Although there are endpoints, and a continuum, I think that it is also interesting to think of Heraclitus's idea of enantiodromia. This was about how when opposites are reached they reverse completely. So, we may be in the realms of walking along points along the continuum and watching binaries change into their opposites. But, of course, we are talking on an abstract level, but I think that the ideas of Gilchrist do show how opposites within the brain and consciousness are very complex indeed — Jack Cummins
[...]I don't know whether to laugh or cry — Banno
how it is not simply the brain which is involved in experience — Jack Cummins
words of wisdom. The Old Road indeed can be repaved but once you realize that magic is not an advantage but merely a trade-off and that you seemingly always somehow trade something that was of more value than the outcome of the magic you quickly understand that it's not worth it in best to just leave on a shelf somewhere to collect dust — MAYAEL
I am a curious about your idea of the 'thin line between adventure and misadventure'. I wonder if you can explain a little bit further. — Jack Cummins
Because Funes can distinguish every physical object at every distinct time of viewing, he has no clear need of generalization (or detail-suppression) for the management of sense impressions. The narrator claims that this prevents abstract thought, given that induction and deduction rely on this ability. This is stated in the line "To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes, there were nothing but details." — Wikipedia: Funes the Memorious: Generlization
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