## Why relevance realization is the capacity to find things that are meaningful to us: - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^2pr5gu]] - powerful. the capacity to have a growth mindset and hope - ## Notes The skill behind [[Intelligence]], how we understand the world. This understanding is found through [[Meaning]] - [[John Vervaeke]] argues that general intelligence is a dynamic virtual engine - Dynamic implies ever changing with its multiple parts - Virtual implies the cognitive existence of it, not physical - Engine implies that there are different parts that interact with each other and are self-organizing - Relevance realization is a meta-theory that affords dialogue and criticism with all these prophets across different disciplines across history Proven to be related to [[Consciousness]] via the [[Global workspace theory]] Two main components: Virtual engine is the generation of variations and constraining of variations - making real, objective realization - coming into subjective awareness - these are used to triangulate for transjectivity of RR - embedded systems implies how relevance is not objective or subjective but is derived from meta meaning - this sounds highly related to [[Learning about meditation with Anisha]] done through the [[Fundamental Framing]] you cannot have a theory for relevance, but we can have a theory of relevance realization, and that is all we need. Relevance realization itself is interesting - it has to be - already interested in itself because it is self-organizing, and self-organizing processes derive meaning? - So we need to find ways to make conditions that inspire RR to be interesting in itself - when we actually try to care for the above we participate in [[Agape]], the process itself of meaning making - that's why [[Relatedness|Belonging]] is one of most powerful intrinsic motivators out there [[Relevance realization is highly related to meaning]] Is [[Transframing]] Takes place in our [[Unconscious]], which is also our [[Participatory knowing]] ## Biology Relevance realization only works in internal systems where self-preservation exists - to be alive is to be the goal of self-preservation, to protect and promote yourself organization - Part of the nature of an engine? - There are various levels at which we can perceive this self - Consciousness - Subconsciousness - Self - Community - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^35gglf]] - This is also when we start looking into the really real. a **turning of the arrow of relevance from "how are things relevant to me" to "how am I relevant to the ultimate, to being itself"**. it takes a step back to think about the bigger picture? - An example of this is through [[Agape]] and language - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^c9kd70]] - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^gwhe64]] - Helps overcome the combinatorial explosion of information available at this moment, this is why we create a home for our thoughts to hone in on what is relevant to us - When it comes to [[Second Brain]], "environment" is referring to an intellectual environment of resonating ideas - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^hu1hao]] - The more we evolve ourselves, the more attuned and real our senses can become. - How is this achieved? - Opponent processing - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^rychya]] - how did i not see this relationship between the brain parts and this idea of [[#Recursive relevance realization]] - reminds me of architects and gardeners switching a lot as well, [[Thinking Styles]] - relevance realization lets us focus through bias - [[Cognitive Biases]] are [[Heuristics]] that misfire - heuristics are biases that somehow work for us ## RR in communication [[We can never fully say what we mean]] - if we dont apply it we find things funny or maddening ## Types ### Recursive relevance realization - It is a self-organizating process that requires both [[Top-Down Thinking]] and [[Bottom-Up Thinking]] - Example given in AS 12 is reading "THE CAT" when H and A are written the same way, to explain how we need both thinking styles to understand something. We can't solve one for the other, since to know whether it was an H or an A we need to know the word, but then we don't know the word if we don't look at each letter, which gives us generative models for [[Mutual modelling]] - [[Self-organization]] -