There’s a thread going by the title of
And write4u thinks we should keep the philosophizing to another thread so here’s something that came to me as I was walking Maddy, I’m out of time so won’t be able to fix it up, but it’s still something I wanted to share with Write.
Had a good walk with Maddy and got to thinking about a more historic perspective.
You like quoting Descartes, no doubt he was a smart fella, yet what should be overlooked or underestimated is that we can’t separate Descartes from his religiosity and Catholicism. He’s a perfect example of Abrahamic thinking, that is, being totally consumed by his own thinking, to the point that he was oblivious to the physical reality beyond his thoughts and immediate situation.
All he has is his thoughts and he doesn’t consider the reality outside of his thought. That simply is - the stuff and story that went into creating us. Earth’s day to day “natural” reality that will remain long after we dissolve back into Earth’s biosphere.
Descartes is my Abrahamic Mindset personified.
Or take it further back to great Greek thinkers, too often it comes across as though they reasoned out how nature should look - then expecting nature to conform to their assumptions, when confront with a conflict between observations and assumption - they simply ignored what didn’t suit their fancy.
Rather than a fundamental appreciation for the divide between us the receivers and the physical reality being projected onto us and process by our body, mind and thoughts. Thus, learning a respect for the limitations of our assumptions.
We are all giving it our best shot with the information each of us happen to have been exposed to growing up. Some methods produce more objective results than others, but all is shackled by our perceptual limitations, and that delicious divide between what our bodies are doing and what we are thinking.