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Monthly Archives: March 2016
System Attractions – Seek simplicity, and distrust it. (A.N. Whitehead)
What follows is brief foray into a schematic phenomenology about what comes easy and what comes hard. Ha! Don’t bother googling schematic phenomenology! This schema is a picture of my general meaning-making relationship to two joined aspects of any system. … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, my research, psychology, self-knowledge
Tagged systems
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Feeling It With Integrity
Practically the theory of effort amounts to nothing. When a child feels that his work is a task, it is only under compulsion that he gives himself to it. At the least let-up of external pressure we find his attention … Continue reading
Healthy Solipsism II.
My working assumption is that when I’m learning about another person, I am learning about their personal culture and their sense of their identity and about their narrative and about all the weaving and stitching which provides the sensible and … Continue reading
Standing Alone
While I develop and refine my artistic style based in mirror symmetries, I also (more casually) produce creative works which fall outside the outsider’s symmetry box. I stash these pieces in a folder: [STANDALONE] I produce a handful every year–most … Continue reading
Posted in visual experiments, my art
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Healthy Solipsism I.
Solipsism and the Problem of Other MindsInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Solipsism is sometimes expressed as the view that “I am the only mind which exists,” or “My mental states are the only mental states.” However, the sole survivor of a … Continue reading
Unhealthy Solipsism
“What you do not seem to recognize is that I am telling you about what has long interested me and what I did about being interested in this way. It seems to me you want to wave it all away … Continue reading
Posted in personal, psychology
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Color Vision and Seeing Ourselves
Dr. Beau Lotto, Reader in neuroscience and founder of Lottolab at University College London, talks about how colour, vision and seeing ourselves can contribute to a richer, more empathetic view of nature and human nature. Lottolab: Experiment 1.0
Moral Perception
What can we learn from Buddhist moral psychology? Jay L. Garfield (excerpt from Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy It is hard to avoid the conclusion that perception itself is morally charged. If I see women as tools, or … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, philosophy, psychology, Religion
Tagged buddhism, morality, perception
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Autopoiesis Checklist
Dr. Randall Whitaker, Observer Web: AUTOPOIESIS CHECKLIST 1 Determine if: The unity has identifiable boundaries (via interactions with it)
Posted in Gregory Bateson, science
Tagged Autopoiesis, living systems, Maturana, Randall Whitaker, Varela
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Pragmatic Turning
On February 13, 2013, Richard J. Bernstein, the 2013 Selzer Visiting Philosopher gave this lecture at Beloit College. Dr. Bernstein is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. The standard philosophical conventions that divide … Continue reading
Posted in history, philosophy, Religion, William James
Tagged pragmaticism, Richard J. Bernstein. Richard Rorty
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