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  "path": "/2026/04/14/tree-of-knowledge-maturana-love/",
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  "textContent": "Once, in an extreme of despair, I posed to my therapist a version of the haunting thought experiment Mary’s Room: How, I asked her, can a person who has never been modeled healthy, secure, steadfast love even recognize it when it comes along — to what extent is this knowing teachable, learnable? If a person has never seen the color blue, never experienced blueness in their creaturely sensorium, there are certain things you can do to convey to them a knowledge of it — give them the electromagnetic wavelength of the color and examples of blue things and a conceptual… read article",
  "title": "Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World"
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