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Sunday 22 May
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[Sunday 22 May 1983 - Saturday 28 May 1983]
Sunday 22 May 1983
[Creation - The Metaphysics of Peace = CMP I] = [DB20]
[page 6]
In a body, the economic problems are normally completely solved. Every cell gets what it needs and has its wastes removed. The world organism of humans has not reached this point yet.
One must define the properties and prerequisites of a civilized planetary system.
Monday 23 May 1983
Tuesday 24 May 1983
Wednesday 25 May 1983
Thursday 26 May 1983
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Human Mind Jaynes: Human race split into to psychological species by the Atlantis explosion. The conscious drove the unconscious out . . . Only in the last few hundred years have the conscious pursued the unconscious and forced them to consciousness. The unconscious live in harmony with nature. The conscious do not, but tread a dangerous path into the unknown which has much potential for creating fatal instabilities in the planetary system. . . .
One thing which becomes obvious is that science is
[page 7]
only possible in a conscious species, and the first and most important task of science is to understand consciousness, and to this task is given the general title metaphysics subdivided into epistemology, ontology etc. Lonergan's Insight attacks this problem. Lonergan. . . .
Friday 27 May 1983
Saturday 28 May 1983
Books
| Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Haughton Mifflin 1990 Jacket: 'At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing.' Amazon back |
| Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' Amazon back |
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