Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.