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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 25th January 2013, 10:10am) 
Clever, but do these bits form a cohesive thought pattern (or perhaps, overlapping matrices of considered points) or are they momentary insights into the nature of thought and inquiry?
QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 27th January 2013, 2:14pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 25th January 2013, 10:10am)
Clever, but do these bits form a cohesive thought pattern (or perhaps, overlapping matrices of considered points) or are they momentary insights into the nature of thought and inquiry?
Hi Elara, long time no see, just the stuff that's on my mind from day to day, FWIW, as they say.
Jon
Inquiry Into Inquiry • The Present Is Big With The Future
Leibniz was right all along … the Universe is One Big Hologrammautomaton …
Jon
Leibniz was right all along … the Universe is One Big Hologrammautomaton …
Jon
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 1st April 2013, 6:07pm)
Inquiry Into Inquiry • The Present Is Big With The Future
Leibniz was right all along … the Universe is One Big Hologrammautomaton …
Jon
Isn't Google wonderful? I Googled "Hologrammautomaton" and got seven hits. all to you!
QUOTE(Detective @ Tue 2nd April 2013, 12:33pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 1st April 2013, 6:07pm)
Inquiry Into Inquiry • The Present Is Big With The Future
Leibniz was right all along … the Universe is One Big Hologrammautomaton …
Jon
Isn't Google wonderful? I Googled "Hologrammautomaton" and got seven hits. all to you!
Ha⢠I just made that up yesterday, and already it's a memeâ¢
Jon
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:06pm)
Education is about encountering the absurd (or what we think is absurd) and trying to understand it. When I was studying to be a teacher, we were taught that people learn best when confronted with a contradiction and forced to reconcile what they thought to be true with the latest truth. But then, how can you separate an absurdity from a fact? Camus seems to be talking about philosophical "natural selection." Nature will eventually kill off absurdity and leave only truth?
I'm not sure if that is what Camus is going for, but that's what came to my mind.
QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:59pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:06pm)
Education is about encountering the absurd (or what we think is absurd) and trying to understand it. When I was studying to be a teacher, we were taught that people learn best when confronted with a contradiction and forced to reconcile what they thought to be true with the latest truth. But then, how can you separate an absurdity from a fact? Camus seems to be talking about philosophical "natural selection." Nature will eventually kill off absurdity and leave only truth?
I'm not sure if that is what Camus is going for, but that's what came to my mind.
You mean, someone actually reads these?
QUOTE(Tarc @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 10:35pm)
QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:59pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:06pm)
Education is about encountering the absurd (or what we think is absurd) and trying to understand it. When I was studying to be a teacher, we were taught that people learn best when confronted with a contradiction and forced to reconcile what they thought to be true with the latest truth. But then, how can you separate an absurdity from a fact? Camus seems to be talking about philosophical "natural selection." Nature will eventually kill off absurdity and leave only truth?
I'm not sure if that is what Camus is going for, but that's what came to my mind.
You mean, someone actually reads these?
They usually go above my head, but occasionally, there's something I understand. Camus doesn't seem as deep as the others.
QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:59pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:06pm)
Education is about encountering the absurd (or what we think is absurd) and trying to understand it. When I was studying to be a teacher, we were taught that people learn best when confronted with a contradiction and forced to reconcile what they thought to be true with the latest truth. But then, how can you separate an absurdity from a fact? Camus seems to be talking about philosophical "natural selection". Nature will eventually kill off absurdity and leave only truth?
I'm not sure if that is what Camus is going for, but that's what came to my mind.
One of my wife's favorite books on the philosophy of education is Maxine Greene's Teacher as Stranger.
The way Camus describes it, the absurd arises from a confrontation between the way the world is and the way we want it to be. The path he indicates is not a way of avoiding the absurd, but a way of acknowledging it and remaining aware of it.
Just what I get out of it, anyway …
QUOTE(Tarc @ Wed 24th April 2013, 3:35am)
You mean, someone actually reads these?
Hell, yes! Why do you think Jon posts them here? Most of the editors here are mature, cultured people.
QUOTE(Retrospect @ Wed 24th April 2013, 8:14am)
QUOTE(Tarc @ Wed 24th April 2013, 3:35am)
You mean, someone actually reads these?
Hell, yes! Why do you think Jon posts them here? Most of the editors here are mature, cultured people.
The users, such as they are, of this forum remaining are:
Me
You
JoJo
Ottava
The 2nd tier, occasional visitors;
Joy, Emperor;
The automatons;
Awbrey
Not exactly a big pool of culture to pick from, sport.
There are one or two of us who read the forum regularly but never post. I mean, what's the point of posting when all that happens is that you or Ottava reply?
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