In developmental psychology/behavior terms, it is likely abstract
stage/level or that general bracket in the developmental trajectory. See
below reference.

Commons, M. L., Miller, P. M., & Miller, P. M. (2004). Development of
behavioral stages in animals. *Encyclopedia of animal behavior*, 484-487.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dareassociation.org_documents_Development-2520of-2520Behavioral-2520Stages-2520in-2520Animals.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=EzZTbEo8dgs_2CXmKEFMA_nKkWWIDJp5tpnd-yLSrbU&s=sbyON9dRzy6eHtpU_r75GuPrJ-VbHMutcMenmiaInUo&e= 

I wonder if a step further, some animals might be able to generate single
abstractions from concrete stage generated concepts but cannot coordinate
them into systems. Either way, it is probably a neuromorphic constraint.

Cory

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:26 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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