Consciousness is attention, and it’s a thin layer on the surface of a deep self

A living being has self because he moves himself with desire and purpose; an inanimate thing doesn’t

A living being is a whole self who keeps himself together as a whole

The self is always switched on; mind is moving, and in people, it moves in circles within the internal monologue

A living being is an embodied soul, matter + self, as one unity

Truth is correspondence with reality, and because reality contains matter and mind, there are truths that correspond to each

We people want to understand the essential natures of things; we want to know things for what they really are

Four essay miniseries with this theme: We are in this world and of it, and we know things as they really are

We understand by pattern-matching, and it’s a mechanism of an embodied soul

We people step back from the flow of experience and think about it; we’re an analog system with a digital application

Every living being is a meaning-maker; we give value to the world and this is our freedom

Human development = diversity in ideas + communication + competition

A belief is true in its proper context, when lived in that context

A belief is a communal relationship with reality; I don’t have deeply held beliefs, rather, I live them together with my people