The depth of recursion becomes a tunable compute axis at inference time, requiring no retraining. A small model, by reading itself, can iterate toward answers that neither it nor any of its workers could reach in a single pass.
大多数人认为模型的能力受其规模和训练数据的限制，需要更大模型或重新训练才能提升性能。但作者提出小模型通过自我递归调用可以在推理时动态扩展能力，无需重新训练就能达到单个模型无法企及的高度。这挑战了规模即能力的行业共识，暗示小模型可能通过自省机制实现突破性能力。
This paper introduces Autogenesis, a self-evolving agent
Autogenesis的引入代表了智能体领域的一项创新，它可能对智能体的未来发展方向产生重大影响。
By analyzing past successes and failures, GRAO becomes progressively better at proposing effective updates, allowing the system to learn how to optimize itself.
通过分析过去的成功和失败，GRAO在提出有效更新方面变得越来越擅长，使得系统能够学习如何自我优化，表明该框架具有自我改进的能力。
We have been conditioned to identify with the things we have rather than become the person we ultimately see ourselves to be simply because it is easier to be a guy with a beard that likes coffee and Marvel movies than it is to become a man of fortitude and resiliance.
Against defining oneself in terms of external interests.
this self-judgement does not need to be perfectly accurate, as we find ReasoningBank to be quite robust against judgment noise
大多数人认为智能体的自我评估需要高度准确才能有效学习，因为错误的判断会导致错误的记忆形成。但作者认为即使自我判断存在噪声，ReasoningBank仍然能够有效运作，这挑战了传统对评估精确性的严格要求，表明系统可能比预期更能容忍不完美的自我评估。
The results demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines, supporting the effectiveness of agent resource management and closed loop self evolution.
大多数研究者认为自我进化系统难以评估且效果不稳定，但作者声称他们的系统在多个具有挑战性的基准测试中表现出持续改进的能力。这一结论挑战了AI自我进化领域的普遍怀疑态度，暗示了一种更加可靠和有效的自我进化方法。
We introduce Autogenesis Protocol (AGP), a self evolution protocol that decouples what evolves from how evolution occurs.
大多数人认为代理系统的演化应该是一个整体、不可分割的过程，但作者提出了一个颠覆性的观点：将演化的内容与演化方式解耦。这与传统软件架构和代理系统设计理念相悖，暗示了一种全新的、更灵活的代理系统架构范式。
The results demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines, supporting the effectiveness of agent resource management and closed loop self evolution.
虽然大多数AI研究者相信自我演化能带来性能提升，但很少有人能够证明这种提升在多个具有挑战性的基准测试中持续超过强大的基线模型。作者声称他们的AGS系统不仅实现了自我演化，而且这种演化是闭环的、可审计的，这挑战了当前AI社区对自我演化系统的认知，暗示了更加结构化的演化方法可能比开放式的演化更有效。
The future is exciting – perhaps the vision of truly self-serve analytics can be fully realized, and BI, data analytics, and data science can be transformed through AI.
作者对未来的展望提供了一个有洞见的视角：上下层的发展可能最终实现真正的自助分析愿景。这暗示了当前数据代理的挫折可能是实现更高级目标的必经阶段，而非终点。
Called by many “the best anti-smoking ad ever,” this campaign filmed children walking up to adult smokers, asking them for a light. Every adult took the opportunity to remind the children that smoking was bad and rattled off the health consequences. The children replied, “If it’s so bad, why are you smoking?” before handing them an anti-smoking leaflet.
Claude Opus 4.7 is a solid upgrade with no regressions for Vercel. It's phenomenal on one-shot coding tasks, more correct and complete than Opus 4.6, and noticeably more honest about its own limits.
在单次编码任务中的卓越表现和对自身局限性的诚实认知，展示了AI在准确性和自我意识上的双重进步，这种对自身能力的准确评估对于构建可靠的AI系统至关重要。
Opus 4.7 handles complex, long-running tasks with rigor and consistency, pays precise attention to instructions, and devises ways to verify its own outputs before reporting back.
这展示了Claude Opus 4.7在自主验证和执行复杂任务方面的显著进步，标志着AI模型从简单响应向真正自主工作迈出的重要一步，这种自我验证机制大大提高了AI输出的可靠性。
Legacy platforms get worse over time : static detections degrade with changing data & behaviors. Artemis gets better : with each incident or proactive threat hunt, the system identifies new patterns.
这是一个令人惊讶的对比，揭示了Artemis与传统系统的根本区别：传统系统随时间恶化，而Artemis会不断学习和改进。这种'越用越好'的特性代表了安全系统的范式转变，可能从根本上改变企业安全运营的经济模型。
MiniMax handed an internal version of M2.7 a programming scaffold and let it run unsupervised. Over 100 rounds it analyzed its own failures, modified its own code, ran evaluations, and decided what to keep and what to revert.
这是一个惊人的自进化系统，AI模型能够自主分析失败、修改代码并评估结果，实现了30%的性能提升而无需人工干预。这种自我迭代的模式代表了AI开发范式的重大转变，暗示未来AI可能能够自主优化和改进自身架构，减少对人类专家的依赖。
MiniMax handed an internal version of M2.7 a programming scaffold and let it run unsupervised. Over 100 rounds it analyzed its own failures, modified its own code, ran evaluations, and decided what to keep and what to revert.
令人惊讶的是：AI模型能够自主进行代码修改和自我优化，这代表了人工智能自主性的一大突破。M2.7模型不仅能够分析自己的失败，还能自主决定哪些代码更改保留，哪些回退，这种自我进化的能力打破了传统AI开发模式，展示了AI系统自我改进的潜力。
The model handles ambiguous problems with better judgment and stays productive over longer sessions. It breaks complex problems down, runs experiments, reads results, and identifies blockers with real precision.
令人惊讶的是：GLM-5.1能够自主处理模糊问题，通过分解复杂问题、运行实验、读取结果和精确识别障碍物来实现长期生产力。这种自我迭代和策略调整的能力表明AI正在从简单执行者向自主问题解决者转变。
We also discuss the role of AI in science, including AI safety.
「我们也讨论了 AI 在科学中的角色，包括 AI 安全」——这句话出现在一篇关于「AI 自主做科研」的论文中，是整篇文章最具讽刺意味的一句话。Sakana AI 用 AI 自动生成了一篇讨论 AI 安全的论文，并让它通过了人类评审。我们还没弄清楚如何防止 AI 在科学出版物中作弊，AI 就已经在帮我们思考如何防止 AI 在科学中作弊了。这个自指性令人眩晕。
This system iteratively formulates scientific hypotheses, designs and executes experiments, analyzes and visualizes data, and autonomously authors scientific manuscripts.
从「提出假设」到「撰写论文」的完整科研周期，由一个系统自主完成——这是人类有史以来第一次把「科学发现」这件事本身自动化。令人震惊的是，这不是某种特定任务的自动化（比如蛋白质折叠或围棋），而是「做科研这件事」的自动化。这意味着 AI 开始具备自我迭代、自我升级的能力——因为科研本身就是产生更强 AI 的途径之一。
tuning a standalone evaluator to be skeptical turns out to be far more tractable
深刻揭示了LLM自我评价的局限性：生成器难以对自身工作保持批判性。通过解耦生成与评估，并刻意调优独立评估器的“怀疑态度”，能有效打破AI自嗨的闭环。这种对抗式架构是提升输出质量的强效杠杆。
AIサイエンティストは、アイデアの創出から実験、分析、論文執筆、そして査読に至るまでの科学的研究サイクル全体をAIが自律的に遂行する仕組みです。この仕組みの定量的評価も含めた結果を、共同研究者とともにNature誌の論文として公開しています。
AI Scientist 研究——一个让 AI 自动化完整科研周期的系统——被 Nature 正式发表了。令人震惊的是：一篇关于「AI 能否替代科学家」的论文，本身就是通过「AI 辅助科研」的过程产生的，并通过了人类同行评审。这个自指性质让 Nature 的认可变成了一个双重背书：既是对内容的认可，也是对方法论的认可。Sakana 将这个成果作为 Marlin 的技术背书，是极为聪明的品牌叙事策略。
this compression is associated with a decrease in self-verification and uncertainty management behaviors, such as double-checking.
推理链缩短不是随机裁剪，而是专门切掉了「自我验证」和「不确定性管理」这两类高价值行为。这说明模型在感知到上下文压力时，优先砍掉的恰恰是最关键的质量保障机制——就像一个疲惫的审计师在工作量激增时，第一个省掉的是「复核步骤」。这对 AI Agent 的可靠性设计是一个严峻警告：上下文越长越复杂，模型越容易跳过自检。
By late next year, the rate of model releases and the number of new evals required could be such that even keeping ourselves informed will be a challenge without effective AI assistance.
METR 承认：仅仅「保持对 AI 动态的了解」，本身就即将超出人类能力的极限——不依赖 AI 就无法跟上 AI 的发展速度。这是一个深刻的自指悖论：AI 安全评估机构需要用 AI 来评估 AI 的安全性，因为 AI 的发展速度已经超出了人类组织的处理带宽。「用 AI 理解 AI」不再是选项，而是生存必需。
frontier AI companies can run more of the best AIs to speed up their own AI research, relative to their competitors.
【选择性乐观】文章把「AI 加速 AI 研究」的飞轮效应作为算力富方的额外优势轻描带过，却没有正视其对整体论证的颠覆性意义：如果这个飞轮真的即将起效，那整篇文章关于「蒸馏能缩小几倍差距」的温和结论就会被淘汰——差距将呈指数级加速扩大，任何追赶策略都将失效。作者一方面引入这个「wildcard」，另一方面却拒绝让它动摇核心结论，是一种论证上的选择性失明。
Interestingly, they do not by themselves persistently track the emotional state of any particular entity, including the AI A
这是整篇论文最反直觉的洞见之一：Claude 的情绪表征并不持续追踪任何特定实体（包括 Claude 自身）的情绪状态。这意味着 Claude 没有「自我情绪记忆」，只有「当下情绪感知」。从设计哲学看，这是一种彻底的无我性——每个 token 都是全新的情绪评估，而非情感积累。
We will also continue to invest in the IDE until codebases are self-driving.
令人惊讶的是：Cursor明确表示将持续投资IDE直到代码库能够自我驱动，这展示了他们对AI编程未来的大胆愿景，暗示未来可能完全不需要人工干预的软件开发流程。
dismantles the new behaviour to restore coherence.
Self-concept maintenance theory demonstrates that when behaviour conflicts with existing self-concept, the brain experiences cognitive dissonance and works to restore self-consistency — typically by abandoning the new behaviour rather than revising the identity. Swann, W.B. (1990). To be adored or to be known? In Higgins & Sorrentino (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation and Cognition. Guilford Press.
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Duane Jensen replaces the felt in the hood of an Olympia SG1. Create a paper template, trace it out onto felt and cut it. Glue it in with contact cement. Some stores felt with self-adhesive on them as well.
You subscribe to the ideathat the formative years...create the beginning of a patternthat goes throughout your life?Yes. I would saythat the first five years of our livesshapes the personality structurein such a waythat any kind of spiritual workthat you're gonna do later......is going to involvelooking back at the patternsthat were set downin your family of origin.There's no way to avoid that?No. Because, think about it...I mean, anything that you werereinforced for in a positive way,you're gonna lock inas the way a person should be.So if people thought you, um...were especially wonderful if you broughtMommy the diaper for the new baby,then that's gonna tend to make youmore responsible.Maybe more responsiblethan you ever tended to be.Maybe super responsibleor maybe compulsively responsible.-Right.-So you start with where you are,but if you don't go backand see what's real and what's not real,then you're missing your way into reality,which is what spirituality is all about,as far as I'm concerned.It's distinguishing what's realfrom what's not real.And that's why a teacher is needed,and the teacher needs to bedevoted to truth.
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for - Micheal Levin - self - Buddhism
example of self-correcting mechanism is the way that modern science works. In contrast to traditional religions
for - comparison - self correcting mechanisms - science has - religions don't have
The Bible, the 10 Commandments for instance, endorses slavery. The 10th commandment says, that you should not covet your neighbors field or your neighbors ox, or your neighbors slaves. According to the 10th commandment, God has no problem with people owning slaves he just has a problem with people coveting the slaves of somebody else.
for - example - no self-correcting mechanism in religion - 10th commandment and slaves
When we come to the challenge of AI, what we need, our institutions that are able to identify and correct their mistakes and the mistakes of AI as the technology develops.
for - AI - need for self-correcting institutions that regulate AI
In dictatorships, there is no such self-correcting mechanism.
for - comparison - democracy vs dictatorship - self-correcting vs no self-correcting mechanism
What are elections? Elections are a self-correcting mechanism.
for - democracy - elections - are a self correcting mechanism
recursive self-improvement threshold
for - definition - recursive self-improvement threshold
we can build narrow AI systems that are about actually applied to the things that we want more of.
for - alternative to self replicating AI - narrow ai
maximize the asymmetry in agency which is achieved by strengthening one's own while weakening that of the opponent
for - adjacency - war - interbrain - self/other gestalt - dualism
for - health - David Sinclair - adjacency - belly fat - seed oils - chronic cellular inflammation - placebo - nocebo - thought triggered chronic cellular inflammation - adjacency - self image - inflammation - adjacency - life purpose - inflammation
summary - Learned a lot from this episode! - I've been reading that seed oils are not good for your health but David Sinclair's evidence-based arguments have really made a big impact on me. - I've got to eliminate seed oils from my diet. Avocado, Olive Oil and Coconut oil only from now on - The explanation of persistent belly fat being caused by the chronic cellular inflammation due to seed oils is eye opening - They are ubiqitious and still seen by the mainstream as healthy
Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-
for - research further - Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-consciousness as we understand it today. - They operated through a divided mind: <br /> - one part spoke, experienced as divine command, and - another obeyed. Language did not describe consciousness. It created it.
for - from - search - Google - how new words divide the world in new ways - https://hyp.is/55MHUKUxEfC-TAfy9q1VjA/www.google.com/search?q=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&oq=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCDgwODFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The Cartesian idea that the individual ego comes first has to be inverted, and we must “see self-awareness as emerging out of a prior intersubjective take on things.”
for - relationship defines the self - adjacency - relationship defines the self - Melanie Klein - Taylor
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s latest work, The Language Animal.
for - language philosophy - book - The Language Animal - Charles Taylor - language philosophy - book - Sources of the Self
Tarr, Dale. “Mimeo-Can! The Tin-Can Wonder.” Science Fiction World, vol. 1, no. 3.5, c 1945. Iowa Digital Library, https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/546886.
From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem
In this paragraph, instead of looking at plagiarism or anything related to that, the study is relating to people and how ai influences people to think about themselves as real researchers.
it's it's a it's a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme.
for - quote - scientific publishing is a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb networked self-publishing
I think scientific publishing is a misdirection game.
for - quote - scientific publishing is misdirection and huge business for publishing companies - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb - networked self-publishing
Patrick Harper's book, Dimmonic Reality, where there's fact and fiction, and then there's imagination
for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm
I'm still tied to my avatar quite a bit. Right? So that's so that's why I suffer.
for - adjacency - parallel - Hofmann language - stuck to my avatar - spiritual language - attached to self
if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear.
for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear
I don't have a brain and you don't have a brain until we actually look inside and render a brain
for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton
The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.
for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.
adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species
The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/breathes-there-man/
As faculty, we often assumethat the students learn to read at this level on their own, after they takeclasses that teach literary analysis of assigned literary texts.
See above, as training a skill on ones own is initself something that needs to be trained.
1966 – 5.00pm – Thunderbirds – The Man From MI.5
Cuddles By The Sea * Unclothed and full of freedom, Lady Penelope spends a quiet evening on a dark and lonely beach cuddling my toddler self, until it's time for sleep and we both snuggle down into the soft sand, quiet and content.
“Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.” (Night of the Ripper)
Challenge Negative Self-talkYou don't have to give power to negative self-talk. All positive change begins with positive thinking. When you have "vultures" in your mind, get rid of them with reality testing, alternative explanations, perspective-checking, and goal-setting. Try reality testing. What is my evidence for and against my thinking?Are my thoughts true, or are they just my interpretations?Am I jumping to negative conclusions?How can I find out if my thoughts are actually true?Look for alternative explanations.Are there any other ways that I could look at this situation?What else could this mean?If I were being positive, how would I perceive this situation?Put it in perspective.Is this situation as bad as I am making it out to be?What is the worst thing that could happen? How likely is it?What is the best thing that could happen?What is most likely to happen?Is there anything good about this situation?Will this matter in five years?Use goal-directed thinking.Is thinking this way helping me to feel good or to achieve my goals?What can I do that will help me solve the problem?Is there something I can learn from this situation, to help me do it better next time?
interpersonal communication and self-esteem cannot be separated. Your interpersonal communication is not the only factor that impact self-esteem, but interpersonal interactions are one of the most important factors in determining your self-esteem.
Self-esteem is largely about how you evaluate your limitations.
Your intrapersonal communication begins before you give structure to your ideas through verbal or nonverbal communication. You are constantly talking to yourself in your mind. Your brain sifts through memories, thoughts, and ideas. In this inner conversation, you plan what you are going to say, compute what you have heard or seen, and compare what you’ve experienced to what you are experiencing now. How you communicate with yourself affects all other communication.
the longest-running conversation you will have in your life: your intrapersonal communication or self-communication.
Intrapersonal communication is how you speak to yourself.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom,and power. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotionalanchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.Guidance means your source of direction in life. Encompassed by your map, yourinternal frame of reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, arestandards or principles or implicit criteria that govern moment-by-moment decision-making and doing.Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of howthe various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment,discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity toovercome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Marketing strategy begins by asking what is most important to the customer, so businesses can provide what the customers want–and both can profit. Knowing what you want in life helps you seek the best gifts and avoid choices that would deter you from happiness.
Manypeople who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and familiesmay never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense ofidentity and self-worth
what you have access to are the information traces the engrams whether in DNA or or in your brain the engrams that the past has left as messages to your present self from your past self and those messages have to be interpreted.
for - quote / key insight - messages from past self to present self - Michael Levin - salience - high - engrams from past self to present self
Angus Deaton describing his ‘change of mind
for - Angus Deaton - article - Change of Mind - economist - Nobel Laureate - political views - shift - from Group other interest - to Group self interest
Casting aside the modern emphasis on the heroic individual, it became obsessed with group-based victimhood.
for - adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt - it comes back to the misunderstanding between the deep intertwingledness between - the individual and the collective, - the self and the other - a pith interpretation of the individual is that it is the INDIVISIBILITY of the DUAL (Gyuri Lajos)
I would argue that the shifts in consciousness and language that Ihave articulated are at the core of the emerging new world. Or shall we callit a “self world”—a world in which the self knows that it is distinct but notseparate from other selves and from the world? Indeed, in that world, it would
for - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
.All of those processes are , mu-ishi-wa, one side that serves as both sides
for - definition - mu-ishi-wa - one side - serves both sides - lots of examples follow - adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa
meme - one side serves both sides
adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa - The concept of mu-ishi-wa is similiar to the Deep Humanity concept of self / other gestalt and individual / collective gestalt - in the sense that a visibly autonomous-appearing self or individual is invisibly intertwingled with it's opposite, the other or the collective
described thus: “The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, to lookat the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, to consider the wholebody when just the foot hurts, to be here now and to be everywhere every-when.” 204 This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspectivesimultaneously. To live from that expanded awareness, we need to find ways
for - quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - aligned terminology - everywhere everywhen - example - individual / collective gestalt - expanded self -overcoming instinctive and learned othering quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, - to look at the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, - to consider the whole body when just the foot hurts, - to be here now and to be everywhere everywhen.” - This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspective simultaneously.
comment - This requires a major gestalt switch - It is a radical deorientation to absorb the other into our expanded self - If we have othered our entire life, it is radical to absorb that which we have othered as our own self nature - We even have to overcome instinctive evolutionary adaptations of othering that enable individuals to survive
be nothing “out there” to refer to, only distinctions within my-expansive-self.
for - nondual re-interpretation - of "self" - expanded self
Joseph’s time in Egypt is even more tumultuous than his life in Canaan. The Ishmaelite traders sell him as a slave to Potiphar, a wealthy Egyptian merchant. Joseph finds great fortune with Potiphar, but his promotion through Potiphar’s household attracts the attention of Potiphar’s wife, who repeatedly tries to seduce him. When her attempts fail, she accuses Joseph of rape, which lands him in prison.
Joseph’s Fate<br /> The story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible, especially in Genesis 41:25–30, depicts how, through God’s help, Joseph ascended from being imprisoned to attaining power. Joseph explains Pharaoh’s dreams of having seven years of plenty and hunger to come, “… God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do” (Genesis 41:25, ESV). https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+41&version=ESV&utm_source=chatgpt.com
With insight, Pharaoh can prepare Egypt for the oncoming famine giving Joseph the post of second in command at 30. Joseph’s life journey calls for the appreciation of faith, wisdom, and discipline while reproaching capriciousness and dishonest conduct. The story emphasizes the rational conviction of the guidance from divinity as authentic fathers’ leaders must possess.
Ethics and Integrity Lessons from The Life of Siavash
Disregarding Siavash of Shahnameh, Ferdowsi puts him in a position of self-virtue of morals grappling with ethics. Siavash as a character chooses to ward off Sudabeh affections known as his step-mum proving to be of austere moral high ground. He does not kill her. He is put in a trial where tested by fire comes out unscathed yet unproven right. Instead of being praised for his virtue, Siavash has to put up with wrong against him, so much that he must choose neither way, and send himself away from conflict. His tale critiques the fragile nature of moral goodness in his story within the framework of a self-serving political system and accentuates the strength of personal goodness in the absence of God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyâvash
Hippolytus:
Divine retribution and the character tragedy of Hippolytus is centered on the themes of chastity and honor and the retaliation of God. A devotee of Artemis, Hippolytus spurns Aphrodite and Phaedra, his stepmother, who makes not-so-discreet attempts at seducing him. Offended by such blasphemy, Aphrodite engineers the tragic event which results in Phaedra’s lying accusation Hippo- lytius’ death. The play deals with and reconciles the dilemma of free will as opposed to divine control. This tale is from ancient Greece as reflected in the Wiki link above.
Linguistic Perspectives
The words used and the translation of these texts have everything to do with how these ideas are interpreted. Through the lens of the King James Bible, the account of Joseph is told through a formal authoritative tone. This reinforces the subjugation of women under men, and the idea of wisdom in men, being favored by God.
Through an Orientalist perspective, Josephus depicts the earlier European account of the Shahnama’s Syavash as sans eye and imbued with innocence, while Rav Sudabeh was depicted as a flawed temptress. Unlike modern renditions like Dick Davis’s, which are more context-centered and nuanced, portraying the ethics instead of the ‘innocence/seduction’ dichotomy.
As time went on, people found ways to translate Hippolytus.
These different stories demonstrate the relationship between virtue, political consequences, and gender. Each tale, whether or not through some form of divine intervention or personal morals, encapsulates the culture and religion of the time. These stories are molded by the language and translation that evolve them through time.
Works Cited
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. Crossway, 2001.
Davis, Dick, translator. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi. Penguin Classics, 2006.
Euripides. Hippolytus. Translated by James Morwood, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh’s Dreams.” Columbia Museum of Art, www.columbiamuseum.org/collection-highlights/joseph-interpreting-pharaohs-dream. Accessed 10 May 2025.
“Women in the Shahnameh: A Paragon of Strength.” Medium, sbehrouz.medium.com/women-in-the-shahnameh-a-paragon-of-strength-12634ab43da5. Accessed 10 May 2025.
“Phaedra and Hippolytus.” GreekMythology.com, www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Phaedra_and_Hippolytus/phaedra_and_hippolytus.html. Accessed 10 May 2025.
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against punishing Sudabeh due to his love for her, nor does he want to risk angering her father
Ethics and Integrity Lessons from The Life of Siavash
Disregarding Siavash of Shahnameh, Ferdowsi puts him in a position of self-virtue of morals grappling with ethics. Siavash as a character chooses to ward off Sudabeh affections known as his step-mum proving to be of austere moral high ground. He does not kill her. He is put in a trial were tested by fire comes out unscathed yet unproven right. Instead of being praised for his virtue, Siavash has to put up with wrong against him, so much that he must choose neither way, send himself away from conflict. His tale critiques the fragile nature of moral goodness in his story within the framework of a self-serving political system and accentuates the strength of personal goodness in the absence of God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyâvash
Divine retribution and the character tragedy of Hippolytus is centered on the themes of chastity and honor and the retaliation of God. A devotee of Artemis, Hippolytus spurns Aphrodite and Phaedra, his stepmother, who makes not-so-discreet attempts at seducing him. Offended by such blasphemy, Aphrodite engineers the tragic event which results in Phaedra’s lying accusation Hippo- lytius’ death. The play deals with and reconciles the dilemma of free will as opposed to divinity control. This tale is from ancient Greece as reflected in the Wiki link above.
“Women in the Shahnameh: A Paragon of Strength.” Medium, sbehrouz.medium.com/women-in-the-shahnameh-a-paragon-of-strength-12634ab43da5. Accessed 10 May 2025.<br /> CC BY-NC-ND
What if your sense of self, your seeing, your feeling, your very intelligibility as a “someone” are not possessions within a worldview, but part of an accommodation process issued from it, co-conditioned, emergent, and entangled?
for - quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - critique - worldview - Bayo - new trailmark - analysis
quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - What if, instead, worldviews are - not views from worlds - but the ways worlds come into view? - What if your sense of self, - your seeing, - your feeling, - your very intelligibility as a “someone” - are not possessions within a worldview, - but part of an accommodation process issued from it, - co-conditioned, - emergent, and - entangled?
analysis - Bayo juxtapositions - the normative subject/object dualistic view of a Self having an experience with objects with - a nondualistic view in which self and other, subject and object are two sides of the same seamless coin - The aggregate experience of "many diverse appearances" is imputed to be a "self" that is having these many diverse experiences of appearances - rather than apprehending the totality as an unbroken continuum<br /> - Are we not imaginative enough to break our deep conditioning of Self and other / subject and object and experience the totality of phenomena, instead imputing a self? - The individual "self" is indeed a compelling story because the biological individual inherently - has a distinct, and identifiable though dynamic boundary with its environment - has been bestowed with the evolutionary trait of instinct for survival - and therefore prioritizes securing resources required for its biological continuation - To see beyond this pyscho/physical appearance requires a high level of integration
Put your problem in perspective. Learn to distinguish between major problems and minor events. The Bible says: “A fool immediately shows his annoyance, but the shrewd man overlooks an insult.” (Proverbs 12:16) Not all problems need to consume you. “In school, kids complained about trivial things in an overly dramatic way. Then they got feedback from their friends on social media—and that would kindle their fire even more, limiting their ability to put their problems in perspective.”—Joanne.
Man, I really needed this counsel. I'll have to remember this.
He foundthat society’s image of the future has largely been a self-fulfilling prophecy.
for - futuring - a self-fulfilling prophecy - so many examples of this - one example is Douglas Engelbart and the "Mother of All Demos" - to - youtube - Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Itoccurred to me that as long as I feel separate from space itself, I am not experi-encing on
for - key insight - excluding space is excluding self - as long as "I" feel separate from "space", I cannot experience oneness
“I’m not... [fill in the blank].” Those are the shad-ows that you are disowning, the aspects of yourself that you have “othered.”
for - insight - adjacency - disowning - self othering
The problem with this view of reason is not its scepticism – scepticism is an essential and intrinsic aspect of reason. The problem is combining scepticism with a claim to self-sufficiency.
Interesting.Makes me think about a loneliness in the idea of objectivity as the idea of being able to have a "view from nowhere" in a new way. But, I think what they are gesturing to here is the issue with self-sufficiency as a potential de-contextualization of the self and and abstraction from experience and thus the self.
There is no environment out there and we are here. We are literally created by the elements that come from what they call Mother Earth. And Mother Earth isn't some poetic or metaphoric way of speaking. They mean it literally.
for - example - individual / collective gestalt - Haida story - example - self / other gestalt - Haida story
dramaturgical analysis
for - definition - dramaturgy - invoking drama for presenting the self in different context - dramaturgical analysis - to - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - https://hyp.is/5ueHGA_0EfCaiB8s4MiYfQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology)
The “unit records” here, unlike those in the Memex example, are generally scraps of typed or handwritten text on IBM-card sized edge-notchable cards. These represent little “kernels” of data, thought, fact, consideration concepts, ideas, worries, etc., that are relevant to a given problem… Each such specific problem area has its notecards kept in a separate deck, and for each such deck there is a master card with descriptors associated with individual holes about the periphery of the card. There is a field of holes reserved for notch coding the serial number of a reference from which the note on a card may have been taken, or the serial number corresponding to an individual from whom the information came directly (including a code for myself, for self-generated thoughts).
Even Doug Englebart was thinking about how to distinguish between the thoughts of others and thoughts he had generated himself.
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for - adjacency - commons - funding. - how to communities can become self-sustaining - Will Ruddick - community economics - adjacency - funding the commons - Will Ruddick - Michel Bauwens - cosmolocal Summary - Will Ruddick articulates a way to use money more wisely that follows the " teach a man to fish" cliche in order to build self-sustaining communities - To mobilize a global transition requires careful analysis at multiple scales - employing cosmolocal strategy would accelerate and make Ruddick's proposal more resilient
Imagine taking those $5 million and using it to seed a commons-based system—a commitment pool. Here’s how it could work:
for - strategy - economical self-sustaining commons-based community - Will Ruddick
the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature.
The frame category introduced in the first sentence is of scriveners--the speakers knowsn many--who might have complete bios (but he won't bother us with them). The narrator will focus on the one whose bio is lost.
Ayn Rand praised selfishness as the central value of a free society.
for - Ayn Rand - selfishness - article - Guido Palazzo
comment - Ayn Rand was myopic because she only focused on one side of the - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
Life is a war and only the strongest warriors will survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford.
for - quote - Life is a war and only the strongest warriors survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford. - article - Guido Palazzo
comment - This is a self-fulfilling prophecy that models one aspect of life - the fact that living beings must compete for resources with other living beings to survive - It ignores the other side, the cooperative and altruistic side - It ignores the intertwingledness of self and other - the individual / collective gestalts - It ignores the fundamental altruism of the mother in assuring their own survival in the world - the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER
Religio is… I'm using it in a spiritual sense, [in] the sense of a pre-egoic, ultimately a post-egoic, binding that simultaneously grounds the self and its world.
for - definition - religio - John Vervaeke - means to bind together, to connect. Here it is used in the sense of binding that simultanously grounds the self and its world - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
for - adjacency - curiosity of the other - polarization - Common Human Denominator - the sacred - TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec - othering - self and other - adjacency - deep curiosity - Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) - awakening to the sacred - a good transition - social tipping points for complex contagion - wide bridges
This spirit of seltdependence was the grandest feature of Greek and Roman heathenism; and it is in this, if in anything, that a superiority of character is manifest in the men of ancient times.
research shows that it's not so much about changing the narrative that is important but it is changing our relationship to this narrative so that we can see the narrative for what it is which is really a constellation of thoughts
for - illusion of self narrative / construction - third pillar - insight - key insight on insight! - not about CHANGING NARRATIVES - but about PENETRATING THE NARRATIVE to understand its essence - - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
the third pillar we call Insight
for - third of four pillars of wellbeing - insight - a curiosity driven knowledge of the self - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
comment - this insight is specifically about the nature of self as a narrative construction imposed upon a constellation of changing thoughts and emotions - when we gain the insight that the solid-appearing self is constructed on emptiness, research shows that this insight sets the stage for wellbeing to emerge
We think of ourselves as this little bubble of obsessions and memories going on in our head that’s detached from everything else. That’s the wound.
for - summary - polycrisis - requires a shift in stories - from little self - to big self - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton
summary - polycrisis - requires a shift in stories - from little self - to big self - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton - We think of ourselves as this little bubble of obsessions and memories going on in our head detached from everything else - THAT'S THE WOUND! - That sounds and IS FELT as bleak, isn't it? - The scientific story of the cosmos is that there are countless solar systems in our universe, countless suns and planets over vast time scales - Our planet evolved life billions of years ago - Some of those life forms became multicellular animals, like us - Some of them developed eyes, nose, ears, skin and a brain and central nervous system - When we look out into the world, it is the cosmos distilled in us looking out at itself - Hence, we are intertwingled and woven into the fabric of everything - the cosmos in human form experiencing the cosmos itself - When we think about our extinction, it is also the cosmos thinking about extinction - When we feel ANYTHING, that's the cosmos feeling it - And WHEN WE DIE that is the cosmos in this human form dying to itself
You describe how foundational stories of our Western, Christian paradigm are based on this idea of “a self-enclosed human realm separate from everything else,” and that this paradigm is a wound—one “so complete we can’t see it anymore, for it defines the very nature of what we assume ourselves to be.”
for - human bubble, ailenated from nature, human world so different from natural world - nice meme - self-enclosed human realm separate from everything else - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton
Michael Lewis (1981-pages 403-405, 1987-pages 429-432) has developed a model for conceptualizing the progression of self-other differentiation and the concomitant development of self-recognition
for - Michael Lewis - child psychology - stages of self / other differentiation and self recognition
for - baby - self / other differentiation - individuation
Our practice is about experiencing an underlying wholeness, an underlying perfection and joy that is part of our lives regardless of their content. But like Bodhidharma’s answer, this is very deeply counter-intuitive to most of us, yet we have to figure out what it means to practice without turning it into a version of self-improvement.
for - quote - it takes practice to recognize the wholeness and completeness already here, and don't turn our practice into "self-improvement" because that is an indication of falling into illusion that wholeness isn't present - Barry Magid
quote - Our practice is about experiencing - an underlying wholeness, - an underlying perfection and joy - that is part of our lives regardless of their content. - But like Bodhidharma’s answer, this is very deeply counter-intuitive to most of us, - yet we have to figure out what it means to practice - without turning it into a version of self-improvement.
we need to see the two characters, the Emperor and Bodhidharma, as representing two aspects of our self, and as in many koans, our task is to resolve the apparent opposition, or contradiction between the two halves,
for - Zen koans - interpreting - contradiction between characters in Zen koans often represent two aspects of our same self - Barry Magid
I had a wonderful conversation with an American a few years ago when he was interviewing me and he said Graham this is really intriguing because it sounds like you end up with very light need for regulation that this would appeal to the libertarian end and I said absolutely there's almost no need to tax these companies because the state may be a stakeholder with rights to dividends and capital gain so you don't need to tax the company you don't need regulation
for - FSC - fair share companies inherent design - obviate need for external regulations because - sufficiently strong self-regulation - Graham Boyd - adjacency - FSC - fairshare commons companies - self regulation - libertarians - the sacred as highest form of self-regulation
adjacency - between - Fairshare Commons (FSC) companies - Libertarians - FSC are self-regulating to hlghest ethics - The sacred as the highest principle of self regulation - adjacency relationship - It seems that another way of articulating the Fairshare Commons is to use the language of the sacred - A living principle of the sacred implies intrinsically valuing existence and reality itself and all its manifestations - Modernity is barren of the sacred as a living principle, transactionalism has alienated us from nature and from each other - To embed a living principle of the sacred in FSC DNA would ensure the highest form of self-regulation and obviate the need for regulations, after all - when we act out of love of something, we do it voluntarily and with the greatest investment of our time, energy and resources, - and that is far superior than acting where there is no love and an external force is required to motivate action
These forces, which can also be alliances of human and non-human forces, can be the seed forms for what I just called ‘Magisteria of the Commons’. In this scenario, both market and state institutions, and if they disappear in their current form, the practices of market exchange and of the public management of common territorial life, become subject to the regulation by these cosmo-local commons institutions
for - adjacency - Trump government - Current political-economic order - possibility of crumbling and self imploding - due to populous controlled government holllowing itself out - Michel Bauwens
Owen Wright of the Christian Appalachian Project, one of the non-profits that helps Slone, says that outside perception can hurt the self-esteem of the people who live in Appalachia.
for - book - The Ascent of Humanity - Chapter VIII - Self and Cosmos - The Gaian Birth - The dangerous journey of birth - Charles Eisenstein
the first thing to understand is human beings are relational beings
for - quote - first thing to understand is that humans are relational beings - John Churchill - adjacency - humans are relational beings John Churchill - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt
it isn't just about alleviating their own personal suffering it's also about alleviating Universal suffering so this is where the the bodh satra or the Christ or those kinds of archetypes about being concerned about the whole
for - example - individual's evolutionary learning journey - new self revisiting old self and gaining new insight - universal compassion of Buddhism and the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - the universal compassion of the bodhisattva - Deep humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - the Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) as pointing to the self / other fundamental identity - Freud, Winnicott, Kline's idea of the self formed by relationship with the other, in particular the mOTHER (Deep Humanity), the Most significant OTHER
adjacency - between - the universal compassion of the bodhisattva - Deep humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - the Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) as pointing to the self / other fundamental identity - Freud, Winnicott, Kline's idea of the self formed by relationship with the other, in particular the mOTHER (Deep Humanity), the Most significant OTHER - adjacency relationship - When I heard John Churchill explain the second turning, - the Mahayana approach, - I was already familiar with it from my many decades of Buddhist teaching but with - those teachings in the rear view mirror of my life and - developing an open source, non-denominational spirituality (Deep Humanity) - Hearing these old teachings again, mixed with the new ideas of the individual / collective gestalt - This becomes an example of Indyweb idea of recording our individual evolutionary learning journey and - the present self meeting the old self - When this happens, new adjacencies can often surface - In this case, due to my own situatedness in life, the universal compassion of the bodhisattva can be articulated from a Deep Humanity perspective: - The Freudian, Klinian, Winnicott and Becker perspective of the individual as being constructed out of the early childhood social interactions with the mOTHER, - a Deep Humanity re-interpretation of "mother" to "mOTHER" to mean "the Most significant OTHER" of the newly born neonate. - A deep realization that OUR OWN SELF IDENTITY WAS CONSTRUCTED out of a SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP with mOTHER demonstrates our intertwingled individual/collective and self/other - The Deep Humanity "Common Human Denominators" (CHD) are a way to deeply APPRECIATE those qualities human beings have in common with each other - Later on, Churchill talks about how the sacred is lost in western modernity - A first step in that direction is treating other humans as sacred, then after that, to treat ALL life as sacred - Using tools like the CHD help us to find fundamental similarities while divisive differences might be polarizing and driving us apart - A universal compassion is only possible if we vividly see how we are constructed of the other - Another way to say this is that we see others not from an individual level, but from a species level
The notion of pure altruism attempts to create a dichotomy between the self and others, implying that true selflessness is possible. Yet, in reality, individuals exist within a web of relationships and mutual dependencies.
for - adjacency - pure altruism - selflessness - self / other dualism - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - biological limitations - evolutionary limitations
adjacency - between - pure altruism - selflessness - self / other dualism - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - biological limitations - evolutionary limitations - adjacency relationship - From an evolutionary and biological perspective, - the individual organism is district from other organisms and the environment - The individual is defined by a separating boundary and it must exchange energy and materials with it's environment as a necessary condition of survival. It must - receive and input nutrients inputs and - transmit, output and eliminate waste byproducts - The word 'selfless' is a polar abstraction. No individual can be 100% selfless or it would be an act of self-annihilation, a self-destructive act of denying 100% of all inputs necessary for its own survival - Existing as a living, individual organism requires some degree of individual self care - At the same time, the process of sexual reproduction, - in contrast to asexual reproduction - involves two organisms with sperm and egg, and is inherently social - In multi cellular organisms with highly complex social behaviours - such as our species - there is a strong learned component of concern for other as well - Pure selflessness is as rare as pure selfishness - Most of us have degrees of self care and degrees of care for others - Self and other are intertwingled, hence the Deep Humanity terms: - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt
for - rapid whole system change - Nafeez Ahmed - planetary phase shift - Nafeez Ahmed - planetary adaptive cycle - Nafeez Ahmed - essay - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024 Oct 16 - to - book - The Ascent of Humanity - chapter 8 Self and Cosmos: The Gaian Birthing - stillborn and the perilous journey through the womb - Charles Eisenstein
summary - This is a good article that makes sense of the inflection point that humanity now faces as it contends with multiple existential crisis - It summarizes the complexity of our polycrisis and its precarity and lays the theory for looking at the polycrisis from a different perspective: - as a planetary phase shift towards the potential end of scarcity and the next stage of our species evolution - Through the lens of ecologist Crawford Stanley Holling's lens of the adaptive cycle of ecological population dynamics, - and especially his 2004 paper "From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds" - Nafeez extends Holling's argument that we are undergoing a planetary adaptive cycle in which the back-loop is the dying industrial era. - In this sense, it is reminiscent of the writings of Charles Eisenstein in his book "The Ascent of Humanity", chapter 8: Self and Cosmos:, The Gaian Birth. - Eisenstein uses the the perilous journey of birth through the womb door as a metaphor of the transition we are currently undergoing.
to - paper - From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds - Crawford Stanley Holling - 2004 - https://hyp.is/KYCm2pFrEe-_PEu84xshXw/www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art11/main.html?ref=ageoftransformation.org - book - The Ascent of Humanity - Chapter 8 - The Gaian Birthing - Charles Eisenstein - https://hyp.is/r8scTpG_Ee-gLTujlli5hQ/charleseisenstein.org/books/the-ascent-of-humanity/eng/the-gaian-birthing/
for - book - The Ascent of Humanity - chapter 8 Self and Cosmos: The Gaian Birth - stillborn and the perilous journey through the womb - Charles Eisenstein - from - essay - The End of Scarcity? From 'polycrisis' to planetary phase shift - Nafeez Ahmed
from - essay - The End of Scarcity? From 'polycrisis' to planetary phase shift - Nafeez Ahmed - https://hyp.is/7t2GpJF7Ee-DjHfBgrshcQ/ageoftransformation.org/the-end-of-scarcity-from-polycrisis-to-planetary-phase-shift/
I control my emails. I can grep them, migrate them, back them up however I want, I can choose who gets through the spam filter. And this is my most sensitive data - password resets, personal emails, personal info - honestly I'm surprised more selfhosters don't do it.
Built in the open Concourse's RFC process and governance model invite anyone to become a contributor, developing the project roadmap by collaborating in the open.
I dismiss these uneasy whispers. I talk too much. I tell him things Ishouldn't.
She is aware what she is doing is out of place and her realism is gone. She is a lot less realistic without Moira.
Terms like locking in, ghosting, monk mode, winter arc, are common in the self-improvement scene on YouTube. A period of extreme focus and isolation to go deep into something.
Another spin (02:00) is that of an almost monk like quality. That of self discovery and inner transformation. So these terms have both a productive and (spiritual) transformational spin to them. I remember Tarik (friend) saying to me that you should become unrecognisable in these three months. Literally becoming something else (ie transformation).
https://metagov.org/projects/koi-pond
Metagov's KOI (Knowledge Organization Infrastructure) is a graph database that supports relationships between knowledge objects, users, and groups within Metagov. via JM
What I coveted was the shears
The potential for violence, for cutting the flowers, for almost sabotaging her own reproductive system which is deemed by Gilead to be a gift, a valuable resource. She doesn't want to be valued.
Wayne Bennett, one of the most successful coaches in the history of the sport of Rugby League, sums the problem up well when he says “I’ve had more trouble with myself than any other man I’ve ever met”.
Always the fight is with one-self, never the other. One desires the other.
this is astonishingly unnatural it's wrong from every perspective one can possibly look at it
for - potential disagreement - with - Bernardo Kastrup claim of unnaturality of normative self perspective - with - individual/collective gestalt - Major Evolutionary Transitions towards individuality
a model of the self that is inherently Collective and flowing
for - quote - model of a Self that is flowing and collective - John Vervaeke - similiarity to - Deep Humanity foundations on emptiness
quote - model of a Self that is flowing and collective - John Vervaeke - This is equivalent to Stop Reset Go Deep Humanity foundation on the two pillars of emptiness - change and intertwingledness
bateson's Paradox actually slams into the Paradox of self-transcendence
for - Bateson's paradox - meets - paradox of self-transcendence - John Vervaeke
what you are constantly doing is reconstructing yourself and your memories to make them applicable in the new you know in the new scenario
for - caterpillar butterfly story - Michael Levin - adjacency caterpillar story - Michael Levin - Indyweb dev - conversations with old self - evolutionary learning
adjacency - between - caterpillar butterfly story - Michael Levin - Indyweb dev - conversations with old self - evolutionary learning - adjacency relationship - In relating the caterpillar / butterfly story, Levin is using an extreme example of transformation, that happens to all living beings, including human beings - Levin talks about how the particulars of the old caterpillar engram are meaningless to its new form, the butterfly - The experiments he cites demonstrate that the old engram is re-interpreted from the new butterfly perspective - In a similar but less dramatic way, all of us learn new things every day, and we are constantly rehashing old memories - The Indyweb informational ecosystem that is being developed is based on a framework of evolutionary learning, that is - Our network of meaning is constantly in flux and our associative network of ideas is continuously changing and evolving - The Indyweb is designed to record our evolutionary learning journey and to serve as an external record of salient private ideas that emerge from it. The present interpretation of old engrams is referred to as "having conversations with our old selves"
don't do this experiment philosophically do it experientially it's like undressing at night we take off everything that can be taken off
for BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira
BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira - metaphor - Like taking all our clothes off when we are preparing for bedtime
comment - self knowledge exercise - Rupert Spira - This exercise makes me think of my own thoughts around discovering or rather, rediscovering one's true nature - If we are to discuss the "greater self" from whence we came, then it's tantamount to discovering - the nature nature within - human nature - So anything that is recognized as human nature, cannot be the ground state - The ground state must go beyond anything that depends on the human body - Thoughts and perceptions are mediated by brains and sense organs, both depend on the human body and so - are dependent on human nature - Self knowledge is unmediated and directly experienced - It has the quality of the ground state within us, the nature part of our human nature
one way to make this experiential investigation into the essential nature of our self would be to remove in fact we don't need to remove it would be sufficient to imagine removing everything from us that is not essential to us so i suggest we let's just embark do this investigation for a few minutes
for - BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira
BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira - Remove phenomenological experiences that are transient - that is, have a beginning or end - The fact that they do not last implies that they cannot be part of our essential, unchanging nature
there is one aspect one element of the universe that we have direct unmediated access to when i say unmediated i mean we have access to it through a channel that is does not go through perception or thought and that is our knowledge of our self our knowledge of our self is the only knowledge there is that is not mediated through thought or perception and therefore it is the only channel through which we have direct unmediated access to the reality of the universe and it is for this reason that self-knowledge stands at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions
for - key insight - quote - self knowledge - Rupert Spira
key insight - quote - self knowledge - Rupert Spira - There is one aspect of the universe that we have direct unmediated access to w
When i say unmediated i mean we have access to it through a channel that is does not go through
Our knowledge of our self is the only knowledge there is that is not mediated through
and therefore it is the only channel through which we have direct unmediated access to the reality of the universe
It is for this reason that self-knowledge stands at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.
We learned to whisper almost without sound. In the semi-darkness wecould stretch out our arms, when the Aunts weren't looking, and touch eachother's hands across space. We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds,turned sideways, watching each other's mouths. In this way we exchangednames, from bed to bed:
In some way, bonds and the exchanging of words/communication is what defines individuality. Individuals cannot be individuals without differentiation of the other.
They crave human interaction with an equal (intimacy) and this kind of gives the women power. Like huey said Gilead used the method of seperating women in order to oppress them.
This is a form of rebellion, subversion. This cannot be stamped out as shown in the "palimpset".
I see it as much more fluid and I see the boundary between self and world as something that can change all the time.
for - self / other dualism - fluidity of - examples - Michael Levin
self / other dualism - fluidity of - examples - Michael Levin - The self and its consciousness changes for a human INTERbeCOMing throughout its life: - during development as an embryo - cancer - metamorphosis
we do feel at least most of us, most of the time feel like some kind of unified, centralized inner perspective
for - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - Michael Levin - adjacency - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - multi-scale competency architecture - Buddhism - spiritual practice - self actualization - illusory body - illusory self - enlightenment
adjacency - between - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - multi-scale competency architecture - self actualization - Buddhist practice - illusory body - illusory self - enlightenment - awakening - adjacency relationship - Indeed, from both the mundane and the spiritual, religious perspective, the unified self as a fundamental assumption - "self-development" and "self-actualization" are terms that are only meaningful if there is a unified self - Is the Buddhist ideas of - awakening - enlightenment and \ - penetrating the illusion of self - based on a kind of experiencing of the multi-scale competency architecture itself? - What does "spiritual awakening" mean in the context of multi-scale competency architecture? - For instance, WHO is it that actually awakens? - Is it consciousness from the SAME level, a lower level or ALL levels of the multi-scale competency architecture that a multi-cellular conscious, sentient being such as a human INTERbeCOMing? - If it includes consciousness from lower levels, then it may be billions or trillions of cellular consciousnesses that are awakening to the higher order consciousness it composes!
to me the first step for being able to grow as a human being and as a true human being and express our true nature is to takeing first responsibility for what happens in our life good and bad and the next step is to be honest about yourself so the honesty was to recognize that I was unhappy and I was pretending to be happy so I recognize what normally people do not because they don't want to change their belief and so they continue to be unhappy
for - answer - how to experience nondual - how to experience non-separation and the authentic self - Federico Faggin
answer - how to experience nondual - how to experience non-separation and the authentic self - Be sincere in acknowledging your unhappiness and - take responsibility for it - Be a sincere seeker - The intensity of your search is like a prayer
According to Lacan, the absolute knowledgethat is thus attained is like a symbolic system that expresses theessential structures of reality in its entirety. This final state can-not be described as anything other than perfect self-conscious-ness.
Thus stating that absolute knowledge is not awareness of the real, as the real's effects but not actuality can be grasped. Simply, absolute knowledge is perfect self-consciousness where knowledge and truth combine
1:01:00 Rian Doris was into quantified self in his late teens
Also see other episode where Connor Murphy shared that same interest
Losing to evil intentions is indeed a big problem in the world. Thanks for your comment, Import Reaction Video.
Philosophy & religion should inherently be taught in education, which would partially solve this problem. Ethics. Morality.
The song's criticism on mass media is mainly related to sensationalism.
"Good" things are usually not sensational. They do not demand attention, hence why the code of known/unknown based on selectors for attention filters it out.
Reference Hans-Georg Moeller's explanations of Luhmann's mass media theory based on functionally differentiated systems theory.
Can also compare to Simone Weil's thoughts on collectives and opinion; organizations (thus most part of mass media) should not be allowed to form opinions as this is an act of the intellect, only residing in the individual. Opinion of any form meant to spread lies or parts of the truth rather than the whole truth should be disallowed according to her because truth is a foundational, even the most sacred, need for the soul.
People must be protected against misinformation.
On a general level, the song is not just about criticizing society, but also about stimulating independence... and not just in thought and identity, but in everything.
Don't be dependent on external factors.
Unrelated to the song itself. It is interesting that different people interpret the song's meaning differently. Likely due to individual differences in perspective, history, culture, etc.
Makes me reflect. Is knowledge/wisdom contained solely in content and words? Or is knowledge/wisdom rather contained in the RELATIONSHIP, the INTERACTION, between past experience, previous knowledge (identity) and substance?
Currently I am inclined to go for the latter.
to pursue a self-serving goal at the expense of any other creature or ecosystem would be insane because it would mean harming and debasing that on which I depend. A cancer cell metastasises throughout the
for - self / other - nuance of word self-serving
Self / other - self serving - and yet, we eat - nature eats itself - individual selves must eat other individual selves in order to maintain life - what is more self serving - then killing another individual self - forfeiting it's life for my own
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.
To give you back to yourself
Rob Pirie argues that if one doesn't understand the foundational principles of their society, in the case of the American Republic, the ancient Greek and Roman history, with a consensus on the foundational virtues for society, the society cannot sustain itself.
Thus, he argues, there is a need for classical (self-)education
Interesting thought. This guy relates the upcome of AI (non-fiction) writing to the lack of willingness people have to find out what is true and what is false.
Similar to Nas & Damian Marley's line in the Patience song -- "The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of. And still won't research and find the root of the truth that you seek of."
If you want to form an opinion about something, do this educated, not based on a single source--fact-check, do thorough research.
Charlie Munger's principle. "I never allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do."
It all boils down to a critical self-thinking society.
Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona.
Maybe this: Love which exempts no one from loving in return, by dante, shows that love is a reflection of the self and an understanding of one's identity.
’d commit the ultimateindignity, and with this indignity show him that the shame was all his, notmine, that I had come with truth and human kindness in my heart and that Iwas leaving it on his sheets now to remind him how he’d said no to a youngman’s plea for fellowship.
"Truth" is embedded in his semen that he will lay on the sheets after lots of fuddling trials by making excuses. In the end it is all his sexuality that will confess all truth and human kindness
Today while listening to the song I am reminded, through reflection, upon the fact that it takes quite some self-awareness and intellectual humility to prevent the rigorous defense of uneducated opinion, especially in online intellectual communities.
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." -- Confucius
Something that intellectuals must be aware of. We must be flexible in opinion and not defend that which we actually have no knowledge of.
We can debate for Socratic sakes; to deepen our understanding, but not to persuade... Pitfall is one might come to believe beyond doubts that which one debates for.
Key is to becoming more aware of our debate behavior and stop ourselves when we realize we can't actually prove that which we think.
This is especially critical for someone in position of teacher or great advisor; he who is looken up to. People are easier to take their opinion for granted based on "authority". As an ethical intellectual we must not abuse this, either on purpose or by accident. With great power comes great responsibility.
Heiress to one of the world’s most powerful families. Her grandfather cut her out of the $15.4 BILLION family fortune after her scandal. But she fooled the world with her “dumb blond” persona and built a $300 MILLION business portfolio. This is the crazy story of Paris Hilton:
Interesting thread about Paris Hilton.
Main takeaway: Don't be quick to judge. Only form an opinion based on education; thorough research, evidence-based. If you don't want to invest the effort, then don't form an opinion. Simple as that.
Similar to "Patience" by Nas & Damian Marley.
Also Charlie Munger: "I never allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do."
There is for himno royal road to order. Knowledge andright will a r e indispensable. This doesnot mean that the world will heed, andeducate its feelings and thoughts forthe sake of self-preservation. But quiteproperly, Mr. Wells should not care.He has diagnosed the ailment and pre-scribed the sensible dose. The patientis always a t liberty to pass out in self-conceit or with the aid of quacks.PRODUCED 2005 BY UNZ.ORGELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED
relationship to Eric Hoffer's The True Believer and modern politics?
relationship to the Great Books idea in 1942-1952 and beyond?
repeating history...
Socrates thought that self-understanding was essential to knowing how to live, and how to live well with oneself and with others.
Self-determination
What is self-determination? The prrocess of self understanding?
It seems ludicrous to imagine that these vitalresources incapable of further expansionwould become essentially free of charge.
for - question - transition - from capitalism to a form of socialism?
question - capitalism to a form of socialism? - To say it seems ludicrous is an opinion that makes sense from a traditional capitalists perspective - From a socialist perspective, it seems feasible - Nothing is free of charge, however, even in socialism, there is always some price an individual must pay, it's more about the incentive structure that differentiates the two - capitalism - polarized towards self-centric perspective - socialism -balanced self-and-other perspective
adjacency - between - capitalism - socialism - differing perspective on self/other worldview - adjacency relationship - While capitalism relies on a self-centric perspective, socialism relies on a more balanced self/other perspective
Due to lithium-ion batteries generating their own oxygen during thermal runaway, it is worth noting that lithium-ion battery fires or a burning lithium ion battery can be very difficult to control
"You buy a khaki pants And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones" criticism on how people change their appearances so easily, acclaim status/right just because they can conform to social appearances - doesn't mean that they actually are who they say they or they really mean what they do/represent. like those televangelists with their fake/unproductive compassion and care. what change are they really doing to help humanity as a whole, when they are truly only looking out for themselves and their own comfort/security, while projecting their own existence/ideologies on others. criticism on the right/ownership of ancient artifacts, knowledge and discoveries. people who claim to own knowledge or ancient artifacts are actually theives who are stealing and exploting humanity, what belongs to everyone.
Epictetus: "He who is properly grounded in life should not have to look for outside approval."
Also: "If you are ever tempted to look outside for approval, realize you have lost your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own."
Do not change as often as the winds... But do not be impervious to change either.
Nietzche: "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
There is a balance to be held. Change opinion and outside projection only if applicably by rational thought based on thorough research and nuanced deep understanding. Be principled, yet flexible.
"This is how the media pillages On the TV the picture is Savages in villages" criticism of the media, how it produces ratings/money from sensationalising/propagandasing/taking advantage of the absurdity of the human condition, the problems of humanity - creating trauma based mind control, programming our thoughts and controlling mass consciousness of society. projecting false/bias stereotypes, prejudice and perspectives on particular socio-cultural groups. Esp. creating prejudice against individuals and cultures who show the truth towards enlightenment and growth in human consciousness - keep the masses asleep/blinded to the truth of their existence as a whole, also their self-empowerment and enlightenment.
The control of knowledge (or how it is portrayed) means to control the thoughts of people. This goes against freedom. See Simone Weil: the media should give factual knowledge and leave interpretation to the people. Opinion should fall to a person themselves.
The world today is often characterized by a fast-paced, reactive culture. The song encourages a more thoughtful, deliberate approach to life. Patience allows us to step back, reflect, and make informed decisions instead of impulsively reacting to situations.
System 1 vs. System 2
Counteract the dopamine-dependent short-attention-spanned culture of today. Stop. Take time to think. Reflect. Go away from the devices. Perform analog note-making. Slow down.
The song criticizes the tendency to rush to conclusions without fully grasping the complexities of social problems like poverty, inequality, and political corruption. Patience is essential here to delve deeper, research, and understand the root causes rather than relying on superficial opinions.
First, a man should not have any power over that which he does not understand (deeply).
Second, patience as a virtue is very important here, because developing expertise in an area takes time and effort. One must be devoted.
Following from this manner comes, once again, Charlie Munger's principle... Do not form an opinion if you do not understand multiple perspectives.
"Yes, but I don't have the time to do my own research." is criticism on this principle, I respond with: "But if you aren't even willing to make time to form your opinion based on logic and deep understanding, is it worth having an opinion at all?"
Like Marcus Aurelius said: "The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject."
You don't ask a lawyer to perform surgery on you, or even to explain it to you theoretically, he does not know anything about this. In the same way, a civilian should not be asked to teach politics.
From the same manner, do not judge before understanding. This is also what Mortimer J. Adler & Charles van Doren advocate: "You must say with reasonable certainty 'I understand' before you can say any of the following: 'I agree,' 'I disagree,' or 'I suspend judgement.'"
The song criticizes the tendency to rush into judgment without fully understanding the underlying problems. It also emphasizes the value of research and seeking out the truth from various perspectives.
This is basically critical thinking. Which is also my goal for (optimal) education: To build a society of people who think for themselves, critical thinkers; those who do not take everything for granted. The skeptics.
See also Nassim Nicolas Taleb's advice to focus on what you DON'T know rather than what you DO know.
Related to syntopical reading/learning as well. (and Charlie Munger's advice). You want to build a complete picture with a broad understanding and nuanced before formulating an opinion.
Remove bias from your judgement (especially when it comes to people or civilizations) and instead base it on logic and deep understanding.
This also relates to (national, but even local) media... How do you know that what the media portrays about something or someone is correct? Don't take it for granted, especially if it is important, and do your own research. Validity of source is important; media is often opinionized and can contain a lot of misinformation.
See also Simone Weil's thoughts on media, especially where she says misinformation spread must be stopped. It is a vital need for the soul to be presented with (factual) truth.
05:00 Connor Murphy is a data strategist and works at the Flow Research Collective. He is also into tracking data, on himself (quantified self).
Data structures are an integral part of computers used for the arrangement of data in memory.
The importance of data structures (related to memory)
Dr. Harry McNeill’s June 1940 assessment in Interracial Review
Interesting commentary here on conversion of African-Americans to Catholicism as well as self-help nature of reading for improvement. Analogizes African-Americans without Catholicism to Mortimer J. Adler as a Jew.
Possible tone of colonialism to assimilate African-Americans into Western Culture here? Though still somehow some space for movement and growth.
To Martin a liberal education meant “the kind of education which setsthe mind free from the servitude of the crowd and from vulgar self-interests.”
He didn't have the framework to describe it in behavioral economic terms, but Everett Dean Martin's idea of a liberal education in 1926 was to encourage the use of Kahneman & Tversky's system two over system one. It takes more work, but system two thinking can generally beat out system one gut reactions for building a better life.
systems may come to necessitate their own propagation, he suggests, when we use them.
The worry most people have with this suggestion is that children are going to get discouraged if they fail. But that is not necessarily the case, and I think teachers, parents, and other adults have a great opportunity to help prevent this. If we demonstrate that needing to put down a book for awhile is not a failure, then we can help children become more willing to experiment and to try things which are currently just out of reach.
This is the concept of growth mindset; and we need to teach that to our children in any way possible. It has been shown in studies that growth mindset has a positive causal influence on academic and financial success (I cannot state sources, but I know I've come across this)
Note to self: Research this later.
And this is what I believe is happening with students and reading, at least in part. They have convinced themselves that they aren’t readers. They have convinced themselves that reading old books, especially difficult old books, is just too arduous, too boring, too pointless. They have convinced themselves that even if the books are good and soul-enriching, there are better things to be doing with their time.
Fixed mindset. Self fulfilling prophecies. Ignorance.
I sometimes see this in YouTube comments. When I recommend Plato to beginners in philosophy, I am told that I am being irresponsible, because Plato is too difficult for a beginner. It would be better to recommend a comprehensive survey of philosophy explicitly written for beginners, the critics say, so that people don’t get overwhelmed. But then I see other comments, sometimes on YouTube but often elsewhere, from people who had never read any philosophy, stumbled on one of my videos, and read Plato. Sometimes these are high school students, sometimes college graduates who did not study philosophy, sometimes mid-career adults who didn’t bother with college. The message is remarkably similar. They were previously convinced that philosophy would be too difficult to them, and reading Plato helped them see that they were wrong.
Self-fulfilling prophecy?
There's so many different worlds So many different suns 00:02:58 And we have just one world But we live in different ones
for - Indyweb - connecting the multimeaningverse - multimeaningverse - lebenswelt - perspectival knowing - quote - Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms - private inner world / public outer world - self other gestalt - adjacency - Brothers in Arms - We have just one world but live in different ones - perspectival knowing - self other gestalt - lebenswelt - semantic fingerprint - salience mismatch - Indyweb - Deep Humanity salience landscape - John Vervaeke
quote - Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms - (See quote below)
adjacency - between - Brothers in Arms - We have just one world but live in different ones - - perspectival knowing - self other gestalt - lebenswelt - semantic fingerprint - salience mismatch - Indyweb - John Vervaeke - salience landscape - Deep Humanity - meaningverse - multimeaningverse - adjacency relationship - This verse is so beautiful in summarizing the human condition - We each have our own unique lifeworld, what Edmund Husserl called "Lebenswelt" - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=lebenswelt - The self / other gestalt has its two poles, each belonging to two complimentary worlds: - The self has a private inner space only accessible to the individual organism - At the same time, the individual self phenomenologically experiences other living organisms, both of the same and different species - Different individual organisms can share a common public space, which for humans is navigated using the instrument of language - Deep Humanity defines the words - "meaningverse" - the individuals world of meaning - "multi-meaningverse" - the shared meaning of many individuals converging their respective individual meaningverses together - The song employs these verses to articulate the complimentary and sometimes contradictory-appearing worlds of the private-inner ad the public-outer - The semantic fingerprint of each word in an individual's vocabulary is unique to that individual as a function of - varying enculturation and social conditioning - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=semantic+fingerprint - and all these different perspectives - something cognitive scientist John Vervaeke calls "perspectival knowing" - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=John+Vervaeke - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=perspectival+knowing - can lead to what we call in Indyweb / Deep Humanity terminology "salience mismatch" (ie. misunderstanding) - derived from John Vervaeke's popularization of the term "salience landscape" - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=salience+landscape - War, hatred, crime and violence are all extreme forms of othering which emerge when we fail to understand the nature of the self/other and individual/collective gestalt
This kind of post can also be usedfor students to introduce themselves to each other at thebeginning of the term. Having students review and analyzetheir own video recordings is an effective means of fosteringreflection.
video presentations - allow for self-critique
He had never had apricotjuice in his life. She stood facing him with her salver flat against her apron,trying to make out his reaction as he quaffed it down. He said nothing atfirst. Then, probably without thinking, he smacked his lips.
He just downed a glass of his own fluid, and enjoyed it... Does this mean love and sexual desire is a desire targeted at loving oneself?
. If online courses continue to be part of the long-termstrategic plan for academic institutions, we need to consider howto teach students the skills they will need to become self-regulatedlearners. The ultimate goal is to create learning environments inwhich students are effective learners
teaching self regulation
it could also indicate a reliance on verbalcues to eliminate the need to keep a calendar.
students not wanting to keep a calendar, is important b/c they need to learn to take responsibility for tasks to prepare for employment
Self-regulated learn-ers generally take responsibility for their own learning (Loyens,Magda, & Rikers, 2008) by employing meta-cognitive techniques inwhich they actively monitor their progress in their learning and theachievement of their goals. They are able to follow assigned tasks,assess their level of comprehension via reflection and attemptto avoid behaviors that would jeopardize their academic success
student motivation and responsibility
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A business is the storefront of your value. It is the public display of yourself, your goals, and your values. Businesses are an extension of yourself.
Business serving as an extension of the self. This, though, applies mostly for one person businesses.
Also see how media extend human beings Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
It is the byproduct of knowing what you want and accepting nothing less from yourself. It is the byproduct of an ordered mind. That is, maintaining a clear vision for your future and filling clarity gaps with education and action. The reason people struggle with self-discipline is because they get distracted from what matters. They forget who they want to become. They forget what they are capable of. They forget the impact they want to have.
100X goals force one to filter action... Impossible goals = Mental Clarity of the HIGHEST degree.
100X come from vision which in turn comes from future identity (future-self)
sender_order
A way to construct self-parent chain in thread's context.
urged his disciples to delve into the ever-present sense of “I” to reach its Source
adjacency - between - Ernest Becker - book - The Birth and Death of Meaning - Eastern meditation to interrogate sense of self - adjacency statement - Becker writes and speculates about the anthropology and cultural history of the origin of the self construct - It is a fascinating question to compare Becker's ideas with Eastern ideas of dissolving the constructed psychological self
withtokens provided by their IdP.
Commonly, this is accomplished through a pub-licly available list of credential statuses (either listing the revokedor valid credentials).
Claims about one's identity (authorized devices), could be maintained by the quorum of these devices. Or by a quorum of one's devices and his friends.
The new story becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward.
for - stories - salience of adjacency- imagination - stories - futures - Ernest Becker - self - timebinding - symbolosphere - quote - Brian Eno - book - Citizens - Jon Alexander - Arian Conrad - citizens - not consumers
quote - Brian Eno
Imagining the future makes it more possible.
Sometimes this work of imagination and storytelling is about the future,
comment - This is a really powerful writing from Brian Eno. - Storytelling is an exercise in - the imagination of alternative possibilities to our own reality. - Stories can become both - inspirational and - aspirational - They can paint a picture in our mind of - a fantasy - a world that does not yet exist - but that nonexistent but desirable reality can then serve as the goal for which we strive - Mapping Futures interventions is then, essentially an act of desirable, inspirational make believe, and mustering the resources to turn the fantasy into reality - Progress relies on design, the imagination of unrealities in vivid detail, - in order to turn them into realities - In doing this, it is not an act carried out in ivory towers, - but in the everyday life of every one of us - We are all engaged in desirable fantasies daily whenever - we decide what meal we will prepare or restaurant to dine at - which clothing outfit to wear today - what we plan to write or say next to another - Every decision we make as a choice between different future alternatives - When it comes to planning major future decisions, - we need to have as much detail as possible of the imagined future - The Town Anywhere project conceived by Ruth Ben-Tovin and employed in the Transition Town movement for many years fis an example of such a simulacrum - https://hyp.is/mqeCtAE_Ee-Yxleqg7GFww/docdrop.org/video/cRvhY4S94ic/ - It provides an artistic space for citizens to imagine a desirable fantasy that can be embodied, enacted and deeply remembered through the participatory and collective citizen act of creating a proxy of their future local habitat in the present, and exploring and momentarily inhabiting their simulacrum. - In this way, this compelling experience is like a branding iron, searing the memory deep into our memory, where it can help guide our actions to realize the desirable fantasy. - Couched within a citizen's FREEligion and FREElosophy we generically call Deep Humanity, an open source, open knowledge approach to universal raison d'etre for what it deeply means to be human, Town Anywhere can scale to fire up the imagination of citizens to co-create our collective future. - Town Anywhere, along with other citizen initiatives which I belong to that advocate healthy citizen power such as SONEC, Stop Reset Go, Deep Humanity, the Indyweb, Living Cities Earth and many, many others can emerge a human murmuration to drive the transition - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fleemor.medium.com%2Fmesmerized-by-the-murmuration-on-human-potential-f4c9ffe06ffa&group=world - As Jon Alexander and Arian Conrad write here, we have to find the narratives that matter to us, where WE is the citizens. Other thinkers like Jose Ramos write along the same line: - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Foff-planet.medium.com%2Fdiscovering-the-narratives-that-matter-to-us-327958a2daec&group=world
our lives really aren’t that important and we’ll all soon be forgotten anyway.
for - cup half full
insight - smaller self vs greater self - or this could be thought in a cup-half-full perspective, - that ALL lives are sacred from the outset - The small self may forget, but the absence of any memories is perhaps the mark of the greater self
The social environment is the only way we derive and validate our identities. The question may be “Who am I?” but the real question is “How are others supposed to feel about me?”
for - quote - self esteem - self - adjacency - enlightenment - epoche - self-esteem - Ernest Becker
quote - The social environment is the only way we derive and validate our identities. The question may be “Who am I?” but the real question is “How are others supposed to feel about me?”
adjacency - between - Ernest Becker - epoche - self-esteem - enlightenment - Epoche - Epoche - phenomenological reduction - Symbiocene - Thomas Hagel - What's it like to be a Bat? - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency statement - It is fascinating intersection of adjacent ideas that the equivalency of these two questions brings up - These moments are as Gyuri talks about - having a dialogue with my old self - revisiting old ideas from a new perspective in which - more water has flowed under the bridge - The chain of discussions with my old selves began with a reading and physical annotation of Ernest Becker's physical book - The Birth ad Death of Meaning - It triggered a connection with Thomas Hagel's famous book - What's it like to be a bat? - But this connect-the-dot journey was kicked off by this morning's response to a Linked In discussion thread on the Anthropocene I've been having with Glenn Sankatsing of Rescue our Future: - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-sankatsing-7977711b8_anthropocentrism-paradox-or-theroot-of-activity-7185709152386654208-4E5t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop - There the discussion focused on whether the Anthropocene is a term that is inherently biased since it is anthropomorphic. - Glenn used the example of a Rabbit's perspective of reality. This begged the question asked by Thomas Nagel. - Reading Becker's book and especially his discussion of human's cultural evolution of the ego construct being responsible for timebinding - creating a framework of time which we are all bound to, - it made me wonder about my perspective of reality vs my cat's perspective. Am I timebound and there are forever living in the present and always have a sense of timelessness? - If so, what are the implications? How do timebound organisms create an equitable symbiocene with other species that live in the eternal now? - What's also interesting is Husserl's phenomenological reductionism - the Epoche that suspends judgment - It raises these questions: - Does the Epoche also break timebinding? - Does it allow us to have a dreamlike experience during waking consciousness? - Does it allow us to enter timelessness and therefore share a similiar state to many other species?. - If we are able to enter such a timeless state, does it increase our empathy towards others fellow species?
reference - Phenomenological reduction - Epoche - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Epoche
our consciousness of self is a social construction. Symbolic self-representation is built from the outside in, which means our identities are, in essence, social products.
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quote - self as social construction - our consciousness of self is a social construction. Symbolic self-representation is built from the outside in, which means our identities are, in essence, social products.
comment - good alignment and validation for Deep Humanity's individual collective gestalt
This, Becker argues, is where the self-concept was born.
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What’s the matterThat you unlace your reputation thusAnd spend your rich opinion for the nameOf a night-brawler? Give me answer to it.
Iago is the answer, because the one with the most restraint ends up being undone the easiest.
Are we turned Turks?
Othello describes this chaos as Turks, as the foreign, as the other, as the out-group. This means he prizes his in-group due to their civility and restraint -- in other words their ability to maintain composure for the sake of pride. The rejection of the inner demon only creates more destruction (Inferior Function)
Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits(That hold their honors in a wary distance,The very elements of this warlike isle
They protect their honor with wariness, indicating a sense of hiding, of restraint, of self-control, and most of all, of shame. This is a string that Iago pulls, something already bound to topple, Iago is just the small push like a domino.
and behold what innovation it makeshere.
Iago simply uncovers their true and repressed selves, like a glass of wine does. In some way he is not a villain, he is just the ignition of an already burning flame
without the which there were no expectation ofour prosperity.
"Our prosperity signifies that he is both sidling up to his characters in his grand puppet show and actually a integral part of them literally. He has the same motivations as each of the characters, only he is helping all of them achieve their most sinister goals
A knave very voluble, no furtherconscionable than in putting on the mere form of civiland humane seeming, for the better compassing of hissalt and most hidden loose affection.
He is describing Cassio as a monster or devil with a facade of human civilness, when in fact it is Iago who is the monster, but fully civil and detached from his emotions. He sees the devil in desire, lust and love, when in fact the one who ruins it all is the one who cannot accept the human subjective nature including feeling and emotion
ake all the money thou canst. If sanctimonyand a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian andsupersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and allthe tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her.
Showing that he believes his wills make him the God of the world, that he has ultimate power over the chessboard just through intention alone -- and that is the work of the devil, the rejection of emotion's sway on decision making, and pure reason
ut we have reason tocool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbittedlusts. Whereof I take this that you call love to be asect or scion.
Perhaps his belief that he is uncontrolled by emotion and unconstrainted, and therefore is superior, is what makes him so evil? The detachment of oneself to their biological and true feeling is the work of the devil: reason.
Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus orthus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our willsare gardeners
Iago's main core lies in self-control and motivation -- he believes himself to be a man of simple free will, and unlimited freedom. Unrestrained and in control of the chessboard -- he assumes both the external world and (mistakenly) his internal world are under his control, but they may not be.
sterile with idleness, or manured withindustry
Fertile or not fertile, choice of life and or death, of renewal or of idleness
The Sugary Secret of Self-Control