/lit/ - Literature

>>23058538
Actually it's giving chatbots methodological schizophrenia and hallucinations.

>>17589344
Calculus-based process metaphysics: >>>/x/27683419
Rather than contradicting Taoism, you'll find that it clarifies its fundamental principles.

>>17543670
>If this is the case, why does western culture continue to cling to the fallacy of independent thinking?
Because Western culture is based on the fallacy of independent existence.

No

>>14417014
Looks like you got your Christmas wish for an Eris rant. To try to bring it all home, what I think Whitehead tried to understand and communicate is a rhythm of creative inspiration that is common to art, science, and philosophy alike, a profound personal intimacy with the world of experience. This rhythm is holy to me, and I see these videos as communicating the same spirit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVVm75k_8Q

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

Whitehead was truly a poet of this sense of wondrous adventure that is nurtured gently and quietly by the tender aspects of the world.

>>14419012
Things get a bit strange when we consider that we can become aware of our questions themselves, and ask questions about our questions that in turn mutate them - and in the process of following quests new questionable experiences may modify part of the quests, or even cause them to entirely change from their original desires. Metacognition, or "thinking about thoughts" is better thought as "questioning one's questions," and it is this faculty that is our activity of self-awareness.

Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness thus corresponds to a creationist view of human creativity which neglects questions in favor of choice and action. This is where the mistake of "free will" comes from, misidentifying choice as the driving force of self-creativity, when it is our ability to question - freedom of inquiry - which allows us to change and grow experientially over time. This freedom is a skill, and rather than coming from nowhere it comes from our coninual exposure to present change, which is a gathering of influences together in a living perspective. This has important implications for education, as it suggests that what is important isn't to "have the right answer" and to program people with the "right answers," but rather to encourage inquisitiveness. This is a matter of personal freedom, the ability to grow beyond one's existing understanding.

Questions have been woefully neglected in philosophy, though recently I came across Lani Watson's work and from what little of it I've read so far it's very admirable: https://philosophyofquestions.com/ She doesn't go as far as to link it to metaphysics, but she realizes that there's much more involved with questions than empty voids to be filled, or questions as mere linguistic objects.

>>14417682
Any important readings/videos you think should be added to the OP?

This comic: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park It's highly related to the above discussions about questions, but stands on its own as a powerfully communicated perspective of process thought.

>>14419010
Henri Bergson had another understanding of calculus that is intimately related to these perceptual modes and epistemology:

>Bergson placed a high importance on the role of the calculus for grounding contemporary science in an intuitive but rational way. Gunter is also correct, I think, is holding that what Bergson meant by "intuition" includes both qualitative and quantitative aspects. I take it as established that, 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.

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

The mode of differentiation / presentational immediacy can be imagined as the continual re-discovery of the world of experience, exposure for what the routines of understanding cannot account for; one is continually "surprised" by the present moment. Understanding is an intrinsically temporal engagement.

My theory of epistemological/experiential evolution relates the process of variation-> selection-> reproduction to question -> choice -> action. This is really evolutionary theory brought back to its native domain of understanding, as biological evolution itself is an abstraction of human creativity to a non-conscious creative process that doesn't require a mind; the "intelligence" is embodied in organisms' relationships with the world. Choice is a non-generative aspect, it omits options from a selection of possibilities, while questions generate them. Questions aren't merely linguistic objects, but actions: lines of inquiry in the sense of thought, and "quests" in the sense of experiences with the world.

Where do questions come from? From exposure to the questionable, to what "surprises" existing understanding; questions are the mutagenic aspect of experience and don't omit, but instead generate alternate potentialities. The act of questioning is self-differentiation.

>>14418746
>47min of schizo posting
alright im out lmao

>>14418733

>>14418731
cope harder; he was a backwater jew, not a greek

>>14418721
cringe

>machismo (n) - strong or aggressive masculine pride.

>>14418716
when was that never always the case?

>>14418697
i got the image from that "Book Club" guy on youtube; stop berating me about spic terminology, nigger - i don't care.

also, merry christmas and good night; i'm going to actually read unlike you pseuds.

>>14418686
last one :)

>>14418670
No.

also obligatory

>>14418653
yeah they are 19-27 mostly

>>14418637
15 is a bit young, they are more-so 19-27

>>14418630
>Who's okay in your worldview?

>>14418494
>>14418530
atheists, humanists, and catholics are all cringe. protestants are even worse. sunnis are subhuman. jews are rats.

>>14418382
based and redpilled

SIEGE
James Mason
ask your mother

The Woman Destroyed - Beauvoir
One-Verse Charlies - Mason