Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau: The Symbolic World | EP 206" video.

  1. I'm learning more appreciation for the training my parents gave me, which included cleaning my room and making my bed! I know that I didn't think much of it at the time! hahaha...But it seems they provided my with a valuable advantage in life with their pestering discipline...Thanks, mom and dad! RIP
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  2. Intelligence is fundamentally the speed of awareness, accounting for the alacrity of attention. Iow, how fast can you finish noticing something?
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  3. You embody your perceptions with reality, especially by extending your senses imaginarily to recapitulate the perceptions. Analogous to the yin and yang of the Tao, attention and intention, respectively, are the polar expressions or manifestations of awareness. Awareness is the instantaneous state of being oneself in the moment. Consciousness is the substance of the fabric of reality whose essential character is the capacity of responsivity. It is the basis of all memory, as it holds the impression of "events". The essential character of intelligence is association. There is only the One Mind, which we operate as best we are instantaneously able, calling it "our mind". The One Mind comprises the entirety of existence, as the active interface between Chaos, the primordial void, and Order, the Prime Creator. Chaos drives existence from below with a force of pure potential, and Order imposes its characteristic formative influence from above--Mind is caught between a rock and a hard place, as it were. Existence is the direct expression of this dilemma. Since the moment of birth: perception precipitates experience which embeds in the fabric of reality, forever remaining accessible by association. Memories provide authority, since they represent the source of true knowledge: experience. From authority proceeds conviction, certainty, validation. Preceeding experience informs proceeding experience through memory. The more memories, the greater the potential for association...
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  4. Existence is the result of Chaos and Order "not being able to live together"...hehehe...They are tragically attracted to each other, but if they touch they'll kill each other. So, they birth a child, Mind, to keep them at a safe distance from each other while facilitating their interaction...Sounds a little like every soap opera...hehehe...no accident...
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