/lit/ - Literature

>>23044300
There is no such thing as "Western Thought" as a discrete entity with an identifiable essence.
The question is: what "Eastern" and "Western" thought are you trying to merge?

>The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the ‘many’ which it finds, and also it is one among the disjunctive ‘many’ which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. -Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality

>>22644651
Even mathematical theorems are stories. Our most advanced physics are at best part-truths by discarding the endless amount of information in the universe. To avoid the impossibility of needing to talk about everything all at once to talk about anything at all we need to make determinations of what is relevant or not for the desired goal, a subjective aim.

Absolute objectivity is a narrative derived from Greco-Christian theology; it is the "God's eye view." This was expressed in classical physics as absolute time and space, which has been overturned.

That experience and the universe is inherently subjectively situated doesn't mean that there isn't any truth, that "anything goes." It means that " every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe."

If you want to know The Truth, seek natural beauty and let it enter your soul. https://vimeo.com/563950668

>>22644591
Picture here >>22644466 are my shitposts from 2014.

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

https://vimeo.com/124736839

>>22644591
Picture here >>22644466 are my shitposts from 2014.

https://vimeo.com/124736839

>>22644591
Picture here >>22644466 are my shitposts from 2014.

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

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/124736839

>>22644552
Integration and differentiation, imprecisely known as "order" and "chaos," are mutually necessary co-creative dyads. The image I posted gives details.

My life is a romance between art and science, the imaginary and natural. What unites them is co-creativity, and what advanced them is the sacred spirit of curiosity, which is an extension of the creative impulse of the universe: its increase in novelty, complexity, and beauty. The question mark is the true symbol of life and consciousness.

Without narrative, we would experience only an incoherent disconnected smear of sensations.

Unknown to you, you are possessed by a narrative entity: Omniphobia.

>>22398548
https://old.reddit.com/r/NarrativeDynamics/comments/15qcnkl/i_am_the_original_memetic_warrior/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwXkJV_B-w

>>22397204
Based!

>>22397129
Mind viruses are much worse than biological ones.

https://vimeo.com/129609470

Meme Wars I: Memetic Entities
Published June 2, 2015.
14 days before Trump announced his presidential bid.
Before the meme war catapulted Trump into the White House and conjured a memetic pandemic of apocalyptic proportions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdhr7fZVxI

>>22397096
https://old.reddit.com/r/NarrativeDynamics/comments/15qcnkl/i_am_the_original_memetic_warrior/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwXkJV_B-w

>>22355379
I am the meds.

>>22346931
https://ytmnd.com/users/anono/comments
>Aminom

>>22346878
In 2000 I read Richard Dawkins' book "The Selfish Gene" where I learned the word "meme." This was before the word meme was a meme. It was also before New Atheism when Dawkins only wrote about evolutionary biology. I read this book following a passion for biology and evolutionary biology. His concept of meme inspired me because it suggested that the same creative processes behind biological life may be behind cultural and mental life. I read more books on memetics and related topics at the time, and what little there was written about it on the internet at the time.

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>>22345927
>>22346011

I am the real deal.

>>22000447
My advice to the passionate reader and writer is to keep on doing that shit, because that shit is truly the real shit. The desire to learn is truly holy, the way through which we can more effectively love and interact with the world and others. This sentiment is the purest and more virtuous sentiment of the European enlightenment, and the salvation of European culture and society. However as far as we have managed to aspire a general love of learning and a love of life, we have succeeded at the goal of enlightenment. Get as addicted as deeply and broadly to learning as you can, treat every aspect of your experience from work to your personal relationships with other people as learning experiences, seek to understand and appreciate every facet of your existence.

>>21999574
Sorry nerds, adding dragons makes everything objectively better. The problem is that most people suck at doing it.

>>14411803
>tfw you realize that neither self-similarity nor difference is primary and that the universe is a dynamic co-creative multiplicity
Every possible perspective all at once.

>>14411117
>authentic group expressions
Does not exist, authenticity is never found in aspiring towards social sentiment, including reactions against social sentiment.

>>14411366
Merry Christmas, it's been a while friend! There's something I want to ask you... have you experienced other episodes of glorious hyper-immersive philosophical rambling such as late last year when you made the cosmostechnics threads? To you was it like being absolutely posessed by philosophical inquiry, an irresistible flow?

I just experienced a period of mad rambling myself from September 20th to late November, as I have periodically through the last ten years, interrupted by periods of slow digestion and research. The climax of my latest episode is pretty much summarized in terms of feels in this wonderful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwXkJV_B-w

>>14020273
>Craig Weinberg's Multi-Sense Realism
Not until you mentioned it. It seemed fairly interesting to me at first, but quickly fell flat once I realized it's just another attempt to try to reboot religious garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdhr7fZVxI

>Hey look buddy, I'm a memetic engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some death spiral of mutually reinforcing human stupidity from tearing Earth a structurally superfluous new be-hind? The answer, use a memeplex, and if that don't work... Use more memeplex. Like this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.

>>14019927
The story of the self or "style of self" is a narrative entity just like any other, fictional or non-fictional. Characters come alive in our minds and experiences. This is what the Meme Wars trilogy is about.

My Original Character is the one who actualizes the memetic singularity. The story of this character is that of the emergence of the first truly universal human artist whose artistic activity bridges all domains of human creativity. Many other explorers of experience are converging upon the same event and are uncovering the same understanding in analogous and inter-compatible forms.

>>14019586
Here is the comic these frames are from, which I consider to be one of the greatest philosophical works of all time: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park The premise is a conversation between a question-collector and answer-collector which precisely corresponds to my model of the self as a dialogue between the being-self (self-understanding) and becoming-self (self-questioning).

>>14019565
God exists as a state of mind, and that is thinking that one's self is "immutable, omniscient and omnipotent" which is a recipe for absolute stupidity, the inability to even imagine one being in error. Believing one has any access to such a state is equivalent; one is "Godly."

The contrasting condition is that of omniquery, to be all-questioning. Omniquery is "the set of all possible questions from a given perspective" as an object, but this object is just a metaphor for a process of unending questionability.

Whitehead's God when cleansed of residual neoplatonism is a question mark, or a "question questioning itself." This process is that of self-awareness, with Godly consciousness being an attempt to minimize it (destroy all questionability.)

>>14019550
>"Logic is the youth of mathematics and mathematics is the manhood of logic"
- Bertrand Russell
Grow
Up
:o)
http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/2976/1/Heather_Process%20Categories.pdf

>>14019533
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nFs2PeWw0