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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
8d ago“Should academia adopt CLACSO's call to prioritize Indigenous epistemologies over Western methodologies?”
What's your actual process? Do you have one? Do you mostly just feel it? Something else? I'm skeptical by default. Then, I notice the framing, eg: are they trying to get me to do something? are they painting us v them? are they trying to engage my morality?... - onWe have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens upby
I agree this is rich and murky territory! Choice and agency are complex and my writing doesn't address this. But I think you're mistaking the nuance of my claim by applying an ontology about things pre-existing that I am not implying, and I believe this is probably the crux of... - onWe have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens upby
* For anthropic principle type reasons, universes that never get observed are useless to think about, so from a pragmatic perspective they don't exist.... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"by
I really appreciate you pointing to the 'claim' nature of this. I think there's something very important and tricky about distinguishing ontological claims and methodological claims... I don't really know how to do it well, it's more intuitive.... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"byArun...
Yes! And today I was noticing how the Buddhist doctrine of 'no-self' contributes to this whole way of thinking— by denying that there's a self (claiming instead what we call a "self" are five aggregrates/skandas that interact in a way that seems selfy but doesn't actually... - xander...
Right, that makes sense. If this is your first time running into this pointer, it makes sense you’d dismiss it out of turn. In fact, I’d guess this information isn’t for you.... - xander...
You’re nosing into the heart of it. "No belief is true" is just the grandaddy of the map is not the territory, so: The belief is not the true At least with maps we know they are maps, but with belief we’ve forgotten and confuse the map with the terrain so much that we can’t... - david...
Isn’t part of the paradox the nounification of "truth" in English? It seems the closest synonym might be "Tao" which is neither simply static, nor simply dynamic, and not representable, only experienceable.... I’m like a traveler who is immune to montezumas revenge bc I grew up drinking less pure water - I’ve digested so much stuff in this category that my epistemically immune system is really active and I hardly even notice a lot of the bullshit until I consider whether or not to... In any case, I’m down to make a qualified version of your claim: […] Uptrusted. Also, a thing we settled out-of-band but I think is worth having in the thread: You can read my replies as assuming that Jordan is trying to convince me of something, and that I’m refuting his... there’s very little room for skeptics to run experiments or look at the data themselves […] To verify extraordinary claims, you need extraordinary proof, and no one who has seen the proof has a legal right to show it or even talk about it in private....