With an interesting precis on imagination and figuration, as they affect the technocrat-naifs:
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“…have a margarita…” … wow… right up there with “…get a grip…”
Hey, great advice, thanks so much. When you guys said you were going to fix the world for us… that was just a come on.
Turning to the meat of the discussion it reminded me of a Sutta which I’ve mostly forgotten in which it is explained that there are 108 vedana (feelings, approximately). We can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and mind sense is the sixth. We can experience these in the present, imagine those six ahead of time, or remember past experience of them. so that’s 6 X 3 making 18. If we find any of those 18 pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that multiplies the vedana by three again, making 54. The last part I forget 