All there is to thinking is seeing something noticable which makes you
see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that
isn't even visible. (A River Runs Through It, p. 92).
Which seems quite similar to what von Glasersfeld has had to say:
"Constructivists must be unwavering agnostics with regard to 'existence'
because, like Berkeley, they cannot conceive of what that word should mean
outside the domain of experience. Whatever may lie beyond experience is
inaccessible to human reason. But this is no denial of ontological reality;
nor does it deny that artists and mystics may intuitively participate in an
ulterior 'reality'. Constructivism merely holds that such a reality cannot
be known rationally. The construction of our experiential reality is never
ad lib, but subject to constraints - and in many cases we are unable to
decide whether the constraints we meet are due to inconsistencies in our
construction or constitute impediments of the unknowable. "
And which is curiously similar to Bierce's treatment of mind:
MIND, n.
A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its
chief
activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own
nature, the
futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it
has nothing but
itself to know itself with.
Bierce's work has been put in the public domain rather well. An anonymous
source, however, allegedly discovered a definition, heretofore unknown:
ACTION, n.
The kind of thing the studious would rather study than
take.
And apropos, the metering of action, well known:
CLOCK, n.
A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his
concern for
the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains
to him.
A busy man complained one day:
"I get no time!" "What's that you say?"
Cried out his friend, a lazy quiz;
"You have, sir, all the time there is.
There's plenty, too, and don't you doubt it --
We're never for an hour without it."
Purzil Crofe
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Technology in Education
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself
and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]