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       Ontology is the philosophical study of being
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: November 12, 2019, 8:23 pm
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       Ontology is the philosophical study of being
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       Having reached a point decades ago where it seemed like my
       career had been boxed in, turned into something just to get
       money, and that becoming more and more difficult.
       What had been lost was the feeling that it was about the work
       itself and the skills being used.  What was being lost was the
       conviction that it was all and ends activity, something which
       had value in and of itself.
       So I started trying to broaden my education.  I needed to learn
       new things, needed to go further than I had.
       So I came across the works of Maturana and Varela, in Chile, and
       particularly their book Tree of Knowledge.
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       Autopoiesis
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       The book has lots of pictures.  But it is also a rare book that
       I could not assimilate it just by skimming in the book store.
       More than anything, I think it does a tremendous job of showing
       us how deeply embedded into popular psychology we find Social
       Darwinism.  And it completely debunks this.  It challenges us to
       grow and to change how we think about ourselves and about
       society.
       We are told of how things are effected by events, and we are
       told to look at ourselves as quite autonomous.  And we are told
       about biological adaptation.
       But this book in great detail shows us how there is always a
       couple to the environment, and that what things which happen are
       simply being triggered by outside events, but that potentiality
       had to have been there already.  And we are told about
       Phylogenic Drift, as opposed to biological adaptation.
       This book changed me greatly and sent me in directions that I
       finally decades later feel are finally starting to pan out.
       Ontology is that other way of looking at things instead of
       Epistemology.
       Miles Davis - Call It Anything (Miles Electric)
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