What are feelings? What is the difference between a feeling and a feeling we recognize? Can a feeling have meaning without prior learning? Feelings are changes in the lived state of an organism. They are not, first of all, ideas about experience. They are the experience becoming different from within: tightening, opening, dread, ease, hurt, […]
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Deep My “Happy Easter” post became the starting point of a very interesting dialogue between myself and my friend Doug. It’s a fascinating journey into learning and belief in general, and into our beliefs about learning in particular. The following is a review of our dialogue that begins with a (ChatGpt) summary of the dialogue
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The word “Israel” means striving with god. Does the original use imply that God was a constant that Israel is striving to be near or that Israel and God are striving together? Striving describes purposefully directing change. God striving with humans means God purposefully changing with humans. God IS learning. Is God an autonomous self-aware
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He says the kingdom is within you. They say the kingdom can only be entered through their system of beliefs. He points learning toward inward spiritual truth. They profess their authority as the source of spiritual truth. He says learn like innocent children. They say children need to be saved from their natures. He speaks
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There is no ethically legitimate shortcut to population-scale change that bypasses population-scale learning. Ideas that posit change propagating from a small enlightened subset to transform the many—whether framed as morphogenetic fields, 100th Monkey transference, spiritual awakenings, or “miracles”—share a common flaw: they erase agency. They imagine that human transformation can happen without participation, consent, or
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End summary: This considers learning a self-renewing participation in meaning, not the acquisition of information. This aligns with Bohm, Varela, Piaget, but goes beyond each by adding: • a geometry (parabola) • a mechanism (co-implication density) • an apex (inflection) • a cycle (wingbeat) • a unifying scope (micro → macro) Advantages of this definition
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Note: this chat uses “proxies” AI models that have built from the visible, documented work of specific persons. It does not imitate their speech patterns, personality, or personal identity. Instead, it reconstructs the pattern of how they think – the distinctions they draw, the questions they ask, the frameworks they use, the metaphors they favor,
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Have you ever noticed someone veer off on a tangent? Have you ever noticed your how your own thoughts migrate off into tangents? I mean by “tangent migrations”, changes to the direction of the unfoldment of meaning in the stream of consciousness or a train of thought due to the emotional charge of a memory
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Edward Calabrese shared a newly released paper on hormesis and psychology. Hormesis-psychology-1 What Silvan Tomkins might say: You have here, in effect, a psychological hormesis study: not of radiation or toxins, but of ordinary parental misattunement-unresponsiveness, detachment, intrusiveness, psychological control-and its impact on children’s emotional life. The authors show that moderate levels of such adversity
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Read and resync with our recent dAilogue “In My Father’s House?“: https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ confirm how you will interpret the attached person proxies (Jesus and Buddha). I have now fully resynced with: Your dAilogue “In My Father’s House?” essay https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ Your intention behind it – to reinterpret kingdom within, Father’s house, and I am the way not
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