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brain runs through its rules one after another, matching
the input with its various models until somehow unison is
achieved. This may perhaps only be after strenuous,
varied, and prolonged searching. During this random
activity further connections and action patterns are
formed and they in turn will determine future sequences.
The inevitable drive for “closure,” “completion,” or
equilibrium occurs both with the suppression and the extension
of human sense or function. Since The Gutenberg Galaxy is a
series of historical observations of the new cultural completions
ensuing upon the “disturbances,” first of literacy, and then of
printing, the statement of an anthropologist may assist the
reader at this point:
Today man has developed extensions for practically