sunyata
- buddhist term
- technically śūnyatā
- ś is pronounced like ʃ, ie sh
- aka "emptiness" or "nebulosity"
- seems like "rūpa" is the sanskrit word for form
- > "Try translating “sunyata” as “freedom” rather than “emptiness.” How does it feel?"
- > Also has the benefit of maintaining the adjective form with the same meaning. “Free of inherent identity” = “empty of inherent identity,” with the added bonus of implying setting down a burden
- Further discussion on twitter:
4 linked references
predictive processing 2×2
- Tift p146 connects curiosity/sunyata etc with anxiety in a way I hadn't seen before
Empty Logic
- Empty logic is logic based on emptiness.
- David Chapman also talks about emptiness (the buddhist concept, more unambiguously referenceable using the Sanskrit word sunyata) as "nebulosity" which also thus suggests that Fuzzy Logic may be relevant here, as it can handle ambiguity such as something being partially true or an element being somewhat a member of a set/category, versus a boolean "in or out".
Notes on Already Free by Bruce Tift
- is "openness" here referring to sunyata, ie what is often referred to as "emptiness" and sometimes as "freedom" or "nebulosity"?
- "openness" is, according to wikipedia, a common English translation thereof
- yeah, I'm almost certain this is at least part of what he's pointing at