I think they want to replace conventional ui with a universal machine equivalent of a talking head. It could save billions on ui development. If only we would shut up and just swallow it.

All form is interpretation. I feel pretty solid about that.

We don’t prove things in the real world, that is reserved for mathematics and board games.

But I could offer an argument since you asked so nicely.

The method of rationality requires a set of reasons to operate. They can be derived, logically, from other reasons. But reasons do not arise from nature. Therefore, ultimately, they must be gotten via nonrational means. Ie : from authority, convention, aesthetics, intuition etc.

There is coxcomb pronounced coxcoom. If that helps.

So it’s an anglicized latin dingus?

There was that buddhist monk kid who bent spoons

Might imply that meditation can do it

I think it’s a great idea.

We are the wealthiest culture ever, we can afford it.

It would zero out most crime.

Fighting to survive is beneath us.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 1989

Legend 1985 Director’s Cut

Conan the Barbarian 1982

Who has the time?

Neither will actually seriously examine the article/video/etc.

And that’s how everybody does it. We cite the term or authority and the rest is just a blurry assumption. The conversation is as deep as a rain puddle.

How false are we talking? A couple seconds? Minutes?

So in summation, “nuh uh”.

Well you wouldn’t know what’s lost until you see it yrself.

From what I’ve seen, it’s vast. What remains is a single sunflower seed left from the whole flower.

Well that certainly does simplify it.

Call it a perceptual tunnelvision that becomes a habit.

Ya, a tool with a sneaky downside.

Shikantaza meditation (it’s what the zen buddhists do) has the opposite effect.

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Obsession is just the overt form of the disease.

Concentrate regularly on a thing, physical, mental or emotional, and it will produce the disease as well.

And that second form is hidden because the sufferer is not visibly raving. And they are embedded in a society filled with people that look much the same.

But don’t take my word for it. Study attention and its forms (direction, concentration, distraction…). Experiment with it. See for yourself.

Will do

I am describing the concentration of attention. Which includes a great ignoring. This is simple and obvious.

I am adding to that, habit. Unconscious action that is. Doing a thing while not aware that you’re doing it.

Which, when we put them together, gives us a kind of blindness.

If that blindness is unacknowledged then yes, that’s a kind if insanity. And it would follow that the more you concentrate the more insane you are.

If everybody does it (habitually concentrates) then yes, everybody is insane.

Is it necessary and unavoidable? I doubt it.

Am I being unclear here or just offensive?

Yeah that’s why I put it in quotes, because it’s a dumb term for what we’re looking for here.

Try just answering those 2 questions.

Or not, this is exhausting.