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So you'll, undoubtedly, you've noticed that this is being taped, so the tapes will show up on some relatively regular schedule,

um, I wouldn't expect that precisely, because I don't want to make any promises about, you know, exactly how quickly that'll be done.

Martin Zhang here is doing it on his own accord, so it's like, you know, two thumbs up for Martin as far as I'm concerned, so, because he's done this for a number of my courses,

and it's a lot of work, and it's much appreciated.

So anyways, that's why all of this stuff is set up.

So I think I told you pretty much about what the class entails on your part.

And if you've heard this lecture, and I'm sure at least a reasonable number of you have heard me lecture before, so you sort of know how I'm going to lecture,

and that was more or less how I'm going to do it.

I'm hoping that, you know, we can make this class, like, deadly successful.

That's the idea, and that you'll regard it as something that, you know, depending on your participation, obviously, you'll regard it as something that's really valuable.

I'm telling you the stuff I've learned that I'm telling you about, it has been so useful to me that I can't,

I can't, I can't really even communicate how useful, it has been unbelievably useful,

and you know, partly what I am going to explain to you if I can is why, you know, there are tenets of classical morality, and there is a variety of them,

and one of them is, for example, don't lie, and you know, that is a tough one, because you might think, well, you know, why not, really?

Why not?

I mean, if you can set up a situation so that you benefit from an untruth, what stops you from doing it.

Dostoevsky, in one of his most famous statements, he said, if there's no God, everything is permitted.

And it's a take -off on Nietzschean thinking, too.

It's a problem that he thought would be the fundamental problem of the 20th century, and I think he was absolutely right.

It's a question very much worth thinking about.

It's like, why bother with things that are moral?

Why do things right?

Is there even such a thing as doing things right?

These are great questions. And hopefully, what I'm going to try to do with you guys is

to show you what the consequence I've been thinking about those things for almost thirty years, I guess, now.

I've got a ways, certainly a ways that has been satisfying to me, and I want to tell you what I've concluded, and then you can decide for yourself if you think it's useful.

One thing I would really encourage you to do is like, you should be skeptical about what I'm telling you.

Really.

Like, you should question it.

Like, I don't mean the kind of skepticism that's like this, because like, you know, I'm not here to prove myself to you at all, and you're not here to prove yourself to me either.

So you have to listen, and you have to attend, but by the same token, I would say like, I'm telling you things that I have tried to hammer to death.

I've tried to see if they were wrong, you know, because that's how you're supposed to test ideas.

You throw out an idea, and you hammer the hell out of it.

See if you can see if it's wrong, not whether it's right, because that's ideological thinking.

The things I'm telling you are things I could not disprove.

They seem to stand up, and I've tried multiple tests.

One of them is sort of a consilience test, and a consilience is a word that was defined by Edward O.

Wilson.

When an explanation is consilient, what that means is that it's coherent across multiple levels of analysis.

And so I've tried to test the ideas that I'm describing to you,

I've tried to determine whether they're logically coherent

and appropriate at the level of general psychology and clinical psychology and neuroscience and narrative theory and religious thinking.

And then also to see

if they're actually applicable as practical realities in day -to -day life

And in social life And as far as I'm concerned They stand up That's been my experience

And I've also watched people Over many years now Try to apply them in their own lives

And all I've been able to see so far With my graduate students and so on Is that it works So, you know Hooray for that And

so we're going to try to understand Some basic issues Like what the utility of truth is

And that's a really important question It's maybe the fundamental question Is truth useful?

And if so, how and why?

And, like, man, we're going to go after that.

Especially with regards to verbal truth.

Because there's something magical about words.

There really is something magical about them.

And the way you use words determines the course of your life.

And maybe more than that, maybe the course of everyone's life.

So, I want to explain to you how that can be true and what it means.

So, you know, that should be relatively entertaining. And hopefully...

What else I can tell you is, I'm going to throw out some key propositions.

There's probably about seven or eight of them, and what I'm hoping is that you'll be able to use those propositions as keys

that will help you unlock things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to consciously understand.

And I gave you some example of that with this little story, you know, because that little story happens to be an extraordinarily deep little story,

and it's, you know, it's so old, that story.

Like, I think that story stems from when we were still in trees, really, and that when our prime enemies were snakes, because it does appear, according to Lynn Isbell,

anyways, who's an anthropologist in California, that our primary predators 60 million years ago, when we were basically inhabiting trees,

were predatory snakes, and that we co -evolved with them.

And so the, like, human being versus snake motif is not only the oldest story we know from a consciously articulated perspective,

but it might be the literal story of our species these as a biological entity,

and I'm telling you that because it gives you some idea about how deep these stories can go,

they can go really to the bottom of things, and if you know some of these key propositions,

when you see archetypal stories portrayed in front of you, and that happens all the time,

like in all the superhero movies that have come out later lately, there are hordes of them, they're tremendously expensive to make, hundreds of millions of dollars,

those things, they're all predicated on archetypal themes.

I think it's of great interest to note the most expensive artifacts that human beings produce, or at least among the most expensive artifacts that we produce,

are precisely movies that are computer generated to tell archetypal stories.

You know, and that's also the technological process that in large part is driving computer innovation,

because the most demand that's being placed on things like computer chips is actually, you know, recreating reality, CGI reality, because it's the most complicated thing to do.

So it's like, what the hell?

Why are we doing that?

What's up with that?

Why would you spend $300 million making Iron Man?

You know, there's a profit motive there, obviously, but everybody will go see it.

It's like, what's up with you people?

You know, you'll see some dingbat in a metal suit fly around in the air, you know that's not true.

It's like, what are you doing at those movies?

You think, well, I'm entertaining myself.

It's like, yeah, yeah, right, except why is it entertaining?

And why is it entertaining to all of you?

And why is it entertaining to everyone?

You know, there's a reason for that.

So partly what we're going to find out too is what it is about stories

that attract our interest and why it is, why that is.

And it's not merely entertainment.

It's like the most potent form of learning that we have.

So, well, anyway, so that's the goal, and during this as well, you know, I hope that you can articulate yourselves further,

and also come to some deeper understanding about the absolute, essential nature of proper language use in spoken language and in written language,

because you basically think and speak and write yourself into existence, and one of One of the things that means is, you should be very, very careful with what you say,

because you are literally bringing realms of reality into being through speaking, and you want to make bloody sure that the realms of reality

that you're participating in bringing into being are the ones that you would actually like yourself and those you love to inhabit.

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So you know, it's a… well, I don't have much more to say about the Course than that,

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so what I'll do now is see if you have any questions, so, yes?

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I wanted to know why is the dragon bad, and I felt like I liked him all along, I felt like he was getting out of control when he got there,

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but I bet he just wanted some attention, but I don't know why from the beginning we were building it up for the dragon that was bad.

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Right, well, yeah, you know, okay, so the question is why is the dragon portrayed as bad?

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It's like, well, first of all, we might notice that cross -culturally that's not necessarily the case, right?

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So, the dragon in the West tends to be something to conquer, and something that hoards of ...surgeons,

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strangely enough, and it's something to be conquered and the treasure to be taken.

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But in the East, particularly among the Chinese, the dragon is something that's positive.

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And what I would say is, and we'll study this when we get into the symbolism that's associated with reptiles,

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fundamentally, with predatory reptiles, you see that the dragon is actually a tremendously ambivalent representation.

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Because it represents, it really represents the unknown,

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or even more precisely, it represents the element of the unknown that you don't even know exists.

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You know, because sometimes… something unexpected could happen to you, but you can understand it when it happens.

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But sometimes something unexpected happens to you, and it's so unexpected that you can't even conceptualize it.

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I would say when the Twin Towers fell in New York, that was an event like that.

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It's outside the domain of your understanding.

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And then there's an ambivalence about that, because you don't know the nature of the event precisely.

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So the predatory reptile, reptile, especially the treasure -guarding predatory reptile, stands for the potential that exists in the unknown.

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And that potential can be positive and negative, right, because it's the source of all new things.

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It's also the source of that which will destroy you, and so it's a very paradoxical entity.

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Now one more thing, so the story implies that there's an optimal size of a dragon,

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and I would say, well your nervous systems are actually tuned to detect the optimal size of dragons.

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We'll talk about this in great detail as we go through the biology of anxiety and disgust, as it turns out, which is something I've learned more about recently.

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You know how you can, sometimes if you're engaged in a task, let's say a cognitive task, you can find it overwhelming.

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It's something you're having a very difficult time understanding and maybe you even wonder if you're up to it.

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Okay, so you might say, well, your nervous system is indicating to you that that's a threat.

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And then other times you'll be dealing, say, with a cognitive task that's beneath your abilities, and so it's easy and you get bored.

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So then you'll be dealing with a cognitive task that it's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, right?

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The temperature is just right, and what happens is that you have to grapple with the task, and it pushes you forward in your development, but it also really engages you,

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so you're tied right into it.

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And it's really easy to remember and understand, and you make progress, and it's difficult and energy demanding, but you're completely captivated by the process.

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That's the right sized dragon, and that's what your nervous system is telling you.

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It's saying, look, this amount of novel information in this domain is precisely the amount

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that you can incorporate while optimally transforming the knowledge structures that you already have, without exceeding your capacity.

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And what that does, the way your nervous system signals that to you, is you get interested in it.

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You know, because you might ask yourself, like, why do you get interested in things?

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And you're bored by some things, and some things are overwhelming.

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It's like, you don't have any choice about that.

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It's not a decision you make.

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Right?

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It's something you discover as you act in the world.

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So dragons of optimal size are engaging, and they push your development.

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But if they get too big, then they're too much.

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Could this dragon not be the child's potential?

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I see an analogy between this and the story of the baby in the crib and the thunder going and heading everywhere.

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It could be that.

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The thing about that particular symbol is that it describes the unknown outside of conceptualization.

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It's pure potential.

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Now, here's something to think about in relationship to that.

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I did a little TED talk on potential, which if you're interested in this sort of thing, you might want to look at, because I got it right in that talk, I thought, but, you know,

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there are different ways of thinking about what the world's made out of.

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And, you know, we think that it's made out of matter.

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That's the basic dogma, say, of the materialist realm.

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And I would say, look, it's really useful to treat the world as if it's made out of matter, and look at all the things that treating it that way has allowed us to do.

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But that doesn't mean it's the final statement about the nature of reality.

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And whatever matter is is pretty damn strange when you get to the bottom of it.

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We don't understand it at all, and we don't understand its relationship to consciousness.

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But putting that aside, we also act as if things other than matter are real.

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So for example, we act as if potential is real.

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And that's a very strange thing, you know, because potential by its very nature is not really defined, because otherwise it would be potential, right?

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It would be actuality.

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But you know, all of you understand your parents when they say, well, you know, you should live up to your potential, or there's potential there.

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And I would say actually most of the time when we're dealing with the world, what we're dealing with is not the material world per se, what we're dealing with is potential.

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It's like we're dealing with what this could be, and we're trying to realize the potential.

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And so another thing that you could think about with regards to the symbol of the dragon in particular, it's the predatory reptile, more basically,

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is that it's a representation of potential.

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And so, I think the reason that it takes reptilian form, and we're going to talk about this in great detail,

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is I think that what happened as we evolved is that the systems that we originally evolved to detect predators.

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When we underwent the cognitive revolution that transformed the world into abstract representations around us,

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that initial predatory detection system was elaborated up into the system that we used to detect the unknown as such.

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But you know, because it's evolution, the fundamental elements that evolved over the course of evolution remained intact.

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We're using the same systems, and that system has a language, and so the language is something like,

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well, the unexpected event is sort of like the snake in the grass, which is perfectly reasonable.

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You can think about it as a metaphor.

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I think it's deeper than a metaphor, but you can think about it as a metaphor.

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And I would say, well, there are optimal -sized… we have optimal -sized adversaries,

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and I don't think you can live without an optimal -sized adversary, which is also an interesting, it's a very interesting idea, because you know, one of the things that people always ask,

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this is a very metaphysical discussion, is why there has to be evil and horror in the world.

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It's like, well, it's not clear to me

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that the world could be constituted in the manner that it's constituted in any acceptable way, if there were no adversaries.

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It's like, well maybe the snake in the garden is necessary, you know, maybe that imperfection, And also that adversary is necessary, it's the thing that spurs on development.

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What would there be without an adversary?

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Maybe nothing.

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You know?

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I can give you an example, it's a funny example, there's this little animal whose name I cannot remember, unfortunately, but it lives in the ocean,

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and in its larval stage it has a brain, and it swims around, it's a little tiny thing, it swims around, you know, like a little plankton and so on,

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and then at some point during its development it fastens itself onto a rock, and it grows into something that sort of looks like a plant, you know?

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But it's stable, it never moves again.

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So as it develops into this stable rock -clinging entity, it basically digests its own brain, and then it doesn't need one after that.

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And the reason it doesn't need one is, well, there isn't really anything for it to do.

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It just sits there, it filters water, it takes like a sponge, sort of.

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It takes the nutrients out of the water, and the brain is just, like, it's extra energy using tissue, and so it doesn't need the brain anymore.

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And so, you know, it's like, you don't need to think if you haven't got an adversary.

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So then you think, well, are there optimal sized adversaries?

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And part of the little motif of that story is, if you pay careful attention to things as they change, maybe you can keep the damn adversaries optimized minds,

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and I think that actually, it may not be true, but it's possible that it's true.

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And that's something, you know, that's something.

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If you really pay, because the question might be, and this is something that I thought about when I was developing all these ideas a long time ago, it's like, okay, well there's obviously some things about existence

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that aren't exactly the way you might lay them out if you had the choice.

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You know, like the fact that people are fundamentally vulnerable, and that you're imperfect in fifty different ways, and that life is full of suffering, and everybody dies, and you know, all these things that are existential nightmares,

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it's like, okay, fine, it's easy to judge that as unacceptable, and maybe even worse than unacceptable, you know, intolerable, you know,

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deserving of obliteration, you can even go that far, and people do go that far.

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But there's another question that that question begs,

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which is, yeah maybe, but maybe if you brought all of your resources to bear on the problem,

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without holding back all of them, then that would be okay, then you could master it.

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And that's possible, you know?

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So the thing is, you'll never know unless you try it, that's the thing, because it's actually a claim that requires an existential proof.

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You can't listen to someone tell you that, and even if it's true for them, that doesn't necessarily mean it would be true for you you.

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The only way you can test a proposition like that is existentially.

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You have to act it out.

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But, as I mentioned earlier, I see very, very few truly optimistic ideas in profound thought.

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Most profound ideas are pretty damn pessimistic.

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But this is one, I think, that's an exception to that, which is, it is possible that you're constituted so

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that you have enough resources to deal with reality as it actually lays itself out.

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And one of the ways, And people have been thinking about this for a very long time too,

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is that one of the most effective weapons you have in that engagement is the capacity to pay attention.

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And paying attention, it's another thing I've learned over the years that's been extraordinarily useful to me.

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We kind of conflate rational thinking.

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with attention and sort of make attention like the ugly stepsister of rationality in some sense

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because we never really consider it as a separate entity

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because we are basically rationalists and we believe that we can deal with the world in rational ways.

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I don't think that's really true because I think the world has at its core its existentially irrational.

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There's too much of it that's observed and arbitrary.

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But it is perfectly reasonable to draw a clear distinction between paying attention and And you know,

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Western culture has elevated thinking in some sense to the position of the highest deity, but I think we've got that wrong.

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I think attention is much more powerful than thinking, and that attention, that thinking should be the handmaid of attention.

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Because if you pay attention, you can pay attention to the things you don't know.

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And you can become incredibly powerful if you pay attention to the things you don't know, because you keep learning and learning and learning and learning.

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And, you know, there's a New Testament injunction that goes along the lines of, you know, it's necessary to love your enemy.

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And I actually think that that's an existential hint.

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You know, if you listen to people converse, especially if they're ideologically minded, you have a socialist on one side and a conservative on the other.

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All they do is trade platitudes.

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There's no discussion.

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And the goal of the discussion is to humiliate the other person

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and to prove that your a a priori stance is correct, and that that person is incapable of conceptualizing the world properly.

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It's like, one of the most interesting things about running into people who think differently than you, if you pay attention instead of thinking,

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is they will tell you the weirdest bloody things, you know, the things you never possibly have thought of, and you know, it doesn't mean that you have to fall over and agree with them immediately,

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but what the hell difference does it make if they don't think the same way you do?

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Maybe out of ten statements they'll offer you one that you wouldn't have conceptualized.

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And that's the difference between paying attention and thinking.

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People love to be paid attention to.

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It's a currency, it's human currency, is attention.

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Attention is an unbelievably powerful tool.

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One of the things we'll find out is that the ancient Egyptians actually conceptualized attention as a god.

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And the god they conceptualized attention as was Horus, and you all know of Horus because you've all seen representations of Horus.

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The famous Egyptian eye, the single eye, that's a representation of Horus, and the Egyptians figured out, like the Mesopotamians had before them,

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that the highest human deity, which is like the most powerful set of human attributes, is to be associated with, one, with language use.

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The Mesopotamians really nailed that, but even more importantly, with the capacity to pay attention and watch.

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And it's sort of suspension of judgement.

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It's like, you don't have to be right or wrong in the situation.

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All you have to do is pay attention and listen and watch.

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And then, potentially, a solution will emerge out of that.

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And, look, half our brain is visual cortex, approximately, you know.

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So, paying attention, we're incredible visual animals.

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Paying attention really matters.

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It's the harnessing, that's visual attention in particular, but that's the harnessing of our most fundamental cognitive capacities.

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So, anyways, you know, if you pay attention to things, you can see what interests you.

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And that's also an empirical search in some sense, which is quite interesting.

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This is part of why I got interested in psychodynamic ideas, it's like, there are things that rule the way that you govern yourself that you have no control over.

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You can only discover them, and one of them is what interests you.

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You can't really force it if you're not interested in some things, like, well, good luck trying to make yourself interested.

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Sometimes you can do it to some degree, but more particularly what seems to happen is that your interest highlights things for you, and then you follow that around,

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like you're following a search beam or something like that.

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To me, that indicates the action of very, very deep underlying psycho -biological systems that in some sense are directing your consciousness.

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You know, if you pay attention to that process, you can also learn a tremendous amount from that.

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Like, what you're actually like.

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You know, what are you interested in?

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Where is your being trying to manifest itself?

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That's another way of thinking about it.

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So those are all things that we're going to try to figure out.

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Because I would also say that if you're capable of allowing your true being to manifest itself, so that would be your potential,

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that's also the best source you have of the kind of weaponry

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that you need to defend yourself against the inequalities and tragedies and horrors of life.

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Because you can reveal yourself, in a sense, by pursuing what's illuminated for you.

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And I can't tell you whether or not that's true, but it's a powerful idea, and it's a very old idea,

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and I think there's plenty of evidence that at least it is a… you say… It's plausible, yes.

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It's more than that.

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But plausible will do, because I can't think of a better word at the moment.

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It's a hypothesis that has enough potential that it might be worth testing, and I would like you to test that sort of thing.

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One of the things that I really encourage students in this class to do, and you can start doing this right away, is pay attention to what you hear yourself say say.

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Just watch, pull yourself into two.

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Detach yourself from your ideas and thoughts and watch what you say.

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And at the same time that you watch what you say, watch how you feel when you say what you say.

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And what I'd like you to try to detect is you'll notice

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if you start noticing that some of the things that you say make you feel strong and together and united, and other things that you say make you feel disunited and weak.

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And then Then I would say, quit saying the ones that make you feel disunited and weak, because they're false.

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And what you're picking up by the loss of strength associated with

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that utterance is the fact that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark with regards to that use of language.

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It's manipulative, you're trying to appear smarter than you are, you're trying to prove a point, you're trying to avoid something.

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Like there's some game you're playing that's other than merely stating what you see to be true at that moment.

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And that's a different way to live, because you can calculate and you can plan, and planning is useful, I have nothing against that,

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but you can manipulate reality so that it manifests what you want.

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Or you can decide that what you're going to do is pay attention, and to call things as you see them, and to see what happens if you do that.

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And that's a real risk, right, because you don't know where that's going to take you.

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So that's an act of faith in the Kierkegaardian sense.

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It's like, if you have faith in the truth, what that means is that you will say the truth.

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And that's a hard thing to do.

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It doesn't mean that you can say whatever you want, whatever you want, regardless of the effect on other people.

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Or that you can use the truth as a baseball bat, which you can certainly do.

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It's a sophisticated...

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It requires a tremendous amount of sophisticated...

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It requires a tremendous amount of sophistication.

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But one thing you might think about is, well, if you are attempting to make yourself a mouthpiece of the truth,

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you have reality on your side.

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And then you might say, well, could you possibly have anything more powerful on your side than reality?

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And so it might not be a reality you want, or a thing that you would wish for, but you might think, well, you know, if you called things as you saw them,

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and you were very careful about that, maybe that would lead you through life properly.

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It's a very different way of thinking, and it is tied to this idea that there's something fundamental about the truth.

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So I would say to start this, if you want, just pay attention to what you say.

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You know, and like you're detached from it.

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So don't identify too much with what you're saying, because that's another thing that people do.

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They identify with what they think.

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It's like, what makes you think that you're thinking?

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It's like one of the things Jung said, which I really love, it blew me, it just flattened me when I first read it.

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He said, people do not have ideas.

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Ideas have people.

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And so you know, I listen to ideologues talk all the time, and it's like, it's not them them talking, it's some dead spirit of the past that's,

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you know, voicing its opinion through them.

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And you can tell when you're talking to someone like that, because you can predict everything they're going to say.

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So in what sense is that them talking?

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It isn't them talking at all,

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it's some collective, it's a collective voice that has appropriated them and convinced them that it's actually part of them.

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It's like, no, that's a devil, that's what that is.

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So, just watch, you can try this experiment all on your own, try it for a month, detach yourself from what you say and think,

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and notice when you say something if it makes you feel more grounded and powerful, or weaker, and stop saying things that make you weak.

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So you know, that's sort of like existential test number one.

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So, well it must be just about four, it's 4 .03.

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So then I'll see you all next Wednesday.

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Take a look at the website, and I would say start those exercises, or at least check them out, okay?

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這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“2015 Maps of Meaning Lecture 1: Introduction”為素材。這段影片共有 329 個句子、5239 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 29:19。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 179 個詞，接近日常對話。 87% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
adversary 名詞	/ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/	敵手 /敵手, 對手 /對手
optimal 形容詞	/ˈɑptɪməl/	最佳的
reptile 名詞	/ˈɹɛp.taɪl/	爬蟲 /爬蟲, 爬行類 /爬行類
existential 形容詞	/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/	存在性, 有關存在的 /有關存在的
detect 動詞	/dɪˈtɛkt/	察覺 /察覺, 發覺 /發覺
conceptualize 動詞		概念化
metaphor 名詞	/ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/	比喻, 隱喻 /隱喻
proposition 名詞	/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/	建議 /建議, 提議 /提議
constitute 動詞	/ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/	組成 /組成, 構成
tremendous 形容詞	/tɹɪˈmɛndəs/	令人敬畏/驚歎/驚異的 /令人敬畏/驚歎/驚異的
artifact 名詞	/ˈɑɹtɪfækt/	人工製品 /人工製品
overwhelm 動詞	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	吞沒 /吞沒
unbelievably 副詞		不可信地
deity 名詞	/ˈdi.ə.ti/	神, 神明
coherent 形容詞	/koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/	凝聚的

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
figure out 動詞		弄清楚
find out 動詞		找出, 查明
stand up 動詞		站起來 /站起來, 起來 /起來
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出, 出來 /出來
go through 動詞		通過 /通過
pick up 動詞		拾取, 撿 /撿
turn out 動詞		原來 /原來

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

Why are we doing that?
It's like, what's up with you people?
It's like, what are you doing at those movies?
You know, what are you interested in?
It's like, what makes you think that you're thinking?

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	I've been thinking · have been thinking
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	you've noticed · you've heard · I've learned
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	being taped · be done · is set
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	that which will · out, which is · grass, which is

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 138 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, don't, I'm。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: existential /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, detection /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: adversary /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/, predatory /ˈpɹɛdəˌtɔɹi/, archetypal /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/, proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, consilience /kənˈsɪ.li.əns/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: adversary /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, yourselves /jəˈsɛlvz/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, detect /dɪˈtɛkt/, constitute /ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, tremendous /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: reptile /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/, archetypal /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 adversary, optimal, reptile 這類單詞。

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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