Did anyone notice that sustained nuclear fusion is a good analogy to achieve unlimited human potential? To tame the unlimited energy of a nuclear fusion one needs a magnetic bottle that is adaptive enough to constrain the reactor from destroying itself.
Doesn't this remind you of dystopian movies like "Fahrenheit 451", "The Giver", "Equilibrium" and "V for Vendetta" where art and emotion are removed from society so that humans avoid their own destructive fate?
In each of these movies, the antagonist are institutions that are so rigid in their micromanagement of lives that we've what it means to be human. Do we not also see it in ourselves when we are rigid in our own thinking that we've lost our emotions and thus our humanity?
There are two kinds of meditations. One that trains one to control their focus and ignore distractions, and then there's another kind that trains one to be mindful. The former one seems extremely useful, but I suspect it is wrong.
Teaching and nursing are examples of professions that demand a high level of empathy to be effective. A good teacher understands the mind of her student. A good nurse advocates for the needs of her patient.
The greatest of human breakthroughs in art and science involves the transcendence of the mind into an entirely new language. The problem with this is that only a few minds can make the pioneering leap. Furthermore, it takes a different mind to help others make that transition.
John Vervaeke @vervaeke_john describes 4 p's. 1) procedural knowing; 2) perspectival knowing; 3) propositional knowing; and 4) participatory knowing. All I can say is that to get to a new language you need (4) because 1,2 & 3 are bound by an existing language.
How does one create a new language in a space where we have yet to invent a vocabulary. This is what Alexander describes as a 'quality without a name'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timel…
C.S.Peirce's triadic logic follows in the same evolutionary spirit. You begin with the icon and the index to eventually arrive at symbols. To recognize similarity and affordances one has to be engaged in participation,
The human mind is like a nuclear fusion reactor with two competing forces. The unlimited energy of the fusion reaction and the magnetic field that bottles and sustains the reaction. Sustainability comes from two things that are involved in an adversarial balance.
The fusion reaction of the mind is our immense underlying intuition, the magnetic field is our language. It is through language that is adaptive and grows that we achieve our unlimited human potential.
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