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my @threadapalooza 100 tweet thread will be broadly about the duality of thoughts and things, with some philosophical inspiration from Hubert Dreyfus, Iain McGilchrist, Christopher Alexander, Elaine Scarry, David Abram, and others, plus how it relates to computer programs
1. I've always been "brainy", tending to be overwhelmingly interested in thoughts, ideas, theories, math, logic, philosophy, symbols, etc. I think this is common especially on the internet and the internet can amplify it.
2. This part of David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous" hit me hard when I read it years ago.
"Today we participate almost exclusively with other humans and with our own human-made technologies [...] We still need that which is other than ourselves and our own creations."
![2. This part of David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous" hit me hard when I read it years ago."Today we participate almost exclusively with other humans and with our own human-made technologies [...] We still need that which is other than ourselves and our own creations."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpRgEiiXUAU4HAZ.jpg "2. This part of David Abram's \"The Spell of the Sensuous\" hit me hard when I read it years ago.\"Today we participate almost exclusively with other humans and with our own human-made technologies [...] We still need that which is other than ourselves and our own creations.\"")
"Today we participate almost exclusively with other humans and with our own human-made technologies [...] We still need that which is other than ourselves and our own creations."
3. Abram references phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty, and later I got into Hubert Dreyfus who's also a scholar of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. So there was a whole brainy tradition of thinking about how human thought tends to elevate itself and cut itself off.
@DRMacIver has a great thread about trust. Things can be very trustworthy! They are durable, external, abiding entities, unlike thoughts. But things also give rise to thoughts, especially when something goes wrong. https://twitter.com/drmaciver/status/1338792407165493248
