In The World Of The 12 Monkeys

... not over against it; not as a isolated subject viewing it as an object.

We have been too long enslaved by the Cartesian dualisms of the thoughtful soul which perceives and thinks about the body and the world in which the body finds itself.
The thinking "we" are in the world, negotiating meanings, palavering, caucusing, deal making and breaking,  selling and buying in the market, making love and war. In all of this, we rarely ask which propositions we use are "true". Rather, we use those words which are part of our lives already and work to make another daily extension into the foggy future.

Quote from a book review:
http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2014/12/best-philosophy-mind-and-consciousness.html

The enactive approach is a growing movement in cognitive science that replaces the classical computer metaphor of the mind with an emphasis on biological embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Mind is viewed as an activity of making sense in embodied interaction with our world...

 Activity, act, doing.

As Sister Maria says in The Great Beauty  "Poverty is to be lived... not to be talked about".

We talk about everything and get nowhere. We talk about politics and terror and epidemics, and then spend time surfing for more discussion. A few years ago we talked about the Federal deficit incessantly, and now no one mentions it.
It is old hat.

We are not truly living when we are jabbering, chattering, and jibbering. We are only partly alive. We must act.
The future generations will travel in time, and avoid our era, referring to it as the Zoo of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys...
... the first monkey sees all evil, and the next eleven go on cable TV to discuss it.

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Reflections In A Nosy Eye

 

Reflection Of A Homeland Security Logo 

I wrote about Twitter going public, and how it is part of a large-scale download of our souls into the data clouds of corporations, and will soon be accessible to all the Homeland Security agencies and NSA operatives, although they may have to pay Twitter for it with taxpayers money.

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2013/11/twitter-goes-public-bayesian.html

You may think my point was over the top.

Read the following from August about the closing of the website Groklaw :

...“I can’t do Groklaw without your input,” writes Jones in the blog entry. “It was really a collaborative effort, and there is now no private way, evidently, to collaborate.”

[...]

Groklaw joins the ranks of Lavabit and Silent Circle – another encrypted e-mail service provider – as the three notable online resources whose shutdowns have garnered public attention. Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison did not give an exact reason for the site’s shutdown and stated in a letter announcing the site's closure that he was not allowed to by law. News that Edward Snowden was one of the e-mail provider’s clients, and Levison’s promise to appeal to the Fourth Circuit, fueled suspicion that the site closed while they fight a gag order from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court. Silent Circle followed suit to preempt any federal information requests, according to a company statement.

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With Orwellian terms frequently tossed into conversation about the NSA, it seems only fitting that the “grok” in “Groklaw” comes from a Science Fiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein.
 
“Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes part of the observed – to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group existence,” wrote Mr. Heinlein in the novel. However, there seems to be a difficulty finding a balance between the openness described by Heinlein’s grok and the government’s penchant for gathering up all of this information made public.

And we are left wondering what the heck is wrong with the people we have honored with all those positions of power in government and military?
What the heck?

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Intelligence

If we did not have differences of opinion, we would not be intelligent. We would be more like rocks. Intelligence, by its very nature, is a constantly flickering of stars and suns within the mind, and the probabilities are that there will be many, many different kinds of minds and opinions therein.

However, to be Irreconciliable and Intransigeant is a sign of dying beasts, cornered and expiring and wishing to destroy all with them!

Extending the prior metaphor, an Intelligence that has become Frozen and Immutable is like a dying star, hoarding what dregs are left of its precious fuel, shrinking down, confused and frightened in its stellar mind... preparing to go Nova!
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