11 November 2010

A single, congruent system

We can define knowledge as when someone has a mental model that allows for dissimilar phenomena to be explained by a single, congruent system: that strange behavior is operating the same as this familiar behavior. Another way of knowing the dissimilar, the strange, is carnally. 
The covenant is the frame in which otherness is experienced as otherness, in the full appreciation of that otherness, while at the same time enjoying the experience of union with the otherness. The one form of knowledge is how the left brain understands things, in terms of its predictive power; the other form of knowledge is how the right brain understands things, in terms of its 'being with' power. 

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