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     Jill's experiences are her own.   Jack's  experiences
are his own.   Each can not know the detail of the other's
experiences  as  experienced  by the  other  without  self
revelation by the other.   To watch another person have an
experience does not tell one the same thing as to have the
other  person  describe what the experience was  to  them.
Each  kind of knowledge is complementary to the other kind
of  knowledge.   To strive for one kind of knowledge as of
ultimate  importance  is  to  exclude the  other  kind  of
knowledge;  sacrificing one kind of knowledge in favor  of
the other kind of knowledge.   There is something like the
Heisenberg  uncertainty principle as regards knowledge  of
the two complementary kinds of information.

     Scientists tend towards regarding objective knowledge
as  of  ultimate importance.   In the extreme there  is  a
tendency   to   invoke  taboos  against   regarding   self
description  as  of any value or importance.   People  who
stoop  to  self description are alienated as  a  means  of
avoiding  having to deal with self descriptions which  are
embarrassing to specialists who have avoided learning  how
to  integrate  self descriptions into their lives.    Thus
ignorance compounds itself by being the basis for its  own
extension; those who are personally ignorant make a virtue
of  personal  ignorance  in  order  to  feel  good   about
themselves,   but  they can not share with each other  how
good  they feel about themselves,  but they can not  share
with  each  other how good they feel about  themselves  by
virtue of their chosen ignorance,  nor can they share with
each other their awareness of what is happening---to do so
would violate the taboos of their collusion.

     To share knowledge humans must in a sense share their
experiences;    they   must   describe  what   they   have
experienced; they must describe some aspect of themselves;
they  must  self describe.   Often self  descriptions  are
limited to dealing with intellectualized self descriptions
in  formal  patterns of expression which  minimize  unique
personal  aspects  of  the experiences.    This  minimizes
embarrassment  of  people  who are  not  personally mature
enough  to  deal  with such  self-revelations.    It  also
inhibits communication of knowledge,  wisdom, and meaning.
It  tends  to  reduce  motivating  communications  and  so
generates  apathy  because  it  is  frustrating  to   have
feelings   and  emotions  which  cannot  legitimately   be
communicated in self descriptions.

                                                                                                                               
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