Tag: frame problem

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 3: Water Metaphors

  See Part 1 & Part 2. The mudded path we trust to lead us back, for the first time, to the source gets muddier as you trudge along, because the source, of course, is always water. Alan Watts This essay has regularly resorted to liquid metaphor, to contrasting the structural stability of framed perception with…

  suspendedreason

  April 18, 2023

  Essays

  Alan Watts, Alfred North Whitehead, Bruce Lee, David Chapman, frame problem, Heraclitus, Herman Melville, Homer, Hubert Dreyfus, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, Jules Verne, process philosophy, Roland Barthes, taoism

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice

  Previously. Main takeaways: Negotiating with those who share your frame is straightforward. The potential for agreement—for reaching a new coordinative equilibrium—is built into the shared frame and in some sense pre-arranged. To agree to a frame, or definition of a situation, is to have already preemptively struck a deal. It is when frames are contested,…

  suspendedreason

  April 14, 2023

  Essays

  Bruce Lee, cognitive science, David Chapman, ecology of practice, Erving Goffman, fitness, frame problem, George Eliot, Herman Melville, heuristics, Hubert Dreyfus, Jake Orthwein, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, maps, metarationality, metasystematicity, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, mood, mood affiliation, No Free Lunch Theorem, PIG optimality, postrationalism, postrationality, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationality, Sarah Perry

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 1: The Fall of Jordan Peterson

  This is the beginning of a 5-part series, whose alternate titles might run: “Metarationality & the Frame Problem,” “Function/Form/Fluidity,” and “Cultural Relativism for Rationalists.” It aims to trace a throughline in taoist, pragmatist, and postmodern thinking, and to introduce a certain meta-systematic school of blogosphere philosophy which has crystallized around the frame problem in microsociology,…

  suspendedreason

  April 1, 2023

  Blog, Essays

  cultural relativism, discursive diplomacy, frame problem, framing, Jordan B. Peterson, pragmatism