1/ A friend @bodhidave3, recently called meditation:
“A time to suspend the self-improvement project”
Wonder if it might also suspend the whole utilitarian mode of perception, where we interact w/ things in terms of their 'use', conditioning how we see both them & ourselves..
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2/ I read somewhere there's a psychology theory out there singing just this tune. That our perception of the world, of each object and thing we encounter, is conditioned and defined by the ‘use’ we can imagine for the object.
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3/ So my perception of a chair is defined by my imagined uses for it, like sitting, throwing at people, or Jewish wedding celebrations. (If anyone remembers the name for this school/theory, plz help).
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Replying to @OshanJarow @TheMusingMind
I don't know, but I think Heidegger was on about this with his Dasein.
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Yeees… although Heidegger’s story is more complicated.
Gibson’s theory of affordances might be more what @TheMusingMind had in mind here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
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