Great synthesis and lots to think about, thanks Brett. In your experience what are some practices/methods (without psychedelics or other substance) of inducing or facilitating criticality?
I wonder where drives and goals come from. I mean ultimately there is this will to power over all which is relevant to you. But in between, say someone has a certain calling to do a certain job, move to a certain country, these kinds of things. Especially because sometimes you don't know why you feel the need to do something, especially when it’s new, and yet now it becomes a goal around which prediction errors circulate. What calculations are being made behind the scenes to have urges to do such things I wonder. Or maybe one should not think of it as calculations being made, but in a Jungian sense personalities and archetypal drives playing within you, I don't know.
Yeah I think that was the question that drove Jung more than anything... It's also the question at the heart of relevance realization. It's very difficult to conceptualize how interest is determined. Relevance realization, along with Jordan Peterson's work on complexity management, provides some relatively generic ideas about how it works (which is much better than nothing), but it's still not all that clear.
Wow, brilliant. Sounds dangerous at first, almost like a gift to the post-modernists ("We told you it was all about power"!), although in their limited and corrupt way they are all about divisiveness and destruction and oppression, rather than understanding Nietzsche's will to power to have the kind of upward-striving improvement-development-synthesis character as illustrated in this article. I get the impression that just as people "rediscover" levels of genius in Einstein, as some of his ideas get rejected and then re-understood or re-approved of all over again, perhaps it will be the same with Nietzsche (whereas at the moment so many allegedly intellectual people seem very dismissive or disapproving of him, usually after a superficial look at the association with Nazism and the unjustified belief he was anti-semitic - they don't read him before saying that, presumably). Great series.
Brilliant post. Love your work on Nietzsche.
Great synthesis and lots to think about, thanks Brett. In your experience what are some practices/methods (without psychedelics or other substance) of inducing or facilitating criticality?
I wonder where drives and goals come from. I mean ultimately there is this will to power over all which is relevant to you. But in between, say someone has a certain calling to do a certain job, move to a certain country, these kinds of things. Especially because sometimes you don't know why you feel the need to do something, especially when it’s new, and yet now it becomes a goal around which prediction errors circulate. What calculations are being made behind the scenes to have urges to do such things I wonder. Or maybe one should not think of it as calculations being made, but in a Jungian sense personalities and archetypal drives playing within you, I don't know.
Yeah I think that was the question that drove Jung more than anything... It's also the question at the heart of relevance realization. It's very difficult to conceptualize how interest is determined. Relevance realization, along with Jordan Peterson's work on complexity management, provides some relatively generic ideas about how it works (which is much better than nothing), but it's still not all that clear.
Wow, brilliant. Sounds dangerous at first, almost like a gift to the post-modernists ("We told you it was all about power"!), although in their limited and corrupt way they are all about divisiveness and destruction and oppression, rather than understanding Nietzsche's will to power to have the kind of upward-striving improvement-development-synthesis character as illustrated in this article. I get the impression that just as people "rediscover" levels of genius in Einstein, as some of his ideas get rejected and then re-understood or re-approved of all over again, perhaps it will be the same with Nietzsche (whereas at the moment so many allegedly intellectual people seem very dismissive or disapproving of him, usually after a superficial look at the association with Nazism and the unjustified belief he was anti-semitic - they don't read him before saying that, presumably). Great series.