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“Logic is a very elegant tool,” he [Gregory Bateson] said, “And we’ve got a lot of
mileage out of it for two thousand years or so. The trouble is, you know, when
you apply it to crabs and porpoises, and butterflies and habit formation” — his
voice trailed off, and he added after a pause, looking out over the ocean — “you
know, to all those pretty things” — and now, looking straight at me — “logic
won’t quite do...because that whole fabric of living things is not put together by
logic. You see when you get circular trains of causation, as you always do in the
living world, the use of logic will make you walk into paradoxes.”

From Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with Remarkable People by Fritjof Capra

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