Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

March 28th, 2024

edited 2024-03-28 · open in Roam
  • Daniel S
    • phenomenological map of attention
    • fold it up, put it in your pocket
    • things sit in our attention in a particular way
      • heideigger hammer example
      • (mcgilchrist beholding a body example)
      • philosophical object
    • nothing needs to be sitting in our attention
    • nothing needs to be sitting in our attention in any particular way
    • very sparing, efficient, judicious with attention
      • if we don't need to, we won't
      • one of my very general principles of philosophy is "what does it do to you?" (and are those good)
        • and one issue with a lot of philosophies is that they (perhaps implicitly) ask you to pay attention to more things
      • error of some worldviews/philosophies etc is that they imply certain things (or views) are supposed to always be relevant
        • reductionist scientism
        • manosphere
        • communism
        • EA / utilitarianism
          • "how is this relevant to my utility function?"
      • we mistake the phenomenon of something sitting in our attention one way and not another, with negation
        • it reveals, or it has an illusion
          • dispels other illusions?
            • D > a lot of materialism comes from wanting a general purpose way to dispel woo & religion
              • but it throws out so much more
        • pushing other ways of seeing out - "not actually"
      • difference between totalizing and universal
    • withdrawal of the self
      • "pass the salt"
      • simple ways of sitting in attention
        • "check out this banana"
      • vs complicated ways
        • "notice the way in which the banana is sitting in your attention"
      • philosophers very concerned with what is true, real, exists
      • but more importantly: what is
    • my humility confidence 2x2 that will probably be renamed
      • I'm trying to protect myself from the possibility that you're trying to screw me over
      • "that jar, that I trusted was glass"
      • "shows being"
      • "that jar showed being made of glass"
        • similar to "appears to be"
        • but connotationally, "appears" is always a statement of doubt/uncertainty
      • "me a few minutes ago knew it as being made of glass"