“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” ― Aristotle
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Radical Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine that asserts that experience includes both particulars and relations between those particulars, and that therefore both deserve a place in our explanations.
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"This diagram is too simplistic." - Margaret Mead
#Comment: A quote that nicely encapsulates the mentality of cryptocratic techno-complexity fetishists, then and now. In a world where "knowledge is fractal and the closer you get, the more you'll find" and paradoxes lurk behind every corner, complexity is the preferred form of masturbation of busy-minded intellectual people that desperately are searching for means to ignore infinity and death. As Leonardo Da Vinci once remarked: "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication".
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“There is no truth in news and no news in truth” - Russian Izvestia and Pravda adage
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The Learning Iceberg - the importance of distinctions between 'education' and 'learning'?
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The Neverending Lie
“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” - Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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"In Infinity, all models are wrong and right, but some are useful and useless!?" - Samim
An Idea is a form of Knowledge. Knowledge is a form of Energy Pattern - as is Mind, Body, Nature and Everything. A Energy Pattern has a Potential for Emergent Generative Change, including the Potential for an Intention for doing Nothing.
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“The effort of the imagination is to turn the boundary into a horizon.” — Barry Lopez
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Plants 'talk to' each other through their roots
Plants use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication. The study found that plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively, presumably to avoid being left in the shade.
