Unmaking Sense

Episode 10.38: Some rambling thoughts exploring the differences between classical and quantum.

Thinking differently is always hard because old habits constantly return and threaten to take control. These few thoughts are even more random than usual as a result. Think of them as the recovered contents of a waste-paper basket.

Episode 10.37: We can never assemble a set of sufficient reasons for either success or failure.

Is our habit of looking for the causes of whatever happens, good or bad, and either blaming or praising ourselves for them as a result, occasioned by the realisation that if there is no legitimacy in blame, neither is there legitimacy in praise or credit? Is this blame/credit just another flawed feature of the unreconstructed dual space where things are easy to understand but unfortunately far from optimal, and so wrong?

Episode 10.36: There is no discernible link between the influences we fall under and what we do.

The unknowable connection between what we read, hear, experience and what we do with our lives works both ways: we cannot predict and we cannot explain; everything is subject to many-layered uncertainty, unpredictability and flux.

Episode 10.35: Why reading, listening, studying, learning may entail far more layers than we think.

Continuing to explore the idea that the relationship between what we take in with our minds may be completely unrelated to how we process it, which is to say why intellectual activity should never be thought predictable or “flat”.

Episode 10.34: Questions of authority, of who is entitled to speak, and how we feed our minds.

We all legitimately have only as much authority as can arise from the voice of one person. To claim more, in the name of god, the laws of the universe, or the metaphysics of eternity, is to try to steal another person’s space. It is also a form of cowardice.

Episode 10.33: How do we find our way in a dual space that is more difficult and unfamiliar?

Pioneers and having the conviction to carry on when all about you are expressing doubts or contempt.

Episode 10.32: Protection Rackets that define our habitual dual space to our disadvantage.

Jumping into a dual space as a cure for our enslavement to allegiances and habits of mind and behaviour that are not solutions, but the sources of our problems; in other words, Protection Rackets.

Episode 10.31: Reconfiguring our worlds according to the parameters of a dual space to think better.

The way we choose to think in the dual space is far superior to our traditional inherited ways of thinking, not least because it frees us from the controlling influence of the vested interests associated with gods and souls and churches and political orthodoxies.

Episode 10.30: Defining the dual space of human possibility dynamically through iterative resonance.

What are the characteristics of the dual space we are trying to find our way into?

Episode 10.29: Duality does not involve everyday opposites but completely different ways of thinking

Why the pairings between hope and despair, or happiness and misery, do not furnish good examples of what we mean by duality and the contrasts between dual spaces. To move into a framework defined by a dual space is to have one’s ways of thinking and evaluating changed. Different things come to matter and we acquire new ways to make sense of life and the world. Moving into a dual space quintessentially illustrates what we mean by “Unmaking Sense”.