Tag: John Vervaeke

• 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

  Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.Water came to rebuke the too clear water.One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a rippleShook whatever it was lay there at bottom,Blurred it, blotted it…

  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