Comments on: Buckminster Fuller & the Acceleration of Information Development http://www.dansmind.com/?p=205 states of mind when information floods, the psyche is inundated, and the doors of perception are opened Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:03:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Daniel Poynter http://www.dansmind.com/?p=205&cpage=1#comment-2368 Daniel Poynter Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:18:18 +0000 http://www.dansmind.com/?p=205#comment-2368 I don't know, really. Some thoughts: 1. Skepticism -- in the sense of "withholding belief in any belief system". Skepticism seems to be an island people find, if they're lucky. It keeps them intellectually nimble. It keeps them from being sucked into stale beliefs. If you take as your premise: I am little. Whatever IT is (IT is whatever exists other than me) IT is immensely larger than me. Then, I bet you'd keep inventing yourself. You'd keep shedding your outer shells and never stop growing. 2. Some claim there *is* a state of mind where words are useless. That in this state of mind, awareness is without end and borders. If this state actually exists, maybe there *is* an end to skepticism. Who knows? = ) But I like your question. I don’t know, really.

Some thoughts:

1. Skepticism — in the sense of “withholding belief in any belief system”. Skepticism seems to be an island people find, if they’re lucky. It keeps them intellectually nimble. It keeps them from being sucked into stale beliefs.

If you take as your premise:

I am little. Whatever IT is (IT is whatever exists other than me) IT is immensely larger than me.

Then, I bet you’d keep inventing yourself. You’d keep shedding your outer shells and never stop growing.

2. Some claim there *is* a state of mind where words are useless. That in this state of mind, awareness is without end and borders. If this state actually exists, maybe there *is* an end to skepticism.

Who knows? = )

But I like your question.

]]> By: Jen Van Dame http://www.dansmind.com/?p=205&cpage=1#comment-2366 Jen Van Dame Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:25:59 +0000 http://www.dansmind.com/?p=205#comment-2366 do you think that there is any end to knowledge? is knowledge representational of understanding or of experience? if it is more closely realted to experience, it would follow that "knowledge" will be ever increasing. on the other hand, if it is more closely related to understanding, is it possible for a human (or even a society collectively) to achieve unihibited understanding? could the existence of god or other seemingly unexplainable concepts/beings ever be proven or disproven? still, are we really meant to understand everything about the world and its people? perhaps, then, the end would not exist because everything is explained, appreciated, and understood; it would simply be the stopping point of the extent of human understanding. do you think that there is any end to knowledge? is knowledge representational of understanding or of experience? if it is more closely realted to experience, it would follow that “knowledge” will be ever increasing. on the other hand, if it is more closely related to understanding, is it possible for a human (or even a society collectively) to achieve unihibited understanding? could the existence of god or other seemingly unexplainable concepts/beings ever be proven or disproven? still, are we really meant to understand everything about the world and its people? perhaps, then, the end would not exist because everything is explained, appreciated, and understood; it would simply be the stopping point of the extent of human understanding.

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