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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Replying to @cnuckles @evantthompson and
Definitely inferred entities as conventional existences, but it will also depend a lot on where in the Buddhist tradition we look! Once things blossom into metaphysical hypotheses in the Abhidharma tradition, the issue certainly gets complicated!
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @cnuckles and
You said "Buddhism," so I took you to be referring to the tradition in general. Where are you thinking we should look? I think the Nikāyas and Āgamas are metaphysical/interpretive too.
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Replying to @evantthompson @cnuckles and
I was just spouting off at the neurocrackpot...and while I agree that there are metaphysical commitments in the early strata of the tradition, I think there’s a pretty robust shift toward a metaphysics that goes beyond the phenomenology in the Abhidharma traditions
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @evantthompson and
I’m following folks like Collette Cox and more specifically Noa Ronkin here. But I read the claims about the skandhas as experiential, and likewise with the claims about the dhyānas, and even the cittas/caittas...but that’s a longer convo!
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @cnuckles and
Look forward to having it sometime. A lot depends on what "experience" means.
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Replying to @evantthompson @cnuckles and
Agreed! And I wish I had a better word...everything is poisoned
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For every poison, there's an antidote -- a basic principle of the wuxia genre.
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