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complex religious ritual and etiquette “individuality of character
need not be highly developed.” He speaks as a highly literate
man for whom “development” means having a private point of
view. High development as it might appear to a native would
not be accessible to our visual mode of awareness. We can get
some idea of the attitude of a member of a tradition-directed
society to technological improvements from a story related by
Werner Heisenberg in The Physicist’s Conception of Nature . A
modern physicist with his habit of “field” perception, and his
sophisticated separation from our conventional habits of
Newtonian space, easily finds in the pre-literate world a
congenial kind of wisdom.
Heisenberg is discussing “science as a part of the
interplay between man and Nature” (p. 20):