andrea patriceNov 18, 2022

Reposted my general intro, but here's a more focused #academic #Introduction as I'm now on an #arts and #humanities server! 🧵 (1/8)

I am not an academic, but I am a philosopher. Due to my disabilities I'm no longer able to work, but for the past two years I have been doing serious #philosophy re: the nature of reality, consciousness and knowledge in order to try and understand how we as a society can complement our usual binary mode of thought in order to address the global challenges we face.

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(2/8) I’m a Buddhist practitioner, so familiarity with #Buddhism’s nondual #ontology of continuous change and flux was my starting point. My #philosophy research basically investigates the question- what are the #epistemology implications for knowledge and inquiry if you take a nondual ontology of motion as axiomatic? In short, I study the philosophy of change itself- its nature & fundamental patterns & processes, given a universe woven of unceasing interconnected flows of #complexity.
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(3/8) As part of this inquiry, my attention is also focused on the oppressions and marginalisations that come along with what we think ‘knowledge’ even is. The hegemonic ‘Western’ object/subject split is not the only way to look at the world, as Indian and Chinese thinkers have known for millennia. So many indigenous cultures around the world also share this view but yet these knowledges have been delegitimised. #Decoloniality & #feminism are high on my priority list.
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(4/8) My #philosophy research focuses on how we might complement our usual reductionist worldview with wisdom from marginalised & oppressed non-dualistic ways of knowing in order to re-connect what we call #science with what we call #art- to help create a bridge that helps them talk to each other in a meaningful way. To that end I’ve started to wade into #mathematics...
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(5/8) With its ability to both quantify and rigorously abstract in a given context, #mathematics seems to me the most likely way we can get art and science to talk to each other. But to be honest, my level of mathematical knowledge is definitely not up to the task. So I’m teaching myself pure mathematics too- specifically interested in #categorytheory!
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(6/8) On the #humanities side, I’m extremely interested in #analogy and #metaphor and how we might be able to use metaphor more rigorously as a research tool in order to incorporate the view of wholeness in context that the reductive scientific paradigm lacks (and get it to talk to science using maths…somehow!) The link between #music and #mathematics is also a key area of interest as music is a key non-linguistic way of expressing wholeness that I'm not sure we fully understand
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(7/8) So that’s what I do all day! Before you ask- YES, I have thought about doing a #PhD. Many times. (BTW, I have an undergraduate degree in English & Music (double major), a masters degree in Library & Information Management, and a second undergraduate degree in Nursing.) But I’m pretty sure my disability due to chronic illness plus my lack of formal philosophy study has put that out of my reach for now. But never say never…
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(8/8) Sorry to post such a long thread, but hopefully some interested academic-type people will read it! Here’s a concluding list of tags that give you an idea of the areas I do reading in in order to help formulate my ideas:

#Ecology #ComplexSystems #Emergence #Metaphor #EmbodiedCognition #Aesthetics #Gesture #Symmetry #CategoryTheory #QuantumTheory #Evolution #Relativity #Semiotics #ProcessPhilosophy #Pragmatism #Design #CareEthics #BuddhistStudies #Decoloniality #BlackFeminism

Show threadContingently i-RON-ickNov 18, 2022

@annedraya
Your project resonates in many ways with mine. I too an an independent scholar working on a holistic philosophy that attempts to synthesize eastern and western concepts (including category theory!).

Here are some of the viewpoints I'm trying to "hang together": Rorty's Panrelationalism, Dao De Jing (esp Ch.11), Ladyman's Ontic Structural Realism, Indra's Net, Derrida's Différance, Christian kenosis, Buddhist interbeing, Smolin's maximal variety, relational/structural realism,...

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@annedraya
...Grinbaum's "physics is language", Fields' "virtual machine physics", and category theory (esp Yoneda's Lemma).

Out of all this, my goal is to create a philosophy of hope: https://medium.com/p/reestablishing-the-elpistikoi-philosophers-of-hope-eb0b5a50bf8a

I look forward to following your insights.

Reestablishing The Elpistikoi: Philosophers of Hope

I am beside myself with joy at having stumbled across a group of ancient philosophers known as the Elpistikoi or the Elpistics. Elpis is the Greek word that roughly overlaps with the English word…

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Show threadandrea patriceNov 18, 2022
@ironick17 that sounds absolutely fascinating! A philosophy of hope is just what we need right now
Show threadAuli ViidaleppNov 21, 2022
@annedraya who are your go-to authors in #semiotics ? So cool to find a colleague here, my phd (and entire academic path) is in semiotics!
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@auli semiotics is one of the areas I need to read a lot more in! I’m very interested in Peircian semiotics though