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Jef Allbright wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->[ . . . ] although I prefer to use the phrase "increasing context" with
regard to awareness, interpretation, meaning and decision-making, and
"increasing scope" with regard to interactions, effects, consequences,
etc.
Once you get familiar with the idea that assessment of rationality
necessarily implies a context, and that assessment of morality necessary
implies an increasing context and scope, then you come to the
interesting observation that all subjective contexts are necessarily
incomplete, i.e. subsumed within a greater context of potential (future)
awareness, leading to the idea of an arrow of increasing -- what? --
similar to the statistical arrow of time observed in classical
thermodynamics.
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For those who are interested enough to think through the preceding, the
next likely stumbling block in the train of thought has to do with
remembering that all assessments are necessarily subjective, but that
they tend toward increasing objectivity as they are tested via
interaction within increasing scope of reality.</pre>
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<pre wrap="">A result of such thinking is clear resolution of such so-called
paradoxes as "free-will" and "meaning of life", but you give up any
belief in an intrinsic Self in the process.
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- Jef
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I suppose your " -- what? -- " could be consciousness. In the stillness of
meditation I've allowed assessment and a lot of other rational games to very
nearly cease. The "arrow of time" became more of a sphere, an expanded point,
a big moment, where causes and effects were hardly dislocated. Sidestepping
meaning, decision and judgment weakened the sense of self, but greatly expanded
the objective scope of reality. Coming back to subjective assessment felt
like a flood of insults, but my sense of free will and responsibility was
boosted. It seems to me some things go beyond the rational, but are yet
consistent with it, only in a larger paradigm. <appearance of humiliy>
-- Thomas<br>
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