Solvitur ambulando: a Latin phrase meaning "it is solved by walking"
As true now as it was when St Augustine coined it
Beautifully drawn by @sketchplanator
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Most fundamentally you are simply awareness; and awareness is not a thing. Awareness is no-thing-ness. Awareness is nothing. Vast. Boundless. Nothingness aware.
Thatโs who you are.
Rest in the naturalness of that view, in every moment, like an old man basking in the sun.
Dreyfusโs argument is that there is an inherent inability for machines to mimic higher mental functions in humans. He predicts that any general AI is doomed to failure because the concept of human consciousness, current models of mental functioning, are extremely naive.
Loyโs argument is that it is not enough in our Westernized lives to merely attempt to re-conceive emptiness as potential, rather we must supplement our personal awakening with โsocial awakening,โ beginning to undo on a social scale the effects of our rapaciousness.
An American philosopher who died in 2013, Joan Stambaugh knew and worked with Heidegger at Freiburg while she was still a student.
Why I think she does such a great job of translating โBeing & Time,โ is her profound understanding of Zen Buddhism and its philosophy.