Timothy Eastman on Process, Reality, and Context (a review of Untying the Gordian Knot, 2020)

Reading a review of plasma physicist and philosopher Timothy Eastman's 2020 book. footnotes2plat...

[@projectmalus]

Great reading voice and phrasing, timing etc makes it easy to listen and understand :) thanks. It seems to me the human baby builds their person from relational activity, and the adult human asserts objects to reduce this relational activity, a seeking of power that collectively asserts objects like countries, corporations and other that quickly fall out of context, not as a simplifying of what's there, but a simplifying of the complexity of response. It's quite possible this comes from what I think of as the original sin, which is the mistaking of the hungry feeling as a need for food nutrition, simply because the eating stops that feeling. The original sin and all the problems coming from being diminished and so having to 'grab' objects to affirm by reducing the objects complexity, by reducing their complex approach to that object. It's a two way street that affirms objects in both places by reducing the complexity of relational activity possible. I need that book!! Edit: I would distinguish between relational activities since all activities seems to be relational, as those directed towards objects as purposeful symbols in the near future (to chase or follow) and playful activity that can plan for or loosely assign objects in order to build them and take them apart again, sometimes in context and sometimes deliberately not. The objects remind me of jigsaw puzzle pieces where the symbol is quite simple in its complexity of projections and openings. When the person becomes simple like that and joins together with others in a smooth object, that's fascism which is efficient yet inhuman. Because the symbol is simple, it's powerful but the loss of complexity can reduce the person..the brilliance of the Church is in diverging the power back into small groups and John Vervaeke has done this recently online. Perhaps the universe is like an accordion where the expansion creates a sort of vacuum where the life rushes in, The rushing in is the life created. Later while contracting the accordion sound is the multiplicity becoming One again, to get ready for the multiplicity as expression.

[@SeiroosFardipour-wf4bi]

Even though scientist imagines by reaching the explanations of consciousness they might reachs the source,the explanations will stay erronic since consciousness can't be studied separately from Observateur only so to say a 'religious' approach could say something sensible about it yet will remains unreachable to those that hears about it in second hand.So to say science and any other way of indirect knowing is and will be extremely useful to humanity but they can never unchain humans conditions they gets one as far as possibly possible but the final step remains personal (sacrifice)🔔🐾🌵♾️💜

[@KingoftheJuice18]

It's not easy to glean from this summary how Eastman's views might help repair the crisis of values or meaning in the secular, scientistic West, on the one hand, and in retrograde fundamentalism, on the other.

[@Footnotes2Plato]

That’s a tall order, but an open creative universe suffused with possibility certainly leaves more room for real human meaning than the typical construal of scientific cosmology.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

@@Footnotes2Plato Agreed! My comment was just a reaction to some thoughts you mentioned at the end about overcoming nihilism and loss of values and such. I'd like to hear more on that topic.

[@S.G.Wallner]

The accumulation of context brings forward a flow of unique being. Or something like that. Lol.