xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>
>
Bill scrobe:
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>[(thinking) actions] form a system of knowledge
>
>[this I take to be a definition of consciousness as a dynamic, as a
>process of communication, as action, as interaction, and goes beyond what
>an individual 'knows' in the individual-centered psychologistic sense,
>but what an individual contributes in interaction with what other
>individuals also contribute in interaction]
>
>that comprises the content of the consciousness of the collective,
>society.
>
>Owing to this the concepts, understanding, and ideas that are generated
>in separate people are formed, enriched, and subject to selection not
>only in the course of their individual use (unavoidably narrowly limited,
>and subject to chance)
>
>but also on the basis of the immeasurably wider experience that they
>attain in social use.
>
>[interaction with others transforms societal consciousness into
>"vicarious consciousness" at the level of the individual i.e. "I know
>about X because so-and-so said so". Another reference on this train of
>thought appears in the book "Socializing Epistemology"]
>
>[my $.02]
well, this was a big big help in clarifying my head. instead of two
cents, for me it looks like a twenty dollar bill!
thanks,
phillip
/ \ / \ / \
/ \ / \
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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