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Glad to have you aboard.  Re "rather than a collection of objects to be craved or criticized" and "wisdom independent of words" see The Taoist Story Teller and Culture and Thinking in Pictures.  And re "ideas float up that truly seem to come from some alien source" see the image to the left (click on it for a larger view).  The painting is by a colleague of mine (click here for a gallery of Sharon Burgmayer's paintings) to whom I was trying to explain my own thinking processes.  The blue tabs are ideas that float up out of my unconscious with no indication whatsoever of how they got created.  I can't control what appears or when, but do seem to be able to nurture the pool by not hassling it and keeping it fed with new things to play with.  Hence ... an evolving system?  For more along these lines, see Perceptual Fluidity and Introduction to Evolving Systems.