Carl-Richard

Growth. If it happened in aliens, it can happen in humans.

At least I'm not alone in feeling this way

27. Criticizes itself constantly

Speaking of the vatican, you should change your name to St. Peter Jordanson

Yes it is.

Ah, so it's a normie trait. Got it!

Fancy Death Metal?

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When you say experience, I understand that as Absolute Truth. Relative truth is thought.

Case in point

Integrating all aspects of yourself.

The truth is not in the communication. Communication is a means to an end; utilitarian. Truth is existential. Truth cannot be spoken. Speech is noise, Truth is silence. If there was any intention behind the communication, it was to put an end to it

Opeth is unmatched in its versatility and creativity:

If you do something that is not beneficial for survival, your body will tell you by sending some signals. If you keep eating cake after you've had enough cake, your body will tell you by making it taste bad. If you touch a hot stove, it will feel bad. If you don't eat food when you're hungry, it will feel bad. To maximize pleasure, you must do the right things at the right time. Your body as a self-perpetuating life system needs to maintain a steady internal state (homeostasis) in order to survive. Survival means to keep a fixed boundary between yourself and the environment, and complex creatures like humans have evolved elaborate behaviors to aid in this process (avoiding predators, routine feeding behaviors, seeking shelter etc.) along with more basic physiological processes (maintaining a constant body temperature, acidity, water content etc.). The nervous system is one of many systems that work to control such behavior and maintain homeostasis by using signalling molecules like dopamine. Dopamine is involved in things like movement, motivation and seeking rewarding stimuli, but pleasure only happens once you do the work that dopamine tells you to do, and when the work is over, systems like the serotonin and opioid system take over (movement stops, you rest, sleep etc.). You seek what is pleasurable because it aids in your survival, and things that give you pleasure generally do aid in your survival. If you go against your own survival and homeostasis, your signalling systems will tell you this, and hedonic adaptation is one such process, i.e. feeling less pleasure from eating more cake after you're full, or drinking more water after quenching your thirst, or having sex for the 12th time in a day. There is a myriad of different adaptation mechanisms in your body that all work together to make your life possible The need for success and achievement is a higher-order expression of deeply rooted survival drives, and they follow the same adaptation mechanisms and use the same signalling systems as the lower ones. For example, the movement through a social hierarchy is tracked by serotonin levels. Your motivation to finish a project is driven by dopamine etc. Your signalling systems also generally respond to changes in stimuli. If you sit on your butt for a while, the feeling of pressure that you experience while initially sitting down slowly disappears. When a stimulus becomes persistent and static, you adapt to it by decreasing the receptiveness (unless there is a positive feedback loop that increases it, like with certain pain pathways). This tendency to respond to change is what drives people to constantly seek new stimuli and explore new environments. It's why millionaires keep earning more money even though they have all the money in the world. It's why the biggest bodybuilders think they look small in the mirror. Experiencing change is also a source of strength and health as it challenges your system in new ways, engages a fuller range of capacities and resources, and perks your senses. Experiencing stagnation makes you numb, depressed and nihilistic. In many ways it's the voluntary confrontation with change that creates desire, drive, meaning and not least pleasure.

When you see the magnitude and diversity, scope and potential, complexity and depth of reality, your experience becomes more fluid. When people say "this is real, this is not", they do this because their experience of reality is very solid, straightforward, clear-cut. When you try to wrap your head around Absolute Infinity, one word that is fluid enough to contain its range of expression is imagination.

You schedule your watchtime?

Communication. If you want experience, go grab it

Black and white concepts like "grass" and "color" fall far short of truthfully representing experience. Experience is an infinite gradient.

MHC I first intuited the existence of by looking at the cognitive line of the AQAL map, but I just recently found it. I've only read the wikipedia. I haven't read Piaget's works directly. The things I've read is undergrad level curriculum for developmental psychology that deals with children ages 0-18. Piaget's model is mainly meant for childhood development in a Western context. It's the Neo-Piagetian models that often expand to include adult development. Wilber has too many books ? You should maybe ask someone who is not a zoomer. Zoomers read school curriculum and that's it ?

It's a skill in the sense that practice matters. The key to learning a language is to actually speak it regularly, every single day. The way they teach 2nd/3rd languages in school is essentially a waste of time. My Spanish is terrible despite having had 5 years of "education".

Are there not seasonal regularities? You have phenomenas like seasonal depression, suicide rates rising in the spring, different activities based on the season etc. Things like light intensity, air temperature and daytime length are huge determining factors for behavior with complex effects down the line. @Staples' point is related to that.

00:00-1:07 This is what the transition from systematic to metasystematic looks like – going from seeing one system to many systems: The step from systematic to metasystematic is in this case the departure from perceiving everything through one model (Newtonian mechanics) to getting familiar with many models (langangian mechanics, QM etc.), and then going from saying "this is the truth" (systematic), to "this system is right, all the others are wrong" (low metasystematic) to "they're all just different interpretative frameworks" (high metasystematic). High metasystematic is the advent of so-called relativistic thought ("so-called" because it's just what our modernistic or formal-systematic stage 10-11 culture calls it). It's relatively relative (more relative by contrast). In reality, there are different degrees of relativity all throughout the hierarchy which gets increasingly complex as you scale the stages. Now, the statement "they are all just different interpretative frameworks" is one level of construct awareness. A higher level is when you recognize how these frameworks interact, and that is where systemic models like MHC come in. MHC lets you see the systematic structure of the relationships between metasystems and how they form higher structures (here refered to as "paradigms"). One such structure is the nested holarchy structure, or the spiraling motions of "trancend&include" (Wilber). Here you can see that the structure of different cognitive operations reflect an underlying metaphysical structure of all frameworks (here we use the external dimension of the Integral Quadrant as an example): atoms include but transcend sub-atomic particles; molecules include and transcend atoms; proteins, sugars and lipids include and transcend molecules; cells include and transcend proteins, sugars and lipids; organs include and transcend cells; organisms include and transcend organs; groups include and transcend organisms; societies include and transcend groups; civilizations include and transcend societies; planets include and transcend civilizations; solar systems include and transcend planets; galaxies transcend and include solar systems; galaxy clusters include and transcend galaxies etc. This is what is meant by "the fractal nature of reality". This is also why Integral Theory is so genius because it goes meta on so many aspects of all frameworks. "Levels" is the so-called "vertical development" (stages of development in SD, MHC; all stage models) that follows a pattern of nested holarchy. Quadrants are different domains of frameworks (individual-collective x internal-external) that also follows a pattern of nested holarchy. Together, it creates AQAL (All Quadrants, All Levels):

If you're so comfortable it makes you numb, try introducing some resistance into your daily life: heavy weight training, cold showers, sauna sessions, fasting once a week. That'll make you more embodied and dynamic. A negative outlook can stem from something as simple as a lack of variety. Change is the basis of energy and movement.

White people talk about racism. Black people experience it.