In Medias Res
Part of who we are is the people who have known us and know us, the people we knew and know.
The Free Energy Principle, which includes active inferencing, the way we constantly figure out what is going on and how we fit into it, making a literal map in brain, a figurative paradigm in mind, of ourselves and the universe, is the best way to start our active understanding.
Our behavior cascades from that starting point. We must imagine ourselves doing this, a meta-mapping, the paradigm we use without thinking about it re-imagined.
Think of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes imagining how he’s going to kick someone’s ass (an apt metaphor) before he does it in the movie.
This resonates with audiences in part because that is how we go about doing things all the time. We imagine or walk through the steps in our minds, usually subconsciously.
But how many of us consider how we can imagine/hypothesize so much more quickly than actually do things? It happens almost in parallel with our actions.
We can traverse the map in our brains more quickly than we can carry out the actions in the world in a multidimensional continuum.
We can move in our minds from now back to when we were six to when we are dead and no longer able to imagine anything at all.
Similarly, each of us can move more rapidly among our own personal references in our own minds than anyone else can, especially those who do not know us.
These things are all intimately intertwined and very important to understanding humans, ourselves in real time.
What “cascades” from the active inferencing? Let’s start with differentiating, comparing and contrasting, aka schismogenesis.
What is me and not me. Where I begin and end. Who I am like and who is different. What I accept and what I reject, from behavior to belief, and food, and so much more. Us/them reactions.
When we work to make all this conscious we gain an edge, the advantage humans have on other species and each other; it starts with consciousness of our own inner workings, of the map, the paradigm we use.
The Free Energy Principle, and the behavior that follows on from it in my own experience, is the best paradigm I have found so far.
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