I think thinking as a self-reflective process can be quite limited. It is at a certain level of coarse graining that is higher (at least for me) than doing something like feeling or pre-cognitive intuitions and tendencies.
So, I’ll say the boring thing which is basically meditation could be that cogtech as it allows you to increase the precision of your self-reflective microscope and allows you to see other things than the higher coarse graining of self-reflective thought allows you to see. Now, I’m sure that one still falls for a bunch of failure modes there as well since it can be very hard to see what is wrong with a system from within the system itself. It’s just that the mistakes become less coarse grained and that they come from another perspective.
In my own experience there are different states of being, one is from the thinking perspective, another is from a perspective of non-thinking awareness. The thinking perspective thinks it’s quite smart and takes things very seriously and the aware perspective sees this and thinks it’s quite endearing and the thinking part then takes that in and reflects on that it’s ironically ignorant. The thinking part tracks externalities and through the aware part is able to drop it because it finds itself ignorant? I used to only have the thinking part and that created lots of loops and cognitive strain and suffering because I got stuck in certain beliefs?
I think this deep belief of knowing that I’m very cognitively limited in terms of my perspective and frame allows me to hold beliefs about the world and my self a lot more loosely than I was able to hold them before? Life is a lot more vibrant and relaxing as a consequence as it is a lot easier to be wrong and it is actually a delight to be proven wrong. I would say this in the past but I wouldn’t emotionally feel it and as I heard someone say “Meditation is the practice of taking what you think into what you feel”.
I think thinking as a self-reflective process can be quite limited. It is at a certain level of coarse graining that is higher (at least for me) than doing something like feeling or pre-cognitive intuitions and tendencies.
So, I’ll say the boring thing which is basically meditation could be that cogtech as it allows you to increase the precision of your self-reflective microscope and allows you to see other things than the higher coarse graining of self-reflective thought allows you to see. Now, I’m sure that one still falls for a bunch of failure modes there as well since it can be very hard to see what is wrong with a system from within the system itself. It’s just that the mistakes become less coarse grained and that they come from another perspective.
In my own experience there are different states of being, one is from the thinking perspective, another is from a perspective of non-thinking awareness. The thinking perspective thinks it’s quite smart and takes things very seriously and the aware perspective sees this and thinks it’s quite endearing and the thinking part then takes that in and reflects on that it’s ironically ignorant. The thinking part tracks externalities and through the aware part is able to drop it because it finds itself ignorant? I used to only have the thinking part and that created lots of loops and cognitive strain and suffering because I got stuck in certain beliefs?
I think this deep belief of knowing that I’m very cognitively limited in terms of my perspective and frame allows me to hold beliefs about the world and my self a lot more loosely than I was able to hold them before? Life is a lot more vibrant and relaxing as a consequence as it is a lot easier to be wrong and it is actually a delight to be proven wrong. I would say this in the past but I wouldn’t emotionally feel it and as I heard someone say “Meditation is the practice of taking what you think into what you feel”.