It's not Carlos Castaneda, or Carl Gustav Jung (although I think there's something about archetypes in there) or Gurdjieff or Ouspensky. Robert Pirsig? It's not Fritz Perls. Not Tim Leary or RD Laing or Richard Alpert or even Ken Kesey. It's not Ayn Rand.
It's true that the boundaries between individuals are a bit ill defined and arbitrary, but that is true of all classes of things. The universe and we are one thing; its division into tables, chairs, molecules, atoms, and individuals is an artifice of language, but without which there is unfortunately no understanding, only unfocussed perception. However I suspect that's not what you're talking about.
You're talking about John Donne.
'No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.'
It's a good thought, if perhaps not quite as tidily posed, and only 4 centuries late.
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It's true that the boundaries between individuals are a bit ill defined and arbitrary, but that is true of all classes of things. The universe and we are one thing; its division into tables, chairs, molecules, atoms, and individuals is an artifice of language, but without which there is unfortunately no understanding, only unfocussed perception. However I suspect that's not what you're talking about.
You're talking about John Donne.
'No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.'
It's a good thought, if perhaps not quite as tidily posed, and only 4 centuries late.
w
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I've got a picture in the office of Magritte's "The Son of Man" (the apple in front of the guy's face)...with a speaker cone instead of an apple 😀
I should scan it, it'd make a good avatar here...
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