Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Deeper Yet Into The Weeds | Pageau \u0026 Vervaeke | EP 277" video.

"The natural bandwidth of consciousness"?...eh...argh...I gotta backtrack...to 2:40--first proposition: "To see the world we must prioritize our perceptions." The ant on the sidewalk is less important than the car on the driveway?? They seem to agree that this process is not deliberate, though the phrasing of the proposition implied otherwise. "Body", "spirit", "mind/abstract intent"...Jordan wants to bring the academic approach into intrapersonal significance. These terms, and others like it, make a good bridge. "The process has to be dynamic and self-organizing"...uh, what means, "self-organizing"?...hehehe...V's kicking the can down the road..."A hierarchy of transformation from mind to body" is a good start, Jordan! I think the pattern of the body as transcribed in DNA is the pre-existing "dynamic and self-organizing" process that initiates the sensory system upon the foundation of the physical body. The natural urge to complexification abstracts the basic sensory level to an intermediate level of "sub-processing", where the sensory signals are filtered and modified, producing a "desensitization" effect, where we are allowed to ignore unimportant low-level sensory signals...it's efficient to do so. The same thing happens when you move your finger. The guitarist trains his fingers to do things the average fingers don't do. He instantiates habits of movement that, after practiced, become triggerable operations...it's efficient to do so. The "habit nature" is vast and powerful. You can use it at will--or it can use YOU without your will.
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2:18:15--I don't with John's notion of "consciousness", at least terminologically. "Consciousness" is that "spark of divinity" that indwells everywhere/everything and produces the "governing principle of the cosmos": "association". "Consciousness" is the capacity and inclination to associate--responsiveness to "spiritual gravity", mystically speaking. "Evolution" is the process of complexification according to the divine pattern of manifestation. "Intelligence is the way reality is realizing itself", John! argh...not useful..."Intelligence" is the operation of the urge to associate, which, granted, culminates in "reality realizing itself". Intelligence is the essential feature of the One Universal Mind, which each of us operates as best he makes himself able, all the while imagining it is his personal possession. By the strength of our awareness we form "memories", experiences impressed upon the universal substratum of existence, the OUM. "Imagination" is the seat of spirit, the "true self"--it will lead you true if you can keep your mitts off the steering wheel, for half a second...hehehe. The personal inner world is purely associative...
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"Awe" is the feeling of "admiration"--"I could be like THAT!"
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Eh...narrative is a story, or event sequence, that connects the larger world to the small, personal world, often illustrating a principle, especially social and cultural. But this talk of "through lines" doesn't connect with me..."thread of truth"? idk...fair bit of circularity going on...forcing correspondences...reign it in, Jordan...Too much clarification may produce obfuscation...
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"Realization is always a comparative judgement"?! The human experience of "realization" is a state-awareness of perfection/flawlessness; it's the sense of a new understanding; and the sense of "rightness" and "correctness" in context that characterizes "beauty". However, "good" and "evil" are value-judgements imposed on a neutral Nature by people as they objectify projections of the subjective sense of the apparent abject futility of existence. In their objectification, "good" and "evil" become quite real--as real as the person creating them.
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Mathematics is a rare thing: a testable symbol system; it can be tested against reality, objectively. Its incorporation of paradox, though, has it dipping its toes in the fuzzy waters of mysticism--and science follows along...so, things are getting a little tricky...
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This idea of "prioritization" being primary has me wondering who's doing the prioritization. If you're doing it deliberately it's not primary enough to be as important as Jordan makes it out to be. At the more basic level, "density" gradients naturally produce barrier regions, which, among other things, produces "rigidity" in fluid density gradients--voila! Substance! Manifestation! Instant PRIORITIZATION! By Nature's hand...So, I'm a little confused as to the identity of the agent that accomplishes this "prioritization".
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"How does adaptivity arise?"! Adaptivity arises from comparison functions operating continuously at multiple levels of being. As experience is repeated, the response to it evolves, adapts, according to numerous conditions involved in the comparisons--desensitization is an example. I prefer "complexification", a process, to "adaptivity", a capacity, terminologically. "All of our striving" is due to the drive to complexify.
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Ok, then...way off in the weeds, for sure...My question: what work can be done with this ideation? How does it find utilization? Only in inspiration, perhaps? Is there a lever, a point of power, to be had by which the individual might influence his reality?
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"Prioritization" is a variety of "value-judgement". The latter is what people experience; the former is how smart people talk about it. We have three thinkers comparing their preferred lexicons, so they can speak the same language...kind of a Rosetta Stone thing. That's a fine preliminary to jointly examining a topic, but they're still avoiding hard definitions of their central terms, apparently falling back to a "everybody knows..." position. "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"...hehehe...
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