tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post4095229581011851502..comments2024-03-21T03:55:51.565-07:00Comments on Omniorthogonal: Counting the Omer: Tiferet: Beauty, Integrationmtravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-58829166588905826612011-05-19T21:23:09.749-07:002011-05-19T21:23:09.749-07:00Two thoughts:
1) Everything in life — including l...Two thoughts:<br /><br />1) Everything in life — including life itself — is dialectical.<br /><br />2) Everything is oneness, yet every thing is its own; we are all inextricably connected, yet each separate.Veghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12655013930204990362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-48415784013707288102011-05-14T18:09:55.931-07:002011-05-14T18:09:55.931-07:00Well, there are some who believe that if mechanism...Well, there are some who believe that if mechanism is true then that' must be a horrible state of affairs (and usually use this to argue against mechanism). After all, it means we have no free will or souls and that's important to many people.<br /><br />By contrast, there are those who accept mechanism or are positively enthusiastic about it (most of the AI community, eg) and thus are cheerful by contrast at least.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-196240121640490692011-05-14T17:52:13.741-07:002011-05-14T17:52:13.741-07:00What's so distinctively cheerful about these m...What's so distinctively cheerful about these mechanists? I'm not going to assert the opposite of cheerlessness, but a priori I'm cheer-agnostic.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-3346916598126945702011-05-13T18:16:15.503-07:002011-05-13T18:16:15.503-07:00I agree, more or less...I think the task is to get...I agree, more or less...I think the task is to get into the proper relationship with one's fictions, to take them just seriously enough.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-46102872398311185542011-05-13T15:37:09.683-07:002011-05-13T15:37:09.683-07:00You wrote:
'there's a need to have at lea...You wrote:<br /><br />'there's a need to have at least a fictional coherent unified self, for social purposes, for moral purposes, for simply managing a life'<br /><br />I agree that human psychology makes the construction of a self-fiction inescapable at least some of the time, but that doesn't mean it's not worth putting in the practice time to reduce the strength of that fiction.<br /><br />With practice, I think one can really decrease the hold that the self-fiction has on behavior.Jay Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02571029118821999072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-33277256451608711552011-05-12T11:02:39.765-07:002011-05-12T11:02:39.765-07:00Isn't it possible -even likely- that one could...Isn't it possible -even likely- that one could be a mechanistic holist? Are most holisms, when pushed, actually variants of mechanism? Newton mathematically unified the movements of celestial bodies and falling apples -a strong holism. I have always found it odd that "holism" as been wed to "soulism" (as you call it) when it seems that historically, ecosystems ecology, or whatever example you choose, is mostly mechanistic?Adamhttp://knowledge-ecology.comnoreply@blogger.com