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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
these quite different views have quite different aesthetics, will be attractive to quite different people, and perhaps (although i wouldn't know) have quite different effects; river emphasized the importance of finding one you vibe with, and i've been thinking about that broadly
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
one could talk, for example, of views of meditation, views of shadow work, views of therapy; in my own personal view of things these are actually all themselves views of a more fundamental basic practice
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's funny for me to think about how specific the implications of using specific words are because in mathematical training you are taught to cleanly separate syntax and semantics; you learn that there is a way that mathematical entities work independent of what you call them
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
so i feel like my relationship to language has for a long time been to automatically distinguish the finger pointing at the moon from the moon, so to speak; once you know where the moon is you don't need the finger anymore but for *communication* the finger is still paramount
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
also from mathematical training my inclination is to make terminology as consistent as possible so people know when they're talking about the same thing; but in the view of views perhaps one ought to let a thousand views bloom instead, for maximum reach
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