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Contemplating Contemplation |
The famous philosopher Rene Descartes is credited with the concept of Cogito, ergo sum, "I think, therefore I am". Contemplating contemplation is about your mind. Your mind is your interface to reality and the way you experience and interface to the real world. It is the tool you own that you have to use to understand things with. Just as you muscles are used for lifting your brain is used for thinking. Our world view is that your head serves a greater purpose than just keeping your hat from falling on the ground. This is your tool, your brain, and the more you understand it the better you can make it work for you.
Your brain is the product of billions of years of evolution. It is not a computer and in many cases it is not to be trusted. It has limited capacity and logic is very new in our evolution as compared to finding food, escaping danger, and mating. We have the ability to share information through symbolic language to interface into the Tree of Knowledge. How do we best do that? What mental abilities do I have and what are my limitations? How can I work with others using my mind to help us all understand reality as it really is.
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