Hi Brian,
Well then, let me ask you and the list if you think there is any value for
understanding our lives and culture in discussing the issues of
'being in the moment', not instead of but in addition to using our rational
minds at other times and incorporating what we may have learned while we
were 'in the moment'
the idea that what appears to be chaos has an underlying order that may
appear if we can be open to those possibilities; being open to those
possibilities may necessitate a combination of 'being in the moment' and
using our rational minds
are there similarities and differences and connections to be made between
the interaction between human being(s) and the interaction between human
being(s) and nature, art, science, etc What are the different dimensions of
'being' that exist when we are thinking or just totally involved in the
'meeting of another's eyes'. There is clear evidence that brain waves change
dramatically when people are totally involved say, in listening to music,
making love, painting a picture, e.g., on the one hand, and thinking about
things on the other hand. I'm not talking here just about the differences
between emotion and thinking. I don't mean to be condescending, but I
suspect there are only a few on this list that will be able to distinguish
between emotion and what I am talking about.
I've said this before- if we don't deal with some of these basic issues
about human life and culture, the rest of the conversation just goes around
in circles.
For example: the way humans 'meet' each other varies enormously by culture:
in cultures where 'being' is valued, people 'meet' and connect very
differently. This had been more than alluded to in some of the posts here,
especially by Ray.
Do you think a discussion of the way people 'connect' and how this comes out
of culture and reinforces it would be helpful in our understanding of what
kind of a society we might want to try to imagine for the future?
Selma
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] Re: Not ideological (was More crap again)
> Hi Selma,
> Wittgenstein is behind Shotter. You need to get to know him. His life
> must be appreciated in order to understand his writing. Ray Monk's
> biography "Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius" will do this splendidly:
>
> From The Times Literary Supplement
> This is a very satisfying philosophical Life. When I read Bruce Duffy's
> excellent novel, The World as I Found It {BRD 1989}, I was convinced
> that onlya novel could do justice to this exemplary, almost awesome
> life, with its fierce moral beauty and relentless artistic drive. I now
> no longer believe that. There is no substitute for unflinching truth.
> Ray Monk's biography is a contribution not only to our understanding of
> Wittgenstein as philosopher and as person, but of philosophy as finally
> confessional when it is truly great.
>
> Take care,
> Brian
>
> > Brian,
> >
> > Another thinker we both admire! Although I am most familiar with him
> > through
> > his home page and the relationship of his work to The Sociology of
> > Culture.
> > I haven't yet had a chance to read anything of his except what's on
> > his web
> > site but I did thoroughly enjoy reading this.I have a couple of
> > questions
> > about how one might interpret some of what he said and you may just
> > want to
> > tell me to read the rest of his stuff to get answers, and that's fine
> > but
> > this article did generate, for me, questions about the relationship of
> > what
> > he is saying to
> >
> > the Buddhist idea of 'being in the moment"
> >
> > Chaos theory- there is a paragraph in which it appears that he is
> > saying
> > that by 'paying attention' to the moment, which may seem to be without
> > order, eventually the order appears.
> >
> > And I suspect he might be using the 'meeting of a stranger's eyes' as
> > a
> > metaphor for any situation where we have contact with 'other' which
> > would
> > include long and intimate conversations, listening to music, enjoying
> > and/or
> > participating in other art forms, doing mathematics.
> >
> > Selma
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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