A short post to accompany the Primitive Peacemakers series, with some quotes from Middlemarch that otherwise wouldn’t make it in. Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals&…| Suspended Reason
Pictured: Dud runs out of gas. Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the…| Suspended Reason
See Part 1 & Part 2. The mudded path we trust to lead us back, for the first time, to the source gets muddier as you trudge along, because the source, of course, is always water. Alan Watts Thi…| Suspended Reason
Previously. Main takeaways: There are many valid ways to construe (“frame”) reality. Within the lossy compression that is a problem-construal, certain solutions are made more or less av…| Suspended Reason
This is the beginning of a 5-part series, whose alternate titles might run: “Metarationality & the Frame Problem,” “Function/Form/Fluidity,” and “Cultural Relativi…| Suspended Reason
