What are the boldened questions and statements of the past couple weeks?
What is a mythology and why is it necessary for us to create one?
The only way that a statement can be properly assessed objectively is if its building block inputs and the process of its formation and formulation are both completely transparent and universally understandable. It must be treated as if it is having its day in court and the plaintiffs are all of humanity. This is the only way that we can conceive of a judgment worthy of the Rousseauan legislator. [Okshevsky, certainty, geopolitical decision making, international courts]
A very fascinating thing to discuss... For example, does every memory (that can be recalled) have a physical correspondence in the brain? An imperceptible scar or fold in the physical brain? An added connection to the neuronal circuitry (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230301141432.htm)? A new recombination of existing neuronal paths (gestalt and Bergson's creative mind), does the number of available neurons at birth suggest a predictable limit for knowledge? Or does infinite potential existential experience in a finite temporo-spatial world always ensure that limits can be broken? What happens if you run out of memory or space to organize existing memories? Does your mind force a hard reset (e.g. ecstatic seizures) or an emergency arc to a new island of neuronally-grouped information to connect to? Or is it impossible to run out of memory due to forgetting? What about the role of dreams in reclustering / realgorithmizing our neuronal pathways? How do we make the phenomenal physical / chemical / electrical switchboard correspond to the noumenal mind? Should go into this in more detail...
"Four stages of life": Richard Lang. Anomie: Christ, Pan, Sisyphus, God; Space, Other, Self, Negation; https://www.headless.org/headless-blog/4-stages-of-life
"What could humanity be capable of when it's not just about survival and competition for power?" Why is this "human nature"?
At bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures. (159) Regarding them from the outside, all we see of the mentally ill is their tragic destruction, rarely the life of that side of the psyche which is turned away from us. (160)
Who Decides and Why (Selection of Arbiter, Motive for Strategy / Justification for Result)? Minimum of 4: Declarant, Interlocutor, Arbiter, Referee. Rousseauan legislator: One who performs the functions of all four according to the greatest happiness principle.
A one-second memory and a switch that turns tumbling to forward swimming and back are all it takes for bacteria to swim toward food and away from danger. Doesn’t life feel like that sometimes? You are cruising along, and then suddenly the path ahead looks dark and barren and you find yourself tumbling without a plan or direction. It feels awful, but trying out random directions is better than persisting in efforts that lead nowhere or worse. [Good Reasons]
Jung (1955-56/1989a) noted that upon entering the realm of the archetypal, we are convinced that "we know the ultimate truth concerning metaphysical things" (pp. 551-2) whilst in all other matters one would submit the subjective image to objective criticism. (Nietzsche's Eternal Return, Cybulska) -- Picard's theorem
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