/lit/ - Literature

>>14694022
Stop thinking of being and becoming as an opposition, but instead an interdependency. Also realize that rightism doesn't correspond to either and is merely socially infectious epistemic retardation.
http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

>>14443738
Whitehead's philosophical DNA is all over the Principia Discordia as well, and McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson (a major figure in Discordianism) were familiar with each other and very much involved in the same currents.

>>14190605
For an evolutionary system to be flexible it must balance repetition/reproduction with mutation/variation. This "balance" itself is always in flux and relative to the particular givens of a situation. This is true not just of organisms but ideas, dreams, and personalities. This is the central dynamic behind organicist and process thought:

>https://www.religion-online.org/article/influence-as-confluence-bergson-and-whitehead/

>for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

Détournement, détournement. When all else fails, Détournement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement

https://thefoggiestnotion.com/fnords.htm

>Wait so Discordianism is some sort of mash-up between situationist praxis and Whiteheadean process as a collaborative art project?

>Why the hell is Discordianism at all relevant? What does PARODY RELIGION have to do with anyfnord? >>14100869

>>14044165
Guess I'll throw this on the pile to show the conspiratorial link between Discordianism and Whitehead.

"Curse of Greyface" = metaphor for the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness.

>According to Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion, or concept about the way things are for a physical or "concrete" reality: "There is an error; but it is merely the accidental error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete. It is an example of what might be called the 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness.'"[6] Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the relation of spatial and temporal location of objects. He rejects the notion that a concrete physical object in the universe can be ascribed a simple spatial or temporal extension, that is, without reference to its relations to other spatial or temporal extensions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoKru5szCY


>The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

>>13987049
Forgot the most important question: who is Our Guy?
>Alfred North Whitehead, of course. I am Your Girl.

>>13951923
>Robert Anton Wilson
Nice 23. Also look into the philosophy that inspired the art project he participated in.

as a personal note, the PD personally inspired me to find similar philosophy that I found incredibly beautiful and meaningful to read.

>>13902308
I'm an atheist who considers Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan as my greatest spiritual teachers.

I'm a complete slut for creative inspiration. I fucking live for it, and have gorged myself on it like a true polyamorous slut, my face a bukkake plate for the mixing of paint.

This kind of talk makes me SO WET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVVm75k_8Q

Fuck yeah art, science, philosophy, and sex.