Trying is Very Trying

This is a p.s. to the last post – ‘Cows do not f*ck’ about anthropomorphising. It now transpires most of the post was getting the meaning back to front! No apology if it was part of your reading… it has led us here and to what perhaps AI can ever ‘do’ – teach us what is really worth ‘knowing’? Came across the phrase ‘rat race’ via morning reading ahead of journaling [‘Meeting Life’ by J. Krishnamurti]. It may remind me which way round ‘anthropo-ing’ goes: rats simply move. I do not know whether they have an awareness (but suspect not) that they are ‘racing’… This led to musing on unlearning... Thank you Krishnamurti for the ever-present pointing that (aside from ‘mechanical’ learning like how to fix a tap or ride a bike) learning demands not knowing. As he states in ‘Meeting Life’ from a discussion with students in Huizen, Holland in June 1967 ‘When do you learn? You learn when you know nothing.’ This, when inspected, even removes trying since trying comes from the idea that effort…