Tag: Herman Melville
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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…
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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,…
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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
Suspended Reason 