Your email got through, and Carl had a great comparison with the notion of 'coolness'.
Following his suggestion, it seems that you are using 'attachment' and 'detachment' as short hands for caring-about-maintaining-your-attachment and caring-about-dissolving-your-attachment. Both are similar, in your view, because they involve putting forth effort to regulate one's level of attachment. The third option, which you are calling 'non-attachment' is to not care / not put forth effort. This could entail either being-neutral-to-your-level-of-attachment or the even more extreme being-oblivious-to-your-level-of-attachment. The former (neutral) option would allow for things like bemused self-observations ('How odd that I seem to care about this cup. Oh well.'), while the later (oblivious) option would not. Am I understanding you correctly? Eric On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 01:52 AM, Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >I liked my >post on attachment. (Perhaps I'm attached to it.) Did it get lost? I don't see >it in any of the follow-up posts. Here it is >again.> > >ms,sans-serif"> > > > >>Think of attachment as: I must ensure that X >comes to pass. I want it so badly. > >> >> >Think of detachment as: I must not want so badly that X comes to pass. I must stay detached. > > > >> >> >Think of non-attachment as: I may participate in the process whereby X comes to pass -- or doesn't come to pass. If I participate I may be fully engaged. I may care very much whether X comes to pass. It it does, I may feel very happy. If it doesn't I may feel very sad. But whether or not X comes to pass I still have my laundry to do. > > > > >> >> >> > >-- Russ Abbott >_____________________________________________> Professor, Computer Science > California State University, Los Angeles >> > >> My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977688> > Google voice: 747-999-5105 >> Google+: <https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/> > >> vita: <http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/> > >> <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach >_____________________________________________ > > > > > > > > ============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ------------ Eric Charles Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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