16-18 - Ari Scribbles

For those who seek through play the wisdom of being, Ari scribbles...

Act 1 Scene 1

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Lawrence makes an excellent observation on language, which is fairly important as our primary means of communciation:

Lawrence Vyceratops: For instance, we rarely define the terms we use in speech...
Lawrence Vyceratops: Although we all have access to dictionaries, we seldom check the definitions between one another.

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Act 1 Scene 3

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Agatha asks a great question, which didn't seem to have an answer:

Agatha Macbeth: Are enlightenment and happiness the same thing?

Act 1 Scene 4

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Calvino makes some excellent points concerning the idea of consciousness and self:

Calvino Rabeni: A lot more is known about it than in past times, at least on the level of physical correlates of cognition
Calvino Rabeni: It is a little like physics looking inside matter, or figuring out what happened during the big bang
Calvino Rabeni: Because the introspection and observation are famously difficult
Calvino Rabeni: given that the "instrument" is slower than the thing being observed (in classic introspection)
Calvino Rabeni: You have a dream, form a concept, in almost an instant, then how can the slow process of thinking form accurate models of that, since it is itself affected
Calvino Rabeni: Rational thinking, formation of ideas and concepts vetted against social considerations and history, is a slow process
Calvino Rabeni: too slow to "catch perception in the act"
Calvino Rabeni: memory is unreliable, many aspects of mind are not directly observable to consciousness
Calvino Rabeni: it is just a pretty poor "instrument" for self observation, for various reasons
Calvino Rabeni: Getting scientific instruments into the task will help and be influential, in the future
Calvino Rabeni: I think we're at the beginning of a new phase - paradigm shift or whatever -


Act 2 Scene 1

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Bolonath gives a great answer to the question of what is spirituality?

Bolonath Crystal: for me spirituality is an efford to understand the world including the self in a non-conceptual way. or in other words: to find 'truth'


Act 2 Scene 2

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Just what *can* we depend on Eliza? :)

Eliza Madrigal: Sometimes we sense we can't depend/trust on our mere selves, so we then depend on structures... that won't do either it seems ...


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Act 2 Scene 4

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stevenaia speaks of that most important of emotions...love:

stevenaia Michinaga: there is always the first true love of a certain type that define itself unlike any other
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes you don;t even know until it your heart beaks... and a lifelong understanding is learned

Act 3 Scene 1

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Zen knows the secret of knowing the right action:

Zen Arado: I think when you fully accept a situation you also see more clearly the right action to take in the situation



Act 3 Scene 2

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Storm gives one benefit (among many) to PaB:

Storm Nordwind: I rather think that the actual practice in PaB spurs people to think about things in their lives in new and different ways...



Act 3 Scene 3

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The talk turns to holographic universes, which Mic knows something about:

Mickorod Renard: the whole idea of a holographic universe is just a concept,,and it works in practice to explain some effects like gravity too,,but no one really has a good grasp of it yet



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