Carl-Richard

Not as I know. But a device that can fix mental problems is what we need for the future. Based on what?

Trauma and neurosis detector – a handheld device which scans for sources of inner conflict and prescribes you a treatment method or solution. Works on anything from feeling bummed out by the weather to repressed memories of childhood abuse.

Intrinsic motivation is generally the largest predictor of success. If you want to learn piano to become financially independent, that is extrinsic motivation. To find out what intrinsically motivates you, you need to find something that you feel compelled to do despite it not leading to an alternative outcome.

Drop the concept of solipsism.

Lol. Every time I shake my bedsheets outside my window, I'm spooked that I'm going to fall out. I guess I'll be even more careful then

How does he know that?

It sounds like my party trick now :))

...aaand I just learned it on guitar.

It sounds like this:

No disrespect taken

I'll put it on Spotify one day If not, I'll just play the ice cream truck melody, or the Sony Ericsson ringtone.

My own.

Exploding at minor things is more characteristic of borderline personality disorder than bipolar disorder.

Have you seen the polar bear playing the piano? ?

They're very much connected.

Yes it truly is. What people really care about when they ask if e.g. LaMDA is conscious is whether it has a first person understanding of the human speech it produces and the thoughts and emotions portrayed within it. We only seriously start asking the question "is it conscious?" the moment it starts emulating human behavior, so of course that is our interest. Nobody cares about non-dual red herrings about transpersonal consciousness.

Destiny's veganism position is a peak case of intellect without wisdom. You don't need a deep discussion to figure out why killing an animal might be wrong.

???

Your conscience is your higher self reeling you in towards love.

Just know that if you enter week 2 and you start manically posting 10 paragraphs every post, I'll BAN all of you

As a bit of a side tangent, it's interesting how many models invoke the concept of balance for establishing normativity. Wilber's "transcend and include" – you need a balance between the two, or else your development stagnates. Freud talks about a balance between the id, ego and superego, or else your psyche gets in conflict with itself. Plato likewise talks about the balance between his three aspects of the psyche (the man, the lion and the monster), just like neuroscience talks about the balance between the different brain hemispheres and hierarchies (neocortex, limbic system and the basal ganglia). And of course JP talks about a balance between order and disorder. So relying on the concept of balance is not a bad thing. If anything, it means you're doing something right ;D

I don't see how you can not do that though, just like you can't avoid order or disorder. But I can see how you can not do that in an unbalanced way though... So again, I would say it's still just a description, not a prescription.

How should you act though?

That's just balance. You should balance novelty and order. It would only be bad if the alternative teaches you more lessons. I don't see how that is the case. "Development exists" is just a description. I'm asking about how I'm supposed to act with this information (because that is JP's assertion with balance: how you should act). Btw, I apologize if I'm coming off as overly critical. It's just how I criticize myself when I make these kinds of models ?‍? I'm also usually better at wording myself. A lot of the confusion is on me.

You shouldn't actually be maximizing either though, so I don't see a new lesson. The only lesson is balance. Is the new lesson that "development exists"? Because that is not really a lesson. It's just a premise of the model. It's like saying the lesson of JP's model is that there is order and chaos. No, that just is the model. The lesson (or a lesson) is the necessity of balance. Does your model have such a lesson?