(July 17, 2020 at 4:44 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: People 'redefine' words all the time. People make up new words for things or even use existing words for completely new things all the time.
It also doesn't refute or otherwise diminish my lay man's understanding of what's happening in relation to the conversation.
It's true that a re-definition doesn't refute a previous definition. But that's precisely because a re-definition addresses something else entirely.
It's a fallacy of equivocation to say that conscious observation can't really be conscious because observation doesn't have to be conscious in a completely different sense of the word.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
