ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of personal knowledge management in bridging between the shallows of data streams and the depths of creative imagination. Knowledge occupies the continuum or spectrum between information and imagination. Knowledge is a halfway house between information and imagination. The more demanding knowledge is, the more it is characterized by imagination, and the more difficult it is to systematize and manage. The systemic aspect of a system invariably comes up against an ultimate limit. This is the limit of creation itself, and the limit of creation is the challenge of the imagination. Multivalent logic can be thought of as a formalized description of how the imagination or intuition works. The imagination connects the unconnected. This imaginative ability to make the dissimilar similar' lies at the core of system creation. The mathematician George Spencer-Brown, in his influential work Laws of Form, in contrast emphasizes the importance of drawing a distinction.
