What I’m saying is that the structural model we use is inaccurate, and fails to account for anomalies. It isn’t that ‘social instinct’ overrides ‘surv...
Because this particular potential (among others) was realised by an acorn’s interaction with the world. It does work - you’re just not accustomed to l...
In my view, all actuality is a result of interactions between potentiality, manifest in one, two, three and four-dimensional relations. Aristotle reco...
I think our systemic needs are more basic than this. We don’t need food, shelter and medication as such, but we do need the availability of nutrition ...
Happiness is a temporarily introspected positive affect. The notion that it’s even possible to somehow attain this with any permanency is false. And y...
I think we continue to make the mistake of assuming that ‘prior’ to the Big Bang, everything still needs to be explained in relation to spacetime. We’...
Singing can be a social thing, but it can also be an alone thing. Music is about relationships of sound - so I’d say that singing is more of a relatio...
You don’t ‘entertain’ self-love. Let me go back a step, and try to meet you where you’re at... Jesus’ message was to challenge the notion of ‘self-lov...
Things are working dynamically, but not necessarily towards ends - this remains debatable, particularly when you look closely at what it is that chang...
That’s kind of the point. It doesn’t help to try and define ourselves as a separate entity in relation to the world - this is where the loneliness ste...
My apologies, I haven’t read Dostoevsky, so I’m probably out of my depth - just responding to the quote out of context. Interesting that the ‘systems ...
A parable is a story illustrating a moral or spiritual lesson. I imagine the lesson you’re going for is something along the lines of: ‘The relationshi...
I think the difference between love for oneself radiating outward and egoism or vanity is regarding the ‘self’ as distinct from others, as isolated or...
Plenty of truth to this. With systems and abstract deductions comes a sense of order and the illusion that we understand exactly how to deal with the ...
It’s not so much that they point in different directions. This is a misunderstanding that stems from thinking of purpose at a reduced level of awarene...
But ‘things’ are not operating towards ends that can be objectively defined. There is purpose, sure - but what we understand of that purpose is relati...
No - I’m saying that the manifestation of dispositional potential is limited by the interacting perspective. There is more dispositional potential to ...
The entire form is not normally passed on, though. The offspring takes on only the concept of the species, just like the art. What is passed on is inf...
That’s interesting, because you did distinguish between extrinsic and intrinsic teleology with this example: I agree that there is no difference, and ...
My point is that teleological explanations necessarily isolate an interaction from the conditions in which it occurs. It sounds ridiculous when you tr...
So, what you’re saying is that it’s ‘teleological’ if you ignore the causal conditions contributing to the object/process/state of things? Isn’t that ...
Imagination - yes. Perception is subjective, ‘seeing’ with the mind or understanding. Your mind is not only four-dimensional - if you’re capable of co...
Both teleological explanations and efficient causation derive from Aristotlean philosophy, which attempts to ‘solve’ the problem of infinite regress w...
We can’t measure them - we can subjectively relate to possibilities, and perceive the potential manifested from this interaction. To observe is to loo...
The problem here is not excess thought, it’s how we perceive prediction error, which is experienced as humility, pain, loss or lack. We generally refe...
Well, it’s neither of these at this level. Structure: the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex. I apply the...
Both. In a way I get what you’re trying to allude to: that thought is not understanding. But it’s not so much the rejection of thinking that allows fo...
Not complicating, but extending - and spherical possibilities, to be precise :joke: I was taking the opportunity to illustrate the dimensional awarene...
Billiard balls appear to operate only on a two-dimensional plane, but this isn’t the case - they’re three-dimensional objects. You can make a billiard...
Not quite - I believe that the will is wholly a five-dimensional faculty, which determines and initiates all action according to ignorance/awareness, ...
In my opinion, too, to some extent - but for different reasons. Still, that doesn’t stop consciousness (as a concept described with words) from being ...
I agree with you here - I think this describes roughly where my own theory differs from Gnomon’s. I like the idea of a broader sense of ‘radical other...
2 is more of a comfort to believe, particularly considering the relativity of time, and the uncertainty it lends to our notion of reality. In my opini...
Focusing on resisting a particular action is not demonstrating awareness, connection or collaboration with the range of alternatives available. Rememb...
This here is part of the reason we’re not doing such a great job of it. It isn’t about wresting control from the laws of nature or imposing our collec...
So let me ask: When consciousness emerges, at what point is it in fact consciousness? When does it stop being consciousness? If a computer program can...
To the extent that they’re failing or struggling to recover, they are likely unaware, isolated or excluded from a relation to their own potential, yes...
Not just awareness - also connection and collaboration. Being informed of alternative options is just the start. It’s all very well to tell someone th...
Purpose: an explanation, cause or justification (ie. reason) for existence. The human organism has not evolved to maximise survival, dominance or proc...
The will is the faculty by which we determine and initiate action via three conceptual ‘gates’: ignorance/awareness, isolation/connection and exclusio...
First of all, I tend not to define an ‘agent’, because I believe all agency derives from awareness, connection and collaboration - in that sense, we a...
Well, it seems like you haven’t really followed much of what I’ve written in this thread at all. No, a capacity is NOT observable, only perceivable. W...
It seems you ARE misreading me, or perhaps just overlooking some elements of my argument. You might want to read my reply to CeleRate above. I believe...
Influence at the level of potentiality is not control, it is simply potential to influence. If we are aware of this potential, if we are connected and...
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