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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
The opening of Naming the Mind is a REMARKABLE anecdote: Danzinger walks into an Indonesian university, realises that there is a 'Western psychology' class and an 'Eastern psychology' class, and proposes to do a combined seminar ... And then fails to find any common ground.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
For context, I'm reading this because Lisa Feldman Barrett assigns it to everyone in her lab:
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
“If you’re interested in psychology of the mind, there’s a book called Naming The Mind by Kurt Danzinger …” “What’s it about?” “It’s about where we got the idea that the human mind is populated by thoughts and feelings and perceptions. Because that’s not universal.” 🤯
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
"Chinese thinking often gives no attention to distinctions which for Western minds are so traditional and so firmly established in thought and language, that we neither question them nor even become aware of them as distinctions."
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Tom Morgan
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Many other cultures locate their center of cognition, in an extremely literal sense, in their hearts. This is an absolutely massive deal IMO.
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Tom Morgan
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Then you layer in languages that allow for radically different interpretation of unconscious emotion and sensation that operate at millions of times more complexity. Essentially what island of the sea of reality do you want to live on?
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