Re: Does learning involve terminations and beginnings, arrivals and
departures?
At,
It seems to me that your commentary on my words contradict your own
teachings:help me to see what I am missing.
You seem ,first, to use 100 per cent terms when fuzziness and
indeterminancy is called for, and you announce a position you now hold
which you will never change, which seems to end the possibility of
learning.
Here are your statements which seem to create these puzzles:
>Obviously, since I used the word BELIEVE above, Steve's
>> If he continues to believe it, he is not learning!
>also seems to apply to me because I have been believing in the
>truth of these seven essentialities of creativity since I discovered
>them and will continue to do so. In the mean time I will keep on
>questioning them, trying to find a better way to express them.<
Are you saying here that it is impossible that you will find an eighth
essentiality, or reduce them to five, or decide that you have been in
error in attempting to codify creativity in this manner? Is this an
announcement that you have reached a position of permanence, and if so, is
this not an announcement that learning will not take place, but only
better forms of expressing what you now believe?
>I wonder what Steve's definition of learning is. From his
>> If he continues to believe it, he is not learning!
>I am inclined to infer the following:
> learning entails the termination of beliefs.
>I cannot ever agree to such a definition.
If "termination"is not 100% but is fuzzy, that I suppose that you and I
both will agree that in the fuzzy sense learning does involve a kind of
termination of belief and/or status. I "terminate" my atheism, and learn
to believe in God-or vice versa. In the fuzzy sense ,then, learning often
(always?) involves a change of state, a movement from one state of knowing
to a new state, and thus a fuzzy termination of the earlier state.
Now, At, you may not agree to such a definition at this moment. But how
can you be sure you will "never" agree to a kind of fuzzy termination of
what you now believe and embrace a new state of At?
We move on, terminating our arrivals, setting off again, fuzzily and
endlessly.
Onward, At.
Steve Eskow
--"Dr. Steve Eskow" <dreskow@magicnet.net>
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