What kind of choices are you making?

In which I try to give more examples of the kinds of things I'm talking about when I'm talking about "choice" and in which I discuss some of the suggestions which people have given me for what to call this thing.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• choice
• symbolic
• free
• will
• determinism
• nondeterminism
• stand
• on
• being
• self
• definition

[MrVisions]

Last one, and I really like this one; "Predicate Idealism" This notion establishes a foot print within the Ideal, while leaving the latter half of the statement absent of singular self subjectivity. We make choices that satisfy our impulse to harmonize within a cultural class, art-form, or metaphysical pursuit, where the inward choice also represents an act of inter-subjectivity.

[randyhelzerman]

(cont, to MrVisions) In fact, I'm going to turn a drawback into a virtue, because it is not just singular entities which can make these kind of elections. A society can elect to go to war, or shareholders can elect a board of directors. This ties in very nicely with my whole intersubjectivity schtick. So congratulations, MrVisions, you win the palm.

[randyhelzerman]

Hi MrVisions, "subject+environment+social demography+physical capacity & normalcy" Yes!!! that :) I've been kicking it around in my brain for the last 12 hours or so, and I think the best word which captures all the above is "election"; damn the unwanted connotations..... (cont)

[MrVisions]

Could it also be the folly of a learned helplessness, where tolerance, vain or contrived humility, evolved such an arrogance that set the stage for the grandest presentation of the emperors new clothes. Are we even making choices, or are we simply surrendering to the pseudo sequence of differently staged light pulses to alleviate the brains boredom. I think it is best to take Solomons advice, And to simply be happy in our work.

[MrVisions]

(cont) The above I would consider post formation attributes. The neural necessity to branch away from the norm of other evolutionary beings is the mystery of mysteries. Could it be so sublime, as to be the "proverbial wheel of the stone age" that in a millenarian epoch , will be seen as the shift that was required for man to finally shed the last remnants of his carnal ancestry.

[MrVisions]

With a lot of reflection, I can't quite come to a conclusion, or I should say can't prioritize the key points you are trying to assimilate into into a descriptive statement. 'Causative formation' would work, but in reality it is only an antecedent to choice. 'cultured acquiescence' works but denotes more of a discipline not choice. what ever best describes it will have to encompass several key elements; subject+environment+social demography+physical capacity & normalcy. These for starters.

[MrVisions]

I'm going to brunch, right now with some friends, later as I roll around the couch in agony and remorse for not heading my on advise on gluttony, I will shake the cobwebs and see what comes up :-)

[randyhelzerman]

(cont, to MrVisions) *sigh* it really is regrettable that this is primary season. "election" is a really good word for it...

[randyhelzerman]

(cont, to MrVisions) actually just the word "election" (as in St. Paul saying we were "Elected by God") captures almost precisely what I'm getting at--of course, the context of primary season though, "election" brings in all kinds of connotations I don't want......is there another word I could use???

[randyhelzerman]

Hi MrVisions. You do have a talent with the wordsmithing. I want to use the word "disposition" later on in my argment in contradistinction with choices (I want to reserve a disposition as being a purely descriptive thing).....but (cont)