As a philosophically-minded person I recognize many levels of theory, from fundamental to fantastical. From my studies I have learned many methods mathematical.
"About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse."
... but getting back to my point.
When my theories and methods are inapplicable I adhere to none, I simply watch from wherever I stand. Here subtle perception starts.
"It was evening, and the rising sun was setting in the west.
The little fishes in the trees were huddled in their nest.
The rain was pouring down and the moon was shining bright,
And everything that you could see was hidden out of sight."
-- From "Ain't We Crazy" by Haywire Mac, 1928
What is Natural
There is no theory of mind, no method best suited to explore it. As I clear away the verbiage, preconceptions, and false methods I gain clarity. The trail begins with clarity, to which my mentor Jerry's altered state experience attests:
"... and when you wake up it is an epiphany. Things stand out with such startling clarity that you cannot quite understand how it was that such a thing as this was not observed" For the next 12 hours Walter Pitts and I were walking in a world in which every single thing became completely clear. The clarity was the likes of which you don't experience ordinarily" It's at this point that curiosity overwhelms you."
-- Jerome Lettvin, poet, engineer, psychiatrist, and neurophysiologist, in "The Learning Project."
A frog, Jerry Lettvin, and Walter Pitts.
If you want your mind blown,
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