The Mind of the Maker, Part 2: The Greater the Diversity, the More Massive the Unity, but what Do You Mean by Diversity?
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The Porous Self and the Enchanted Self
I was kind of helped in my reflections by this distinction that philosopher Charles Taylor makes right between two models of the self. He talks about something called the porous self which he associates with, you know, pre modern cultures where people didn't sort of draw this hard line between themselves and the world outside but saw the boundary as porous. And so things that happened in the world, essentially can be experienced in this in this sort of direct way there isn't like a wall so to speak. I'm still struggling to put words to any of that, but that kind of thing has been on my mind a lot.
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