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Becoming Perceptive
There’s a radical range of resolution in how I can interpret my day. Sometimes the smallest details, like the headphones of a passing pedestrian, can have something like religious significance, and every perception feels worthy of a paragraph, worthy of interpretive and sensorial prose. Other times, days escape in a passing fog without rapture or r
... See moreOnce you know exactly where you are on the map, you still need to orient yourself and move in the territory. And this is the key insight I learned from writing this piece. If you rebuild your new model based on abstractions it’s no more likely to be correct than the old one. So, you need to rebuild it in harmony with the world around you. The Taois... See more
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
We can seek to control the world by reducing it to component parts we feel safe with, relying on our propositional knowledge and outdated assumptions about the nature of rationality. Or, we can let go of control and draw on the liminal perception of the right hemisphere, embracing a participatory knowing the extends beyond ourselves and into the wo... See more
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
For me, getting an accurate picture of reality ultimately comes down to two things: being able to synthesize accurately and knowing how to navigate levels.