Category: philosopcy

Human Development

can you give me a synopsis of zen mind, beginners mind?

look at practices across all the traditions you know about, e.g., christianity, buddhism, sufiism, etc. and think of those practices as psychotechnologies to evolve the human mind. What the common patterns in those traditions? And what are unique practices in each tradition?

You have listed the more common traditions. Could you please do that for the lesser known traditions?

Some of these traditions have been around for centuries and millennia. From looking at the state of the world it seems like their success rate in accomplishing their objectives is very low. Please construct a set of practices drawn from all the different traditions that could have a higher success rate?

Now take into account the McGilchrist’s model of brain asymmetry as presented in The Master and His Emissary. Based on that model and the insights from these traditions, create a set of practices to evolve the human mind.

Now include Robert Kegan’s work on stages of human development. In particular, add the subject – object process. How does that change these suggested practices?

Thanks, that was great. Now could add to this mix Clare Graves, Don Beck’s work on Spiral Dynamics and value systems development and evolution. How does that change these practices?

Thanks! Now include 4E cognitive science and Vervaeke’s 4 ways of knowing How does that change these practices?

Yes, there are an infinity of things to explore. However, at this point I need to digest what we have covered so far.

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Abductive Reasoning

explain abductive reasoning and its development and uses.

Use abductive reasoning to explain complex human behavior with a very small set of basic laws.


Using Wolfram’s ideas of the ruliad, use abductive reasoning to propose an observer theory. What about the confusion of understanding of phenomena because the update cycle of the ruliad is not taken into account in the observation?

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