Thanks for writing all this, found it very interesting and (expectantly) useful!
One thing that interests me is how to apply it to more abstract concepts; I’m not particularly interested in things found in the state of nature, like bugs and trees and such, but I am fascinated by people, emotions, thoughts, etc. So I find myself thinking things like “What can I do to increase my contact with ‘Jealousy’ or ‘nationalism’ etc” and coming up with ways to either find circumstances where people feel those things and observe them, or find ways to induce those feelings in myself for more careful study… but neither feels quite satisfying to what I actually want to better understand.
Curious to know if you have any thoughts on this, or ideas for what might help better orient my frame of how to explore those things more directly in this way.
Can you say more about what you want to better understand that you don’t expect to encounter in your own experience of jealousy?
No wait scratch that. Please don’t start by crystalizing your preconceptions for the sake of communicating with me. New question: Where might you encounter something crucial to the thing you’re interested in, if you could somehow transport a bit of your sensorium there?
But if you spend five minutes on that and are still stuck, go back to the first question.
Thanks for writing all this, found it very interesting and (expectantly) useful!
One thing that interests me is how to apply it to more abstract concepts; I’m not particularly interested in things found in the state of nature, like bugs and trees and such, but I am fascinated by people, emotions, thoughts, etc. So I find myself thinking things like “What can I do to increase my contact with ‘Jealousy’ or ‘nationalism’ etc” and coming up with ways to either find circumstances where people feel those things and observe them, or find ways to induce those feelings in myself for more careful study… but neither feels quite satisfying to what I actually want to better understand.
Curious to know if you have any thoughts on this, or ideas for what might help better orient my frame of how to explore those things more directly in this way.
Can you say more about what you want to better understand that you don’t expect to encounter in your own experience of jealousy?
No wait scratch that. Please don’t start by crystalizing your preconceptions for the sake of communicating with me. New question: Where might you encounter something crucial to the thing you’re interested in, if you could somehow transport a bit of your sensorium there?
But if you spend five minutes on that and are still stuck, go back to the first question.
First things that come to mind are dance party/club for jealousy, political rally for nationalism.