Q: in The Ten Thousand Things, Chapter 33, you said, "In trying to define 'myself,' one suffers a complete and total lack of perspective—an absence, I mean, of any non-self vantage from which to regard the matter."
There seems to be no perspective, no high mountain from which to contemplate oneself completely. For that one would have to be outside oneself, and this is impossible because any perception remains inside oneself.
Even to say that we are human primates is nothing more than a matter of definitions, of classifying and labeling knowledge. Definitions are useful but they are not the answer.
Ultimately what we are left with is wonder, the wonder of existing. And this amazement occupies everything.
Yeah...we do default to the assumption that naming (categorising, dividing) equals knowing - language has a primacy in how most of us think most of the time. Another post that prompted me to drop concepts for an instant...which is always welcome. I wish you well.
And to think back a few years when "experts" announced that our brains are indeed "Plastic" and can change. In my pea brain, my knowledge of AI is this: data gathering, data collating, and the use of algorithms to predict the next thing in the sequence. Thought and/or consciousness - never. That is where the future problem is inevitable (and yes, it is a problem) because there are no guardrails from human belief systems (something greater than ourselves).
This is not my field of expertise (you may be nodding yes now).
There seems to be no perspective, no high mountain from which to contemplate oneself completely. For that one would have to be outside oneself, and this is impossible because any perception remains inside oneself.
Even to say that we are human primates is nothing more than a matter of definitions, of classifying and labeling knowledge. Definitions are useful but they are not the answer.
Ultimately what we are left with is wonder, the wonder of existing. And this amazement occupies everything.
Please check out this essay:
http://beezone.com/current/cultureecstasy.html
Yeah...we do default to the assumption that naming (categorising, dividing) equals knowing - language has a primacy in how most of us think most of the time. Another post that prompted me to drop concepts for an instant...which is always welcome. I wish you well.
And to think back a few years when "experts" announced that our brains are indeed "Plastic" and can change. In my pea brain, my knowledge of AI is this: data gathering, data collating, and the use of algorithms to predict the next thing in the sequence. Thought and/or consciousness - never. That is where the future problem is inevitable (and yes, it is a problem) because there are no guardrails from human belief systems (something greater than ourselves).
This is not my field of expertise (you may be nodding yes now).