Thursday, 13 January 2022

Discursive Mind Kyôsaku


"We mustn’t forget that today’s science and culture have only developed out of the lowest levels of consciousness."

Sawaki Kōdō


(Photo of lotus pond in the Singpore ArtScience Museum courtesy of Dietmar Rabich and Wikimedia Commons.)

2 comments:

  1. I wonder why Sawaki, whom I very much admire, would say this.
    The knowingness of me knows, the person does not.

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  2. I suspect he said it because it's true. That stuff is all stimulus-response, however complex the webs it builds may be. It's all "this isn't that". There's no insight there.

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