Robert Anton Wilson: Consciousness, Conspiracy & Coincidence
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Stupidity, Intelligence, Indifference, Empathy and Compassion
Related: Think of the current time as the world’s largest ever human IQ test..
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Vuja de - Déjà vu occurs when we encounter something new, but it feels as if we’ve seen it before. Vuja de is the reverse. In the words of Adam Grant: “We face something familiar, but we see it with a fresh perspective that enables us to gain new insights into old problems.” (via)
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Notes are conversations across time - by Gordon Brander
"Notes are conversations across time. I think this is more than just a poetic analogy. It is a shift in perspective that can be grounded in cybernetics theory, particularly Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory. We often talk about knowledge as if it is a storable commodity. We gain, gather, and transfer knowledge, share knowledge artifacts, build knowledge graphs. Conversation Theory takes another view. It sees knowledge as conversational. Knowledge exists subjectively in our minds, and is constructed through conversation with others."
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"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality" - Eric Fromm
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The Trivium Method is a methodology of learning how to learn and learning how to think, much like other methodologies such as the scientific method. Trivium means three paths or ways, or the place where three roads meet.
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Robert Anton Wilson interviews David Bohm, the famous theoretical physicist
Bohm: "If you take a holistic view and try to apply it everywhere and refuse to think of any alternative, you will make mistakes. In fact, it was the mistakes of the medieval holists that led to the rebellion against them and the rise of mechanistic philosophy in Bacon and Newton. Now I think we see again in our time that the limitations of the mechanistic view are becoming obvious, so we need a new development of holism again. But the problem is never in any particular model per se. The problem is that models are thought, and thought is the past and can prevent us from fresh thinking now. No model is equal to the whole universe, because the only thing equal to the whole universe is the whole universe. No thought can grasp the whole, because thought is a part, not the whole. So we need to use each model where it is useful and replace it, without regret, when it is no longer useful." [...] "However, my best guess is that as we go along we will see more and more that these models are not mutually exclusive. We will see, I think, that the universe is like music, and that there are always at least two themes interwoven."
