Not exact matches
For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor
of the pancreationist, panexperientialist
view that the actual world is made up exhaustively
of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack
of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level
of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving
things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a
complex of events (not
of enduring substances).
This latter state
of things, being the more
complex, is also the more complete; and as we proceed, I think we shall have abundant reason for refusing to leave out either the sadness or the gladness, if we look at religion with the breadth
of view which it demands.
And on the micrological
view it is the concept
of a substrative process
of feeling which provides the requisite elucidation, allowing immediate experience to be regarded, neither as atomic, nor as formless, but as a
complex exemplification
of the fundamental structurality
of things.
Out -
of - body experiences and the more
complex doppelgänger effect (in which people perceive and interact with a duplicate
of their own body) reveal that even the most basic
things we take for granted — being grounded in a body, identifying with it, and
viewing the world from behind our eyes — can be disrupted, thus giving us a glimpse
of the components necessary for a low - level self that potentially precedes all else.
Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel
of Things On
view January 23 — May 1, 2011 Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel
of Thingspresents a
complex five - channel video installation by this seminal video and performance artist.
It seemed then that it was possibly another case
of «Flatland, a Romance
of Many Dimensions» — we were «stuck» at the level
of complex representations because we just couldn't «see» that the «real» correct division algebra was
of a much higher grade, so that our current
view of things was only a projection
of sorts and hence missing crucial detail.