Part 3. The Imperfect Perfection Jim DeLeo

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Part 3. The Imperfect PerfectionJim DeLeo
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Words of a zen master

• To think
• that I will no longer think of you
• is still thinking of you.
• Let me then try
• not to think
• that I will no longer think of you.

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Classical Linear Causality

• In a world based on classical linear
  causality, two properties emerge with seeming
  logic and necessity the split between observer
  (subject) and observed (object) and the
  all-inclusive ordering of the world into pairs of
  opposites, an order which common sense manages to
  find confirmation everywhere cause/effect,
  inside/outside, day/night, life/death, good/evil,
  body/soul, past/future, health/illness the list
  could go on for pages.

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• The reality thus constructed reverberates from
  the violent clash of these opposites.
• The resulting losses and suffering may reach
  horrifying proportions.

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Hi. Im Heraclites and Im here to tell you
that to exist everything needs its opposite.
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Hi. Im Lao Tsu and as I say in the Tao Te
Ching under heaven all can see beauty as beauty
only because there is ugliness. All can know good
only because there is evil.
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The Decisive Event Leading to the Splitting of
the World into Pairs of Opposites
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Taoism
Ancient Greeks
Kabbalah
Christianity
Modern Science
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Hi. Im Werner Heisenberg and Im here to tell
you that a truly objective world, totally devoid
of all subjectivity, would be for this reason
unobservable.
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Scientific and Social Constructions Produce
Realities That are the Very Opposite of the
Intended Ideal
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The Autonomous Position

• One may reject an idea (or assumption, ideology,
  belief, assumption, etc.) either because one
  holds the opposite view or because one adheres
  neither
• to the idea nor its negation (opposite).
• This second choice is referred as the autonomous
  position.
• This position does not exist in Manis and
  Aristotle's worlds.

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To be or not to be, that is the question.
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To be, or not to be, or to neither be nor not
to be, that is the better question.
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Hi. Im Mani the Persian Prophet and the
autonomous position doesnt exist in my world.
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Hi. Im Aristotle and the autonomous position
doesnt exist in my world neither.
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Im a constructivist and I see a way-out way out
of here yous guys.
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A or -A?
A
-A
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A or -A?
A
-A
active negation
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A or -A?
A
neither A nor -A
-A
active negation
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A or -A?
A
neither A nor -A
-A
active negation
passive negation
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A or -A?
A
neither A nor -A
-A
active negation
passive negation
This is the autonomous position.
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The Five-Fold Noble Escape Path

• The negation of the opposite requires its
  recognition (active negation).
• Standing outside the pair of opposites is a
  different form of negation (passive negation).
• 3. Thus we see the two forms of negation appear
  to be identical in the frame of a world
  constructed out of the primitive yes-no thinking.
  
• We then become aware of the inhumanity of this
  construction that reaches far into our everyday
  lives.
• How did we manage to stay blind to this and
  accept it as an apparent given of the real world.

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To be, or not to be, or to neither be nor not
to be, that is an escape.
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To fuzzily be that also is an escape.
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Zen Koans
Where was your face before your mother was born?
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Zen Koans
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Part 3.

• 1. Active and Passive Negation An Essay in
• Ibanskian Sociology
• Written by Jon Elster
• Reviewed by Bill Moore
• It is important to different active and passive
  negation
• 2. Components of Ideological Realities
• Written by Paul Watzlawick
• Reviewed by Mo Al-Ubaydli
• characteristics of the reality that emerges
  when there is
• conviction that the final true explanation
  has been found.