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Chapter Three: Abstract and Imaginary Sensory Information

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"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information." – Albert Einstein "Cement!" "Hmmm?" Einstein said turning in his chair, his glasses mounting the lower half of his nose. "Cement!" He took off his glasses and looked at me puzzlingly. "I . .. uh . . umm . . well." I didn't want to tell him that I had done the best I could in repeating 'I intend to find my hands in my dreams' for two days and when the third day approached I couldn't stand it any longer and happenstancely, found a handprint in sidewalk and chucked the whole assignment. "Come, come. Sit, sit." He urged me to sit on the floor in a corner of his lab and then sat down on my left. He nodded his head towards the window. "It kills us so softly." I looked at him puzzled. "Look! Look at the light!" Light streamed in through the window. A slow wind bustled a tree and created a very fluid like shadow that gave the light a kin...

Chapter Two: Logical Incongruencies

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." – Albert Einstein I walked in and found Einstein ruminating and slowly walking along the length of his laboratory. “Why doesn’t this moment feel impossible? Given all the random and chance events that went into creating this moment we should be experiencing the impossible!” He saw me and announced with a finger pointing skyward, “It is only by the slimmest possible chances that life arose on this Earth. Do you know how slim a cord we dangle on? The universe exploded into a flurry of matter and anti-matter. Thus, matter and anti-matter should have canceled each other out leaving nothing. Among scientists it is unanimous; matter and anti-matte...