So, the past few weeks have taught me some valuable lessons. In an effort (symbolically) to explain the almost sepulchral silence of The Banana Peel Project, let me try to explain just one of those lessons in a series of individually insufficient but collectively complete one-liners:
- Experience is nonmodal, and as a result it cannot be inscribed in circles of any diameter.
- Reason and emotion, or logic and intuition, are not dichotomous processes; they are artificial symbols signifying different–but intrinsically identical–modes of thought.
- Intellectual productivity is largely an intuitive emotional process, just as emotional work (i.e. meditation, faith, confidence, love) is aided greatly by intellectual understanding.
- Grokking the wholeness (Gestalt) of experience requires understanding the lack of a fundamental distinction between all modes of thought.
- Grokking history, modernity, and all relationships of change requires understanding the communicational distinctions between specific modes of thought.
Reaching these esoteric epiphanies was, as they should be, a joint effort between the emotional whirlwinds common to human experience and the complex academic analysis of Ludwik Fleck, as listed on the syllabus for COGR225A: Introduction to Science Studies.
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