Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
rootyarn.com
Work with textured objects, especially from nature…
Eg a leaf
Or an apple, orange…
blindfold ppl and give them an orange slice/apple slice
Get them to figure out what it is
Ask them later how they did this
Get them to write the word
Ask them how one experience relates ro the other
Ask them which of the two they would keep if they could only choose one
Looks cool
Want us to reckon with the layers of labelling, with the action of naming.
Oh, so you are saying the people are not real.
Nope, I am asking you to consider though what is real about them. Is it their roles, their titles, their identities? To what extent are they real?
And if not that what is real about them? What is under the layer of labelling?
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Saved this in 2020….
Mentioning machines understanding us better than we understand ourselves. Maybe that is because we do not understand ourselves very well and we have relied too much on machines for that understanding. We increasingly do. Tell me how many steps I took, how deep I have been sleeping…what to do if I am not sleeping. Not saying there cannot be very valuable knowledge gained this way, but if we ignore the other ways that we come to know things of course we will lag behind and will be easily manipulated. One of the big spriritual questions often asked as a form of inquiry is ‘Who am I’, and right now when we ask that question we often turn to machines to answer it. What do I do instead you might say? Humans managed to survive (with fewer comforts you might argue, but also more content in many ways) for a long time without machines. If there isn’t a machine when you ask ‘Who am I’, what comes up? What do your emotions tell you about this? What do the trees say? What do the bugs say? What does your skin say? There are so many answers that have nothing to do with machines and this is a form of intelligence. To have any chance at not being hollowed out by machines we need to turn to this other intelligence and start giving it the value it has in our lives. It comes before machines. It is older and wiser and we would not be here without it.
We always retain the ability to alter or suspend the flux of participation. Yet we can never suspend the flux of participation itself.
Page 59 - The Spell of The Sensuous, David Abram
Note: free will stops there. Cannot not participate.
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intellige…
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