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“For the mind must be interested or absorbed in something, just as a mirror must always be reflecting something” The mind has to be thinking Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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the exact structure of this information had ‘emerged during the process of drawing’; written diagrams like this one facilitated complex, abstract thinking. These new abstract thoughts could surprise the thinker, who accommodates them wherever possible by sketching the diagram. Even-Ezra suggests that the horizontal-tree format made concepts ‘easier to manipulate’
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these horizontal trees written by medieval scribes did not simply record information – they recorded pathways for thinking that were enabled by the branching form of the tree itself. Branching diagrams reveal the medieval extended mind at work in its interactions with pen, ink and the blank space of the page.
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In navigating this problem, the intellectual historian Ayelet Even-Ezra pursues one route toward an answer in Lines of Thought(2021). For her, ‘lines of thought’ are the lines of connection structuring the many branching diagrams that fill the pages of medieval manuscripts We’ve always been distracted, or at least
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In 1998, the philosophers Andy Clark and David J Chalmers called this interactive system, composed of the inner mind cooperating with the outer world of objects, ‘the extended mind’. Our ability to think, they claimed, could be altered and extended through technologies like writing. This modern idea expresses a much
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“To discover that the many are the one, and that the one is the many, is to realize that both are words and noises representing what is at once obvious to sense and feeling, and an enigma to logic and description.” This brought me back to our discussion of language
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“But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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“A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule” The thought I had as I read this was, “Wow, that sounds autistic to me.” I think we are known for not caring
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“People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.” I love this quote because it’s so obvious, but also because it brings to mind this idea we’ve been pursuing regarding the voice of God being the voice of your
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“The feeling that we stand face-to-face with the world, cut off and set apart, has the greatest influence on thought and action” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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“But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.” This is the mind that is split, seeing itself as being outside the universe. It’s like when you’re watching TV or a movie or reading a book. On one