Distinction
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So I have this
distinction
between what we're making people do and the subject that's sort of mainstream and the subject that, in a sense, people might follow with their own interest and perhaps even be spiked into doing that.
And the reason I'm so honored to be here to talk today in India is because India has the sad
distinction
of being the head injury capital of the world.
You know, one of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the
distinction
between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural.
And as an inorganic chemist, my friends and colleagues make this
distinction
between the organic, living world and the inorganic, dead world.
It depends on a
distinction
that you draw between statics of the political system and the dynamics of the political system.
Maybe I do need a definition of life in order to make that kind of
distinction.
Over the last hundred and fifty years or so, science has kind of blurred this
distinction
between non-living and living systems, and now we consider that there may be a kind of continuum that exists between the two.
We make a
distinction
between talking from a diplomatic level and talking at the political level.
And they thought that they clarified the issue, because they'd set out a clear
distinction
between legal and illegal copying.
It really goes beyond
distinction.
Von Mises completely rejected this
distinction.
He says if you run a restaurant, there is no healthy
distinction
to be made between the value you create by cooking the food and the value you create by sweeping the floor.
I should concede also that I'm the world's worst Mouseketeer player, and it was this
distinction
that I was most worried about when I was on that prior side of the tenure divide.
And this is one of the first times I began to notice the
distinction
between what was unique to my family and what was common for everyone else, what was Ghanaian and what was African and what was American.
In the old days they used to take a lump of Pentelic marble and drill from the surface in order to identify the skin, the appearance, what Aristotle defined as the
distinction
between substance and appearance, the thing that makes things visible, but here we're working from the other side.
Being in the dictionary is an artificial
distinction.
And the thing is, if we can put in all the words, no longer have that artificial
distinction
between good and bad, we can really describe the language like scientists.
Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training.
This is a really subtle distinction, but the implication could be profound.
You see, the
distinction
between reality and illusion is the
distinction
between how things consciously seem to us and how they really are.
But for that
distinction
between how things consciously seem and how they really are, you can't make that
distinction
for the very existence of consciousness, because where the very existence of consciousness is concerned, if it consciously seems to you that you are conscious, you are conscious.
Well, think about the
distinction
between feeling a pain and engaging in pain behavior.
With no
distinction
left between the past, the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment everywhere, this moment that I'll call the digital now.
The
distinction
between a constraint and a compromise is obviously very subtle, but it's very central to my attitude to work.
But this
distinction
between focusing on ourselves and focusing on others is one that I encourage us all to pay attention to.
But even you sophisticates accept that there should be some pull towards the in-group in the domain of friends and family, of people you're close to, and so even you make a
distinction
between us versus them.
Now, this
distinction
is natural enough and often moral enough, but it can go awry, and this was part of the research of the great social psychologist Henri Tajfel.
But here's the distinction: When they present to the committee, they delete names, ethnicity, neighborhood, race, all identifiable information.
A fantastic
distinction.
I don't know if we Indians can be proud of such a
distinction.
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