> At 17:37 14/02/97 -0800, Tim wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Dave Pape wrote:
> >
> >> And I still hold that your categorisation of belief-system processing into
> >> discrete levels is artificial. I'd argue that what you see as an "either you
> >> can or you can't" skill is in fact a set of skills practised to varying
> >> degrees by lots of people, with the degree of practice corresponding to the
> >> proportion of the time for which the relevant meta-CIs outcompete their
> >> rivals for access to cognitive processing resource.
> >
> >Some see the Black,
> >Others the White,
> >Few notice the Tao.
> >
> >(There, is that "mystical" enough for ya' all)
> >
> >- Prof. Tim
>
> Cool! I /hope/ what I'm doing with my model is acknowledging that there is
> no binary on/off switch between being able to exhibit level-3-style skills
> and not being able to. Does that mean I've noticed the Tao? Does it? Huh?
I wish....
"Noticing the Tao" is a somewhat difficult feat, requiring the ability to
rationally think nonconceptually [if that sounds absurd...well, that's
why so few actually *do*.] However, this is not sufficient.
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