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To: Alamo-Girl
Hmmm ... I must have typed the name wrong. It's "Austere Realism."

No I did, dearest sister in Christ. It's Austere Realism, and here's the review.

So I did find it! :^)

I can't take this "exotic ontology" seriously either. It starts by positing the entire universe as a single, undifferentiated (having no parts whatsoever) "blobject"; then we are "free" to posit anything we want about its supposed "contents." NLT is utterly wiped out, because there is no direct correspondence between the natural system and the cognitive self; for the natural system has no objective qualities at all, merely those posited by the self. In effect, the universe is a tabula rasa on which the cognitive self can write anything it wants. "Blobjectisim" has to be the most subjective and irrational "ontology" and epistemology I've ever seen. It is certainly "unnatural," IMHO FWIW.

Thanks so much for writing, and pointing me in the right direction, dearest sister in Christ!

731 posted on 10/13/2009 10:31:51 AM PDT by betty boop (Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. —Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: betty boop
I can't take this "exotic ontology" seriously either. It starts by positing the entire universe as a single, undifferentiated (having no parts whatsoever) "blobject"; then we are "free" to posit anything we want about its supposed "contents." NLT is utterly wiped out, because there is no direct correspondence between the natural system and the cognitive self; for the natural system has no objective qualities at all, merely those posited by the self. In effect, the universe is a tabula rasa on which the cognitive self can write anything it wants. "Blobjectisim" has to be the most subjective and irrational "ontology" and epistemology I've ever seen. It is certainly "unnatural," IMHO FWIW.

LOLOL! And I soooo agree with you, dearest sister in Christ!

There are probably a few Shaman types out there who would prefer to think of the universe this way....

732 posted on 10/13/2009 10:35:05 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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