Thanks Gregg,

I love that you are working on getting the scientific language game right,
if only for the sake of the wider culture seeing eye to eye.

As for this mythos or ground of being, I only meant that platonic realm
where math and ideas come, which I'm sure is also where our ends and
intentions are rooted, rather than level 3 nervous systems. (I don't think
every number between 1.0 and 1.1 is listed in some neural database, so
where is the knowledge, and the ideal ends that guide all human behavior,
but from that which can't be spoken in the dualistic language of egoic
intent?)

I'm concerned that the ToK is so vast, yet never vast enough to integrate
all that it could to one, and the evolutionary journey to "getting the
language game right" will involve the entire global evolution of culture,
memes, data visualization, etc, ..and I'd guess that your work will soon
click into place with others, as numerous other language games begin to
fall apart as they fall together into one.

Jamie
PS you replied:

 "Mind/mental behavior is not reducible to Life/Brain any more than the
meaning of this sentence is reducible the adding up the letters."

Exactly...and the whole sentence has an "end" in mind, which can be
represented as an idea in some mathematical space we can also come to
represent as an idea if we wanted to deep dive into whatever we're talking
about.

I suppose what I mean by the cosmic self, or ground of being is simply
"that from which math comes from...as well as these simple ends, beliefs
and intentions"... The realm of ideas, all possibilities, which, being
utterly private, cannot as a whole be represented symbolically (at least
not against the seeking of falsification) as the referent is everywhere.














On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 4:26 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Jamie,
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>   According the ToK System, the ground of being that tie everything
> together are the “glue fields” of “Energy” and “Information”.
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>   I am unclear what might be meant by “exponentially inert or irrelevant”.
> For me to write this email, all the all the dimensions of existence
> (Culture/Person; Mind/Animal; Life/Organism; Matter/Object) need to be
> aligned via integrated information or complexification in just the right
> way to afford the conditions of possibility that allow us to engage in the
> Culture-Person dimension of justification (which is how we interface on
> this email).
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>   Take Mind (neurocognition/phenomenology) relative to Brain
> (neurophysiology). Mind/mental behavior is not reducible to Life/Brain any
> more than the meaning of this sentence is reducible the adding up the
> letters. However, the letters are required for it. Destroy the letters and
> the sentence disappears. Likewise, a bullet through the brain results in
> the complexity bubble of integrated information that is organized at the
> mental dimension superimposed upon it to pop. So, surely the brain is not
> inert or irrelevant—it is just not the whole thing.
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>  Re the cosmic self or cosmic consciousness, I am agnostic about the
> ultimate nature of the ground of being or its ultimate direction. I see
> those as “pure metaphysical questions” rather than “metaphysical empirical”
> questions, and thus properly placed in the domain of “mythos” rather than
> natural science/philosophy. My naturalistic scientific side says that the
> boundary condition of the Big Bang Energy Singularity is, well, the
> boundary of the natural universe. Of course, as some speculation by Penrose
> and others discussed on this list, perhaps there will be natural science
> evidence for things that came before the Big Bang.
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>   However, the language game of mythos is different and we can imagine a
> “cosmic consciousness” as being the ground of being. Indeed, many spiritual
> traditions point that direction. Thus, there is evidence for it and one can
> find nourishment from that notion if one is mythically inclined. Its just
> that it metaphysically becomes a very fuzzy concept. I embrace *the
> concept of* God, as the ultimate eudiamonic endpoint, which for me is
> symbolized by the Elephant Sun God. Of course, the natural science language
> game has no problem with the concept of God. The substance of God or the
> cosmic awakening/consciousness, well, again, that is a different language
> game, all in the realm of mythos.
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>   The key, from my vantage point, is to not make a category or language
> game error. That is, the ToK System is first and foremost about getting the
> language game of natural science correct *on its own terms*. Indeed, that
> is where its power lies, which is why I have been so disappointed that
> people who profess to be interested in science have for so long ignored or
> dismissed what the ToK System says.
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> Hope this makes sense. Let me know if it does or does not jive with your
> frame of understanding.
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> Warm regards,
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> Gregg
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> In Gregg's model, it would seem to be implied that all human behavior is
> rooted in the emergent level of mind, or animal behavior, that emerged with
> nervous systems, which would suggest every level (of life and physics)
> below as exponentially inert or irrelevant.
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> Yet, I'm increasingly suspicious that our behavior, inside and out, is
> rooted in the very ground of being (energy) somehow more expressed through
> our nervous system, which is especially integrated yet complex enough to
> express the cosmic "self".
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> In other words, any search for the root of human behavour or self will
> never end.
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>
> Jamie
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> PS: some extra quotes if interested:
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> "Their is no protection to be found in the seeking of fault, neither
> within, nor without. To seek fault is to ask for it."
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> "Fear that others might think you are guilty when you know you aren't
> seems to attract a guilty verdict even though you're not guilty".
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> "Identification with fault or loss is the same thing as the Christian
> concept of sin (missing your mark) and the true cause of physical illness
> and death...no kidding."
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> Fear is identification with loss
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> Worry is identification with loss
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> Humor is realized liberation from loss, and often at the expense of those
> who still identify with some loss (superiority + relief theories of humor)
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> Forgiveness of debtors is dis-identification with the loss of not, or not
> potentially, getting paid back.
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> The buddha self can't be named just as God Is nameless, which is why no
> karma attaches to God - the true self of origin.
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> Whatever we identify with in our minds, karma attaches to, based on simple
> logic.
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> "whoever identifies with loss, loss enjoys to ruin"
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> "Behavior according to external morality is service to fear more than
> love, thus distrust of one's own self. True morality is merely the way of
> one's own heart, and trusting one's own self to be faultless, blameless and
> perfect, knowing no good-enough reason to assert otherwise. "
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