M.C. Escher: Hand with Reflecting Sphere

The life we are reaching out to grasp is the we who are reaching out to grasp it. –R. D. Laing


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Introduction:

It has been suggested by Moonhawk (MIT linguist) and others, that “the entire Western worldview — logic, reason, science, philosophy, categories — the entire ‘civilization’ enterprise of which academia is a part” is a scam, in the sense that it is built on the error warned of by Ernst Mach, of “regarding the intellectual machinery, employed in the representation of the world on the stage of thought, as the basis of the real world [of our natural experience]”, … that arises from our noun-and-verb architecture of language. (more…)