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(5) But the Real is much more than this “reality”! The real refers to the endlessly changing stream of life, “the unbroken wholeness,” to use Physicist David Bohm’s wonderful expression, out of which everything comes, including the Planet we all share. As the Manifesto puts it, the real is characterized by radical open-endedness and becoming. In th
... See moreArturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies
We could say a World is something like a gated garden. A World has borders. A World has laws. A World has values. A World has dysfunction. A World can grow up. A World has members who live in it. A World gives its members permission to act differently than outside of it. A World incentivizes its members to keep it alive, often with ... See more
Ian Cheng • Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
Paul Graham • Why Nerds are Unpopular
Be honest. Your own life experiences have been far from ideal. But what you have experienced is what is real, not what you would like to experience. In short, the nature of reality is this:
Life includes pain and adversity.
The future is uncertain.
Accomplishment of any kind requires discipline.
You are not special. No matter what you do, you cannot av
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living
Ian Cheng • Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
The reality is________________.
The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying.
Jason Fried • ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
the real here means really lived or really experienced in the world, as opposed to a construct of thinking. Real is contrasted with abstract or theoretical. But this raises another question we need to face: If a noetic dialectic operates in the mind or intellect, where specifically does a real dialectic operate? To say that a real dialectic is real
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