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"The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'"-William James
...There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
...the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about...
The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too...
Section 11: I love this analogy with the fish. Sometimes, when I am just laying in bed I start to think of how real things are around me and how fake they can be. This starts to scare me so I stop thinking of theories and conspiracies. I now want to try to not stop thinking of possibilities in this life but continue. No matter how much it may freak me out.
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ReplyDeleteI love this analogy with the fish. Sometimes, when I am just laying in bed I start to think of how real things are around me and how fake they can be. This starts to scare me so I stop thinking of theories and conspiracies. I now want to try to not stop thinking of possibilities in this life but continue. No matter how much it may freak me out.
The fish analogy was really clever
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