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Standardizing and quantizing is also what enables conceptual proliferation which makes reality increasingly intractable. Understanding this is why China had C
by derrida 7y ago
Standardizing and quantizing is also what enables conceptual proliferation which makes reality increasingly intractable. Understanding this is why China had Chuang Tzu and continuity in civilization. Things shouldn't be the slave of reason, they should be a slave of the senses. Love, Hume/Buddha :) perception in terms of quantization has that old problem 'with a hammer everything looks like a nail'... everything looks like a market transaction... to be solved by some financial instrument, bureaucracy or code. Chuang Tzu was talking about this millenia ago and was required reading for China's leaders.
Meanwhile Global Warming carries on... reality doesn't care what we think.
- 781 7y ago> Things shouldn't be the slave of reason, they should be a slave of the senses People say that. But then they are horrified when someone kills another one because it made them angry. Or when a man rapes a woman because he couldn't control his senses. They say they want a "human touch" and "emotion instead of logic", but don't like the consequences of truly doing that.
- edejong 7y agoThe solution IMHO is not to substitute the emotions, but to understand, control and channel them by equanimity, concentration, meditation, investigation and mindfulness.