Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Reality and the Philosophical Framing of the Truth | Dr. Stephen Hicks | EP 501" video.

  1. Sensory stimulus elicits a compensatory response from any system susceptible to the stimulus, engendering habituation to the stimulus, according to the intensity and persistence of the stimulus, in the form of a behaviorism--an "emotion". At this emotional level, associations to experiential memory interact to contribute to an organic complexification, a "symbol", by which the complexification can be handled, controlled. The lower level of mind, the automatic level as opposed to the abstract, is characterized by the perpetual operation of linguistic articulation--WORDS. The mental basis of this operation is observation and identification in a tight loop referencing associations from experiential memory. "Narratives" are CONTEXTS! The "story" is the context in which a person sees himself. The only thing a person can truly understand is himself, a person; that is each person's basis for understanding. We must understand everything in terms of ourselves. What is not self is other.
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  2. Observe and identify, where, "identify", is the act of contextualization by association with experiential memory. If you can learn to suspend the identification process you may enter Samadhi, but that is both here and there...🤔...😏
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