Andrius: We can investigate what it means to live as an investigator, and how that relates to wisdom and to living ecologically. I imagine this as an alternative to the Living Wisely wikiversity course curated by Leland Beaumont. We could engage each other as investigators.
Wisdom
What is wisdom?
Andrius proposes:
- Wisdom is living as a deliberate investigator (the third mind), relating conscious questions (the second mind) with unconscious answers (the first mind).
- Wisdom is knowing why. It is the knowledge that allows us to go beyond our context, to consider a higher vantage point, to let go of our established way of thinking.
- Wisdom brings us to consider our affairs from this higher perspective, whether it be our planet, the universe or God, as however we may understand God.
- Wisdom has us look for what is truly real, what may permeate reality, for example, consciousness or spirit or goodness or love.
- Wisdom allows us to study the limits of our imagination, and recognize the sense in which all of these concepts, abstract yet practical, are related.
- Wisdom champions the self-correcting value of cognizance, deliberateness, willfulness as that which inevitably brings out the best in our personal intuition and in our conceptual understanding, and corrects the worst of our prejudices and follies.
- Wisdom recognizes the value of science, the learning cycle, but also the greater context, the landscape of truth in which that takes place.
Tools for wisdom
Leland suggests:
- Draw from this Wise Living Toolkit.
- Create Wisdom Playgrounds.
- An early prototype of AI powered Socratic dialogue.