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May 04, 2023

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  • “Truth” is a Western concern
  • Donald Munro (1931–)
  • The Concept of Man in Early China (1969)
  • Scientific Revolutions Article
  • Hegel asserts identity of phenomena and noumena
  • Phenomena : Noumena :: Matter/intellect : Will
  • The sense of time is a hack on space
  • Concept of material object must precede space/time
  • John Locke (1632–1704)
  • Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
  • Sensualism: No a priori
  • Kant’s reaction against Locke
  • HC Prologue
  • Thinking is not a traditional human activity
  • The Dawn of Everything (2021)
  • Europeans were unfree (16th C)
  • Metaphysical realism
  • Papanca: Mental proliferation
  • Papanca undefined
  • Parmenides sundered experience and ideas
  • Concepts are useless in art
  • Science, Perception, and Reality (1963)
  • Einstein: Consensus transforms an experience into an event
  • Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989)
  • Greek Buddha (2015)
  • The Aristocles Passage
  • Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy (2000)
  • Richard Bett (1957–)
  • Timon of Phlius (320–235 BC)
  • Pyrrho of Elis (360-270 BC)
  • Timon’s thinking is identical to Pyrrho’s
  • Pensees (1670)
  • Goldilocks Conditions
  • Not too tight, not too loose
  • Pascal on goldilocks zones
  • Louis Agassiz (1807–1873)
  • David R. Olson (1935–)
  • Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)
  • Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
  • “Two Modes of Thought” (1986)
  • “Luria and ‘Romantic Science’” (2014)
  • “The Mind according to Bruner” (1992)
  • Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986)
  • Conceptual activity presupposes language
  • Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910)
  • Recollections and Essays (1910)
  • “Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?” (1910)
  • Intellectual Laziness
  • The lazy should be punished
  • Men cease thinking right before it becomes fruitful
  • People stop thinking when they tire of it
  • WWR Volume I (1818)
  • The pool player
  • Flow states are the antithesis of consciousness
  • Absorption in tasks to forgetting your own existence
  • Speech separates from action
  • The gods guided novel action
  • We don’t know what we’re about to say
  • Consciousness not involved in speech/writing
  • Rational knowledge can hinder action
  • Abstraction is for communication and storage
  • Philosophy should write to concepts, not read from them
  • “Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy, and ‘Truth’” (1985)
  • Platonic : Confucian :: Semantic : Pragmatic
  • Modes of Thought (1938)
  • Perception of simultaneity below certain threshold
  • “Relativity and the Problem of Space” (1952)
  • No simultaneity between inertial systems
  • The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931–1958)
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)
  • The notion of an instant as a simple fact is nonsense
  • How God Becomes Real (2022)
  • Attention
  • Attention = altering precision-weighting
  • Paying attention is more important than change
  • Making the invisible other real
  • Sound & Vision: Bicameral to Conscious
  • Seeing the invisible requires skill
  • Rob Knight
  • Self-enslavement
  • Theravada positive program is minimal
  • Microprocesses of attention as kindling
  • Spinoza’s Ethics (1678)
  • Anuloma: With the grain conditionality
  • Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills
  • Men think themselves free because they know what they want
  • Mathematics which refer to reality are not certain; mathematics which are certain do not refer to reality
  • IoT: Spinoza (2007)
  • Three Grades of knowledge
  • Three types of knowledge
  • Creativity vs life interview list
  • Contextualism
  • Tao 8
  • SN 12.60
  • Samyutta Nikaya/SN: Connected Discourses
  • Namarupa: name and form
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1975)
  • Consciousness depends on language
  • Language and consciousness arise dependently on each other
  • SN 12.67: Sheaves of Reeds
  • The Story of Philosophy (1926/1933)
  • Poverty is slavery
  • Wealth provides attention
  • The bourgeoisie are slaves
  • Four types of attachment
  • Patticasamuppada: Practical Dependent Origination (1978)
  • Four types of clinging
  • Upadana
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
  • Plato : Kant :: Aristarchus : Copernicus
  • Aristarchus was only right in retrospect
  • Copernicus (1473–1543)
  • The word “revolution”
  • Kuhn’s “revolution” is from Copernicus
  • Polymathy
  • Robert Eisler (1882–1949)
  • Pleasure and pain amplified in humans
  • Pleasure is a type of pain
  • People seek strong sensations
  • Löwenmensch figurine/Lion-man (35–40 kya)
  • Man into Wolf (1948)
  • Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (1971)
  • Tanha
  • Dependent origination does not depend on words
  • Mana (Buddhism: “conceit”)
  • People are disturbed by views
  • Sceptics can still think/perceive evident things
  • Logos as dogmatic account of non-evident matters
  • Ditthi (Buddhism: “view”)
  • Dependent Origination: Paticca-samuppada (1959)
  • Thinking on middle ways
  • The Middle Way
  • “Both the deed and the doer are fictions”
  • Dependent origination and the self
  • Moment-by-moment dependent origination
  • Dependent Origination
  • Nidana-samyutta: Paticcasamuppada
  • SN 12.46: A Certain Brahman
  • Middle way and two extremes
  • Patiloma: Against the grain conditionality
  • Realism denies the most important fact of all
  • Materialism is unwittingly relativist
  • WWR Volume II (1844)
  • Transparency of inference in language
  • Only vision is fast enough to be unconscious
  • Von Helmholtz: Unconscious Inference
  • Unconscious inference
  • Sea People (2019)
  • Julius von Haast (1822–1887)
  • Archaeological Industry
  • Paleolithic → Neolithic (10k BC) : Flaked → polished
  • Drunk (2021)
  • Timeline
  • Drunken banquet as community-building technology
  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (2010)
  • Anaxarchus (380–320 BC)
  • Against the Mathematicians (~200)
  • Perception does unconscious inference
  • Anaxarchus: Existing things are stage-painting
  • Objectification-classifications (papanca-sankha)
  • Sn 4.11: Quarrels and Disputes
  • MN 18: The Honeyball Sutta
  • Nibbana is no craving, conceit, views
  • End of perceptions and categories of objectification
  • Majjhima Nikaya: Middle-length Discourses (~250 BC–150)
  • MN 126: To Bhūmija Bhūmija Sutta
  • Belief must be enacted
  • Pascal inverts religious schema
  • Belief doesn’t matter
  • Follow the path; beliefs don’t matter
  • “Outside us” as theatre set
  • M.-Marsel Mesulam (~1946–)
  • “From Sensation to Cognition” (1998)
  • Flexible goal-oriented behaviour
  • Longer neural chains allow integrative processing
  • Sankhara (fabrication)
  • Vinnana (consciousness)
  • Skandhas (Five Aggregates)
  • History of Scepticism from Savonorola to Bayle (2003)
  • Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498)
  • Savonarola and Sextus (~1480)
  • Platonism (extreme realism)
  • “The Hilbert-Brouwer Controversy Resolved?” (2008)
  • David Hilbert (1862–1943)
  • Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)
  • Frege “wipes the floor” with Wittgenstein (1911)
  • Brouwer’s view of mathematics
  • Logical realism
  • Luitzen Egbertus Jan (L. E. J.) Brouwer (1881–1966)
  • Logicism
  • “Intuitionism and Formalism” (1912)
  • Kant: Intuition and categories are mind’s contribution to knowledge
  • Logic is a part of mathematics
  • Space, time, material originally come from geometry
  • Geometry is the refuge of cowards
  • “Geometry and Experience” (1921)
  • Heraclitus (545–475 BC)
  • Pre-Socratic philosophers
  • WP428: The Moral Idiosyncrasy
  • Pericles (495–429 BC)
  • Thucydides (460–400 BC)
  • Good science is Sophist
  • Intuitionism
  • Asymmetry in causality
  • Law of the Excluded Middle (~350 BC–1908)
  • Asymmetry between negative and positive statements in intuitionism
  • Zettel Count
  • OED: Intuitionism
  • 2023-04-28 Epistolary Creativity

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