I really like that you mention breastfeeding mothers. Those days and often broken nights which were collectively four and half years of my life, are when I felt the most connected to some sort of cosmological wonder. My brain seemed to have the time to wander and wonder and I even wish I recorded my philosophical musings in those years.
I totally love this. “Reality scaled to the cosmos”, feels like the most powerful thing reading and writing can offer us. This frames it beautifully :)
It's a nice concept that should be viewed skeptically. It's more a perspective than "universal truth." For starters, we can't define life v. non-life, and the former's relationship with cosmic-level matter-energy. What is nature v. what is environment is still hotly debated. Are we apes or are we "man?" As far as what makes us tick, Feynman (and others) regard psychology as a pseudo-science, with Freud and Jung leading the way, though even they dispute each other. Does the Mind direct the body, or does the body govern the mind? Definitions of emotion embarrassingly run the gamut from A to Z. Is it possible that the philosophical preoccupation with "universals" get in the way of truths? Beyond overarching species characteristics (we are human, not dogs), per Darwinian theory there is a lot of individual variation that is biologically based, hence, particularity is universal. Is there a human nature, or are there human natures? Do we live in the cave or does Plato? Is Western truths in sync with the East (India, China) or for that matter, Mesoamerica (cosmic energy)? Etc.
I really like that you mention breastfeeding mothers. Those days and often broken nights which were collectively four and half years of my life, are when I felt the most connected to some sort of cosmological wonder. My brain seemed to have the time to wander and wonder and I even wish I recorded my philosophical musings in those years.
I totally love this. “Reality scaled to the cosmos”, feels like the most powerful thing reading and writing can offer us. This frames it beautifully :)
Life, like geometry, is just a Mandelbrot fractal
It's a nice concept that should be viewed skeptically. It's more a perspective than "universal truth." For starters, we can't define life v. non-life, and the former's relationship with cosmic-level matter-energy. What is nature v. what is environment is still hotly debated. Are we apes or are we "man?" As far as what makes us tick, Feynman (and others) regard psychology as a pseudo-science, with Freud and Jung leading the way, though even they dispute each other. Does the Mind direct the body, or does the body govern the mind? Definitions of emotion embarrassingly run the gamut from A to Z. Is it possible that the philosophical preoccupation with "universals" get in the way of truths? Beyond overarching species characteristics (we are human, not dogs), per Darwinian theory there is a lot of individual variation that is biologically based, hence, particularity is universal. Is there a human nature, or are there human natures? Do we live in the cave or does Plato? Is Western truths in sync with the East (India, China) or for that matter, Mesoamerica (cosmic energy)? Etc.