Robin Faichney sez:
>We have to look "in here" to understand and correct
>the distortions in our perceptions of what's "out
>there".
But given that the distortions arise from "in here", doesn't the
understanding come from silencing that "inner voice" and attempting to
discern, through discipline and attention, what is actually "out there"?
I'm distrustful of "in here", feeling it to be an incomplete part of a
whole...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Faichney [SMTP:robin@faichney.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 1:22 AM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Memetic Engineering
>
> In message <9115CBC9F45DD111AF4100805F8518F9BDBF5C@SFREXCHANGE>,
> Kelley,
> Ian <IKelley@littler.com> writes
> >How true! But the acknowledgement that there is an objective
> reality,
> >however unknowable, certainly affects the thinking person's quest for
> >knowledge, much as the acknowledgement that there is an objective
> >morality, however unknowable (related thread), affects the thinking
> >person's actions. It may just be a matter of how much we are looking
> >"out there" versus "in here", I don't know.
>
> We have to look "in here" to understand and correct
> the distortions in our perceptions of what's "out
> there".
> --
> Robin