Srinath said.
". the complete system consists of competitors competing with themselves
by collaborating with others. Probably this is close to self
actualization?.."
In this light, AM de Lange's bifurcation, and its relevance to changes in
thinking and feeling, makes me wonder...
Can there be thinking without feeling?
Or feeling without thinking?
And if so...a possible internal competition between thinking and feeling?
Say that we get the answers right.
I'm still worried.
Like Martin Heidegger, our key insight might become our key failure.
Heidegger was a philosopher who asked about our ascertaining "being,"
"existence."
Usually, ascertaining existence is easy, in fact, something usually
ignored--
"Should I sit in that chair?"
"Only if it exists."
Not a problem to ascertain existence in this case. We don't even see it as
a question.
But when a child is born, or when a parent dies, our questions and
feelings about existence become their strongest.
Unfortunately, the man who made this sensitive, and potentially heartfelt,
line of inquiry famous, himself became a Nazi. In the appendix of the book
Parmenides, you can see that Martin Heidegger used the term
"Fatherland"--- with feeling.
But I remember visiting the Berlin wall before it came down. Even then,
the question could be asked: Was there really "one" thing on one side, and
a different thing on the other?
As Russell's paradox about mathematical sets shows-- surprisingly-- it is
not always logical (however intuitively reasonable) to say that every
multitude can be treated as a single thing which actually "exists."
So in treating the "Fatherland" as a thing which actually exists,
Heidegger had probably asked and answered his own question of existence
wrongly. That is, on the very type of question which he had brought to the
world's attention as being the most important question of all, which made
his fame, even today, in philosophical circles-- he failed in a huge
way...
In retrospect, of course, this identification of "The Fatherland" as
something which actually exists caused absolute world horror.
So say that in our thread, here, we do arrive at some key insights about
"internal competition"-- for example, Srinath's.
How can I be sure that my key insight will not become my key failure?
Sincerely, respectfully,
Lee Bloomquist
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