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Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter by by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morg

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CHAPTER TWO

Renegade Perception

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise

George R.R. Martin

A

simple definition of the difference between a programmed

mind and a Renegade Mind would be that one sees only dots

while the other connects them to see the picture. Reading reality

with accuracy requires the observer to (a) know the planned

outcome and (b) realise that everything, but everything, is connected.

The entirety of infinite reality is connected – that’s its very nature –

and with human society an expression of infinite reality the same

must apply. Simple cause and effect is a connection. The effect is

triggered by the cause and the effect then becomes the cause of

another effect. Nothing happens in isolation because it can’t. Life in

whatever reality is simple choice and consequence. We make choices

and these lead to consequences. If we don’t like the consequences we

can make different choices and get different consequences which

lead to other choices and consequences. The choice and the

consequence are not only connected they are indivisible. You can’t

have one without the other as an old song goes. A few cannot

control the world unless those being controlled allow that to happen

– cause and effect, choice and consequence. Control – who has it and

who doesn’t – is a two-way process, a symbiotic relationship,

involving the controller and controlled. ‘They took my freedom

away!!’ Well, yes, but you also gave it to them. Humanity is

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