Maurice wrote: What is happening in those muscles and nerves is completely hidden from my experience.
[rf] ...Well, your level of unconsciousness/lack of description/abstraction is also paradigm-bound. And, its hidden nature remains only as long as the internal workings of your paradigm deliver sufficient results.
Hey, Maurice,
I think I am taking issue with your: "It is simply that knowledge must begin from a content to be known. Unless there is something to think about we do not gain knowledge at all. Experience supplies this content as disconnected facts and thinking connects them in manifold ways to produce knowledge."
That is, I'm beginning to notice that there is an important difference in ~focus and illumination depending on whether I/we ~think via the dominant fact/knowledge-oriented Neuron model/motif or via what I am referencing as the energy-survival centered NSD/structural coding model -- the model/trial theory that I am advocating.
While each of us digest our last meals, notice that our central, primary issue is all about acquiring sufficient energy (and materials), and, to a far lesser or secondary extent, on acquiring knowledge useful in predicting where food, danger and other correlate of persistence may be found next. The cart does not come completely before the horse. Possibly, rational extroverts might dispute this energy-centered perspective -- but they'd still need energy to do so.
That is, loosely, as you illustrate below, in the conventional way within the neuron model/motif we measure and assess in terms of wordful facts and certain collections of fact_word_webs called 'knowledge'. It's like using a particular currency or high level credits system in one type of economy. We "see" in terms of facts and knowledge, or at least our rational-egoic selves see in accord with that type of model.
[rf] ...Well, your level of unconsciousness/lack of description/abstraction is also paradigm-bound. And, its hidden nature remains only as long as the internal workings of your paradigm deliver sufficient results.
Hey, Maurice,
I think I am taking issue with your: "It is simply that knowledge must begin from a content to be known. Unless there is something to think about we do not gain knowledge at all. Experience supplies this content as disconnected facts and thinking connects them in manifold ways to produce knowledge."
That is, I'm beginning to notice that there is an important difference in ~focus and illumination depending on whether I/we ~think via the dominant fact/knowledge-oriented Neuron model/motif or via what I am referencing as the energy-survival centered NSD/structural coding model -- the model/trial theory that I am advocating.
While each of us digest our last meals, notice that our central, primary issue is all about acquiring sufficient energy (and materials), and, to a far lesser or secondary extent, on acquiring knowledge useful in predicting where food, danger and other correlate of persistence may be found next. The cart does not come completely before the horse. Possibly, rational extroverts might dispute this energy-centered perspective -- but they'd still need energy to do so.
That is, loosely, as you illustrate below, in the conventional way within the neuron model/motif we measure and assess in terms of wordful facts and certain collections of fact_word_webs called 'knowledge'. It's like using a particular currency or high level credits system in one type of economy. We "see" in terms of facts and knowledge, or at least our rational-egoic selves see in accord with that type of model.
