This post really captured my attention. So much so I read it and most of the comments thrice.
Two of Valentine’s claims:
A) Certan types of things are meta-cognitive blindspots (cfar jargon). For example, alcohol impairs your driving ability, it also impairs the ability to tell whether or not you’re okay to drive. Given you’ve had N drinks, the feeling of “I’m okay to drive” is not to be trusted. Another example is recognising good outfits, If you’re lacking in fashion sense you can’t tell whether or not the clothes you are wearing look good, or even notice if your outfits are a problem.
It’s a blindspot on the object level and the meta level. So how does your epsitemology deal with this? There’s this new skill X however you need a certain ammount of X to realise X is a skill worth having.
B) There’s this thing “Looking” that’s hella beneficial. Really hard to tell you why.
I’m on board with A. So here’s my take on “Looking”:
My first time focusing, was a new kind of experience. In some sense I’d been doing it all along. But also it was totally new.
Looking at the phone screen is perhaps the talky part of my brain. You can’t do focusing with only your verbal models. I’ve had a few experiences trying to teach focusing with similar responses to the ALEX dialogue above. You need to consult your gut. And feel your response to an issue physically and seek its name. This can’t be done with only your verbal monalogue.
So I’m left in the positon, that there’s some quality/flavour of experience I’m missing. It’s seriously benficial. Or the process of updating your previous epistemology in this direction is benfical. I can see that these types of updates are very difficult to convey in words. Yet I don’t have the qualia. alas. :)
This post really captured my attention. So much so I read it and most of the comments thrice.
Two of Valentine’s claims:
A) Certan types of things are meta-cognitive blindspots (cfar jargon). For example, alcohol impairs your driving ability, it also impairs the ability to tell whether or not you’re okay to drive. Given you’ve had N drinks, the feeling of “I’m okay to drive” is not to be trusted. Another example is recognising good outfits, If you’re lacking in fashion sense you can’t tell whether or not the clothes you are wearing look good, or even notice if your outfits are a problem.
It’s a blindspot on the object level and the meta level. So how does your epsitemology deal with this? There’s this new skill X however you need a certain ammount of X to realise X is a skill worth having.
B) There’s this thing “Looking” that’s hella beneficial. Really hard to tell you why.
I’m on board with A. So here’s my take on “Looking”:
My first time focusing, was a new kind of experience. In some sense I’d been doing it all along. But also it was totally new.
Looking at the phone screen is perhaps the talky part of my brain. You can’t do focusing with only your verbal models. I’ve had a few experiences trying to teach focusing with similar responses to the ALEX dialogue above. You need to consult your gut. And feel your response to an issue physically and seek its name. This can’t be done with only your verbal monalogue.
So I’m left in the positon, that there’s some quality/flavour of experience I’m missing. It’s seriously benficial. Or the process of updating your previous epistemology in this direction is benfical. I can see that these types of updates are very difficult to convey in words. Yet I don’t have the qualia. alas. :)