Response to Lynn Preston's, “The Edge of Awareness: Gendlin's Contribution to Explorations of Implicit Experience”: The Search for Words and the Fundamental Paradox of Nonduality
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Abstract
Preston's account of Gendlin's implicit as a realm of awareness that is more than thoughts and feelings and that precedes Cartesian dualities defines his philosophy as quintessentially nondual and places his philosophy within the spectrum of the nondual and meditative contemplative traditions. Gendlin's investigation of the relationship between the implicit and the process by which it is symbolized in words is reframed as an inquiry into the relationship between lived nonduality and its paradoxical expression in the dualities of language In its clinical application, Preston's use of Gendlin's focusing-oriented psychotherapy constitutes part of a meditative nondual practice pointing to the cultivation of a nondual state of consciousness within the relational field. It is this expanded nondual awareness with its attendant features of letting go and unconditional acceptance that gives the power to and underwrites the various strategies employed by Preston in articulating the implicit realm. El relato que hace Preston sobre el concepto de Gendlin sobre lo implícito como el área de la conciencia que es más que pensamientos y sentimientos y que precede las dualidades cartesianas define su filosofía como fundamentalmente no-dual y sitúa su filosofía dentro del espectro de las tradiciones no-duales de la meditación y la contemplación. La investigación de Gendlin sobre la relación entre lo implícito y el proceso a través del que es simbolizado en palabras es reformulado como una investigación de la relación entre la no-dualidad vivenciada y su expresión paradójica en las dualidades del lenguaje. En su aplicación clínica, el uso que hace Preston de la psicoterapia focalizada y orientada de Gendlin forma parte de una práctica meditativa no-dual que se dirige al cultivo de un estado de conciencia no-dual dentro del campo relacional. Es esta conciencia no-dual expandida con sus características concomitantes de dejar hacer y de aceptación incondicional que potencia las distintas estrategias que Preston emplea para poner en palabras lo implícito. La description par Preston du concept de l'implicite chez Gendlin, comme étant un domaine de la conscience qui recouvre davantage que les pensées et les sentiments et qui précède les dualités cartésiennes, définit la philosophie de celui-ci par la primauté de la non dualité et situe sa philosophie parmi les traditions contemplatives, méditatives et non duelles. L'étude par Gendlin de la relation entre l'implicite et le processus par lequel il est symbolisé en mots est recadré ici comme une exploration de la relation entre la non dualité vécue et son expression paradoxale à travers les dualités du langage. Dans son application clinique, l'utilisation que fait Preston de la psychothérapie centrée sur le focusing constitue une partie d'une pratique méditative non duelle menant au développement d'un état de conscience non duelle à l'intérieur du champ relationnel. C'est cette conscience non duelle élargie, avec ses aspects associés de lâcher prise et d'acceptation inconditionnelle, qui donne un pouvoir aux et soutient les diverses stratégies utilisées par Preston dans l'articulation du domaine implicite. Prestons Schilderung zu Gendlins Implizitem als einem Gebiet des Bewusstseins, das aus mehr als aus Gedanken und Gefühlen besteht, und das der Dualität Descartes vorausgeht, beschreibt seine Philosophie als in der Quintessenz nondual und gibt ihr einen Platz innerhalb des Spektrums nondualer und meditativer komplentativer Traditionen. Gendlins Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs von Implizitem und dem Prozess, wobei mit Worten symbolisiert wird, trägt die Form einer Nachforschung über die Beziehung zwischen gelebter Nicht-Dualität und eines paradoxen Ausdruckes in den Dualitäten der Sprache in der klinischen Anwendung. Preston weist auf Gendlins fokusorientierte Psychotherapie hin und stellt sie als Teil einer meditativen nondualen Praxis dar, die auf die Kultivierung eines nicht-dualen Status des Bewusstseins innerhalb des relationalen Feldes verweist. Es ist dieses erweiterte nonduale Bewusstsein mit seinen Begleitumständen des Zulassens und der vorbehaltlosen Akzeptanz, was die verschiedenen Strategien ermöglicht und unterstreicht, die Preston benutzt, indem er das Implizite definiert. Il resoconto di Preston dell'implicito di Gendlin come un ambito di consapevolezza che è qualcosa di più dei pensieri e dei sentimenti e che precede le dualità cartesiane, definisce la sua filosofia come essenzialmente non dualistica e la colloca nello spettro delle tradizioni non dualistiche meditative e contemplative. L'indagine di Gendlin sulla relazione fra l'implicito e il processo mediante il quale esso viene simbolizzato in parole viene re-inquadrato come un'indagine nella relazione fra la non dualità vissuta e la sua espressione paradossale nelle dualità del linguaggio. Nella sua applicazione clinica, l'uso di Preston della psicoterapia focalizzata di Gendlin costituisce parte di una pratica meditativa non duale che punta a coltivare uno stato non duale di coscienza nel campo relazionale. Questa ampliata consapevolezza non duale, con le sue caratteristiche di lasciar andare e di accettazione incondizionata, potenzia e sottoscrive le varie strategie impiegate da Preston nel formulare l'ambito implicito.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".