Hi Luke, When neurosurgeons split the brain into left and right hemisphere cutting it along corpus callosum the patient will talk to you with his left half and right half independently - each time unaware what his other half was talking about a moment earlier. I believe Zen emulates such split on a microscopic scale. We all go thru similar state when we conceive an original idea - if we do not write this down or formulate it immediately the discovery will loose its punch and sense of depth. The best documented and most prominent example is Hegel's discovery of dialectical logic - after extensive writing about that at some point he honestly admits loosing the original concept. But if not for his western oververbosity we might not today use the term 'naive' set theory. Every serious mathematician touching foundations is today perfectly aware of the price we pay for formulating things. But I am unaware of any virtue of trying to clap with one hand;-) Regards, -Andrzej