Peace & War

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Critical Action

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Personal Memory Manager

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Other & Self

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Extremization

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Dialogue

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Leading & Following

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Constructive Recollection

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Social Reality

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Intuition and Reality

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Independent Confirmation

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Sense, Know, Intuit, Realize

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Space & Time in Memory

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Individual vs Collective

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Object Orientation & Multi Perspectivism

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The "Roll-Model"

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Intuition and Reality, Awake and Asleep

Reality is supposed to keep our minds on track, or at least prevent us from harming ourselves. Unless there are those around us taking good or bad care, there are no roadlines to stay on that track. So we may waver and wander a bit or a lot, from time to time or chronically. I would like to describe the quest as Constructive Recollection. Constructive: intuition paving the way and receiving feedback when the tires get off the asphalt. Recollective: reality sending that information towards our brains whenever it has its reasons and possibilities to do so (important one: when we LET it do so).

Intuition is up and running when we are awake, and more or less when others could see our rapid eye movements while we dream. Reality is always there, but mainly when we are out of control, e.g. in our sleep. Influences we experienced all day, mainly informing us that we were on track, then creep up, into the core of our brainstem or the depths of our being. It does some repair stuff, AND it re-sets our understanding of the world, mainly by creating that world according to those remaining traces of the day. Now it is intuition's turn to only signal getting off course too much. So, during the night, the roles are reversed and reality is in full power.

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Sensing vs Knowing

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Natural Happiness

Depression is environmental, not organic. We get depressed when we are shunned, left out, not part of 'society' or the cronies. We get another chance when we whistle the expected tune, otherwise we can wait in line to get a disassembly line burial. Of course it is the black pest of our times, but we don't seem to be able to do without it. I would like to offer a way for individuals to get out of these depressive (mental) states. The solution is in the mental state itself. The only problem is, once found, how to hold on to it. In other words, if consciousness is so fleeting, and fleeting away with all its happy intentions, how can it ever be held onto? I think it depends on the contents of consciousness, our intuitions or philosophies. These MUST be reducible to their origins, where they came to be, started existing. Clinical psychology believes that bringing back memories that were traumatic, or even returning people themselves into the same or similar circumstances, can help them process what could not be digested the first time. That is not what I am proposing here, at least not (at all) exactly. The experiences we are supposed to deal with, CANNOT all be processed and must be selectively dealt with. Power mongering, social pressures, educational forces, are making things only worse. Instead, we must 'see' our own responses to our experiences sort of introspectively, looking at ourselves 'from a distance'. If there IS a response, naturally, spontaneously, then that is part of that environmental trigger itself, as our sensing organism is part of the sensed environment. It is reducible. Therefore, consciousness can be a reducible orientation, driving behavior as it should (behavior being the material basis, or environment, of consciousness). If that criterion of reducibility is met, we will not lose our happiness. So the facts are, if there is a natural response, then there can be a happy mental attitude, or the beginning of it; and as long as consciousness is reducible to (that) behavior, it will stay put.

Four-Dimensionalism Real & Intuited

When 'not here' is real, such as 'somewhere over THERE', then 'not now' is as real, such as 'somewhere over THEN'. The only obstacle in the way seems to be freedom of choice, to design the future one way or the other (taking the past to heart). Still I agree with four-dimensionalism. How can I? Because freedom to choose a direction CAN be and SHOULD be determinism that how things turned out, now, here, I, resulted from that freedom of mine, which is ongoing. Reality binds it together and the now is just a thin slice, but when you study time, as e.g. Bergson did (1859-1941), then it turns out to be intensity or 'duration'. He experienced the approach of war as a growing intensity of reality. However, apart from reality, there is intuition of duration and we can be wrong, after we apply it and reality tells us we are mistaken. Then the whole canvas tears of course. So there is that 4th dimension and it can be real, but that reality must constantly confirm our intuition. And... it must do so independently, or else history will overtake us.