idealism / geist - living systems that structure our experience and reality we realize - we come across and we make things real based on our mind - helps pick up patterns of intelligibility - articulation is speaking characteristics and differentiation - integration is systematic connections being realized as participants in our thoughts extended mind, differentiating ideas thesis, antithesis, synthesis - this is the dialectic process- making sense of the world by playing with ideas for complexification and emergence to learn how to be in the world [[Hegel secularized christianity through idealism]] - understand -> reason is same concept of articulating the way we interpret the world - according to idealism, if real is rational, then this is also how reality realizes itself through us. - we come about profound theoretical truth but since we decoupled the sensemaking aspects of spirituality, it cannot be used for meaning and will, participatory and perspectival knowing - if we view things rationally, we will always be far from the truth of reality, and will therefore never be able to truly participate or view it from it - marx, niestzche, all agree that hegel does not encapsulate core meaning making