I wrote a short response to @danielmingram about the mechanisms of change in vipassana meditation. https://parletre.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/response-to-ingram-2/ … @evantthompson @Meaningness @non_buddhism @Sciamanoinglese @redpillchange @ronpurser @SamHarrisOrg @Failed_Buddhist @ordinarymind1
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5/6 Change "mechanisms" (not a word I like) have to do with shifts in and cognitive insights into meaning-making, hence are symbolic/linguistic (but not just)
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6/6 But our understanding of symbolic/linguistic needs to be reconfigured along embodied/enactive lines, as in work by Di Paolo and colleagues (
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In part, those characteristics are present in the world. Rather than view them only as meaning making, it might also be useful to understand them as partial views, or relational perspectives; the world does consistently display the characteristics, but also much more.
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I don't think of meaning-making as arbitrary; it happens in and through interaction with things present in the world.
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