Category: Epistemology and Method

RL: Suggested Thinking:
I’ve learned to understand these differences (Homer, vs Plato, vs Aristotle as systems of measurement (or understanding) consisting of paradigms of permissible dimensions, vocabularies, logic and grammar and the Aristotle/Plato division as an insufficient dichotomy in an insufficient spectrum:
… 1. Inflationary (Theology, Wisdom), (One way) Homer
… 2. Conflationary (Philosophy, Reason), (Bridge) Plato
… 3. and Deflationary (Empiricism, testimony) (Many Ways) Aristotle

So This Spectrum Is Available To Man:
Sensation > Embodiment > Proprioception > World Prediction > Self Prediction > Other Prediction > imitation-sympathy-empathy > Language > anthropomorphism > mythology > religion > theology > philosophy and reason > logic and rationalism > science and empiricism and mathematics > first principles, construction, and computation > bayesian accounting > mechanical prediction > (recursion). (See: https://t.co/b9zyOB7whc)

The Spectrum of Measurements
In other words,
1 – Increasing falsification of imagination, intuition and instinct vs increasing justification(satisfaction) of imagination, intuition, and instinct.
2 – Increasing abstraction (mechanization, disambiguation) vs Increasing anthropomorphism(experience, conflation)
3 – Increasing precision from which additional logical deduction is possible vs decreasing precision from which broader association is possible.

The Spectrum of Agency in Mind
This follows the evolution of the mind by the increase in volume of memory, and the hierarchy of memory from sensation to the prefrontal cortex.

Cognitive Processes:
Sensation > disambiguation > organization > association > valuation > Instinct > Intuition(spirit) > imagination (mind) > daydreaming (undirected) > thinking (directing) > reasoning (wayfinding) > calculating (inputs into outputs) > computing (using external tools such as writing and numbers etc)

The Reason for the Choice?
So, instead I would say, how much do you WANT or NEED to intuit and feel (the spirit) vs how much to you want or need to ACT upon (mind and reason)?

So are you favoring devotion to experience (internal) or to action (external) and is this difference a choice, a strength, or a weakness?

Hugs as always.

Curt

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