[[Thinking|Cognition]] is about our consciousness. [[Reality]] is the [[No-thingness]] of the world. In [[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke]]: ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^ygz9e0]] **What is this grammar?** It sounds like the grammar from [[Mutual modelling]] and [[Self-organization]] Recursive [[Relevance realization]] - ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^0cjd9e]] - It's hard to isolate something - ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^4qfcck]] - It's different because of the chance for emergent properties - It's different because of the connectedness between different parts from creating dynamic systems The interdependence of these levels in systems is what leads to the shared grammar ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^6fcfd6]] ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^mf2djx]] - The way something emerges is fine-tuned to help bring out a form that is most relevant through constraints, much like the theory of evolution - The various levels of reality (atoms, trees, environmental science, nature as a whole) are vertically and horizontally connected with the other levels ![[After Socrates Episode 12 - Generative Grammar Dr. John Vervaeke#^eitat7]] - This is also the definition of [[Religion]] from *Religion and Nothingness* i can see the resemblance of this definition with the general idea of conforming to societal trends, [[Conformity]] if cognition and reality share the same grammar, then to conform means to be able to understand and be part of being. if you conform to become an abg, then you better understand what it is like to be an abg. is there a sense of mutual modelling where your abg-ness is being more realized from conforming, which then strengthens the existence of abgs? when we engage in dialectic, we are trying to orient ourselves in a way that helps us better understand reality. and by using the same grammar, we can have more connection? ## Practices - The best way to have these grammars aligned is with the [[Finite transcendence walking meditation]] practice, in the final stage where you have your no-thingness of the self map with the no-thingness of the world. - Cultivating the awareness of this experience and grammar happening within you, better helps you connect with the world through shared [[Mutual modelling]] - I wonder if this is the play