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Ch 30
Fuck Aristotle, fuck plato. Big up the sothist

They taught excellence, rather than truth or goodness. This is similar to quality, classical and romantic.

I had no idea, the questions of objectivity and subjectivity where asked back then.
The sothist and their ideas largely forgotten, in place of Aristotlian philosophy, shaping our modern science to this day. Dualism and dialectics, replacing Quiality

The fixing of the stuck screw, I think is really good. Getting stuck in your way is all the preconceived notions you have about the screw. If one lets go of those, and allows them to sit stuck -in no consciousness, this is what the Buddhist do - a solution will come up. There isn’t a single solution, but the path of quality will help you arrive at solution to your problems. If one maintains on their path of quality

Ch25

I haven’t really updated my reading, it’s been wonderful. But tedious at times a couple chapters back he discusses geometry to explain science and quality. It went over my head a bit but the notion of harmony and its search is something I’ve heard of science before. The harmony is quality, quality is the world.

The train metaphor, I think is good and something I’ll keep and use.

It’s getting really good, I’m to tired to go through the chapters, it’s late.

It exists in a trinity; mind matter and quality. But people threes annoying. So he reason out, that quality has to be more fundamental

But I’ll say this, Quality is the Tao, the undefinable force which allows for romantic and classical quality to emerge.

Quality is not an effect but an event, when a subject observes an object!

You will not climb the mountain if your goal is to prove yourself each step is self-centred active balance with your internal sense. Rejecting the hearing now because the goal is external and distant.

He’s never satisfied with the hair always looking ahead and when he reaches another checkpoint, he’s still unhappy because that becomes the new here. Each step should rather be an act of the devotion, a pilgrimage

Ch17 more metaphors

Future destination is a shallow goal, it’s the sides of the mountain which sustained life not the top. Here’s where things grow.
But of course, without the top, you can’t have any sides since the top that defines the sides.

Ch 17 - mountain metaphors

Climbing a mountain with little effort and no desire is how one does it, if you feel restless you go faster, if tired slower. The equilibrium between these is sweet spot for the climb, that way it’s not about the destination but about the climb, allowing you to pay attention to the path you’re on.

Ch17- as even if these techniques are used, but sloppily just get by, they would still get bad grade even if they fulfilled the requirements, as what was lacking was the quality, something that they could see, without having to articulate it. It then created a new goal, not one of a good grade, but instead one of an attempt to produce quality.