between
'imagination' and 'observation', 'abstract' and 'touchable', 'convergent'
and 'divergant', 'distant' and 'close' and many other dimensions. A flow
that swings regularly from one side to the other so that after a while the
thinker creates a fuller picture of the subject, a better understanding, a
deeper feeling of what is behind, at, and in front of the focus.
So Ken, I fully agree with your supporting words. They are precisely what
I embrace for many years now. And thus I am very happy that I have seen
the other (subjective) 'meaning' of the word passion.
I hope you understand it and that the river of my mind is still meandering
further over this delta plain.
--leo minnigh <minnigh@dds.nl>
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