To me the terms you use don’t seem to be helpful. Not everything we pay attention to is in focus. It makes sense to separate attentionality and intentionality and the word focusing seems to me to apply only to the intentional part. It’s possible to shift the object of your intentionality by trying. It’s not possible to do the same thing with attentionality.
That’s where the Joda saying “Do. Or do not. There is no try” and related thought comes from. There are many things you can achieve via intentionality but the common idea is that you can’t achieve enlightenment that way but things come via attentionality.
Saying that aliefs are the same thing as qualia’s feels wrong to me. My own model would say that an alief causes certain qualia to appear under certain circumstances. Modeling aliefs as only being there when they come to the surface and produce qualias seems misguided t me.
As far as “blocking emotions” goes, that term seems like a misnormer to me. If you take a Buddhist monk with a lot of experience can make a loud noise next to them while they are present in their meditation there isn’t a startle response. Given my own experience the related Qualia feels like letting an emotion flow through yourself. If you put up any kind of block than there’s resistence when the stimulas hits the block and you will have a startle response.
It would be interesting to know whether Val has this ability to show no startle response. Being able to not show a startle response isn’t a useful skill but it’s a lot easier to measure than more complex interactions with emotions.
To me the terms you use don’t seem to be helpful. Not everything we pay attention to is in focus. It makes sense to separate attentionality and intentionality and the word focusing seems to me to apply only to the intentional part. It’s possible to shift the object of your intentionality by trying. It’s not possible to do the same thing with attentionality.
That’s where the Joda saying “Do. Or do not. There is no try” and related thought comes from. There are many things you can achieve via intentionality but the common idea is that you can’t achieve enlightenment that way but things come via attentionality.
Saying that aliefs are the same thing as qualia’s feels wrong to me. My own model would say that an alief causes certain qualia to appear under certain circumstances. Modeling aliefs as only being there when they come to the surface and produce qualias seems misguided t me.
As far as “blocking emotions” goes, that term seems like a misnormer to me. If you take a Buddhist monk with a lot of experience can make a loud noise next to them while they are present in their meditation there isn’t a startle response. Given my own experience the related Qualia feels like letting an emotion flow through yourself. If you put up any kind of block than there’s resistence when the stimulas hits the block and you will have a startle response.
It would be interesting to know whether Val has this ability to show no startle response. Being able to not show a startle response isn’t a useful skill but it’s a lot easier to measure than more complex interactions with emotions.