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Now it is a curious thing that although everybody knows,
and what a horrible amount of misinformation that statement let
circulate,
it is human to err. The engine portion of the mind
which computes the answers to problems in which makes a man man
is orderly incapable up error. This was a startling discovery when it was made,
but it need not have been. It could have been deduced sometime before
for is is quite simple and easy to understand.
The actual computing ability a man is never in error,
even in a very severely aberrated person. Observing the activity of such an
aberrated person
one might thoughtlessly suppose that that person's computations were wrong.
But that would be an observer error. Any person,
aberration or clear, compute perfectly
on the data stored and perceived. Take any common calculating machine, and the
mind is an exceptionally magnificent instrument far, far superior to any
machine it will invent
for ages to come, and put a problem on for a solution.
Multiply 7 x 1, it will answer properly
7. Now multiply 6 x 1
but continue to hold down the 7. 6 x 1 is 6
but the answer you will get is 42. Continue to hold down 7, import other
problems on the machine.
They are wrong, not as problems
but it's answers, now pick 7
so that it stays down no matter what key you touch and try to give the
machine away.
Nobody will want it because
obviously the machine is crazy. It has 10 x 10 is 700. But is the calculating
portion of the machine really wrong
or is it merely being fed the wrong data.
In the same way, the human mind being called upon to resolve problems of a
magnitude
and with enough variables to confound any mere calculating machine up
thousand times an hour his prey to incorrect data.
Incorrect data gets into the machine, the machine gives wrong answers.
Incorrect data enters the human memory banks
the person reacts in an abnormal manner. Essentially then,
the problem in resolving aberration is the problem of finding
the held down 7.