The movements of intelligence in Nature resonate
together like the circular waves of water droplets
merging on the surface of quiet water.
Shake one, and they all shake. Leave one out,
and another steps in to take its place. This is why
machines like computers, which are based at
present not so much on the all-at-once of the
resonance of natural intelligence, but rather on long,
complicated, necessarily explicit strings of logical
thought, so easily break. And they do this, as we
all know, in frequently highly disturbing and
unpredictable ways. Their connections must indeed
be ‘hard-wired,’ so to speak, one at a time. Given the
present need for this surface absolute precision, and
therefore the lack of the greatly more flexible
relational movements of resonance, computers,
computer networks, and the software upon which
they depend, are all prone to go haywire with even
the slightest low-level error.
Remarkably, if one were forced to tune the complex
weave of interconnected sounds and rhythms of
an orchestra in this way, one would
not make it past the first bar.