Thank you so much for this article and also thanks for posting it as a separate sound reading on YouTube. Makes it easier to share. No description of anything is perfect. But this one sounds good and offers some hope.
Answering your comment/question was a choice - no? Free will may be limited to our enclosed ecological realm on earth but the hyper complex interconnected universe is beyond our tiny brains to comprehend.
Perhaps let’s phrase it slightly different. There were two possibilities: either you answer my question or you don’t. Now, something, whatever it is, triggered you to answer the question. Do you have an idea what this trigger might have been? I was asking because the Free Will topic is very interesting and I love to hear the different points of view.
I am a teacher and like questions even more than answers because when one door closes another opens - to infinity! Socrates was hip to questions too - usually just to show the holes in another overly confident thinker’s argument. What makes us tick as in what is our world view kind of dictates what our choices are. But as John Lennon once said - life is something that happens while you’re busy making other plans. What we choose and what the universe has in store do not always line up - at all! But then in retrospect it makes more sense when you have a biiger picture of context over time. And then there is the complex inheritance of karma - personal, familial and collective. This is conjecture but thousands of years of intuitive contemplation by deep thinkers has also led me to acknowledge it as part of the pie of how our life narrative flows. Again hyper complexities on many levels and realms seen and not seen. Beyond our ken as they use to say but still fun to think about.
All my research confirms this basic premise. I am no doctor just been struggling with PTSD - diagnosed by Boston University Center for Anxiety Related Disorders - all my long life and have consulted with and been examined by specialists and general practitioners alike. The summary is this:
“Given adequate stress the trauma response inevitable and universal.”
I think it is all about complexity, complexity of Nature. We just capture small amount of information, and we process it with reduction mechanism. We are very far away from processing vast amount of information created increasingly. That leaves us with poor predictions. The gap between the speed of information creation and our ability, including all artificial attempts, to process it is increasing. This is inevitable. The problem is how to manage this inevitability. Embrace the inevitability.
There is a basic concept in our lives, a word, which we accept as positive while in reality it is not. Ambition. We have been taught from a young age that only by being ambitious will we manage to succeed and foolishly believe that this is how we will be happy. What they did not teach us is what the word and its concept entails. What it means for our psychology to be ambitious, but nevertheless, there is the possibility of failing. What it means for our psychology and those around us, the unstoppable need for fulfillment. Do not forget that the word ambition comes from the Greek word 'PHILODOXIA', that is, 'friend' and 'glory'. Friend of glory or Love for glory.
Thank you so much for this article and also thanks for posting it as a separate sound reading on YouTube. Makes it easier to share. No description of anything is perfect. But this one sounds good and offers some hope.
Still respect Sapolsky’s work but disagree with his materialist determinism perspective. We do have free will whether he likes it or not.
What do you consider as free will ?
And what makes you believe that we have free will?
Answering your comment/question was a choice - no? Free will may be limited to our enclosed ecological realm on earth but the hyper complex interconnected universe is beyond our tiny brains to comprehend.
Perhaps let’s phrase it slightly different. There were two possibilities: either you answer my question or you don’t. Now, something, whatever it is, triggered you to answer the question. Do you have an idea what this trigger might have been? I was asking because the Free Will topic is very interesting and I love to hear the different points of view.
I am a teacher and like questions even more than answers because when one door closes another opens - to infinity! Socrates was hip to questions too - usually just to show the holes in another overly confident thinker’s argument. What makes us tick as in what is our world view kind of dictates what our choices are. But as John Lennon once said - life is something that happens while you’re busy making other plans. What we choose and what the universe has in store do not always line up - at all! But then in retrospect it makes more sense when you have a biiger picture of context over time. And then there is the complex inheritance of karma - personal, familial and collective. This is conjecture but thousands of years of intuitive contemplation by deep thinkers has also led me to acknowledge it as part of the pie of how our life narrative flows. Again hyper complexities on many levels and realms seen and not seen. Beyond our ken as they use to say but still fun to think about.
Yeah, questions over questions, but this is how we can enhance our understanding as much as possible.
Yes - it’s a gift but sometimes can feel like a burden as well! But I prefer it over lazy ignorance.
All my research confirms this basic premise. I am no doctor just been struggling with PTSD - diagnosed by Boston University Center for Anxiety Related Disorders - all my long life and have consulted with and been examined by specialists and general practitioners alike. The summary is this:
“Given adequate stress the trauma response inevitable and universal.”
Failure Isn’t Your Fault
The ultimate validating click bait headline.
Well done!
https://open.substack.com/pub/clementpaulus/p/recursive-collapse-in-practice-a?r=5c1ys6&utm_medium=ios
I think it is all about complexity, complexity of Nature. We just capture small amount of information, and we process it with reduction mechanism. We are very far away from processing vast amount of information created increasingly. That leaves us with poor predictions. The gap between the speed of information creation and our ability, including all artificial attempts, to process it is increasing. This is inevitable. The problem is how to manage this inevitability. Embrace the inevitability.
There is a basic concept in our lives, a word, which we accept as positive while in reality it is not. Ambition. We have been taught from a young age that only by being ambitious will we manage to succeed and foolishly believe that this is how we will be happy. What they did not teach us is what the word and its concept entails. What it means for our psychology to be ambitious, but nevertheless, there is the possibility of failing. What it means for our psychology and those around us, the unstoppable need for fulfillment. Do not forget that the word ambition comes from the Greek word 'PHILODOXIA', that is, 'friend' and 'glory'. Friend of glory or Love for glory.