From 26f9cafd4ed538400b02fa19f0520f07bd2c9137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gordon GECOS Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:10:51 -0500 Subject: western.txt --- western.txt | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 western.txt diff --git a/western.txt b/western.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f1212d --- /dev/null +++ b/western.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +The Western way of handling error as a philosophical subject is based +on filtering out the mistakes of logical deduction based on their +external properties; filtering false steps generated by the faulty +reasoner; diagnosing the problems in a proof; correcting written work; +and generating a mathematical (externalized) theory of correct step +generation, capable of being run on a computer; whereas + +The Eastern way of handling error as a subject is based on understanding +the internal process that generated the mistake; documenting how others +have made the same mistake before; prescribing useless activity directed +at correcting the mistake (such as chanting; probably to occupy a +brain task network with something primed to prompt the frontal lobe to +re-evaluate the source of the mistake repeatedly, to allow the emotional +intensity to diminish from repetition and stop interrupting the flow +of thought; a "time out"; a sensory deprivation session; time to think +about what you did). + +The Eastern way is "right" in that the mental processing is literally +not possible physically without the allocation of time; and it must be +nonrationally guided to reliability; because we are trying to break +a causal loop or kill a kind of organism that resists death. Even +though it is a virtual organism, it must be killed so its will must be +overcome. + +Western and Eastern aren't really the division here when it comes +to practice; I am only talking about what is accepted as academic +philosophy in Western universities. All of the Eastern ideas must +already exist in the West in equivalents, but Western authority has +suppressed them, made them noncanonical approaches. It is obvious how +what I call "The Western way" is the way of those whose children are +made to obey and listen and believe. + +Focusing on one step at a time instead of the big picture allows +those same errors to be made at other times when the special-care +logic-filtering "task network" isn't activated. Reshaping the generator +prevents entire classes of errors from being generated in the first +place. + +Those errors may be parts of the system that _it_ defends with _its_ +will! + +Eastern societies are not essentially better. Like Western authorities, +Eastern authorities employ hypocrisy to sustain capitalism and keep the +powerful predators safely fed. Moral principles are never socially +useful, because these principles are words, and hypocrisy shows that +words are capable of construction without correlation to actions. +Morals exist on the linguistic plane, not the behavioral plane; the +frontal lobe may inhibit or activate various behavioral patterns; the +pattern of producing prohibitory words in the linguistic generator +is not well correlated with the pattern of restricting the behavior +according to the content of those words. You cannot just "tell +yourself" not to do something. You need to analyze your intentions and +unerstand why you are doing it. You either have completed the process +or you haven't. You either change your intentions or you don't. -- cgit v1.2.3