Using Symbols and Conscious Intelligence

The average person cannot deal with more than three variables at once without using a pencil. We handle by statistics in the same way as insurance companies use actuarial tables to predict when most people will die. Our brains can handle an enormous number of variables that are not accessible to the process of conscious attention. Your brain is now handling your total nervous system to be more accurate. It is doing all that without thinking about it. You cannot quench anybody's thirst with the word water just as you cannot eat a dollar bill and derive nutrition from it. But using symbols and using conscious intelligence, scanning has proved very useful to us. And we have such technology as we have.