My Theory of Consciousness

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

That’s self=other. It also has this part of what you said you didn’t get:

@Ichthus77

do/demo=good …

Contingency (existence, ethics…efficient cause)

In place of “ethics” (in the quote above) I sometimes put “epistemology”.

Related discussion in Carleas’ thread:

Rational and Arational Emotions

A gut feeling that is not conditioned is like a habit of emotion (framed/interpreted feeling) on the level of animal (“pre”-encoded) language—whether or not it is genetically encoded. I imagine it is hard to distinguish or suss out whether the encoding & decoding happens at the genetic level, or another one(s) (or both/some/all). By that I mean heuristic (“pre”-encoded/-decoded), algorithmic (internal source), or communicated (external source). Imagine if you were apprehending without requiring…

Rational and Arational Emotions

@Carleas I agree with your 1-3. I ran across a quote from Confucius today that says it is only the very wise and the very stupid who cannot change. The most wise (the Virtuoso) doesn’t need to incorporate new experienced feelings into their reframing—nothing sneaks past, because they don’t even need to reframe, because they already have the correct frame (others may still think the wise need to change because they—the other-than-wise—do not have the correct frame), whereas the stu…