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Consciousness and Perception
🌍 The Cambrian explosion marks a significant shift in the development of complex active bodies and brains, leading to the emergence of higher levels of consciousness.
🐀 Rats have the ability to create hypothetical environments in their dreams, which may explain their faster learning capabilities.
💭 In the virtual self and simulated environment, there are two subsets of internal perceptions, similar to the ego-centric and alloccentric, as observed in neuroscientific studies.
🧠 The egocentric pathways in the brain reference the self and what matters to an individual, while the allocentric pathways stimulate the mind and allow for broader perspective.
🌍 The speaker suggests that humans have a unique ability to simulate hypothetical environments, which sets us apart from other animals.
🧠 The ability to engage in symbolic tagging and utilize a language acquisition device to frame propositions and engage in question-answer dynamics sets humans apart from other animals.
🧠 Our immersion in language and the simulation of ourselves within it creates a disconnection from the world, highlighting the profound impact of language on our perception and understanding.
🧠 The speaker suggests that spirituality can be found in language and connects it to the concept of transcendent naturalism.
Paradigm Shift in Science
🌌 The revolution in science challenges the traditional linear causality of a Newtonian billiard ball world, opening up new possibilities for understanding complex potential states.
🧪 Science is defined as a set of protocols to take actions that achieve results predicted by the theory, highlighting the importance of experimentation and observation in the scientific process.
📚 Following the tenets of transcendent naturalism for 30 years, Bonnita Roy has discovered valuable insights, emphasizing the depth of her work in this field.
🌱 The concept of emergence in Transcendent Naturalism is not based on magic or the hand of God, but rather on a continuity to discontinuity relation within a natural selection genetic cell theory framework.
🌌 Gravity is not a force that draws things together, but rather the agency of mass, challenging the conventional understanding of objects and forces.
Summary
The key idea of the video is that understanding complexity and levels of development in science, as well as embracing the fluidity of spirituality, are important for a comprehensive understanding of reality.
00:00 🔍 The speaker explores transcendent naturalism and the limitations of scientific reductionism, emphasizing the importance of understanding complexity and levels of development in science.
The speaker discusses the concept of transcendent naturalism and its relationship to scientific reductionism, emphasizing the need to move beyond reductionism and explore other perspectives in science.
There is a phenomenon called over mining, which involves reducing upwards, and it is seen as a problem in object-oriented ontology.
Emergence and transcendence can be understood without invoking miracles or the hand of God, as language may not be able to fully articulate the continuity of matter and life, but our intuition of how it works is closer to the reality than our ability to explain it.
Levels of development and evolution are not the same, as development is stage-like and builds on previous forms, while evolution is not developmental and does not involve one level developing from another.
The speaker discusses the concept of Transcendent Naturalism and the misconception that the laws of Newtonian physics apply to the human body, emphasizing the importance of understanding the non-reductive nature of consciousness and the complexity of causal properties at different levels.
Each level of complexity in science has different potential states, and we don't have to make a big leap to the quantum level to understand that there are degrees of freedom at every level.
14:02 🧠 Science is a set of protocols to achieve predicted results, but inferences can lead to trouble; transcendent naturalism emphasizes the importance of achieving structural homology between third-person and first-person science, recognizing the connection between animal and human minds through a continuum of complexity.
Science is a set of protocols to achieve predicted results, with actions becoming more complex as you delve deeper into the subject.
Science is a set of protocols to achieve predicted results, but inferences from those actions can lead to trouble, such as inferring that water boils at 260 degrees.
The speaker discusses the concept of science as a set of protocols to achieve predicted results and the importance of achieving structural homology between third-person and first-person science in transcendent naturalism.
Animal mind and human mind are connected through a continuum of complexity, with the animal body serving as the foundation.
Humans are animals, specifically great apes, and there is no doubt about it.
The human mind does not emerge from the animal mind, but rather both are part of the body's perceptual system, which includes egocentric and allocentric subsystems that allow animals to navigate and simulate their environments.
21:50 📚 Rats and humans can create hypothetical environments in their dreams, and language is a unique form of communication that allows us to convey messages without physical confrontation, thanks to cross modal synesthesia.
Rats and humans have the ability to create hypothetical environments in their dreams, which helps them learn and navigate their surroundings.
When simulating thoughts, the mind processes through the same structures as perceptual animal activity, and there are two subsets in the virtual self in the simulated environment.
The egocentric pathways reference the self and the allocentric pathways stimulate the mind, with the egocentric being focused on what is close and the allocentric being focused on the environment.
This video discusses the nature of language and the unique ability of humans to simulate hypothetical environments.
Language is a form of communication that can be expressed through gestures and sounds, allowing individuals to convey messages without physical confrontation.
Our ability to map gestures or sounds onto something is due to cross modal synesthesia, which allows us to perceive things in innovative ways and create metaphors in human language.
31:04 🧠 The distinction between the nature and kind of mind is important, as thinking and justification systems are not inherent to the nature of mind but rather the kind of mind we have, and emergence is a continuity to discontinuity relation within natural selection and genetic cell theory.
The distinction between the nature of mind and the kind of mind is important, as the speaker argues that thinking with thoughts and the justification system are not inherent to the nature of mind but rather the kind of mind we happen to have.
Simulating reality through language is ontologically contingent and complex, and the distinction between justification systems and evolutionary progress must be carefully considered.
Transcendent naturalism explains that emergence is not a magical process, but rather a continuity to discontinuity relation within the framework of natural selection and genetic cell theory.
Complexification leads to the contextualization of parts within a whole, which cannot be reduced and must be understood in terms of emergence and life.
The speaker discusses the importance of discerning between genuine hostility and playful engagement in order to grow.
The emergence of fully functioning cells requires natural selection, genetic information transmission, and physiological cellular theory, with biochemical parts having causal properties that go down different levels, including organelles, prebiotic structures, viruses, water molecules, and hydrogen atoms.
38:52 📚 Humans have a unique form of language that distinguishes them from other animals, allowing for question-answer dynamics and cognitive capacities, while the decline of religious belief is attributed to reductive mechanical materialism.
Humans have a unique form of language called propositional symbolics and tactical language, which distinguishes them from other animals, although there is debate about whether other animals can also use propositional language.
Symbolic tagging and syntactical propositional speech in hominids led to the emergence of a different kind of animal capable of question-answer dynamics and the problem of justification, making humans distinct from other animals.
Human language is distinct from animal communication because it is symbolic, syntactical, and propositional, and it creates a complex adaptive space that allows us to explore counterfactual spaces and have cognitive capacities.
There are different meanings of science, including the epistemological/methodological meaning and the ontological worldview, with the latter being reductive mechanical materialism that emerged from modern science and caused the decline of religious belief.
Different types of causality exist in scientific literature and philosophy, and it is an error to accept Newtonian causality as an ontology at any level.
The idea is that all things, including mountains, have agency, although the concept of agency may vary depending on its definition.
51:19 🌌 All forms are self-animated, our perception of nature is limited, and the universe unfolds from a prior potential, with complexification and the agency of cells playing a role in our understanding of the world.
All forms are self-animated and the concept of objects and forces is a linguistic convention that leads to false inferences, as proven by Einstein's understanding of gravity.
The speaker discusses the concept of Quantum freedom and how it relates to the determined nature of the world, emphasizing the importance of energy information and the rejection of the idea that the matter space-time world emerged from the Big Bang.
Our perception of being in nature is constrained by the mental model of being like candies in a box, limiting our ability to imagine and explore scientific and philosophical possibilities.
The universe unfolds from a prior potential, and the complexity of a seed compared to a tree depends on whether it is a whole or a part, a prior potential or a posterior actual.
The speaker discusses the concept of complexification and the notion of a compound individual, highlighting the historical lineage of parts yoking up to become holes and the agency of cells within a human body.
Human cells and gut biome cells have a complex relationship with degrees of freedom and constraints, and the speaker highlights the mystery of how ribosomes function and the impact of sugar spikes on cells.
01:02:47 🧠 The speaker explores the impact of language and perception on our understanding of reality, emphasizing the need to move away from concrete thinking and embrace the fluidity of spirituality.
The speaker discusses the concept of complexification and how our perception of nature affects our internal habitat.
People in a knowledge economy are constantly immersed in language, which is compounded rather than creating new knowledge.
Language and the justification system create a subjective perception of reality, but they are disconnected from the real world and cannot solve the problem of reality.
The speaker discusses the direction of the new human and the spiritual intuition of fierce naturalism.
There are two types of abstractions: categorical abstractions, which are like the word "red" that represents instances of redness, and misplaced concreteness, which is the mistaken belief that there is a tangible thing called "red."
The problem with spirituality is our tendency to think in terms of concrete qualities, but in reality, there are no fixed virtues or absolutes, only different manifestations of them.
01:12:24 🧠 Spirituality based on categorical abstractions is misguided, while pure abstractions like mathematics connect to the real world through the study of nature, emphasizing the importance of the self as a transducer of multiple potential states.
Spirituality that relies on categorical abstractions is misguided, while pure abstractions, such as the concept of a center in a circle, exist in a different way and can be understood through the study of nature.
Pure abstractions, such as mathematics, connect to the Euler identity and formula, and while categorical instructions are useful, they do not lead to the real world, which can only be perceived through the mind.
The speaker discusses the concept of the self as a pure abstraction and argues that it is a real aspect of the universe, teaching that the self is a transducer of multiple incoming and outgoing potential states.
The speaker discusses the concept of the identity matrix and how individuals attach themselves to events in the world, losing sight of their own perspective, and proposes a new perspective on the self as a pure obstruction.
There is an unfolding conversation about the dimensions of God and the observation of abstractions.
I talked about our previous plans to have a conversation, but now we finally have the opportunity to meet and it makes a big difference for me.
Listened to it twice. Found myself to be split. The metaphysician and the clinician. The first finds the nature of mind to be proximal, up hierarchical and the mind one has as a distal entity, filled with malware. The second, finds the minds we have to be neurotic or even deluded but still ’proximal’, and the liberated nature of the minds we could have as a tentative, distal, aspiration.
"All this time we have been repeating the words 'know,' 'understand.' Yet we do not know what knowledge is," ― Plato. Great conversation Bonny, reminded me of problem solving and how women tend to be process oriented while men tend to be outcome oriented. It is one the first experiential lessons taught to people training to become telephone counselors at LifeLine here in Sydney, Australia. So it was fascinating to watch the developmental shift in Gregg's 'super-excited,' subconsciously orchestrated behavior as you guided him towards confessions of limitations.
It was refreshing to hear you say "there is no meaning crisis" on the parallax channel, in a conversation with two men who I suspect have heard John Vervaeke say "we are comprehensively prone to self-deception," without beginning to question 'how' that process works within each and every one of us.
May I offer three quotes I believe are worthy of consciousness contemplation:
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. An optical delusion of consciousness, a kind of prison for us." — Albert Einstein
"The delusion is extraordinary by which we exalt language above nature." ― Alexander B Johnson, A TREATISE ON LANGUAGE
"For people to comprehend their conditioned self-deception scheme, they must try not to impose a perceptual expectation of mind-sight on the perception capacity of eye-sight." ― Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths, The Psychology of Self Deception