CONTEMPLATIONS :: Guenther Rabl :: Structure
A voluminous problem can be subdivided in such a way that it can be quickly thought through as a whole – and yet, as much time is needed to do it as the problem’s scale is large: The mind jumps in an immeasurably short time from one end of the problem to the other, but to leap from one superstructure to another, that means from one view to the other, takes the mind a long time.
Whoever wants to shorten this time treats the structural levels according to analogy, and that is wrong! Whoever deals with stars at this moment and then atoms at the next moment can do nothing else but equate their structure. The continuum of interlinking orders of magnitude escapes him.

© Günther Rabl 2001
translated by Brian Dorsey
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