Thoughts on experience and the greater sense of life

[!see-also] My thoughts on Siddartha All in all is all we are

Spring!

There's no more beautiful day with sweeter weather than a spring day in New York that reminds you of everything you had been missing when you were sheltering from the biting cold.

People are noticeably sweeter, their eyes brighter, New York is covered with a blanket of kindness. And so should everyone come to realize that this wonderful sight of sun on your skin, and on the buildings --on which the clouds had emphasized the soot previously, are so very persuasive in their arguments to get you outside.

A collective shock, a collective realization about the N+1 dimension that is you can put down the book, you can put away the work and you can go out and experience the world.

In the eyes of most who are outside, you begin to understand that by going out, you've joined this really cool club of folks that understand.

This cool club of outdoor people

We focus so much on the inside of the cave in Plato's Cave, that we never for a second realize how much exactly we are missing when we omit the aboveground world. We admit to ourselves every time we bring that up, that we ourselves are stuck in the cave.

Those cool folks understand (and you!) understand the beauty of which you would never have been able to experience without stepping outside. And oh by god, does it feel awful when you come to find your colleague cooped up in whatever tiny cramped up room they must be in, immersed in everything they could have been working on.

And yet, a step back and we realize they too are in another world. Though it isn't one we could easily experience, especially as easily as the one we had just come to experience. As a collective experience through such simple actions such as stepping through a set of doors, in which the climate had affected every ounce of sensing and perception that we had learned to develop and categorize through the culmination of our years.

Ignoring even our unique ways of internalizing that perception.

With enough sense of empathy, built partially through our own experiences and walking various distances in other's shoes. We too can figure that they may be immersed in their world as we have once. Making that N+1 step is what validates both our colleague/cave counterpart's experiences and our own.

Sonder~ we are all here and everywhere is outdoor people

To attribute this to sonder, or just the general understanding that other people have lives would be alright. Theres a little more depth and nuance, but this is pretty good as shorthand!

Here we are, in superposition with so many people who have experienced so many different realities and different lives. Here we are with people who are older than, and younger. Oh the beauty!

I think how we don't document our lived experience, every moment every day as a general loss for society. Of course time spent documenting means less time spent living, which is no good! –if only giver-type memories/braindancing– Even if your schema is completely different than my own. Especially if your schema is in complete contradiction with my own.

the effect you have on me is unreal

With no contradiction, our shape on Gabriel's Horn will always be restricted in dimensions. Having the grace to explore other people's dimensionality, and noticing how it directly affects the weights of our own Schema is one of the greatest joys in life, so long as you accept your schema misses. Maybe it's the difference that gives the thrill of life...

Sonder would have you accept the manifold, the diagram that you come into contact with when you interact with the SWORM other people offer when they choose to present themselves to you, as valid. This is good, but if you are easily swayed or don't have confidence in your own SWORM, it is really easy to fall for!

We learn that those events that significantly shift our own weights and schema are our memories! all important, all essential!

[!quote] From The Garden of the Prophet “Call nothing ugly, my friend, save the fear of a soul in the presence of its own memories.”

Every expression of such is valuable, if not as a living document, as a snapshot of the words that you can put together at this point of time. Something to reference for others and for yourself as the manifestation of your Schema. And as such I beg of everyone to splay their schema.

don't schema shame! especially when they put it out there!

Of course, this also means that you need to allow anyone else to explore their own Schema in whatever sense they choose to. If that means making art that no one will ever see, thinking thoughts that they'll never put to paper, it's understandable. Though if you do choose a system to express, and splay your schema. Know, and always realize that software disappears. systems that allow you to explore your own snapshots are scarily fragile. Redundancy is your friend, but reproducibility is essential.

Ugh. EEEEK everything that I know will change. Of that I am almost completely certain. So I hate to drag the conclusion in which we have found ourselves as yet another area of myself arguing that creating an external set of documents that can evolve with you is the closest thing we have at this point to convey a snapshot of your Schema. At least you have your reason for why I update this damn thing...

What I hadn't even expressed

I had meant for this to be an exploration of my own mortality. but alas i always digress:

[!quote] Paraphrased of course: "I now look at the youth with a much different view than I would have if I were that young. Now I look at their faces and I cannot help but understand how immature they are."

old people love saying that. hehe I say old and thats suchhhh a mischaracterization of the, And HEHE they are completely right. It's statement of fact.

EEEK but maturity isn't about linear progress. If this is the combination of different experiences, and how many error points, the younger counterpart will always lose out (assuming that their is a sense of progress for more experience is better).

If immaturity is instead the combination of the variety + diversity of general experiences, then their is finally some advantage given to the young in being able to potentially match or outclass their superiors. eh who cares though. its not a race or a competition.

Every point is equally valuable and valueless.