October 18th, 2023
- #2tweet Perilously, we can satisfy what the world demands of us without satisfying our own hearts’ yearnings.
- Perilously, we can satisfy what the world demands of us without satisfying our own hearts’ yearnings.
- (maybe QT "do you yearn?")
- Interestingly, it's much harder to do the reverse: if we focus on satisfying our own hearts’ yearnings, we will soon discover that this is only possible to the degree that we interface with the world in a way that is at least tolerable to the world, and ideally collaborative.
- Society does not know and cannot know what we yearn for. It cannot incorporate that into its designs except through us enacting what inspires us
- (the St Antoine d'Exupery quote about doing what makes your heart sing)
- #2tweet it's the parts' responsibility to do what they feel like
it's the whole's responsibility to arrange the environment such that the parts' natural desires will result in the whole getting cared for
(which involves a lot of making the parts aware of the needs that the whole has)- it's the parts' responsibility to do what they feel like
it's the whole's responsibility to arrange the environment such that the parts' natural desires will result in the whole getting cared for
(which involves a lot of making the parts aware of the needs that the whole has)
- #2tweet if your awareness is fully expanded then what you feel like doing is the best thing to do send tweet
- if your awareness is fully expanded then what you feel like doing is the best thing to do send tweet
- (I don't even actually believe this but there's something there)
- #2tweet right now, in this moment of your life, how can you increase the vividness of what you're doing? (even if what you're doing continues to just be scrolling twitter or retweeting)
can you scroll mindfully instead of mindlessly, indulging in the richness of each word you see?- right now, in this moment of your life, how can you increase the vividness of what you're doing? (even if what you're doing continues to just be scrolling twitter or retweeting)
can you scroll mindfully instead of mindlessly, indulging in the richness of each word you see?
- ICYMI: "incuriating" means "to make curious"
(just as "infuriating" means "to make furious")
- #2tweet "the propositional depends on the procedural, which then depends on the perspectival, which is then grounded in the participatory"
— John Vervaeke (ep30 of AFTMC)- "the propositional depends on the procedural, which then depends on the perspectival, which is then grounded in the participatory"
— John Vervaeke (ep30 of AFTMC)- quote my articulation of these four
- "relevant events are like tuesday events"
- "relevance ultimately has to be relevant TO an autopoietic system"
- "food literally matters to me"
- relevance realization can't be a theory of relevance detection