20090723:Howard Gardner sees the necessity of the Third Eye when he talks about parallel distributed processing in "Cognitive Science After 1984":...What is is lacking here is the connection between nodes. The nodes might be connected to other nodes or not. This is where the patterns become faint. Sometimes it's hard to see connections because of all of the wires. Just go back and look at some of the early computer installations with RS232, etc. Terminals talk to other terminals over a tall stack of protocols which are proliferating like Fibonacci's rabbits.
But this is heading down the path to complexity when what we need is to see patterns in the haze. We're talking about a human society, here. If we don't stop playing with our toys and making things more blurry, take a breath, and look for some best practice orthomentors, we will lose the game.