by orchaeus | Nov 30, 2020 | Status Update
Dec 2013 Our cultures are driven by goals implicit not in human nature or conspiracy, so much as what happens when we ignore relational intelligence and pretend that representational intelligence is better, or more advanced. This is completely wrongminded. The...
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2020 | Status Update
It struck me then, that our categories are malfounded. They depend upon taxonomies, rather than relationships, stories, ideas… and principles. The old languages seem to have been founded in reverse… so that the categories were themselves meaningful. I...
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2020 | Status Update
If you think carefully, although one can say that there are many senses… there is something above them by which they are integrated and experienced. Without that sense, none of the other senses will be coherent, or even experiencable. Fundamentally, then, the...
by orchaeus | Nov 28, 2020 | Status Update
The ‘sameness’ so easily indicated in language is nearly never present in the things language points at, and declares equivalent. What is equivalent is the class or type; but these are generalizations, and exclude the local novelty of any given object,...
by orchaeus | Nov 28, 2020 | Status Update
It really weirds me out when someone’s smile looks exactly the same in every selfie?
by orchaeus | Nov 27, 2020 | Status Update
Yes, we ‘see’ with our eyes. But this is not the only form or aspect of seeing… We refer to understanding, knowledge and skills with the same sense-word. This isn’t entirely accidental. However, what we ‘see’ with our eyes, is...