… content is form .. previously sound,
a construct of thought,
a glorious fiction
organising itself:
[the] cognitive organism,
a structured world.
choose to observe…
we originally did bring it about,
our actual experience,
bit by bit,
self-same creation
in [the] flow of our experience.
In other words,
we can repeat
a construction as such,
continual construction…
… content is form .. you can see only as much as your model permits you to see .. the methodological starting point does more than simply reveal, it actually creates, [the] object of study /
Form is previously sound before it actually ‘freezes’ into what we call static form /
Reality is a construct of thought that desires continuity. /
Since there is no phenomenon or thought process which is permanent, there is nothing which can be identified as a permanent self: realisation of this therefore promotes right understanding. /
Actually [the] expectation of continuity is a glorious fiction
Reality depends on our choices of what and how we choose to observe. /
The mind organises [the] world by organising itself
The cognitive organism shapes and coordinates its experience and, in doing so, transforms it into a structured world. /
Reality depends on our choices of what and how we choose to observe. /
Our understanding of such a universe comes not from discovering its present appearance, but in remembering what we originally did to bring it about. /
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What we ordinarily call reality is [the] domain of the relatively durable perceptual and conceptual structures which we manage to establish, use, and maintain in [the] flow of our actual experience. This experiential reality, no matter what epistemology we want to adopt, does not come to us in one piece. We build it up bit by bit in a succession of steps that, in retrospect, seem to form a succession of levels. Repetition is an indispensable factor in that development. Without repetition there would be no reason to claim that a given item has any permanence beyond the context of present experience. Only if we consider an experience to be [the] second instance of the self-same item we have experienced before, does [the] notion of permanent things arise. This creation of ‘individual identity’ has momentous consequences. If two experiences that we want to consider experiences of one and [the] same item do not immediately succeed one another, then we must provide a way for that item to survive. That is to say, we are obliged to think of that individual item as subsisting somewhere while we are attending to others in [the] flow of our experience. Thus we come to construct ‘existence’ as a condition or state of ‘being’ that takes place outside our experiential field; and [the] things that partake of this existence need space in which to be and time in order to perdure while our attention is elsewhere. In other words, by creating individual identities which we can repeat in our experience, we have created a fully furnished independent world that exists whether or not we experience its furniture.
What then remains is a construction as such, and one sees no ground why it should be unreasonable to think that it is [the] ultimate nature of reality to be in continual construction instead of consisting of an accumulation of ready-made structures.
Truth is what works
SOURCES
Frederic Jameson / Theodore Gimbel / Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares / Abidhamma Papers / Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares / Piaget, The construction of reality in the child, from Radical Constructivism by Ernst Von Glasersfeld / Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares / Spencer Brown, Laws of Form, from Radical Constructivism by Ernst Von Glasersfeld / from Radical Constructivism by Ernst Von Glasersfeld quoting Piaget, Structuralism
