Wednesday, March 2, 2016

We are live creatures

Continuing from the last post, see this article of the above name. E.g., this from p. 21 on embodied nonduality and its creative aspects, the latter emphasized in Bryant's synthetic a priori:

"Pragmatism is characterized by (1) a profound respect for the richness, depth, and complexity of human experience and cognition, (2) an evolutionary perspective that appreciates the role of dynamic change in all development (as opposed to fixity and finality), and (3) recognition that human cognition and creativity arise in response to problematic situations that involve values, interests, and social interaction. The principle of continuity encompasses the fact that apparently novel aspects of thought and social interaction arise naturally via increased complexity of the organism-environment interactions that constitute experience. Pragmatists thus argue that all of our traditional metaphysical and epistemological dualisms (e.g., mind/body, inner/outer, subject/object, concept/percept, reason/emotion, knowledge/imagination, and theory/practice) are merely abstractions from the interactive (enactive) process that is experience. Such distinctions are not absolute ontological dichotomies. Sometimes they serve us well, but oftentimes they serve us quite poorly, depending on what problems we are investigating, what values we have, and what the socio-cultural context is."

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