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  1. Sep 2024
    1. I have some some some colleagues who um kind of think about the Buddhist tradition a lot and we we think about this idea of like what what what does it mean to commit to enlarging your cognitive lyone in particular um with respect to this notion of compassion

      for - adjacency - cognitive light cone - affective light cone? - bodhisattva - bodhicitta - compassion - Michael Levin

      adjacency - between - cognitive light cone - bodhicitta - bodhisattva - compassion - adjacency relationship - Michael Levin's colleagues have spoken about the Buddhist concept of bodhicitta and compassion, and he interprets this from the perspective of expansion of the cognitive light cone provocation - We know that there is a close connection between cognitive and affective so perhaps the terminology should reflect that? - Living organisms will always have problems expanding their light cones too far because nature is designed to eat itself - Hence in order to survive, we must commit the most uncompassion act (from the perspective of the organism we are eating)

  2. Jan 2024
    1. if 00:12:01 you're some some alien species that has the ability to literally care about every other being on your planet right in the linear range I mean humans I don't think can do that

      for: - adjacency - between - cognitive cone - bodhisattva -adjacency statement - Bodhisattva could be such a being that Michael Levin refers to

      • If you're some some alien species
      • that has the ability to literally care about every other being on your planet right in the linear range
        • I don't think humans can do that but
      • if there is a creature somewhere that has that level of advance
        • where they can actually have care and compassion for every being and they work towards it
        • they would have a much larger cognitively cone than we do you know more more advanced in that way