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(Most quotes verbatim Henri Louis Bergson, some paraphrased.) |
(Relevant to Pirsig, William James Sidis, and Quantonics Thinking Modes.) |
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"Psychological determinism, in its latest and most precise shape, implies an associationist
"May we here give an account of what we have
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See our Quantonic English Language Remediation of associate. Doug - 24Feb2003. This single sentence of Bergson's, "For between successive conscious states there exists a difference of quality which will always frustrate any attempt to deduce any one of them a priori from its predecessors," goes directly to entirety of failure of all western thought based on Aristotle. Had classicists listened to ancient gnosists, this might not have borne such an enormous burden on modern, CeodE 2010, Earth societies. Gnostics told us that "redemption is process." That is analogous its quantum~complement, "redemption is n¤t classical, Aristotelian state." Most humans today believe they can 'arrive,' at redemption as classical state. They view reality as stopped, perpetually concrete. But now we are k~now~ings, reality evolves, reality issi (up to) absolute Planck rate change, and agreeing with ancients, "redemption is quantum~processings." Classically event (change from one state to another) is indescribable, except as more states and events: Bergson's "we cannot make movement out of immobilities." In a sense, this is classical thought's socially, positively most tragic of commons. It is a disaster!!! "Well Doug, how do we describe redemption as quantum~processings?" Using waves and wave functions. However, we cannot use classical methods to do that! We have to learn about quantum~reality and how vastly it omniffers classical (assumptions about) reality. Then we must commence using QTMs and wMBU to solve problems in quantum~reality. Doug - 5Mar2010. |
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"It is a fact that the two speakers do connect the new subject of conversation with the former one: they will even point out the intervening ideas; but, curiously enough, they will not always connect the new idea, which they have both reached, with the same point of the preceding conversation, and the two series of intervening associations may be quite different. What are we to conclude from this, if not that this common idea is due to an unknown causeperhaps to some physical influenceand that, in order to justify its emergence, it has called forth a series of antecedents which explain it and which seem to be its cause, but are really its effect? "When a patient carries out at the appointed time the suggestion received in the hypnotic state,
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158 | "If we question ourselves carefully,
we shall see that we sometimes weigh motives
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"Associationist determinism represents the self as a collection of psychic states, the strongest of
Note (1): Cf. Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy.
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"They too speak of associations of ideas and conflicts of motives, and one of the ablest of these philosophers, Alfred Fouillée, goes so far as to make the idea of freedom itself a motive capable of counterbalancing others.(1) Here, however, lies the danger. Both parties commit themselves to a confusion which arises from language, and which is due to the fact that language is not meant to convey all the delicate shades of inner states. "I rise, for example, to open the window, and I have hardly stood up before I forget what I had to do.All right, it will be said; you have associated
Note (1): Fouillée, La Liberté et le Déterminisme. |
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"Nevertheless language would have still expressed the movement and the position in the same way; and associationism would have distinguished the two cases by saying that with the idea of the same movement there was associated this time the idea of a new end: as if the mere newness of the end to be attained did not alter in some degree the idea of the movement to be performed, even though the movement itself remained the same! We should thus say, not that the image of a certain position can be connected in consciousness with images of different ends to be attained, but rather that positions geometrically identical outside look different to consciousness from the inside, according, to the end contemplated. The mistake of associationism is that it first did away with the qualitative element in the act to be performed and retained only the geometrical and impersonal element: with the idea of this act, thus rendered colourless, it was then necessary to associate some specific difference to distinguish it from many other acts. But this association is the work of the associationist philosopher who is studying my mind, rather than of my mind itself. "I smell a rose and immediately confused recollections of childhood come back to my
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"To others it will smell differently.It is always the same scent, you will say, but associated with different ideas.I am quite willing that you should express yourself in this way; but do not forget that you have first removed the personal element from the different impressions which the rose makes oil each one of us you have retained only the objective aspect, that part of the scent of the rose which is public property and thereby belongs to space. Only this was it possible to give a name to the rose and its perfume. You then found it necessary, in order to distinguish our personal impressions from one another, to add specific characteristics to the general idea of rose-scent. And you now say that our different impressions, our personal impressions, result from the fact that we associate different recollections with rose-scent. But the association of which you speak hardly exists except for you, and as a method of explanation. It is in this way that, by setting side by side certain letters of an alphabet common to a number of known languages, we may imitate fairly well such and such a characteristic sound belonging to a new one; but not with any of these letters, nor with all of them, has the sound itself been built up. "We are thus brought back to the distinction which we set up above between the multiplicity of
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163 | "We shall then perceive terms external to one another, and these terms will no longer be the states of consciousness themselves, but their symbols, or, speaking more exactly, the words which express them. There is, as we have pointed out, a close connexion between the faculty of conceiving a homogeneous medium, such as space, and that of thinking by means of general ideas. As soon as we try to give an account of a conscious state, to analyse it, this state, which is above all personal, will be resolved into impersonal elements external to one another, each of which calls up the idea of a genus and is expressed by a word. But because our reason, equipped with the idea of space and the power of creating symbols, draws these multiple elements out of the whole, it does not follow that they were contained in it. For within the whole they did not occupy space and did not care to express themselves by means of symbols; they permeated and melted into one another. Associationism thus makes the mistake of constantly replacing the concrete phenomenon which takes place in the mind by the artificial reconstruction of it given by philosophy, and of thus confusing the explanation of the fact with the fact itself. We shall perceive this more clearly as we consider deeper and more comprehensive psychic states." | (Our brackets, bold, color, and violet bold italic problematics.) | ||||
"The self comes into contact
with the external world at its surface; and as this surface retains
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