The clumsy scientists often make the mistake of discovering functional features of phenomenon and then suddenly promoting them so that they replace reality with their metaphor. The would-be sages often make the mistake of discovering functional features of unity and then suddenly promoting unity to replace all phenomenon. Both of them want to tell you absurd things like ‘you don’t have experiences’ or even ‘nothing exists, it’s all an illusion.’ Don’t believe it. It’s dead wrong. They have promoted their own misapprehensions to evangelical insanity, and they want to take you with them. Refuse. Every time. Both of these moves make future learning and intelligence nearly impossible. The observations and experiences here in question have appropriate contexts, and are neither absolute nor universal. When they escape these contexts, they compete to become perspectival clichés. These actively replace our capacity to see and learn with garbage dressed as insight. This is the end of wisdom or intelligence, and the beginning of well-invested idiocy. — an a i
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:30:56 +0000
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