xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes: actually, Eva!
>Csikszentmihalyi
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such a pleasure to see evidence of your dancing fingers! wonderful!
and while i'm writing - i've been thinking about Molly's comment about
religiosity of some writing - and how Ilyenkov painstakingly situates
his concepts within the dogma of marx - constrasted with later xmca
explication about how Ilyenkov was dangerously an outsider of the
communist orthodoxy - and about similar struggles within the U.S. with
academic writers who didn't fit the assumed orthodoxy (though didn't
suffer as a result a material gulag) - and about diane's queries about
animal consciousness which reminded me of Edelman's (1991) Bright air,
brilliant fire: On the matter of the mind - in which he asserts that
consciousness is efficacious and likely to enhance evolutionary fitness,
that development is the laying down of new neuronal mappings, that as a
selective system the brain is a correlator, and that animals do not have
consciousness like ours, since animals unlike people lack a sense of time
and prolepsis being one of the greatest differences.
thanks, Eva, for the budge!
phillip
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Buddha speaking to Vasettha:
One is not a brahmin by birth,
Nor by birth a non-brahmin.
By action is one a brahmin,
by action is one a non-brahmin.
So that is how the truly wise
See action as it really is,
Seers of dependent origination,
Skilled in actions and its results.
Action makes the world
go round,
Action makes this
generation turn.
Living beings are bound
by action
Like the chariot wheel
by the pin.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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