The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe Skrbina David
The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe Skrbina David Building on the insights of such thinkers as Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson, as well as contemporaries like…
Specifikacia The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe Skrbina David
The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe Skrbina David
Building on the insights of such thinkers as Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson, as well as contemporaries like Dobzhansky and Bateson, Henryk Skolimowski points us to a new metaphysical order in which mind and world are intimately connected. Rather, says Skolimowski, we must see the mind as actively shaping and creating the world. This new participatory worldview explains how the concept of the world 'out there, ' independent of the mind, is incoherent.
And all are encompassed by a universal process of cosmic evolution."In beholding, we are articulating.In articulating, we are co-creating.In the act of articulation, mind and reality merge. Even truth itself, he argues, is enmeshed in the web of the participatory mind. Reality becomes an aspect of mind."In an era of stale and tedious analytic philosophy, Skolimowski brings us brave new visions, expansive metaphysical theorizing, and