The Liminal Learning Portal

“Man’s conscious existence is an event w/in reality, & man’s consciousness is quite conscious of being constituted by the reality of which it is conscious. The truth of consciousness revealed itself through participation in the process of reality; it was essentially historical.”

@Solzi_Sez This is Eric Voegelin. You should definitely read him if you think what you said is accurate!

@stephlepp Oh, I don’t have any smart thoughts to add. I just think our understanding of things is so small and limited and partial compared to what’s out there.

@VahnAeris I’m just kidding around. Hume is fine. We’re all doing our best.

I have a few unchecked intuitions that I just sort of let fly. One is that I don’t think the heat death of the universe is what we think it is. I’m not even convinced its real. I don’t have explicable reasons for this feeling.

“It is fairly widely believed that Plato was not the first Platonist, as we might tendentiously put it.” — Lloyd Gerson

@realtimeai Knowledge as I understand is a pattern of emergent physiological connections. It’s some type of shape or pattern or activity. https://t.co/Zwchpa3Fdp Quoted tweet from @microscopicture: two neurons having a chat https://t.co/WpUJwQO273

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“Dialectic is to be used in service of silence.” “Silence is our natural habitat, and the work of silence is, as it were, a process of returning to the wild.” — Maggie Ross

William Stafford on the “trajectory of significant creation”: 1/4 “Becoming a writer is just partly the learning of tricks and processes of language. Literature comes about by way of a behavior, a way of thinking, a tendency of mind and feeling.”