"it was ok i suppose" : a non reaction to "polarazing" things
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Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
A conduit that refracts meaning to other conduits.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
A dynamic monad.
luka
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But you would like, ideally, to have some sense of what is happening to you, how the object of perception is interacting with you
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I do think this is a worthwhile effort, i.e. not misguided, but in a way that doesn't expect to single out some fundamental state of oneself/one's opinion that is prior to external influence. That is, all we are is an aggregate of external influences, and learned expressions of responses to these influences.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
And I do think, for these purposes, it is possible to single out enough how a given thing is influencing you. If you couldn't do that at all, you wouldn't be able to navigate the world, I'd say.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Its almost like, upon initial inspection of a thing, you see it as its own source of influence upon you - you see a monad shining upon you. And upon closer inspect, you indirectly see the various influences upon that thing - the monads "within" that monad. And you can continue this sort of fractal semiotic differance indefinitely, it would seem.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah, a missed connection, a failure to communicate, in a sense.
luka
Well-known member
Which you can then interrogate. Have I deliberately armoured myself against it, for example
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
This gets at the approach I've been taking lately re: aesthetic appreciation. If a given work doesn't resonate with me (be it a Marvel film or a Bergman film), I just try to shift my perspective until I can tap into that resonance.
luka
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This is what I found weed taught me as a child, how to tune the dial until I receive a signal.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah, such as if you went into the experience with a pre-disposed opinion or a standard that the work has to be compared to by default.