[MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

[Andre Broersen]

John to Andre:
Thanks for your thoughts, Andre.  I find them very thoughtful and
thought-provoking.  Hmmm.... weird that, the best adjective I can grant a
thought was that it was a thoughtful thought.  An idealistic idea.  A
conceptual concept.  Funny things, words.

Andre:
Thank you John. Yes, words are funny, and very deceptive but also a
possible vehicle. Am reading the Tao of Symbols at the moment (dear Khoo
recommended it).

But the above expressed thoughts are not inspired by me, they come from
Reanney's 'Music of the Mind' recommended to me by Anthony.

Reanney was a microbiologist. You may remember this was also Phaedrus'
first choice among academic disciplines...at the 'borderline' between the
organic and inorganic level.

The sub-title of the book is 'An Adventure into Consciousness' and the
things he says and the examples he draws from are strikingly similar to
Pirsig's ZMM. Reanney invites us on a much more personal journey,
integrating science's insights (e.g. the fallacy of the subject/ object
duality) within the 'aesthetic approach' as he calls it. Thus suggesting
that 'the quantum message (the observer and observed...are coupled in the
most intimate of ways) is a simple revelation: 'consciousness enters into
the structure of reality in a fundamental way' leading to the assertion that
the world we see is NOT the world that is, but that the world we see is the
world we make (p49-50).

Anyway, it is a thought-provoking book and can be got, quite cheaply at
Amazon.

Cheers,
Andre