Symbols of Potential

Why do we represent potential with a symbol like this? Well, it's because that's a great symbol for what lies outside our field of competence. The strange thing about these categories is they're not exactly logical categories. They're paradoxical categories. And those sorts of things aren't supposed to exist. But if you've ever dealt with a person on an intimate basis, you know perfectly well that the category indicated by their name contains many paradoxical elements. Some people believe consciousness plays a key determining role in decision making. So it's not reasonable to think of these ideas as somehow outside of the realm of scientific conjecture and evolutionary grounding....