STRETCH…November 18th, 2013
The importance of nonsense hardly can be overstated. The
more clearly we experience something as “nonsense,” the more clearly we are
experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures.
“Nonsense” is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we
have superimposed on reality. There is no such thing as “nonsense” apart from a
judgmental intellect which calls it that.
True artists and true physicists know that nonsense is only
that which, viewed from our present point of view, is unintelligible. Nonsense
is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it
makes sense.
In general, physicists do
not deal in nonsense. Most of them spend their professional lives thinking
along well-established lines of thought. Those scientists who establish the
established lines of thought, however, are those who do not fear to venture
boldly into nonsense, into that which any fool could have told them is clearly
not so. This is the mark of the creative mind; in fact, this is the creative
process.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters
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