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So, so far, what we've been doing is laying out an argument that you inhabit.

What you might describe is a frame of reference or a story, or that you're occupied by sequential some personalities.

That's another reasonable way of thinking about it might be the most reasonable way of thinking about it, really, and that these frames of reference or some personalities have a point of view and the source associated thoughts and associated memories, and and that most importantly, perhaps as well is directing your behaviour and emotions.

They also structure your perceptions, and I think that's the most critical.

That's the most critically important realization about the frames that you bring to bear on the world because they it's through them that the world manifests itself.

And what that means to some degree is that you you you have an indeterminant role to play as a consequence of your moral choices.

Because these air essentially value based structures as a consequence of your moral choices, you determined to to an indeterminate degree the manner in which the world manifests itself to you.

So in that sense, you're a co creator of your own being, and then you're also a co creator through your action and your communication for the being of other people as well and and for the external world in so far as you act upon it.

So it's a non trivial realization, too.

You understand that to what degree your value structures filter the world for you and shape it.

And so we've been talking so far about the structure of that world, and I introduced some neuro physiological ideas last time.

The idea being that you come into the world, obviously embodied with a set of inbuilt, will call them some personalities at hand, most of them those air regulated by very archaic ancient brain systems that you share with many other creatures on the evolutionary chain.

Which is partly why you can communicate with and understand other creatures because if you didn't share that underlying biological structure, they would be opaque to you in the same way that perhaps an octopus is relatively opaque to you.

You know you can't understand it because you don't share an embodied platform and it's It's experiences therefore entirely foreign to you, but you share You're embodied platform, certainly very specifically with all mammals.

And of course, you can understand mammals quite well.

But you could even really understand lizards to some degree and especially the more social ones.

And so there's this tremendous degree of inbuilt biological structure and biological commonality, and we talked about it most particularly in reference to the hypothalamus, which seems to be the the built in initial some personality generator.

Something like that in the hypothalamus is responsible for regulating what you might regard as the most fundamental biological elements of behavior that things the systems that not only keep you alive, which is obviously very important but also impel you to do such things as defend yourself, obviously part of survival, and also to reproduce and to explore and the exploration elements quite interesting, because you think of that as a very sophisticated form of behavior.

And it is, but it's rooted in an unbelievably archaic neurophysiology, so the hypothalamus roughly sets you into motivated frames.

And then when those frames either fail or when they're all quiescent because they've been satiated, it pops you into an exploratory state of mind, and you wander around exploring foraging for information, roughly speaking, so that you can update all the sub personalities that you used to, um, to organize your perceptions and frame your emotions and so forth.

Now that so the hypothalamus throws up these frames, it makes you hungry.

It makes you thirsty.

It makes you defensively aggressive.

It helps regulate your temperature through behavior and all of those things.

Now the problem with that is that it's a set of impulsive, unit dimensional systems, each one operating in the moment at each one, only concerned with the satiation of its particular aim will say.

And the problem with that is that while you live for more than the moment you live across many moments, you stretch yourself across time and we know human beings know that they stretch across time and so actually have to consider notary, the organization of their behavior in the short term, but also the organization of their behavior in the short term, so that it also works across weeks and across months and across years, and maybe even for longer spans of time than that, and also equally and similarly, it has to work across people, and one of the things that's kind of interesting about that is there actually isn't much difference between establishing a value structure that works for you now and next week and next month and into the future, and establishing a value structure that works for you and other people simultaneously.

Because you could say that whoever you are in a year is sort of like another person.

And so in so far as you can organize yourself so that other people find what you're doing, let's say acceptable and valuable.

You're also organizing yourself so that perhaps you're acting in the best interests of your future self.

And so then you, you might say, Well, if the hypothalamus can can can can organize you're you're being such that you can satiate satisfy your most basic needs.

Why do you need the rest of the brain and answer to that is, Well, it looks like it's to solve the problem of more complex forms of being.

So these these fundamental biological subsystems have to interact with each other in a productive way to catch a cycle unit.

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It's not a very effective solution.

And not only that, you have to learn to operate in a world with time and with other people.

And so that makes the city the the adaptation problem much, much more complex.

And it's for that reason, as far as I can tell, no doubt, for other reasons as well that there's there's utility in the provision of extra sub cortical and cortical resources, and I think the right way to think about the cortex in some ways is actually as living space for the hypothalamus and the sub cortical structures.

So you know what happens when you're when you develop as a young child, especially in the very early stages of development, the underlying sub cortical systems, including the systems for the census more or less compete for dawn Dominion over the cortical territory.

So, for example, if you take a kitten and you close one of its eyes shortly after birth and you leave it covered for a number of months, what will happen is the remaining.

I will invade both hemispheres visual representation systems so that I becomes this is single remaining eye becomes much more acute, and Mork or tickly dominant, like an invader, really like an invader.

Then the other one does.

And then if you uncover the other eye, the cat.

After a critical period of vellum, that cat will never learn to see out of that eye.

And so, you know, you've got these underlying biological systems motivational and sensory, and they're looking to expand themselves as the organism manifests itself in the world.

And it does that by occupying cortical territory in a competitive process.

So, for example, if you're deaf, your your your your visual cortex will become occupied by auditory and tactile process.

Because why not?

You know, I mean, you could basically see with your hands, you know, and you can you can.

Well, I wouldn't say it's not so easy here with your eyes.

That's harder.

Although you can hear to some degree with touch right, because you can feel vibration.

All of your senses overlap to a substantial degree.

And if one of them is missing, it's perfectly reasonable for the others to occupy the territory that's that would otherwise be given over to that sense.

And this actually has some practical implications.

Even so, silent reading is actually a relatively new ability, evolutionarily speaking, Certainly, literacy is a relatively new invention from an evolutionary perspective.

But to to silent Reed is to use your eyes as ears.

So you know, when you read silently, you could hear the words so to speak in your head.

And the reason for that, as it turns out, is that the part of the brain that you used to read silently with is right between the visual and the auditory cortex.

It's right where they overlap, so you are literally, literally you are using your eyes as ears, and so that's quite the thing that you can.

You can figure out how to do that.

So anyway, so you can think about thes hypothalamic systems being in place more or less ready to go at birth and then having to organize themselves into a sophisticated and integrated a single ego that acts across time and in the social environment.

And, you know, when PJ originally started talking about child development, he regarded the child is something that was born into the world with just a set of very primordial reflexes, mostly sucking reflexes and some primary motor reflexes.

He was very much a constructionist But I would say, you know, had he been alive now, his constructionism would've be modified it modified by the relevant neuro physiological data showing that there's a lot more built into us right from the beginning than PJ expected.

He still might need experience to catalyze the development, but obviously Children are born with the ability to hear and to see into sense with touch.

They're hungry and tired and angry and like they have the whole range of emotions at hand, and they also come into the world with their motivation already in place.

Otherwise you wouldn't be able to form a relationship with him, and that's modified by the development of the higher cortical systems through play and through social negotiation.

But the biology is there to begin with, and so that's that's a That's a good way to think about it.

With regards to understanding how these how both how the fundamental biological systems operated, how they manifest themselves in in personality and in story, because you do that all the time.

You tell a story about how you got angry, and it's basically a story about being dominated by a particular kind of sub personality which would be hypothalamic and exactly how you manifested that and what the consequences weren't.

You know, I was very mad at this person, but I knew I couldn't get too upset because and that that's a good story that indicates both the highly motivated nature of the original response tendency and then your immediate proclivity to have to figure out how to negotiate that expression within a social space so that the medium to long term consequences are positive rather than negative.

And people are very interested in such bits of information should send such units of information because we need to know how to conduct ourselves in complex environments.

And so if someone's willing to share their experience and they can narrate it in an interesting story, were absolutely more than happy to listen, because in some sense we're assembling our identities out of those stories.

And then you can think that there are patterns across stories, which is really a useful thing to understand, because what that gives you real insight into what constitutes an archetype because an archetype is what's comin across sets of stories.

That might be one way of looking at it.

So an archetype is like a meta story.

And so what part of what we're going to turn to now in this discussion is a description of certain meta stories.

And there's, ah, particular meta story that I'm most interested in.

And that's the story about how stories transform themselves.

And so that's what that, I think, is the most fundamental story that characterizes human beings.

There is the story.

I was here.

I implemented some behaviors and I went there.

There was better than here.

That's the fundamental unit.

But the thing about structures like that is that they may work in one situation and not in another or at one time and not in another, and thus they have to be modified.

And it was partly for this reason that PJ has his career as a developmental psychologist.

Progressed started to understand that it was more important not so much to understand the given structure of a knowledge structure, but to understand the manner in which Nolan structures transform.

And that was partly partly illustrated in his description of stage theory, because stages were really movement from one set of axiomatic pre suppositions that through through through with which the child was structuring the world into a state where that system failed because it wasn't sufficiently comprehensive and then into the development of a new stage that could do everything the previous stage could plus account for all the things that the previous stage couldn't.

So that's also why PJ believed that knowledge actually accumulated because each time there was a transformation, the new structure could had a wider range of application than the previous structure, even though it kept all the advantages of the previous structure.

And so that's a good way of that's a good way of conceptualizing progress because it's not that easy.

You know, if you're a relativist, fundamentally, you don't believe in difference between solid structures, say, and you certainly don't believe in the idea of progress.

But if you think about ah more sophisticated structure as being able to do more things properly, then you can certainly map out progress with no problem.

And you know, you know that because you see people operating the world who are less competent, generally speaking and more competent, generally speaking, and there doesn't seem to be much debate about that.

You can recognise people like that very very easily.

So So that's the basic structure.

And we've talked about that at length.

And I suggested that while you're occupying a structure like that, the world manifests itself to you not as objects but as number one.

Things to ignore, which is the major category.

Was talking to some guy yesterday who is working.

Think he was in San Diego on artificial intelligence and neural networks, and he was working with someone who's actually started.

So a neural network work will learn howto wait certain stimulus features, Let's say, in order to identify an image so the thing will be trained up on a whole set of diverse images, and it learns through feedback to discriminate between them.

But the problem with the neural network is that it's not easy to understand what's actually going on inside of them because it self itself generated.

So we could easily end up, for example, creating fully conscious machines and not understanding at all how they work.

That's the most likely outcome, in my estimation.

But this guy was working with another guy who had figured out how to model the weights, and one of the things he told me was that a tremendous amount of what the neural network is doing is learning what's not relevant, right, which is exactly what and and these, By the way, these neural network models produce output that's analogous to the output that's produced by sections of cortical tissue.

It's not identical, but partly they make the same kind of mistakes, which is an indication that they're functioning in the same way.

So one of the things that a neural net does when you're training it has learned to figure out which things that can ignore.

And that's mostly What you're doing is what can be ignored.

And that's a tremendous realization, too, because it it highlights again.

How important the structure within which you exist.

What how Importantly, the structure within which you exist determines what manifest itself to you as you move through the world because you ignore almost everything, so you ignore almost everything.

But then you concentrate on things that move you along your way, or obstacles that get in your way.

And those things have emotional significance there.

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The reason they're veil inst is because they're conceptualized in relationship to the journey.

You know, if you run across a tool or something positive on the opportunity, we could say, which is like an abstract tool.

Then that moves you forward.

And the fact that it's moving you forward is signaled by the incentive reward system.

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Urgently mediated incentive reward system that's grounded in the hypothalamus, the same system that you use when you explore the same system that's activated by cycle motor stimulants like cocaine and heroin.

And most of the drugs that people abuse that that system indicates to you that this entity is non ignore a ble because it's positively functionally related to the transformation of the world that you're attempting to accomplish, so that makes you happy.