{"id":288,"date":"2011-06-12T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T01:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2011-06-12T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T01:08:49","slug":"the-pervasiveness-of-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"The Pervasiveness of Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/illusions1.html\">paper on my website<\/a> I present what I said (sort of) to those attending the June \/ Summer program of the Senior University Georgetown, where I often teach. I find that we\u2019ve shifted in our awareness of the pervasiveness of illusion so that instead of illusion being a sometime thing, these dynamics tend to be happening more often than not!&#160; (I present some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/illusions.html\">common illusions on a related webpage<\/a>.) The implications seem to me to be that of what it means to live in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/pmodfaq.htm\">postmodernist<\/a> era.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of thinking we know answers, we should become involved in a process of continuous revision, creativity, exploration, dialogue. Answers become provisional models awaiting testing and feedback from those who may entertain different points of view. It is a way of thinking that includes the high levels of complexity that are characteristic of knowledge in our time&#8212;and it\u2019s moderately different from what it meant to \u201cknow\u201d stuff fifty years ago. Check it out; I\u2019d be happy to answer questions and explain these ideas. Alternatively, you may have some perspectives that I find useful in expanding, revising, or re-thinking this approach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a paper on my website I present what I said (sort of) to those attending the June \/ Summer program of the Senior University Georgetown, where I often teach. I find that we\u2019ve shifted in our awareness of the pervasiveness of illusion so that instead of illusion being a sometime thing, these dynamics tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-follies","category-literacy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}