What, Why & How do we Know ?
After several reprints, the latest publication of Dr James Willis (1995) “The Paradox of Progress” is as an e-Book (2022) here at PayHip. I first reviewed and recommended it back in 2003. At that point I was only a couple of years into my own quest for “a better world model” and Willis as a … Continue reading “The Paradox of Progress – Dr James Willis”
I’ve had Mark Solms (2021) book “The Hidden Spring – A Journey to the Source of Consciousness” since April last year. [Post Note: Final round-up of reading “The Hidden Spring” here. Many more references to Solms since.] Finding lots of content I recognised (eg. a major dependence on Jaak Panksepp and life as “homeostasis” – … Continue reading “The Hidden Spring of Mark Solms”
A regular theme here is that those investigating the limits to knowledge often get close to “madness”, even tip over into paranoia or worse and do so either temporarily or irrecoverably depending on the kind of support and understanding they get, or the others that become collateral damage. Such a recurring theme, that I have … Continue reading “4 Suicides and 2 Murders”
I completed Karl Sigmund – “Exact Thinking in Demented Times – The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science” over the weekend. I’ve mentioned the read a few times already, here for example: It’s Just Reading and Writing, Right? (Feb 13th) Karl Sigmund and Demented Thinking (Jan 3rd) The final line … Continue reading “Denial in Demented Thinking”
The 2001 Jeroen Krabbé film of the 1992 Harry Mulisch (Dutch) novel. I just watched it at the suggestion of Eddo that it had some value to our recent Pirsig / McGilchrist dialogues – the divine or sacred right-brain view of reality obscured by the dominance of the received-wisdom “science-led” left-brain model of reality: (Freedom … Continue reading “The Discovery of Heaven”
Today (8th Feb 2022) I published an interview I did by Zoom on 19th Jan with Prof Henry Gurr and David Matos about the active Robert Pirsig related pages they run, and added a news link to my Pirsig Pages.
On 19th January 2022 I interviewed Prof Henry Gurr and David Matos over Zoom, about their ZMM-Quality project(s) around the life and work of Robert Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” and “Lila, an Enquiry into Morals”. Ian Glendinning (IG): Since this is the first time we’ve done one of these, … Continue reading “Meet The Guys @ ZMMQuality”
Just a holding post to capture a three-way link. Mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was reading some 1900 / 1920 / 1930’s stuff in scientific knowledge – Schlick, Eddington and Haeckel – in which I also mentioned I had picked-up my half-remembered (2011) Henry Stapp. I suspect I will not complete the early-1900’s … Continue reading “McGilchrist – Stapp – Whitehead”