contradiction
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assertional vs unforeclosing statements
- huh this whole thing is related to how contradiction is different from opposites
Podcast summaries
- Conversation As Medium solutions are way harder than problems the importance of being able to say that you don't yet know how to solve a problem what does it mean to understand each other compromise is not what everyone wants Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings Dialectic Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Realitywith any misunderstanding, it's possible (& usually worthwhile) to come to a place of profoundly mutually satisfying shared understanding just because someone has an articulation of a problem, doesn't mean their proposed solution is any good solutions are way harder than problems SimPol John Bunzl omniwin perspective-taking Coherence Therapy Questions Are Not Just For Asking the point of friendliness is not to avoid conflict, but to actually create contexts that allow for deeper, more intense, prolonged conflict over the long term the importance of being able to say that you don't yet know how to solve a problem double bind contradiction there's no way to communicate correctly or incorrectly - there's just what works in context and what doesn't work meaning John Vervaeke
- 51:59 - 1:05:18 - How can we make quality conversations more widespread? much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly contradiction SimPol John Bunzl greet your thoughts with kindness self-trust self-validation everyone is constantly overgeneralizing
July 9th, 2020
- Reading this article by Charlie Awbery and this twitter exchange, I'm thinking about paradox and contradictions and What are Opposites?
- Tweets
- And it seems there's sort of a few basic metaphors here:
- cyclical process, eg in-breath out-breath
- relates to the idea of "balance" - be careful with that
- oscillating contradiction (similar to above)
- buzzer in circuit
- i/j in paradox logic
- self-destructive contradiction
- ?
- higher-dimensional thinking
- goals that are incompatible might be resolveable with higher-dimensional thinking or they might amount to a double bind or oscillating contradiction (similar to above)
