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In the Cells of the Eggplant
In the Cells of the Eggplant is an introduction to meta-rationality: ways of using rational systems more effectively by examining their relationships with their surrounds.
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Published June 28, 2020
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July 23, 2023
This will be an absolute joy for anyone in
(A) STEM *or* (B) organizational leadership, who:
(1) has an established practice of some sort of nondual meditation / contemplation, *and* (2) has a bachelors-level appreciation of modern western philosophy.
I fit these paramaters and am absolutely DELIGHTED by the book. I laugh out loud by the page. That's how my ebullient appreciation manifests.
But it seems Chapman's muse isn't those in the emptiness/post-positivist sweet spot above, but rather perhaps some young pseudo-intellectuals (my term) in the Rationalist community who are also in tech? Just a hunch and nothing more. I haven't been interested enough in the Astral Codex Ten scene to get into depth with it, but have listened in at the ragged edges where that scene meets various Buddhist subcultures. Sigh. Chapman's compassionate yet relentless reasonings on nebulosity and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness are just exactly what that scene needs. So I'm attributing some sort of Chapmanian intentionality to the perfection of the message and the urgency with which it's needed now.
I'll spare this space my responses chapter by chapter. There's a lot of there there. Just want to get a review up in case it helps people find the obscure work.
Thanks to David Chapman for writing this. And Matt Arnold's narration at Fluidity is also delightful - I couldn't name a voice actor in the field who could bring it off so aptly.
(A) STEM *or* (B) organizational leadership, who:
(1) has an established practice of some sort of nondual meditation / contemplation, *and* (2) has a bachelors-level appreciation of modern western philosophy.
I fit these paramaters and am absolutely DELIGHTED by the book. I laugh out loud by the page. That's how my ebullient appreciation manifests.
But it seems Chapman's muse isn't those in the emptiness/post-positivist sweet spot above, but rather perhaps some young pseudo-intellectuals (my term) in the Rationalist community who are also in tech? Just a hunch and nothing more. I haven't been interested enough in the Astral Codex Ten scene to get into depth with it, but have listened in at the ragged edges where that scene meets various Buddhist subcultures. Sigh. Chapman's compassionate yet relentless reasonings on nebulosity and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness are just exactly what that scene needs. So I'm attributing some sort of Chapmanian intentionality to the perfection of the message and the urgency with which it's needed now.
I'll spare this space my responses chapter by chapter. There's a lot of there there. Just want to get a review up in case it helps people find the obscure work.
Thanks to David Chapman for writing this. And Matt Arnold's narration at Fluidity is also delightful - I couldn't name a voice actor in the field who could bring it off so aptly.
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June 24, 2021Looks fun! - https://metarationality.com/rationalism
July 3, 2022
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