Carl-Richard

Why not try to teach a 3 year old algebra?

Hedonism debunked

Truth is too simple for people to understand.

What is the point of living if you're alive?

No matter how many exceptions you got in your hat, memorization is actually a type of problem solving strategy, and you can't solve problems without using your memory either If mind is reducible to problem solving, then let's throw out the entire field of cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology and call it problemology. There is virtually an infinite amount of different conceptual lenses that you can use to investigate the mind that you're disregarding. The system itself doesn't have to be based on language, but every description or representation of a system is based on language, and language is based on symbols. You can't talk about something or represent something without using symbols. However, I'm not going to say that language "is nothing but symbols" (that would again be reductive - I was being somewhat hyperbolic earlier). "Perspective training" is not a straightforward concept. You can't separate perspective from content. Training your perspective also involves accumulating content which can be contrasted with other content. In other words, the muscle of perspective needs food in order to grow. A perspective cannot be expressed before it's manifested in something concrete, and the particular language you learn can be a part of that. You could say that how large your perspective is depends on the way you compare and contrast different content, and as the amount of content increases, the amount of potential connections, combinations, comparisons and contrasts increase exponentially. This is why it's important to balance theory and spiritual practice, because they compliment eachother. Spiritual practice flexes the perspective muscle and theory feeds the muscle.

Egoic desires fill your mind with noise. Psychics need a still mind.

Yes. Step 1: Don't want psychic powers. Step 2: Do spiritual practice. Step 3: Don't want psychic powers.

Interesting how marines always talk an octave below their resting vocal range.

Can you be aware of not being aware?

It's one illustration of how language fails to encapsulate the intelligence of reality.

It's formally defined as "the species problem": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept The books and lecturers would vaguely refer to it from time to time. I was most struck by it when we were trying to identify different types of butterfly and moth in pictures. To the untrained eye, some of them would look identical and somehow be a separate species, and some relatively different-looking ones would be the same species and just a different sub-species. Looking at the morphology is only one way to define a species, but it's central to identifying insects, and the defining characteristics are often completely arbitrary.

Saying that pro-life is a moralistic position is a descriptive statement not a normative statement. This is basic metaethics from the 18th century. You don't have to invoke non-duality to arrive at a moral relativist position either.

Where is the pro-abortion argument? Abortion is also survival. It's also self-bias.

@Meta-Man I only took 1 year of biology in college, but from the little amount I did learn, I feel that species is such a dodgy concept (I can't imagine what kind of conceptual breakdowns the professors have to deal with ). It can mean so many different things when you zoom out and look across different taxonomies. so that list tells me very little. I just didn't vibe with zoological systematics in general. There are so many grey areas, weird exceptions and other peculiarities, and passing the course was essentially just about memorizing random details. Evolutionary theory was more my thing, much more intuitive and less random.

4chan doesn't exactly have these guidelines

So a large percentage of us will die off?

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.

Omg

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 :