Formology
Terminology
grip
plot
trial
story
will
beauty
truth
wave
Aspects to Discuss
- Intrinsic motivation: insights and story-rule cycle
- Extrinsic motivation: intra and inter individual moral progressions, where the latter hinges on us being united in the story
- Neurotheology: God as why to there being order in chaos regarding Beauty.
- Social consequences: how befriending the story relates to loneliness and how WtOTB/being story-bound can be seen as resulting in an unintentional radical centrist stance
- Metaphysical interpretation: this regards the poem and how this interpretation reconciles many intuitive notions regarding will, will power and faith, and how it offers a way to reconcile neurocentric theories of consciousness (which regard the Feel) and quantum theories of consciousness (which regards the Will)
- Neurology: many concepts are grounded in neurology, which naturalizes i.e the notions of beauty (vmPFC HPC coupling), story (plot evaluation with dissolved taskset (dlPFC)), and the empirical consequences of the moral progression statements (as a variation claim for the plot valuation). Also of interest, the general neurological ground up building of WtB, via trial of rule and trial of plots.
- Formological Approach: The neurological description of WtOTB, since this provides many mechanisms which provoke the experiential question: but how is this reflected in the feel?
- Global insights: Beauty of flow, trust, contrast, life, tangibility and so on.
Relating to other ethical theories:
- How WtB describes what normative ethics seem to be doing, describing the landscape of beauty locally, but failing globally.
Texts
Connections with Wondrous Wisdom
Formology answers the questions, What do you mean by this? What is X? It is a standard of meaning, what is meaningful and what is not meaningful. From the analyst's point of view: meaning is the set of feel paths. And this leads to a discussion on whether such criteria are useful.
| Formology | Wondrous Wisdom |
| Poet (diverse answers) vs. Analyst (single answer) | Unconsciously answering mind vs. Consciously questioning mind |
| descriptive (how does) vs. normative (how should) | |
| How do we live? will to beauty vs. How should we live? will to our true beauty | |
| Temptation trials | Argumentation: How do issues come to matter? |
| Consideration trials | Verbalization: How does meaning arise? |
| Narrative trials | Narration: How do events happen? |
We live by making decisions.
- How do we make moral decisions? Will to beauty.
Descriptively, what do we mean by making moral decisions?
Buckets
- 1) stream - "following the stream" - unconscious micro decision process (moving one's hand) (cerebellum)
- moral defaults: social bonding behavors, impulses (to lie or not to lie), habits
- 2) trials (tests, challenges, dilemmas, decision making processes) - cognitive control (dorsal anterior cingular cortex)
- 2a) temptation trial (getting out of bed, taking a cold shower, cleaning up one's mess, avoiding treats) - a rule (and a goal) conflicts with the stream (the path of least resistance) (rules enter the workspace as an active subset of working memory, they depend on memory, mnestic functions), a matter of trust or faith in the rule which exceeds the signal from the body [Andrius: note that the unconscious can switch sides, back and forth, and so can the conscious], expressing will power
- 2b) consideration trial, planning trial - a stream stoppage (not knowing what to do) - when you have to make a choice (left or right) (hippocampus and cortex coupling), constructing possible futures and evaluating them (center BMVFC?) based on goals
- 2c) narrative trial - choosing a future [within constraints] based on aesthetic reasons, thus will to beauty (the value in the frontal medial cortex)
Normative sense
- Story rule cycle
- A true wrong is more beautiful than a false right
- If you see the beauty of that, it leads to the rule of doubt, you have to actively kill one's ego
- Death of ego (where ego is excess belief)
- Constrained maximum entropy - how much can I commit to a belief? only what truth demands - ego is the excess of belief
- Rule to care: Story of others is more beautiful than our own story
- Rule of doubt, rule to care, are temptation trials
- They lead to: Will to our true beauty