Excellent! Thanks, Eric. Word games like these seem to me to be semantic loops that can only be resolved by using a larger language. There is no difference between "detachment" and "non-attachment" and anyone who claims there is is playing games. That's OK. Games are fun.
But rather than go round and round trying to out-profound each other, I need new words. Yours are a bit long, but they might work. ;-) ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 10/02/2012 06:58 AM: > 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? -- glen ============================================================ 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