Forget FOMO Try JOMO The joy of.. (Secret introvert delight of getting some extra alone time)

The Revolution will not be verbalised formalised systemivised absractivised (Sorry) 🙄 Maybe time to stop now

Some of us have already tasted kiwi, and some of us have never tasted a kiwi. They may ask "What is kiwi? Can you give me an idea?" But you cannot. Even combining all your ideas, you cannot explain what a kiwi is. The only way is to offer them a kiwi Then you don't have to say anything at all

Don’t live in the map Return to the territory of your embodiment! Join the ABSTRACTION REBELLION! (The cutest ever placard courtesy of Siri Raworth-Krznaric — yes, that’s a toothpick)

“bifurcation of nature” (Frm Whitehead) shift in early science, associatd w/ Galileo conceptl split of reality into: Primary qlties: measrble features like positn, extensn, motion, mass -treated as “objctvly real” 2ndary qlties: sensry featrs like color, sound, taste -treated as “merely subjctv”

“fallacy of misplaced concreteness” A phrase coined by Whitehead to alert us to the tendency in the sciences to: Mistake models, concepts, or categories for the actual world forgetting that theories simplify and select features then gradually coming to see the abstraction as the “real” reality

“surreptitious substitution” Phrase coined by Husserl to point out the tendency of modern science to forget that its mathematical models are abstractions from experience It’s the unnoticed replacement of lived reality with abstract structures gradually seen as more real than experience itself

The anti-reification division needs YOU!

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(Chanting) The map THE MAP The map THE MAP WILL NEVER BE THE TERRIT’RY

I think I’m going to start a new movement: ABSTRACTION REBELLION you may find us picketing analytical philosophy lectures, chanting: “What do we want?” FEELINGS “When do we want them!” NOW!

I like writing, but i like cutting even more. Perhaps because my job is letting go

I think I’m just going to start posting random snippets from my book, to see if it resonates

Beware the tendency to think that “x is just y” Eg bird song is “just” territorial displays and mating calls music is “just auditory cheesecake” reality is “just” particles and forces following the laws of physics the present moment is “just” the integration window of sensory data in the cortex

We are the resonant modes of the possible

For millions of years we lived enmeshed in the fabric of a world without 90 degree angles, flat surfaces or a closable door. And yet now live out our days almost exclusively in the rectilinear world of our imagination made concrete.

Happy lunar new year to those who celebrate 🔥🐴 May you be happy, may you touch peace in your hearts, may you have good health and may you find freedom that nothing can destroy and no one can take from you

I seem to be in good company: Anton Zeilinger: “in physics, we have always made great progress without answering the question of what this is... We can observe reality, we can make measurements, but I don’t think we can say anything about the *essence* of reality.”

Incredible. Moved to tears. Art as resistance. Art as healing. Art as truth telling.

If what is inside of us is as vast or even more vast than what is outside But what is outside contains what is inside Then perhaps we should suspect that “inside” and “outside” are not apt to describe reality (Or something)

Every time we’ve tried to say “what” this all is we’ve been wrong. Perhaps we should just restrict ourselves to enjoying, celebrating THAT it is / we are any “what” turns out to be limited in relation to the mystery

YouTube. But you can’t comment on, or like a video until you’ve watched at least 70% of it.

Where i am rn

Contemplating the unutterable beauty and majesty of this dance— This is the wonder that we are, along with all the heartache and the pain… youtu.be/HevGwYJSB6s?... Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon, and Z. Levay (STScI); Science: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and A. Simon-Miller (NASA/GSFC)

Publisher doesn’t like my book title TOUCHING THE ULTIMATE—zen, science and the nature of reality So what do we think of these alts? WHO ARE YOU? RETURNING TO WONDER I WONDER… (kindly suggested by Iain McGilchrist) or simply WONDER (Same subtitle for each) (+ a random pic from yesterday)

I always have time for tardigrades

This is extraordinary. First time I’ve heard the term “cryptic species” meaning species which are morphologically (almost?) indistinguishable, but reproductively isolated and evolutionarily independent. Seems to suggest the existence of strong morphological attractors in evolutionary landscapes.

Iain McGilchrist bringing much needed balance.

Editing my book (TOUCHING THE ULTIMATE — zen, science, and the nature of reality) on an abandoned island off the coast of Syke. Turns out there were Celtic Christian monks here for centuries. Feels like the right spot to do this work.

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some thoughts on AI sentience (see my replies to the q) My take (though i never wrote about it till now) seems close to what @vincehorn.space is pointing to here Basically: don’t ask if the llm is sentient, ask if you + llm is more awake/sentient in the co-arising space of interaction (or smth 🫠)

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

Please tell me this is satire. I can’t tell anymore marchforbillionaires.org

This is the kind of leadership i trust

Good trouble, necessary trouble, today: Feb 1: COURAGE to end brutality and realize the greater Measure of Our Humanity: Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, online, 11-12:30 MT, free. www.upaya.org/program/the-...

Very much enjoyed talking to the wonderful Mark Miller on the Contemplative Science Podcast We went deep into why yogacara teachings are not metaphysics, but more akin to phenomenology (with the aim of liberation) open.spotify.com/episode/3mus...

Glorious

www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi... Under polarised light i assume. Incredible to see the muscle fibers lighting up

And.. STRETCH!! A moment of tardigrade joie de vivre to light up our hearts in dark days www.reddit.com/r/microscopy...

Professor Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) shared this.

@mariapopova.bsky.social beautifully weaves some of my favorite passages from my teacher’s journals — passages which i have read and re-read over the years, as a never-ending meditation on emptiness of separate self. (Sometimes i even feel like i almost understand…)

For Warmth – remembering the great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who left us 4 years ago today, with his poetic antidote to anger www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/01/f...

UK Intelligence Service report on ecosystem collapse released after two months following freedom of information requests. The message is stark — perhaps nothing new to many of us, but striking in its clarity, especially coming from the UK Gov’t assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Highly recommended call timorrow for climate people who need to breathe. Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy MLK Day friends! Here’s an article I just published about the friendship between MLK and Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s a good day to remember that how we show up for each other, and how we advocate for change, matters. There is no way to democracy, democracy is the way.

Well said