Ed Heil wrote: > Off topic, but I'm fascinated to hear you worked with Eugene Gendlin! His > work, and that of his student Ann Weiser Cornell, have been very helpful to > me, and I even really enjoyed his philosophical work, _Experiencing and the > Creation of Meaning_, to the degree I understood it! >
Ciao Ed I can reply, I think, both acknowledging your interest, which I really appreciate! :-), and the thread theme. Gene was an amazing selfless person. He was also a brilliant philosopher. Experience & The Creation Of Meaning <https://www.amazon.com/Experiencing-Creation-Meaning-Philosophical-Psychological/dp/0810114275> is still not fully grasped for its significance. His brilliance as a philosopher clearly comes out when he debates with other thinkers. As he does in Language Beyond Postmodernism <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0810113597?tag=duc01-21&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1>. Both are highly relevant to computer interface design, though the work needed to show that has not been done yet. Ann Weiser Cornell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Weiser_Cornell> is very important for widely popularising "Focusing", a major practical application of Gene's philosophy for self-help. She's Good. In my years with him I grew to be Executive Director of archiving & preserving his work. I realised, along with Mary Hendricks, his wife, that giving public access to most of his published & unpublished (about 140) articles was a v. Good idea. Result: after 18 months of good sponsor funded hard graft was the: Gendlin Online Library <http://previous.focusing.org/gendlin/gol_all_index.asp> Back to this thread. Gene actually wrote a formal "Eliza" style script, though not a programmer, he was interested in exploring the "semantics of response." It was never made into a program. It only exists on paper. As a philosopher he was fascinated by the Turing Test <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test>. His key take-away was *"... a lot of life is pretending.* *I know its a robot. * *It does not matter, * *IF** it helps me. * *If it helps I can FEEL it, so will give it credence.* *What is going on is that humans, programming machines,* *provide tools that understand some aspects of meaning-making."* Chritian B's plugin may be a step towards that for TW. Best wishes TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b6cb468a-75a4-40e8-a789-05379aa8b92eo%40googlegroups.com.
