THE DELUSION of the BINARY LOGIC based WORLDVIEW
BINARY LOGIC IS A DEVICE FOR SERVING UP A SIMPLIFIED REPRESENTATION OF REALITY, OR MORE ACCURATELY, “CONSTRUCTING A SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS SIMPLER”
There are ANALOGIES here such as (A) The Cuckoo’s egg that inserts a more simple bird into a less simple bird’s supportive milieu, or, (B) Putting a simple Volkswagen engine into a PORSCHE because ‘the simpler thing CAN FIT INTO THE SLOT meant for something LESS SIMPLE. Analogies also include WHAT GOES ON WITH THE ILLNESS “COLITIS” which comes in the wake of the administering of an ANTI-biotic that KILLS many of the BODY’S “ESSENTIAL” (good) COMPLEX MICROBES who’s places are then “OCCUPIED” (‘taken over’) by SIMPLER MICROBES that ‘CAN’T DO THE LESS SIMPLE JOB’ but whose ‘OCCUPATION’ of the key slots BLOCKS THE RETURN of the NEEDED, LESS SIMPLE MICROBES. The ‘work-around’ for this is to RE-LOAD the FULL MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE complete with “SOCKETS AND THEIR PROPER OCCUPANTS”.
This process, termed “Fecal Microbiota Transplantation” or FMT resolves the dilemma wherein the ‘fancy microbe apartments’ that were ‘cleared out’ by the antibiotic and then re-occupied by simpler microbes BLOCK RE-ENTRY of the needed “LESS SIMPLE’ microbes. The problem is that the microbes arrange themselves so as to form ‘openings’ based on a full complement of the full diversity of microbes which come together so as to form custom slots hat accommodate the full diversity arranged so as to open up custom slots for each other where the OCCUPANT must MATCH THE SLOT, and the LESS SIMPLE SLOT must be filled with the corresponding LESS SIMPLE OCCUPANT.
This scheme is FOILED in the wake of the antibiotic administering since many microbial species are ELIMINATED IN A WILLY-NILLY manner, so that the matched arrangement of SOCKETS and OCCUPANTS is MESSED UP and we have the WRONG OCCUPANTS in the WRONG SOCKETS and the manifestation of this screw-up is COLITIS, the REMEDY for which is to assist the body in restoring the healthy arrangement of SOCKETS and OCCUPANTS in the microbial assemblage. MORE ANTI-BIOTICS to kill more strains of microbes is NOT the REMEDY since the PROBLEM of COLITIS is the ABSENCE OF ESSENTIAL MICROBES, hence the successful REMEDY of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation which RESTORES those microbial strains THAT HAVE BEEN ELMINATED BY THE ANTI-BIOTICS, a RESTORATION that cannot be achieved by administering MORE ANTI-BIOTICS since ANTI-BIOTICS only REMOVE microbes and COLITIS is resolved by RESTORING essential microbes that are no longer present, having been removed by the antio-biotics.
It is IMPORTANT to note that the IMBALANCE in microbial content has led to the MISTAKEN JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS when observing that unusual ‘rogue’ strains of microbes are proliferating in the body, that these ‘rogue’ microbes ARE THE CAUSE OF ILLNESS. THEY ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF ILLNESS, they are symptomatic of IMBALANCE in the microbial assemblage, THE REMEDY FOR WHICH IS RE-BALANCING the microbial assemblage, for which the 90+ percent successful remedy is Fecal Microbiota Transplantation.
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WHY SO MUCH VERBIAGE ON FMT WHEN THE MAIN TOPIC IS TO ELUCIDATE ON BINARY LOGIC VIS A VIS QUANTUM LOGIC? I.E. …
BINARY LOGIC IS A DEVICE FOR SERVING UP A SIMPLIFIED REPRESENTATION OF REALITY, OR MORE ACCURATELY, “CONSTRUCTING A SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS SIMPLER”
BINARY LOGIC is where get the notion of EITHER GOOD OR BAD, and our WESTERN CULTURE KNEE-JERK is FEED GOOD and STARVE BAD (amplify GOOD and attenuate BAD).
ONCE WE FALL INTO THIS BINARY LOGIC BASED TRAP, we can no longer ‘see’ the LESS SIMPLE but more REAL QUANTUM LOGIC conditions of IMBALANCE and BALANCE. In the example of ILLNESS, we have TWO CHOICES OF HOW TO UNDERSTAND HEALTH and ILLNESS.
–CHOICE ONE– the QUANTUM LOGIC understanding of HEALTH as BALANCE and ILLNESS as IMBALANCE in the microbial assemblage.
-CHOICE TWO- The BINARY LOGIC understanding of HEALTH as PREVALENCE of GOOD microbes over BAD microbes.
As was evident in the above example of COLITIS where there is an IMBALANCE in the microbial assemblage, the WESTERN CULTURE knee-jerk is to MIS-INTERPRET THE IMBALANCE as THE ATTACK OF PATHOGENS. It is true that what manifests is a proliferation of C. DIFFICILE (Colitis symptoms) or COVID 19 (various symptoms) but this does not mean that the ROOT ISSUE is not IMBALANCE in the microbial assemblage.
WHICH WAY DO WE GO ON THIS; i.e.
QUANTUM LOGIC where we understand HEALTH as BALANCE and ILLNESS as IMBALANCE , or,
BINARY LOGIC where we understand HEALTH as prevalence of GOOD AGENTS and ILLNESS as prevalence of PATHOLOGICAL AGENTS.
THE FACT IS THAT QUANTUM LOGIC is “LESS SIMPLE” than “BINARY LOGIC”. For example the PROLIFERATION of agents such as Robin Hood and Jean Valjean (from Les Misérables) are, in QUANTUM LOGIC terms, arising from NATURAL RESPONSE TO RESOLVE IMBALANCE by RESTORING BALANCE.
THE FACT IS THAT BINARY LOGIC is “SIMPLER” . For example the PROLIFERATION of agents such as Robin Hood and Jean Valjean are, in BINARY LOGIC terms, the manifestation of PATHOLOGICAL AGENTS gaining the UPPER HAND over HEALTH-SUSTAINING AGENTS. BINARY LOGIC is SIMPLER than QUANTUM LOGIC and DOES NOT EVEN “SEE” the possibility for understanding what is going on in the LESS SIMPLE terms of BALANCE and IMBALANCE. BINARY LOGIC STOPS WITH “THESE AUTHORS OF ACTIONS ARE GOOD AND THOSE AUTHORS OF ACTIONS ARE BAD”.
NOTA BENE! WHILE QUANTUM LOGIC did not imply judgement involving LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS, BINARY LOGIC DID IMPLY LOCAL AUTHORING. There is the implication that if things can be EITHER good OR bad, then it is possible to DISCRIMINATE between them in which case they must be SEPARATE things. There is NO SUCH “SEPARATION” REQUIREMENT in QUANTUM LOGIC since BALANCE orients to the purely relational and it is only when IMBALANCE arises that BINARY LOGIC INVOKING questions such as AUTHORSHIP arise; e.g. WHO IS THE PERPETRATOR AND WHO IS THE VICTIM,
“DO WE NEED THIS CONCEPT OF “LOCAL AUTHORING” THAT SEEMS TO COME BUNDLED IN WITH BINARY LOGIC?” WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT AS IN A FLOW-BASED REALITY?
“LOCAL AUTHORING” IS INSTIGATED WITH THE ‘DOUBLE ERROR’ OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR AND IT IS CRUCIAL TO OUR ‘FRAGMENTING OF REALITY’ SO THAT WE CAN ARTICULATE WHAT IS GOING ON IN TERMS OF ‘LOCAL EVENTS’ AS IF THESE ‘LOCAL EVENTS’ SUCH ‘RUSSIA ATTACKS UKRAINE’ ARE A SOLID BASIS FOR CAPTURING AND SHARING AN ‘UNDESTANDING’ OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
MEANWHILE, ZEN STORIES SUCH AS THE OLD MAN AND HORSES ILLUSTRATE PROBLEMS WITH TRYING TO BUILD UP UNDERSTANDING FROM LOCAL FRAGMENTS: e.g. the old man’s horse runs away (maybe bad, maybe good), … and comes back bringing a half dozen fine wild horses in tow (maybe good, maybe bad) and the farmer’s son break his leg trying to train the wild horses (maybe bad, maybe good), and the son is passed over as the Warlord conscripts all able-bodied men fight the neighbouring Emperor in a battle wherein the Warlord and his mean are all slain.
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The AIM OF THIS NOTE IS
(A) TO REMIND THAT BINARY LOGIC HAS ENTRENCHED ITSELF IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE BASED REPRESENTATIONS AND IT IS DUMBING US DOWN compared to the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta where the language based representations are QUANTUM LOGIC based as involves BALANCE and IMBALANCE rather than the BINARY LOGIC of “EITHER” my way “OR” ‘the highway’, and,
(B) To POINT OUT THE WAYS in which we are PUSHING BINARY LOGIC ON OURSELVES though the POPULARIZING OF BELIEF IN A NUMBER OF BOGUS NOTIONS what we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have gotten into the HABIT of regarding as REAL and incorporating on our OPERATIVE REALITY..
THIS IS A CRAZY-MAKER THAT IS ENDEMIC IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMIC.
My findings over 1996-2022 (26 years) of philosophical investigations are converging on a single finding in regard to how our WESTERN CULTURE is screwing up.
THE SCREW UP IS THE EMBRACE OF BINARY LOGIC which, although exposed as over-simplistic and in need of being discarded and replaced by QUANTUM LOGIC, we have nevertheless built into our LANGUAGE-BASED conceptualization scheme, as follows;
-1- The BOGUS notion that the world is divided into the ORGANIC and INORGANIC sectors.
-2- The BOGUS notion of the EVOLUTION OF MAN as in DARWINISM and the ‘tree of life’
-3- The BOGUS notion of the PRESENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL in the world
-4- The BOGUS notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments
-5- The BOGUS notion of the HUMAN ‘BEING’ as an INDEPENDENT THING-IN-ITSELF
-6- The BOGUS notion of the INDEPENDENT NATION with its own powers of AUTHORING actions and development
-7- The BOGUS notion of the GLOBAL ECONOMY based on GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION
-8- The BOGUS notion of the existence of the PATHOGEN such as COVID 19
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NONE OF THESE FANTASIES ARE SUPPORTED BY SENSE EXPERIENCE OR BY MODERN PHYSICS. OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE IS OF INCLUSION IN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM AKA THE WAVE-FIELD AKA THE TAO WHERE IN THERE IS BALANCE and IMBALANCE but no GOOD AGENTS and BAD AGENTS.
ALL OF THE ABOVE BOGUS NOTIONS DERIVE FROM THE ABSTRACTION OF “BINARY LOGIC”, A DUMBED-DOWN SIMPLIFYING OF QUANTUM LOGIC.
BINARY LOGIC LEADS TO THE LANGUAGE BASED CONSTRUCTIONS OF A SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS A RADICAL SOURCE OF SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION WHICH BOHM POINTS OUT LEADS TO SCHIZOPHRENIA and PARANOIA
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The title of this note speaks of the HOLD-OUTS that keep us locked into belief in these 8 BOGUS NOTIONS, all of which are based on BINARY LOGIC, such as DARWIN’S EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (rightly mocked by Nietzsche)
If we SUSPEND ALL OF THE ABOVE BOGUS NOTIONS, ALL OF WHICH DEPEND ON BINARY LOGIC, WE WILL APPROACH A VERY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY CONSISTENT WITH MODERN PHYSICS, INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, TAOISM/BUDDHISM AND ADVAITA VEDANTA.
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What I am saying here is consistent with what Bohm and Nietzsche say in their philosophical investigations. They may not have “COME RIGHT OUT AND SAID IT” but BINARY LOGIC is DRIVING US NUTS. Now Bohm DID SAY that FRAGMENTATION was DRIVING US NUTS which is an EQUIVALENT assertion and Nietzsche pointed out that the FRAGMENTATION is coming from our LANGUAGE, from our having built into the foundation of our LANGUAGE BASED REPRESENTATIONS, the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which imputes LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT.
BINARY LOGIC is the ABSTRACT THOUGHT that something “EITHER” is so, “OR” is NOT so, and so it is used to PURIFY language-based representation by accepting “that “WHICH IS TRUE” and rejecting “that “WHICH IS NOT TRUE”. This is a LOGIC based PURIFICATION process that, while it ‘cleans up’ the language-based sharing, does not compensate for the Goedel’s Theorem INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions.
“INCOMPLETENESS” of language also comes in another form in the case of WESTERN CULTURE language communications which is that SINCE BINARY LOGIC deals only with “WHAT IS”, it DROPS OUT THE FEMALE CONJUGATE together with outright falsehoods. For example, if there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, this will include the OPENING OF HOLES to open up cleared space and to extract materials for the construction of the buildings constituting the TOWN. By focusing on WHAT A TOWN “EITHER” is “OR” is NOT, we lose touch with what the LANDSCAPE is GIVING UP in the POSITIVE ACT OF CONSTRUCTING THE TOWN, … THESE TWO CONJUGATES TOGETHER constituting TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE
(If there is GROWTH in the CULTIVATED LANDS, then there is CONJUGATE SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS)
BINARY LOGIC only takes care of “WHAT IS” which equates to the MALE-ASSERTIVE conjugate WITHOUT THE FEMALE-ACCOMMODATING conjugate. While the materials employed in GROWING THE TOWN are LOCAL and EXPLICIT, the CHANGE to the LANDSCAPE through the EXTRACTION OF MATERIALS is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (e.g. we could have take a tree from here and there and a load of gravel from there and there and mined for metals over there and drilled for and extracted oil for asphalt from ‘down there’, all of this FEMALE CONJUGATE ACCOMMODATING action which opens up holes or depressions where materials were extracted or scraped up and collected as contributes to the overall TRANSFORMATION.
BINARY LOGIC makes a SIMPLIFICATION with the reduction to “EITHER” is “OR” is NOT as with MATTER and EMPTY SPACE. This BINARY LOGIC is very SIMPLE and very EXPLICIT but NATURE is more about BALANCE and the LOGIC of BALANCE; i.e. the QUANTUM LOGIC which is LESS SIMPLE than BINARY LOGIC but more “REALISTIC” in a sense-experience affirming manner; i.e. the BOGUS BINARY LOGIC notions numbered 1 to 8 at the beginning of the discussion exemplify the ABSTRACT (NON-REAL) character of BINARY LOGIC.
The Cuckoo’s egg metaphor refers to putting something SIMPLER in place of something LESS SIMPLE as when we put BINARY LOGIC (EITHER/OR logic) in place of QUANTUM LOGIC (BOTH/AND logic). These TWO FORMS OF LOGIC compares as follows;
QUANTUM LOGIC, the logic of BALANCE is what has Jean Valjean move a loaf of bread from a region of surplus (Bakery) to a region of shortage (starving child), while QUANTUM LOGIC is telling us that what is going on here is BALANCE based, our BINARY LOGIC simply makes a determination of “EITHER” correct “OR” incorrect e.g. according to some abstract STANDARD such a COMMANDMENT or LAW.
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BINARY LOGIC IS A DEVICE FOR SERVING UP A SIMPLIFIED REALITY WHERE AN ACTION IS CONSIDERED OUT OF THE CONTEXT OF CONSEQUENCES.
The simple EITHER YES OR NO answer to whether Jean Valjean has stolen a loaf of bread falls short of exploring the LESS SIMPLE QUESTION of whether or not there is an OVER-RIDING CIRCUMSTANCE like a child on the edge of death by starvation who would be saved if nourished by the loaf of bread.
BINARY LOGIC leads us to decide on actions on a SIMPLE EITHER RIGHT OR WRONG BASIS as applies to the ACT ITSELF (of taking the loaf of bread) without taking into account the CONSEQUENCES (child without the bread dies from lack of nutrients).
QUANTUM LOGIC IS ABOUT “BALANCE” AND IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT the AMBIENT REALITY THAT LIES BEYOND THE ACT ITSELF (e.g. the moving of a loaf of bread from a regions of surplus to a region of deficiency is a REBALANCING dynamic that TRANSFORMS THE LANDSCAPE).
JUST AS “THE AVALANCHE THAT CRASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE INTO THE VALLEY” ….. FAILS TO CONVEY THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MOUNTAIN IS NO LONGER THE SAME MOUNTAIN AND THE VALLEY IS NO LONGER THE SAME VALLEY (“TRANSFORMATION” IS THE REAL DYNAMIC), BINARY “EITHER/OR” LOGIC SERVES US AS A TOOL THAT CONJURES UP “SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE REALITIES” WHICH LACK THE LESS SIMPLE CONCEPT OF “BALANCE”.
WE HAVE A NATURAL SENSE OF ‘BALANCE’ WHICH IS CAPTURABLE IN QUANTUM LOGIC BUT WHICH IS BEYOND THE REACH OF BINARY LOGIC. E.G. TO SAY THAT THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE IS A QUANTUM LOGIC REPRESENTATION WHEREIN FIGURE AND GROUND ARE ONE (TOWNING AND TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE ARE ONE) WHEREAS TO USE LANGUAGE TO IMPUTE LOCAL AUTHORING AS IN; ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING goods and services’, IS THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR AS Nietzsche points out.
WHEREAS THE ‘TOWNING’ IS INCLUDED IN THE ‘TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ AS IN THE QUANTUM LOGIC REPRESENTATION, ‘THE TOWN’ IS NOTIONALLY ‘INDEPENDENT’ AND EQUIPPED WITH ‘ITS OWN POWERS OF AUTHORING GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION IN BINARY LOGIC REPRESENTATION.
WESTERN CULTURE PREFERS BINARY LOGIC WHICH SERVES UP THE ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF ‘LOCAL AUTHORING’ WHICH IN TURN LEADS TO THE ABOVE LIST OF 8 BOGUS NOTIONS THAT ARE EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE REALITY, A “BOGUS” SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE CONTINUING TO EMPLOY AS ‘OUR OPERATIVE LOGIC’, AND WHICH DIFFERS RADICALLY FROM THE QUANTUM LOGIC GROUNDED REALITY OF MODERN PHYSICS, INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS AND ADVAITA VEDANTA ADHERENTS.
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CLOSING COMMENTS IN REGARD TO THIS NOTE, THE TITLE OF WHICH IS;
BINARY LOGIC IS A DEVICE FOR SERVING UP A SIMPLIFIED REPRESENTATION OF REALITY, OR MORE ACCURATELY, “CONSTRUCTING A SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS SIMPLER”
The SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS “SIMPLER” is “SIMPLER” IN A PROBLEMATIC WAY WHICH IS INFUSING DYSFUNCTION INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT SOCIAL DYNAMIC.
THE POPULAR USE OF BINARY LOGIC IN CONSTRUCTING REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY IS A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF OUR WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE. IT GIVES RISE TO THE FOLLOWING EIGHT BINARY LOGIC BASED “BOGUS NOTIONS”
-1- The BOGUS notion that the world is divided into the ORGANIC and INORGANIC sectors.
-2- The BOGUS notion of the EVOLUTION OF MAN as in DARWINISM and the ‘tree of life’
-3- The BOGUS notion of the PRESENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL in the world
-4- The BOGUS notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments
-5- The BOGUS notion of the HUMAN ‘BEING’ as an INDEPENDENT THING-IN-ITSELF
-6- The BOGUS notion of the INDEPENDENT NATION with its own powers of AUTHORING actions and development
-7- The BOGUS notion of the GLOBAL ECONOMY based on GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION
-8- The BOGUS notion of the existence of the PATHOGEN such as COVID 19
NONE OF THESE “BOGUS NOTIONS” ARE SUPPORTED BY MODERN PHYSICS AND NONE ARE FOUND IN INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE BELIEF SYSTEMS.
Our Western culture social dynamic, shaped not only by our sense-experience but also by these BOGUS NOTIONS has become ENTRENCHED by a corresponding REWARDS AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM, which underlies our WESTERN CULTURE biased orientation as cited in “-7-“
-7- The BOGUS notion of the GLOBAL ECONOMY based on GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION
As stated, these are BOGUS NOTIONS which, as in the Cuckoo’s egg analogy, SUBSTITUTE A SIMPLER CONCEPT at the same time as they HIJACK the SLOT needed to give continuing nurturance to a LESS SIMPLE CONCEPT, that of TRANSFORMATION which includes NOT ONLY GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION (the MALE-ASSERTIVE CONJUGATES) but also the FEMALE-INDUCTIVE OPENING UP FOR THAT GROWTH thanks to the LOSS of WILDERNESS DIVERSITY, these TWO MALE ND FEMALE CONJUGATES TOGETHER CONSTITUTING ‘TRANSFORMATION’ of the overall LANDSCAPE.
TRANSFORMATION is our SENSE-EXPERIENDCE AFFIRMED REALITY of INCLUSION IN AN ANDROGYNOUS DYNAMIC, wherein WE ARE NOT AUTHORS OF ANYTHING, but we are ACTIVE INCLUDED PARTICIPANTS IN TRANSFORMATION, as is the understanding of MODERN PHYSICS and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES.
ALSO UNDERSTOOD IN MODERN PHYSICS and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, as pointed out by David Bohm and F. David Peat in ‘Blackfoot Physics’, the GENERAL WESTERN CULTURE OPERATIVE REALITY is on the road to rising SCHIZOPHRENIA and PARANOIA (e.g. as with COVID where we are using BINARY LOGIC to reduce QUANTUM LOGIC IMBALANCE to BINARY LOGIC PATHOGEN ATTACKS).
WHICH ONE OF THE EIGHT BOGUS NOTIONS IS THE STRONGEST ‘HOOK’ THAT IS KEEPING US WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ON THE ROAD TO DYSFUNCTION?
Is there ONE, which, if resolved, could BREAK THE LOGJAM and lead to the dissipation of all EIGHT?
IF SO, MY GUESS WOULD BE -4- The BOGUS notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments
This is the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING and GRAMMAR as Nietzsche points out and as Wittgenstein also affirms, this is something we are repeating to ourselves over and over again every time we use our language to write or speak. That is, when we speak of things like ‘the TOWN is GROWING’, we form pictures in our mind that ‘back up’ our words;
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. –-Wittgenstein
But REALITY IS NOT PICTURABLE because WE ARE INCLUDED IN IT, and ‘the Tao that can be seen and told is not the true Tao. Schroedinger and Mach put it as follows;
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.” – Erwin Schroedinger
The science of psychology is auxiliary to physics. The two mutually support one another, and it is only when they are united that a complete science is formed. From our standpoint, the antithesis of subject and object, in the ordinary sense, does not exist.” — Ernst Mach. ‘The Analysis of Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical,
EVEN IF WE AGREE WITH WHAT IS BEING SAID HERE, WHICH RADICALLY CHANGES ‘WHAT WE SHOULD BE UNDERSTANDING AS ‘REALITY’, … IT IS UNLIKELY TO CHANGE THINGS BECAUSE IN OUR MAKING USE OF THIS “COMMON AVERAGE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE”, WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A ‘SUBSTITUTE REALITY’ THAT WE ARE IMAGINING OURSELVES AS BEING INCLUDED IN, AND IT IS A ‘SUBSTITUTE REALITY’ BASED ON LANGUAGE THAT SPLITS APART A SUBJECT AND OBJECT USING THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR, WHICH HAS US IMAGINING THAT WE ARE THE AUTHORS OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS (THE ‘DOUBLE ERROR CITED BY NIETZSCHE).
HOW CAN WE STOP OUR LANGUAGE-STIMULATED MIND FROM DOING THE SUBJECT-OBJECT SPLIT WHEN WE ARE ‘LOOKING OUT’ … AT THE ‘WORLD OUT THERE’ AND MAKING ‘OBJECTIVE JUDGEMENTS ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON, LIKE THE RUSSIANS ATTACKING THE UKRAINIANS ETC.
SEE HOW EASILY THAT ‘ROLLED OFF MY TONGUE’ (OR OFF MY FINGERTIPS ON THE KEYBOARD)? AM WE NOT HAPPY THAT ‘WE ARE NOT IN THE UKRAINE’?
THOSE OF US IN NORTH AMERICA ARE COMFORTABLE AS IF SITTING IN THE LOUNGE IN THE TITANIC WHERE OUR REALITY IS PLAYING OUT IN TERMS OF OUR IMMEDIATE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS, UNAWARE OF OUR INCLUSION IN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, WE ARE, SO WE CLAIM, ‘INDEPENDENT BEINGS’ WHO ARE FREE TO ‘DO OUR OWN THING. The DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR SAYS SO!
OF COURSE, OUR BEING CRITIQUED BY THE INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS “IS” A BIT HAUNTING, because whether one goes by a CHIEF SEATTLE’S LETTER or whatever, there is plenty of evidence in support of;
(a) the indigenous aboriginal belief that all things are related as in a ‘web-of-life’, and
(b) the colonizers (continuing) belief in our own independent existence whereupon it makes sense to treat the earth as a separate exploitable resource, and
(c) the current FAILURE among us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to acknowledge how Modern physics has AFFIRMED the understanding that we are included as CONDENSATIONS in an all-including WAVE-FIELD which confirms the WEB-OF-LIFE concept of the indigenous aboriginal cultures. That is, David Bohm and F. David Peat and others have certainly acknowledged it, but in order to acknowledge it, one has to LET GO of ALL OF THOSE 8 BOGUS NOTIONS and so far, those 8 BOGUS NOTIONS are PERSISTING with few signs of nearing any ‘collapse’.
REMEMBER THIS ONE THING: BINARY LOGIC IS A CRAZY-MAKER. DON’T CONTINUE TO FALL FOR IT!
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