been a while, but certainly Does Consciousness Exist. past that, maybe Thing and its Relations, Place of Affectional Facts, and Experience of Activity?
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Replying to @svateboje
Thank you very much! Greatly appreciate your input
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Replying to @neuropoetic @svateboje
I read through all of James’s published works in 1999-2000, but I haven’t revisited any of them in any detail since...maybe I should!
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @svateboje
Well for what it's worth I'm absolutely enamored by A World of Pure Experience!
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Replying to @neuropoetic @svateboje
I’m sure it’s been written, but Buddhism is Radical Empiricism: “To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced”
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Seems to me Buddhism admits all sorts of things into its constructions that aren't directly experienced.
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Like for instance? This could be an interesting exchange with @distributedcog
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Where to start? E.g., are the 5 skandhas and (6, 9, 10, or) 12 nidānas directly experienced? Or are they an interpretive conceptual system? The second, I'd say.
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Replying to @evantthompson @cnuckles and
And I say, depends where you look! By the 1st Century CE, so much has shifted to scholastic analysis and away from meditative practices. So as I said above, stuff gets very complicated very quickly—though there’s still a rhetoric of “see for yourself”, even if most people aren’t
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @cnuckles and
I don't that historical narrative works. It's a modernist conceit. We don't know that it was all about meditative practices before Abhidharma; on the contrary, we've all sorts of evidence that it's always been about scriptural interpretation, which is what Abhidharma grew from.
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There's also a rhetoric that you can't see for yourself and you have to trust the word of the Buddha (and these are rhetorics we're talking about, not methods or procedures in James's sense)
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