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The paradox I'm currently in love with: 1. existing culture is fucked up in ways I'll collectively call "A" 2. "A" is trying to fuck you up 3. "A" = "people trying to protect from being fucked up by A" 4. thus to shift "A" to "B", one must protect against "A" without protecting
@Malcolm_Ocean from a PCT perspective, this means not contributing further to “inner conflict” where another controller is trying to set to X, you’re trying to set to Y (while also not trying to break the thing) in a constant tug and instead relaxing things https://t.co/2Z1i9KiWku
@Malcolm_Ocean @m_ashcroft relaxing on the level in which the expected expectation errors are set, a level higher though yes, expanded awareness seems to somehow be related to this, not sure how buddhist paths seem to pretty directly correspond to “relax the expectation that there shouldn’t be errors”
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft yup yup > buddhist paths seem to pretty directly correspond to “relax the expectation that there shouldn’t be errors” this was also my thought when I first read PCT! https://t.co/aSFysnLvZq
Today, on an email thread, I spotted someone saying something about suffering (in the Buddhist sense) in term of error signals, and I just wrote up my theory from 2 years ago (lightly improved since) as a reply to that thread! (Here it is because #ErrTowardsPublishing) https://t.co/jZc9qEP2Tu
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft re-reading that, and folding in the expanded awareness stuff, I could imagine de-emphasizing "meta-error" and pointing at something more like a narrowing of consciousness onto the error itself rather than up a level... so the error gets stuck. something like that.
@Malcolm_Ocean simplest solution is to have B operate on and through entities that don't exist for A while still having an impact 🤔 better yet, have A not exist for B (in a real sense, not wishing away or ignoring) to more effectively obviate need to protect
@Malcolm_Ocean But *I* barely know what I mean! 🤣 Something like, B can't be perceived in frames enmeshed with A and B's defining patterns are orthogonal to A's affordances such that actions taken in A can't disrupt them
oh snap this ^ is kind of just a different articulation of the paradox of tolerance. hadn't quite noticed that before https://t.co/dHGKeWcfEB
we are collectively, at present, wrestling with the paradox of tolerance, and we would do well to recognize that the people we find hard to tolerate are doing the same from a different angle, and that this is part of what the process feels like