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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 I am presently receiving a lot. of research material. It is more than I can handle. Also, I do not understand it. T “Looked up Comrade Chen Xin-Tong | ‘at his research, institute and asked them for their “opinion. Here they had some ; “‘aterial written by Comrade Song Kong- -Zhi on a XZ-20 Information Diagnostic Instrument. There was a lot of debate over this. Just glancing over material - like this, it seems incomplete. Only a little of the work has been done. Just a drop in the bucket. Do you think he did a complete job? No, it wasn't .com- plete. Most of the material I receive is like this. These kind of things, of themselves, cannot be considered very scientific, or not sufficient. However, he did do some work. Of all the work that has to be done, he did do a. portion of it. There were some results. Although he was unable to completely.solve a problem, however, if there is a very large amount of this kind of material, if I uncover a little bit here, you uncover a.little bit there, and he uncovers a little bit somewhere else, gathering. from all sides, after a while, we may be able to make something out of it. Just like a psychic trying to make out a character. At first all he can make out is a rough sketch. He can only make out something close to what it is. Then it becomes a little clearer. It looks: like the character "FEI." Then it becomes a little clearer. It is the character “BEL."' This must bea long process. At first it is very confused. It seems as if there is something there. After a while, it looks even more as if there is something there. Finally, we believe that there truly is something, and we are not afraid to say that Yes, this is what it is. Actually, thinking in terms of images is just such a process. It is just that the process is very rapid. If we analyzed a slow motion film of the images, it would be just the same. Under normal conditions, when we are reading or listening, the process is very fast. However, if we measured it in milliseconds, and magnified the time one hundred times, then it would be just the same as the situation we talked about before. When we do scientific research on something, it is always this process. There- fore, I do not agree with the school of thought that states that scientific research is all logical reasoning. That is not the case. If it were all logical reasoning, there” would be no creativity. Anyways, one and one are two: two and three are five. The teacher teaches it and the students know it. There is a premise and a conclusion. The results of the inferences are known. Also, the methods are known. Where is there anycreativity? That portion most central. to the creativity of science is guessing. That is thinking in terms of images, or inspiration (sudden realization of the truth.) In scientific work, logical reasoning is used in the final proof. This is because you have to convince people, so you have no choice but to use logical reasoning. When we are tackling a problem as difficult as this, we have to rely on everyone 's efforts to find an. answer. We must have discussions in depth. The ¥2Z-20- Information Diagnostic Machine work was done by the comrades at the Human. Information Research Lab of the Henan Provincial Posts and Telecommunications Research Institute. The work is not complete. There are some shortcomings. But they did do some work. If some other people did some work, and everyone put ‘everything together, we might gain a better knowledge. In our work, these little -5- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8