On Being Wrong (And What Comes Next)

A lot of my thinking over the past year rests on an assumption about observers, namely, that cognition and perception are observer-dependent, and thus cannot provide access to any absolute Reality or Truth. Yet notice that for this assumption to justify the conclusion, it has to be interpreted as being actually real – that is,Continue reading “On Being Wrong (And What Comes Next)”

On Descriptions of Spiritual Awakening

Heinz von Foerster once said – here paraphrased – that complexity is a consequence of language; it does not inhere in the world. I want to extend his insight and say that complexity is not a property of experience but rather is a property of descriptions of experience. Basically, I am suggesting that experience happensContinue reading “On Descriptions of Spiritual Awakening”