“Reality is arational.” is an easily defensible position, though it would take some work to make an idea worth entertaining out of it.
That’s not even following the position, as you already created a map or look to create one.
“Everything you do is arational.” is flatly solipsistic and useless. You must agree that words have meaning, if only subjunctively, by your usage of them. ‘Rational’ means something, and it describes behavior. Behavior is goal-directed, and be judged by how well it achieves those goals. That is what bare rationalism is. If you disagree with this, you’ll need better justifications.
Indeed, if I can remove that I would, because it misses the point, or rather that could be worked on in more detail. But maybe from the context of the arational reality, everything is arational. If you, however, are inside it, some actions may seem superior over other actions.
You seem to be equating awareness with at least three different things, two if that was supposed to be a recursive definition.
1) awareness as total self-knowledge (“you will always lack awareness”) Since this is pure armchair speculation anyway, I’m sure the mere existence of quines makes “You will never reach total awareness” false as a theorectical proposition.
2) awareness as consciousness/the self (“separating thoughts from awareness”)
3) awareness as noticing something (“You can become aware of thoughts,”)
3) your own definition
Lack of awareness means in my opinion, a measurement of awareness, not a separate definition.
I don’t think you or I cannot reach “Total awareness” while still thinking within the paradox of limited awareness. Because if I realize my awareness is limited, I become a little more aware, yet on top of that I missed my unawareness. Of course, there’s probably those who has done so and know.
Solipsistic and useless.
Useless and solipsistic.
Do I need to say it?
How is this refuting any of the arguments made? You either agree or you don’t, then you say why. Useful or uselessness factor is another discussion which I didn’t even bring up I think.
A tip: very little is gained by couching your ideas in this self-aggrandizing, condescending tone. Your over-reliance on second person is also an annoying tic, though some make it work. You don’t, however.
You come off as very arrogant and immature, and very few people will bother wading through this. The few that will do it only in hopes of correcting you.
If you’re at all interested in improving the quality of your writing, consider, at the very least, reading a few other top level, highly upvoted posts. They do not have these problems, and you’d be served by emulating them.
How is this relevant to any of the ideas made in the post?
I think this is false. Mathematics is interesting precisely because of its non-humanity. The joy of doing mathematics is incommensurate with an imagination of the joy of doing mathematics. The missing ingredient, of course, is the unknown, of discovering something outside yourself.
To call it a human projection is to miss the entire point of preforming these actions in the first place, which is curiosity, exploring the unknown.
The argument is that it is a human projection, that reality is arational. I never made the argument that just because something is a human projection doesn’t mean it removes any positive connotations. You just are aware that it is a human projection, and that it is fine to be that way. (according to the argument)
I can’t see why it would be the case.
The “map/territory” dichotomy is just another map, as you yourself said. In reality, there is only atoms and the void. Self/other, subject/object are all a part of reality itself, and the delineation is only useful, never necessary.
Atom is a map. The void is a map. One can be invited to the void, yet speaking of it or finding it, was a map. Then one can notice one was there all along.
You couldn’t find a counter-argument to my claim. Because by silencing thoughts you realize that reality does not cease to exist, even of patterns and such. A map of neural pathways is still a map, for example, because it is a thought.
It does not need a map, it simply exists as an experience, which is the point of my post. So maps are not the territory, literally.
you cannot
Of course, you can, by realizing everything is a map, except the territory which cannot have a map, be explained, communicated, in any way.
The arational has no perspective, because it is not the type of thing to have perspectives. Reality has no mind, no agency.
When mapping things, it might be relevant to have the arational in the equation as well (metaphorically speaking) as a means to have a wider perspective.
Reality is, however, patterned and models exploit this patterning.
Reality is arational. Patterns and models may project their view and believe that they are exploiting the arational, while they are actually fooling themselves without realizing it is a projection.
Suppose one person (call her Alice) choose to act as if there exists models better than other models, while another person (call him Bob) chooses to not do this. One may object to using words like ‘true’ or ‘accurate’ to describe their approaches, but there is a certain quality the former would have that the latter does not. The former may make a habit ingesting certain objects, or preforming pointless tasks for useless trinkets. The other would object that ‘hunger’ and ‘money’ are just models and no model is better than another.
These approaches lead to certain outcomes. Again, one might not like describing one as ‘true’ and the other as ‘false’, but there is a certain pattern there to be found there.
Which is a projection, it cannot be anything other than a projection. It’s perfectly okay to discuss things while being meta-aware the discussions are projections, this is not the argument.
While I’m sure there are many people here who enjoy puzzles, obscurantism is frowned upon.
The social contract of lesswrong is the opposite of your epigram: “What’s the point of this post?” You have to figure that out on your own. It’s not our job, but yours. I don’t doubt you have some insight here. I’m sure it could even be couched into a post fit for this community. But you have to do the job of filtering your thoughts, crafting your posts and hoping against hope you didn’t make an embarrassing mistake.
The insight can only be witnessed through empirical investigation. Because of the nature of this insight, it cannot be communicated. The last part was to invite you to see reality for what it is.
That’s not even following the position, as you already created a map or look to create one.
Indeed, if I can remove that I would, because it misses the point, or rather that could be worked on in more detail. But maybe from the context of the arational reality, everything is arational. If you, however, are inside it, some actions may seem superior over other actions.
Lack of awareness means in my opinion, a measurement of awareness, not a separate definition. I don’t think you or I cannot reach “Total awareness” while still thinking within the paradox of limited awareness. Because if I realize my awareness is limited, I become a little more aware, yet on top of that I missed my unawareness. Of course, there’s probably those who has done so and know.
How is this refuting any of the arguments made? You either agree or you don’t, then you say why. Useful or uselessness factor is another discussion which I didn’t even bring up I think.
How is this relevant to any of the ideas made in the post?
The argument is that it is a human projection, that reality is arational. I never made the argument that just because something is a human projection doesn’t mean it removes any positive connotations. You just are aware that it is a human projection, and that it is fine to be that way. (according to the argument)
I can’t see why it would be the case.
Atom is a map. The void is a map. One can be invited to the void, yet speaking of it or finding it, was a map. Then one can notice one was there all along.
You couldn’t find a counter-argument to my claim. Because by silencing thoughts you realize that reality does not cease to exist, even of patterns and such. A map of neural pathways is still a map, for example, because it is a thought.
It does not need a map, it simply exists as an experience, which is the point of my post. So maps are not the territory, literally.
Of course, you can, by realizing everything is a map, except the territory which cannot have a map, be explained, communicated, in any way.
When mapping things, it might be relevant to have the arational in the equation as well (metaphorically speaking) as a means to have a wider perspective.
Reality is arational. Patterns and models may project their view and believe that they are exploiting the arational, while they are actually fooling themselves without realizing it is a projection.
Which is a projection, it cannot be anything other than a projection. It’s perfectly okay to discuss things while being meta-aware the discussions are projections, this is not the argument.
The insight can only be witnessed through empirical investigation. Because of the nature of this insight, it cannot be communicated. The last part was to invite you to see reality for what it is.