hi Troy and squad
i was just thinking about drawing a triangle on a piece of paper
and drawing another triangle outside the first triangle and not touching
it. this represents SOMland before we met.
Troy, as soon as we start talking about complementarity ideas, we are no
longer in SOMland, in my opinion. we have left it behind. in SOMland there
are only subjects and objects. there is no complementarity. in high school
geometry, i learned how to work with solids. but i never learned a thing
about what lies outside the solid. this is indicative of subject/object
thinking.
you write:
but the awareness triangle as you described it, is
a model that is "unbound" by space.
Troy, no. the awareness triangle is bound by the boundaries of itself just
as we are. whatever is outside the triangle can never be directly
experienced. it can only be remembered by projecting onto the inside of the
complementary triangle that surrounds it, but awareness can never go beyond
those boundaries.
of course, SO thinking tells us this is absurd. we look out and we see a
whole world around us. it becomes objects that our self is looking at, but
we rarely question the fact that we are not 'looking' out of our awareness
in this manner at all. we are perceiving awareness. and the way we perceive
awareness seems to be thru the complementary that surrounds us, yet we
ignore it.
you wrote:
although SOM thinking has dominated most of the thoughts that i have
experienced, it does not have the world on a leash. we can loosen the
bonds of SOM by choosing "the right words" to "deconstruct" current social
and intellectual patterns of value.
Troy, i tend to disagree with you in that SO thinking does have the world on
a leash, thus the reason you perceive my thought experiment in an SOM
fashion even though it was clearly, to me, not an SOM problem with the
addition of the complementary triangle.
best wishes,
glove
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