KARL JASPERS FORUM

TA61 (Andemicael)

Commentary 10

( PLAYING CHESS, contd. )
by Adrian van der Meijden
11 February 2004, posted 14 February 2004

It seems then that all change can be ascribed to an action of the mind, whether by design, habit and in temporary ways, etc., and therefore only mappable with as mind, which it then can either retain as permanentised or change again. Even Planck points out this eppur si muove, that things change, but only in the mind, as he titles a chapter in one of his books.

All our senses appear to do is compose static snapshots we stitch together into events.

In the conception of both my children I knew, not unlike as did Tristram Shandy, that they were conceived IN the event, told my ex-wife during the event, who disbelieved, yet it was right. It so happens both kids, each in a unique way, are somewhat excessively gifted, the girl now 35, the boy 30 odd. One could say this could well be how evolution works as mind tinkering to improve, in many and various ways. I attended son's wedding last Saturday and was told, by about 50 odd of his friends, what a special and precious kind of person my son is. Some of his friends he has had for 20 years odd. I had to repeatedly say that I did not have a clue how as a parent I achieved such a feat.

His now wife is also one of those as discovered in a rather drunken exchange with her Father. They are both go-getters, achievers and so on, in ways that follow no prescribed convention.

It will be interesting to do some extrapolation and speculate on such likelihoods. I notice a similar sort of thing in that new, alternative science which is into free energy and all that where, also on the basis of the quantal and relativity a complete overhaul is going on. So far this is only into odd, small effects. but look what we did after the discovery of magnetism as the lode stone. Here I note an analogy between Aristotle's sacred 5 act drama as as a hunters recipe and a learning curve in stages by way of initial data gathering and crazy idea collection, as done by creativity, pursued into the peripateia of a usable insight that changes our entire worldview into a fresh perspective.

viz

To go beyond understanding to wisdom requires awareness of the difference between doing things right (efficiency) and doing the right thing (effectiveness). The righter we do the wrong thing the wronger we become. Today a great deal of effort is expended by organizations in efforts to increase the efficiency with which the wrong things are being done.

ACKOFF

CenterProgram announcement on the Internet June 2001 SEE

http://www.geocities.com/misaha93923/abstracts.html

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Adrian van der Meijden