That's really awesome! And I'll be bookmarking that Online Library. On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, at 6:29 AM, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > 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 most of his published & unpublished (about 140) articles was a v. Good idea.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 > > >
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