William Irwin Thompson's Profile
Brief about William Irwin Thompson: By info that we know William Irwin Thompson was born at 1938-07-16. And also William Irwin Thompson is American Philosopher.
Some William Irwin Thompson's quotes. Goto "William Irwin Thompson's quotation" section for more.The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Tags: Feeling, Karma, ThinkingOne way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
Tags: Food, Place, ThoughtIf you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
Tags: Create, Destiny, FateThe conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
Tags: Control, Nature, ScienceIn the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
Tags: Black, Economy, MarketThe more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
Tags: Chaos, Control, ScienceA World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
Tags: Nor, Rather, SystemCatastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
Tags: Cannot, Failure, OftenFor the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
Tags: Life, Mind, TimeHominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
Tags: Change, Human, TimeIdealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
Tags: Dangerous, Love, OrderNot all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
Tags: Culture, Mistake, WithinRelated topics
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