Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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Why do kids think deeper than most adults? Because the kid's mind hasn't yet been taught to take Existence for granted.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYrfd-AiWOo
Is science made out of atoms?
What is science actually made out of?
This AI CEO is simply a fool. Zero philosophical depth. Amazing!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZlLlRWIDIE
Intelligence cannot be created this foolishly. This completely underestimates how profound intelligence is.
The humans in charge of creating intelligence turned out to be greedy fools. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here's an example of what a pre-rational justice system looks like. Gives you a feel for how backwards the pre-rational stage of development is.
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We live in such a rational stage that pre-rational ways are comical to us. And yet, something like 50% of the global population is still pre-rational. Africa, South America, India, China, Middle East — these places are full of pre-rational minds. The pre-rational mind is the default human mind without education. If you didn't receive any education, you would be pre-rational. The only reason anyone has a rational mind is thanks to education.
What Jordan Peterson says here is good and useful, but the best way to learn how to think is by doing philosophy. Not by reading philosophy but by doing philosophy. Philosophy is the art of asking questions and critical thinking. Writing and speaking without philosophy, without epistemology, without ontology, without truth-seeking, ends in what Plato called sophistry. Sophists are skilled at rhetoric but their ideas are ultimately shallow and corrupt, in the service of unconscious survival and ego. Proper thinking begins with thinking about epistemology. Once you've got some understanding of epistemology, then you can think properly about other aspects of life.
But, of course, writing is a great skill to develop alongside that. But my understanding of Reality does not come from writing, it comes from pure contemplation. Writing is secondary for me, even though it certainly helps me to clarify my understanding.
Another great way to develop thinking is by teaching. Teaching a subject forces you to think it through very carefully and explain it clearly to yourself. My understanding of Realty got so deep because I've been teaching it for 13 years, which forced me to clarify every bit of my own understanding. Every time I explain something to you, I get more clarity around it from me, I understand it more profoundly. So it serves both you and me. The more I explain the better I understand.
