"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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| [...]
| It's more like "climbing mountains" be-
| cause we "want" to discover, and gain the
| benefit of what's "there".
| [...]
I'm "pushing-energy" pretty-hard these 'days',
so I'm 'tired', and didn't adequately state the
metaphor above.
What I actually had in-mind, as I was writ-
ing it, was the stuff of my long-former, oft-
reiterated "Truth's One Map" discussions,
in which the "mountain climbing" is literal
in terms of TD E/I-minimization's augment-
ation of nervous systems' internal 'states'
of order.
The 3-D energydynamics [henceforth, also
"3-D E"] that occur within nervous systems
are literally a 4-D [no 'time'] energy-scape
that's rigorously-mapped to "biological re-
ward" as is discussed in AoK, Ap5 and 7.
So the Fact that it's more than "testoster-
one" is adequately-Verified in AoK's dis-
cussions of the mechanisms of Curiosity,
Creativity and Volition, in which "mating"
is, at most, an "after-thought" within on-
going TD E/I-minimization's "mountain
climbing" which is "motivated", as is dis-
cussed in AoK, by abstractly-correlated
"biological reward".
"Reproductive" dynamics are mapped into
"biological reward", but, as is disclosed in
AoK's synthesis of experiment, so is
=infinitely= more than "reproduction".
It's =really= Important to gain a firm
understanding of all of this. Doing so
Enables one to See one's own Humanity,
and that of everyone else. And, when
that happens, one 'just' becomes =Free=.
And, 'now', I'm having to smile because
this last stuff is a book-length topic.
Briefly: The Freedom derives in seeing and
understanding how and why behavioral
dynamics through which interactive dyn-
amics "fly-off-the-handle" arise within the
=abstract= information-processing prob-
lems that nervous systems must 'resolve',
instead of 'seeing' 'anger', 'animosity',
'jealousy', 'hatred', 'greed', 'selfishness',
etc.
Let's see, what's a useful teaching-analogy?
Imagine folks, in groups of two competitors
each, on a goal-based 'reality' show.
Each wants to achieve the "goal", which
is approached in a series of stages.
For the first stage, say there're pools of
water that must be emptied by scooping
water out with a bucket, but the only place
to put the water is in the other person's
"pool".
Superficially, it's a "race", but it's one
that has no actual "finish fline".
Instead of 'aggressing', work together to
empty one pool into the other and share
the "stage-goal" equally, and move on to
the next stage-goal.
The "Freedom" is like understanding that,
but with respect to the way that nervous
systems process information.
Be-cause TD E/I-minimization occurs
with respect to =individually-unique=
experience, in interaction, it's =always=
the case that TD E/I-minimization within
one nervous system elevates TD E/I
within the other nervous system -- just
like in the pools of water.
Without NDT's understanding, folks do
the "race-with-no-finish-line" stuff, and
no one ever gets anywhere.
You doubt?
Look at what happens when folks 'think'
they 'win the race' -- War, etc., that re-
sults from the 'losers' being left with no-
thing, which elevates TD E/I within their
nervous systems beyond the amygdalar-
priming threshold [AoK, Ap5], and they
"go amygdalar" -- which leaves the
'winners' =without= Freedom -- 'cause
they've got to fight the War, which sends
everything that they 'thought' they'd 'won'
to Waste.
But what I had in-mind when I was looking
for a teaching-analogy was more like simp-
ly understanding that any person's having
to endure "rendering useless" is like a per-
son faced with having to clean-out a sec-
tion of a warehouse.
It's =just= work, and it doesn't do any
good to 'expect' that the quantity of work,
inherent, can be accomplished 'instantan-
eously', and, if it's not, to "aggress".
Instead, =join= in the doing of the work,
which, in the general-case [with respect
to =all= possible interactive dynamics], is
coming up-to-speed with respect to how
and why nervous systems process inform-
ation via 'blindly'-automated TD E/I-min-
imization.
Until folks get it, it seems like 'magic',
but it's 'just' Neuroscience.
And it's what I've been doing for ~35
'years' -- "shoveling crap out of the
warehouse", understanding that it's
just what needs to be done :-]
Be-cause it's 'just' Neuroscience
that I understand, and so can every-
one.
k. p. collins
