THE CLUE TO THE LABYRINTH
To find the guiding thread, Bacon envisaged a symbolic and schematic
"alphabet of Nature" that would help flawed human understanding reach the
"inner courts" of Nature. The key needed for interpretation is not a fixed
structure like a skeleton key, but rather a "key" in the cryptographic
sense: a flexible indicator that guides decryption by delineating the
emergent structure of the cipher. The essential preparation for induction
is
the exhaustive preparation of "tables and arrangements of instances, in
such
a method and order that the understanding may be able to deal with them"
Is it possible that Bacon had incredible foresight or coaching to envision
DNA structures?
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