Knowledge and Action

"The Unity of Knowledge and Action" by Warren Frisina (he tries to weave together pragmatism, process philosophy, postmodernism, Neo-Confucianism, and Taoism by talking about John Dewey, A. N. Whitehead, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Charles Taylor, and others...)

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[seyeresoj]

damed dude you sound confuse. don't worry, just see it.

[jeffreysquirrel]

wow i didn't know that about schizo shaman healers. hm.. this is too thought provoking to put into text. take care man

[redliterocket4]

I think if the rest of society paid more attention to the insights that schizophrenics try to articulate and express, it'd be the better for it. because in a way, the schizophrenic is experiencing everyone else's culture in a far more intense way they they ever will. in more tribal cultures, schizos became shamans and were considered healers! i think we need to reintegrate that type of system into our modern culture. we're too detached from our unconscious...

[jeffreysquirrel]

i don't know, i believe that schizophrenics are creating insights so advanced, that language is meaningless to describe the realizations they have created. i believe i am partly schizophrenic then. people call schizophrenics dilusional, because they cannot relate the language to the advanced insights.

and thats why cannabis is linked with schiz bcos it relaxes the body allowing more creations/insights.

[Mork5]

I'm absolutely unable to organize anything efficiently but I see what you mean.

About bringing an equilibrium to a situation, that is really a challenge.

I can see how you do that by how you act in your videos, but that is nothing to copy.

It may take a lifetime to find a way there.

[redliterocket4]

but the point is, whenever you feel something "inside" that you can't express, all it really is is you not being able to do what you want. it's you not being able to unite an emotion with something outside your own head. when we feel good about something, we identify the goodness with that object. when we feel bad, though, we aren't paying attention to anything but ourselves. All we feel is our owh inhibition.

[redliterocket4]

in other words, its that you are feeling disconnected from something that you are actually one with. good feelings are always feelings of unity and coherence. if that's not true, enlighten me. bad feelings are always feelings of separation and discordance. maybe schizophrenics get so obsessed with the bad feelings, with the separateness, that they lose touch with the unity? of course, when they die they'll remember, so it is not a disease without a cure.

[redliterocket4]

schizophrenia is a very interesting topic... nobody knows what the fuck it is. not science, not psychology, not you, not me. but maybe we should try to make some sense out of it anyways? there are no thoughts but in symbols; anything else going on "in there" is a feeling, and a feeling is an inhibition in your action, a bump in the road. when you feel something "inside," i think what's really going on is that your body is finding itself unable to participate in the natural course of life.

[jeffreysquirrel]

we are individuals, we are separate. we are not one. i don't agree that your vocabulary is who you are, because many thoughts and insights are way beyond explanation in language. schizophrenics\mentally ill people are good examples of this.

i think honesty = the easiest trail of thought for you to put out.

and as for your perspective on honesty, well, i guess its an interesting debate. looks like i needed some sleep, although i only was able to sleep 5 hours.

[redliterocket4]

As far as language being "wrong," I think this new idea that knowing and acting are the same makes us alter our understanding of right and wrong, or true and false. What's wrong is what doesn't bring equilibruim to a situation, rather than what doesn't line up with reality.