[MD] Stuck on a Torn Slot

[MarshaV]

On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Jan-Anders wrote:

> Hi John
> 
> This thread is about one thing stuck to another, object-object, the bad relation between two objects. That's the diffence between abstracts and reality. Real things don't behave like our abstractions. If they did, we just had to find the right prayer to solve it.
> 
> JA

JA

A concept such as 'justice', which is interdependent, can be reified into an object of analysis, 

"How do we deal with the complexity of experience? Well, we 'seek and find, or project, a simplifying pattern to approximate every complex field ... by lumping (ignoring some distinctions as negligible) and by splitting (ignoring some relations as negligible). Both ... create discreet entities useful for manipulating, predicting and controlling ... [but] may impose ad hoc boundaries on what are actually densely interconnected systems and then grant autonomous existence to the segments. Even the contents of our own consciousness have to be dealt with in this way, resulting in our array of fragmented self-concepts, and we just put up with the anomalies that arise. Buddhism, he explains, agrees that discovering entities is conventionally indispensable, but attachment and aggression arise through reifying them, which violates the principle that all things are interdependent, and all entities are conditional approximations."


http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol4/buddhism_and_science.html      

 
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