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V. Period of Incommensurability – the Kuhnian Gap
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It is sensing these patterns, and in finding a language to describe them which does not yet exist, which drives my writing and the expensive work of laying them bare.
To me, and maybe only to me, the responsibility to find the language is up to people like me, and to others who follow a similar path.
Those humans who may throw caution to the winds - and who have independently taken on the task of dismantling an older scientific paradigm in service of building the new one.
I consider that this drive to discover, to sense and reveal, to draw ever more sophisticated pattern overlays, or maps, to guide us through these territories, is as deeply and instinctively human as our experience and imagination.
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