Quotations are easier to collect than writing things out in one's own words, not only because it requires no work, but we may be afraid of changing the original meaning by changing the original words or by collapsing the context and divorcing the words from their original environment.

Perhaps some may be afraid that the words sound "right" and they have a sense of understanding of them, but they don't quite have a full grasp of the situation. Of course this may be remedied by the reader or listener not only by putting heard stories into their own words and providing additional concrete illustrative examples of the concepts. These exercises are meant to ensure that one has properly heard/read and understood a concept. Psychologists call this paraphrasing or repetition the "echo effect" (others might say parroting or mirroring) and have found that it can help to build understanding, connection, and likeability between people. Great leaders who do this will be sure to make sure that credit for the original ideas goes to the originator and not to themselves simply because they repeated it, especially in group settings where their words may have more primacy amidst their underlings.

(I can't find it at the moment, but there's a name/tag for this in my notes? looping?)

Beyond this, can one place the idea into a more clear language than the original? Add some poetry perhaps? Make the concept into a concrete meme to make it more memorable?

Journalists like to quote because it gives primacy of voice to the speaker and provides the reader with the sense that they're getting the original from which they might make up their own minds. It also provides a veneer of vérité to their reportage.

Link this back to Terrence's comedy: https://hypothes.is/a/xe15ZKPGEe6NJkeL77Ji4Q

for - quote - Sarah Stein Lubrano - quote - self as cultural construction in WEIRD culture - sense of self

quote - (immediately below)

• It's just a weird fascination of our weird culture that
  • we think the self is there and
  • it's the best and most likely explanation for human behavior
• Other people in other cultures do not think this
• and that suggests that our sense of self is largely culturally constructed

discussion - sense of self is complex. See the work of - Michael Levin and - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=michael+levin - Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=major+evolutionary+transition+in+individuality

for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - a Second Trump presidency - polycrisis - politics and climate crisis - climate mitigation strategy - voting in 2024 U.S. election - adjacency - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Gen Z voting

adjacency - between - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Trump's presidency is existential threat to humanity - Gen Z voting - 2024 election - adjacency statement - Michael Mann's quote " A second Trump term is game over for the climate - really" applies to the 2024 election if Trump becomes the Republican nominee. - Trumps dismal environmental record in his 2016 to 2020 term speaks for itself. He would do something similiar in 2025 if he were the president. G - Given there are only 5 years and 172 days before we hit the dangerous threshold of burning through all the carbon budget for humanity, - https://climateclock.world/ - It is questionable whether Biden's government alone can do enough, but certainly if Trump won the 2024 election, his term in office would create a regression severe enough to put the Paris Climate goal of staying within 1.5 Deg C out of reach, and risk triggering major planetary tipping points - A Biden government is evidence-based and believes in anthropogenic climate change and is already taking measures to mitigate it. A Trump government is not evidence-based and is supported by incumbent fossil fuel industry so does not have the interest of the U.S. population nor all of humanity at heart. - Hence, the 2024 U.S. election can really determine the fate of humanity. - Gen Z can play a critical role for humanity by voting against a government that would, in leading climate scientists Michael Mann's words, be game over for a stable climate, and therefore put humanity and unimaginable risk. - Gen Z can swing the vote to a government willing to deal with the climate crisis over one in climate denial so voting activists need to be alerted to this and create the right messaging to reach Gen Z - https://hyp.is/LOud7sBBEe6S0D8itLHw1A/circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-gen-z-will-be-eligible-vote-2024

for - CAR T cells - anti aging - eliminate senescent cells in mice. - quote - anti aging - CAR T cells

quote - (see below)

• If we give it to aged mice, they rejuvenate.
• If we give it to young mice, they age slower.
• No other therapy right now can do this,
• author: Amor Vegas

for - adjacency - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - elbow doesn't bend backwards - quote - Michael Levin - illusion

adjacency - between - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - the elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency statement - In the Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, the illusory body training is to experience both one's body and reality as an illusion in the sense that nothing is static and fixed - From this perspective, we are all temporary states of convergence of the recirculating elements of emptiness - Daisetz Suzuki, the enlightened Japanese Zen monk who is credited to be one of the ones who brought Zen to the West said that when he experienced Kensho, he could suddenly understand the puzzling koan "The elbow does not bend backwards" with great clarity. - Form is a concentration and temporary consolidation of emptiness, the limitations inherent in any form does not denigrate is absolute origins from unlimited emptiness - The Heart Sutra expresses the equivalence of form and emptiness, finite and infinite. - In Deep Humanity, we have a saying: - To be or not to be - that is the question - To be AND not to be - that is the answer

• Quote: Michael Levin
  • Sometimes people ask me "is it possible that we're living in a simulation?
    • and and if you think about it it's not just possible it's guaranteed.
  • There's no other way it could possibly be
  • If you think about what is the opposite of that
    • the opposite of that is that you somehow have a physically embodied cognitive structure that
      • is able to,
      • is not limited in its sensory perceptions
      • is not limited in the amount of memory and computations
  • All of us are limited beings
  • All of us evolved under constraints of
    • time
    • energy and
    • everything else -We see a tiny, little, narrow slit in the electromagnetic spectrum
  • We have a few other things
    • like chemical senses of things that are right there on your tongue and
    • on your fingers and so on
    • we have a little bit of memory
    • we have this wet squishy substrate
      • that's very error prone and
      • needs to be constantly maintained
    • and all our memories have to be the actively rewritten
    • We were evolved under specific pressures under those conditions
  • Who could possibly think that that we are not living in some sort of very specific representation of reality
    • that is limited in many ways
  • That's not to say
    • it isn't adaptive and that
    • Donald Hoffman would say that in many ways it is completely wrong
  • I I think there's probably some truth to that
    • but in other ways I think the the big lesson from all this is that
    • we are all a brain and a vat
  • Of course we are a brain sitting inside this thing that gives us various stimuli
  • We try to make the best sense of it that we can and creatures will adapt to
  • This is why you can do
    • sensory substitution and
    • sensory augmentation and why
    • you can have neurons in the dish that play Pong
  • but these systems will try to make sense of whatever world they're given
    • in whatever configuration they have and we do the same
  • So yeah absolutely it's an illusion
    • but it's not an illusion in the sense that there is some other way to have perfect direct perception of some underlying reality
  • When we say it's an illusion or a simulation
    • It just acknowledges the fact that we are finite limited beings
    • whose job it is to make the best sense we can
    • using the hardware that we have
    • of what's been going on up until now and what we predict is going to be going on
  • I don't know of another story that could possibly make sense

• for: quote - deep inheritance of evolutionary adaptations

• quote

  • we need to understand the deep inheritance within us in order to understand our emotions, our fears and our behaviors in the 21st century.
• author: Yval Noah Harari

• for: quote, quote - Gregory Bateson, sustainable development goals, SDGs, SDGs in one holistic image

• quote: Gregory Bateson

  • The major problems in the world are the difference between how nature works and how people think

• for: Kant's transcendental - in history, quote, quote - Upanishad, quote - Ernst Cassirer, quote - Michel Henry, quote - Giovanni Gentile, quote Edmund Husserl

• paraphrase

  • The transcendental cannot be an objective thought but is the condition for any objective thought
  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
    • Kant's transcendental is equivalent to the Braham
      • it is never seen but is a seer
      • it is never heard but is a hearer
      • it is never thought but is the thinker
      • it is never known but is the knower
      • it is the source of things and the source of knowledge
  • Ernst Cassirer
    • Consciousness is a goal to which knowledge turns its back
  • Michel Henry Consciousness cannot be shown, for it is the power to show.
  • Giovanni Gentile
  • Edmund Husserl
    • transcendental turn
      • the world is a sense for the transcendental ego
      • the transcendental ego is presupposed by the senses

• for: progress trap, quote, quote - progress trap, quote Brian Southwell, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International

• quote

  • We are likely to make some gains in personal health, are likely to face some collective concerns in terms of environmental health and
  • are not likely to cope with the alienation and despair that is a part of a life lived largely online.
  • In the latter case, there is a disconnect between the long period of evolution that honed our humanity and
  • the short period of rapid technology change we are facing.

• author: Brian Southwell

  • director, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International

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