Michele Pasin / Quotes

The singular self is still the better model

the singular self remains, for all its imperfections, a much better way of thinking about who we are than the hyperbolic claim that we are a multiplicity of selves. We are indeed less unified, coherent, consistent and enduring than we usually suppose, but we are still real and individual. The constructed self is robust enough to resist deconstruction from multiplicity…

Saved 23 April 2015

#self #unity #multiple-selves

Composite unities have organization and structure; organization; identity

Composite unities have Organization and Structure. Organization refers to the manner of composition that defines the unity. Organisation refers only to the…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #unity #organization #relation #particular-type #types #changes

Composite unity; the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

With the composite unity we do something more. Firstly, we distinguish a simple unity and then we decompose it and separate its components and relations. In…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #unity #components #characteristics #simple-unity #relation

Dennett's Cartesian Theater and multiple drafts

Dennett does not share the view that consciousness is decomposable. In other words, he thinks that our feeling that we have a unitary conscious experience is…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #consciousness #illusion #unity #philosophy-of-mind

Distinction

Any operation that we may enact which results in the separation of an entity from a background, i.e. which simultaneously distinguishes a unity in its domain…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #existence #operation #phenomenon #unity

For any system there are four initial questions which we may ask:

(1) What type of System is it? How is it defined? (2) What is its Organisation and Structure ? (3) Am I interacting with it as a Simple or Composite unity? If…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #structure #properties #system #unity #domain #simple-unity

Grof's dual unity

THE NEXT MORNING I opened my copy of Realms of the Human Unconscious, laughing aloud at myself as I did so. Really, this is getting to be too much, I thought…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #transpersonal-consciousness #ego #unity #psychedelics