Ashok @_beyondwithin_

It's clear that Dennett didn't read Ryle's 'The Concept of Mind' closely enough. Or he wouldn't have misunderstood the 'ghost in the machine' argument so badly.

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It's not possible perception of a situation is constructed from separated sensations. Behavioural actions are not first only motions between location-points in empty space. Yet it's assumed from the start in most philosophy & science (esp. cognition).

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Ashok @_beyondwithin_

9 months ago

In the old model, 'order' limits and determines what can happen. But no abstract set of possibilities *determines* what can happen. Occurring (what actually happens) doesn't fill out some abstract order. If that were truly the case, nothing could ever actually happen.

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Ashok @_beyondwithin_

10 months ago

"We need to think about the fact that our scientific formulations change every few years. Neither the last set nor the next set of “determinants” can possibly be what actually determines nature." — Gendlin

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Ashok @_beyondwithin_

10 months ago

The body is usually considered the stuff within the skin-envelope. But we are not assuming that the spatial distinctions in the spectator’s space are the basic conditions of reality. We can use them, but within interactional terms that are wider. — Gendlin

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Ashok @_beyondwithin_

10 months ago

"Since we humans are here, we can be certain that we are not impossible. A conceptual model of “reality” that makes us seem impossible has to have something wrong with it." — Gendlin

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☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽ @ThouArtThat

12 months ago

David Bentley Hart’s new dialogical book All Things Are Full of Gods is wonderful. The dialogue form lets him come out with diagnoses like “the modern mechanistic view of things [is] a psychological disorder.”

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☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽ @ThouArtThat

a year ago

"Some materialist scientists believe they have no metaphysics, just science. A next frontier in consciousness research is the disclosure of our metaphysical conflict of interests. Those who proudly claim they have no point of view are indeed blind. There is not a more dangerous…

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☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽ @ThouArtThat

2 years ago

Transcript of this Space: I'm driving home from a talk that AE Robbert just gave at The Alembic in Berkeley. Adam's a good friend of mine, and he's finishing up a dissertation on the role of askēsis or training/exercise/practice in philosophy. He’s reading a lot of Pierre Hadot,…