Carl-Richard

Like I said, there is a bookmark function that essentially works like a favorite function, atleast for me. You're not talking about upvotes right?

When did this happen?

You can't boil language acquisition down to memorization or separate it from problem solving. There are many factors at play, although it's true that memory is a central part of it, but that's true for chess aswell. Magnus Carlsen is known to have memorized all the moves of every single game he has ever played. Don't you think that has an impact on his performance? I'll again point out the difference between a reductive (exclusive) view of mind and an inclusive view. "Brain power" or whatever term you want to throw at it (problem solving, critical thinking etc.) is just one aspect of mind; albeit a central aspect of mind, I agree; but my point is there is more than that. What is language but a collection of symbols? What is symbolic thinking without language? Be mindful of the framing here. You're invoking a rather narrow slice of developmental psychology ("lines of development" I'm assuming refers to SDi). I'm not limiting myself to that framework when talking about the mind. As I said, knowing different languages opens you up to different cultures and a larger view of life. A larger perspective is synonymous with higher consciousness and a more flexible mind.

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Virtually all Green people are leftists but not all leftists are Green. Posting videos like these and asking "has PC culture gone too far?" is the biggest meme on the internet. We've already seen what happens there. Nothing good comes out of it. All stages in Tier 1 are essentially dogmatic. It's not endemic to Blue.

You can't sell this shit. It must be discovered.

This is not endemic to so-called PC culture. Take a look at history.

LOL. I was actually observing how my younger brother would communicate with my American stepmother when I had this insight But then I could say that you don't have to memorize a thousand chess moves to get these insights. Be inclusive, not exclusive ❤️ I think we can draw a distinction between pure imagination and symbolic thinking. I generally think about the latter when I think about "thinking", and that form of thinking requires language. Yup. I would say I'm an advanced guitar player (played for 12 years), and flow states are in my experience synonymous with meditation. There is a profound silence but at the same time a profound richness. There are many aspects of mind that can be trained. Language is one of them. Being good with language can be very useful. Be careful not to reduce a rich phenomena like mind down to something very general like "performance" or "power" and invalidating any approach outside of those metrics. It's all good

I speak Norwegian, English, Spanish (rusty). Norwegians can also generally communicate with Swedes and Danes (I say generally, because there are some Norwegians that can't even communicate with eachother ). These two people are technically speaking the same language but they're struggling so hard :

Learning different languages can make you more aware of certain types of cultural and psychological dynamics, which can help widen your perspective. For example, I've noticed that there is a lower threshold for using profane language outside your mother tongue, because unlike in your first language, you weren't taught to make those associations throughout your upbringing, thus it doesn't carry the same emotional weight. How can you think without language?

When I was 11 and got my first electric guitar (I still use that one), I listened to only Metallica for over a year straight. I learned basically all of their songs

The fear of death is one of the reasons I'm not enlightened.

Eeeeeeh... You sure about that? I don't think boredom is simply an emotion, atleast the regular type of boredom where people will hurt themselves to escape it. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28130690

Omfg this is the best thing I've read in a long while! Man I wish I could favorite posts. EDIT: Nvm, I just discovered the bookmark function

I personally vibe with this particular type of stroking

I think it's unreasonable having to spend your time adding endless caveats to what you're saying in order to warn about any potential misinterpretations, because that potential is limitless. I will rather wait until the misunderstanding actually arises and deal with it there like we just did. ...sure. By the way, if you're all about that implicit stuff, I did infact vaguely express my concerns about the representability of academic giftedness as a measurement for "the need for understanding and truth" earlier in the topic, but maybe you missed that (I'm not being hyperbolic btw). Anyways, what do you consider to be a high consciousness measurement stick? Just curious.

Start with ending the search, then do the work

Yup. Boredom is ego telling you to change your external world. Spirituality is ego telling you to change your internal world. Enlightenment is when internal and external becomes one

Enter Sandman by Metallica is a good example of this. Many Metallica fans hated Bob Rock for doing that to them

No. You're the one making assumptions here. I was deliberately being careful in representing the numbers without making any additional claims. There is nothing implicit about simply laying out statistics. You're not a mind-reader — nobody is that intuitive Read the study before making assumptions about what the graph really represents. These types of studies compare the academic perfomance of students in a school, and they consistently find that intuition correlates with academic giftedness. That is the only takeaway here, no implicit whatevers. I made this point earlier in the topic.

Laying out statistics is a mistake? I never made any absolute statements like that. Intuitives are generally more academically gifted.

Me too. Sometimes there is that one song on the radio that has one of those magical moments in it, but that gets rarer as time passes.

If your intention is to create hit songs, then that is what you'll get. If your intention is to express what you feel deep inside, then that is what you'll get. Will they possibly overlap? Yes.

Hit songs deal with seduction and short attention spans. Musical content is a side note. The average song length of my favorite music is 10 minutes, has no fixed song structure or rhythm, just pure outpouring of inspiration and creativity.