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we see is that at least two key things, word is that there is a deep and fundamental relationship between views about human nature which I'm gonna term generally ontology views about who the psychology but even more than that because religious terms you know which has often been very influential in human history is even spiritual and soul ERATION with God, and so on, and political vision so your view of human nature deeply informs your view about how we can organize society as a whole, or even what's possible. So, you know, you think humans are largely kind of corrupt in some sense, you know, aggressive dominating, you know, you're not going to imagine that you would imagine it's already possible to live in harmony with the quality without some, you need to stay in there, you need a sovereign, you need a authority figure. You know, you can say most even maybe in the family, you know, often we use metaphors for the family to represent the state. So but you know, the family, you know, if you don't have a strong decipline for your children, they'll be nasty to each other wherever, children in general. And conversely, if you think your children are innocent and good, co-oporative and loving, you can imagine that different political and organizational structures for the society. Secondly, I think the key point was that ironically, both of the dominating all of the major kind of polarities, or major views the dominant about ontological views that dominate, which is the Rizzoli and kind of nobel innocent kind of model Holmesian model, both. For a modern complex society, you say, well, actually, this is the best we've got. There's some this to explain some of the diversity in one size, people might say, more conservative, or right wing, or left wing, but essentially, there's a sense of like, we can't have we have we so big that, yes, maybe in a state of nature, which will lead us incompetent but now we need we need that's not going to work, or, you know, radically different social anarchy ones in which people totally kind of more free libertarian anarchy sense or work and where they're left with the secondary point is that we're left with a kind of resignation or acceptance of the current political order, which is liberal at best USA, social democratic capitalism, liberal capitalism, and we can argue, you know, how much tax we have now I
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so anyway, these two kind of factors. And I would say that they're related, this kind of relates to the point out which is this this vision of human nature, it sort of says a at the scale that we are it's difficult to organize differently, the set of options are constrained to be said. The key thing to understand about all of this is that
like the nine dots problem, the this vision of human nature, the ontological assumptions about what you how people are there for how they can, how they can behave together, how they can collaborate, how they can cooperate, how they can be how things work is are invisible. A lot of the time, much like the the bounding box is to see when the dialogue problem without really you thinking about it, it's just all I'm trying to find it. Because we see, we're used to seeing the nine dots that way and seeing this bounding box, literally around them, we can't go outside the box. Similarly, this ontological vision is sort of just there probably most time not visible all the time, not visible to us. And hence, for me, again, forming deeply the possibilities you see, just like you, you can't see other possibilities if you're living inside that constraint. So the thesis here is that examining our ontological assumptions can break us out of this constraint that we're operating in, in terms of envisioning social change, and I would even say social transformation, what we're particularly interested in is, is there something significantly better radically better, not just minor improvements, breakthrough in how we organize science? And how would that come? How How would it what would it look like and how would it come about I want to emphasize it you might even if you don't subscribe to those particular views, there are many other views about human nature you know, in general, your you will have assumptions, it's just part of thinking or whether you're even conscious or not, you will have assumptions about the nature of time. Thank you. Thank you for the feedback. I have I let my buddy keep talking a little bit right now.
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So I want to bring up one other assumption which I think is even more common than the one which is what I would call ontological fixity.
By that I mean that the assumption that human nature or at least adult human nature is somehow given and fixed. That. I mean, of course, there is variation and change in what people want. Like some people like ice cream, some people don't like ice cream. But there is a general maybe the deeper level. Again, while there may be a distribution, of course, there's variation in human cooperativeness. In human altruism in human cognitive abilities. In aggressiveness and kindness, whatever, there's always a variation. This is, at least for a given person. Group, it's kind of largely fixed. And again, I think it's just something that often once you think about it is actually quite a little bit more dubious, but when people kind of tend to assume it in how they operate.
So this sense that we cannot and I'll give you one very strong or specific illustration of that being made explicit in an area which is in the area of economics. So economics is probably the, I'd say, the kind of representative discipline on Late Modernity though talk to Brett she has a preference right now, as a preference. Economics is incredibly ideologically our society Okay
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So there's this preferences are taken as given. And there's a small area started in the 1970s. About were called dodginess preferences.
That is preferences that are altered through through your consumption, sort of revival one areas apply to smoking. I mean, it seems clear that the act of consuming cigarettes changes your preference to consume your desire to consume cigarettes in the future. get addicted models of addiction so that they're clearly examples. But in general, the vast majority of weeks you get toward econ 101 is preferences. Given there's even an ideological aspect I think of this, which is if you start assuming that preferences aren't given
there's a kind of there is a kind of liberal I would say market oriented aspect of coverings. If preferences aren't given your preferences are changeable then they're also manipulatable. They're shapeable. And this will undermine markets many things involve choice you would ask the question as a company why would you invest in making a better product? Why wouldn't you invest in manipulating choice real product otherwise known as maybe advertising and marketing? Economics has a great deal of difficulty analyzing advertising in some ways, often they have to assume that advertising is informative advertising all about telling you things you didn't know but would have liked to know not that it's altering your preferences in any way and it's a set of questions as well if I show you a picture of a prestigious person drinking a soft drink doesn't does it change your estimation of the value or like in any kind of informative way What hasn't changed in Preferences and the ways to design distinguish those two
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and, like, running for me has always been competitive. And because I wasn't very good at it. Like I never liked doing it. But swimming, like swimming can be both. Okay. Just budget like swimming. But do you like being in the water? Yeah, so I told you about how I like swimming. Yeah, I like swimming because while you can have a competitive aspect to it, most of the time swimming for me was just like a hobby or like a relaxation or like something you'd do to like pull yourself down or have a good day or something like that
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so what you can see from that example I think isn't those preferences are deeply shaped by conditions Yeah, they're not somehow innate. Know, you could have had different experiences because what I'm trying to get at is that preferences are constructed but also maybe a bit more constructive than just of course you've got random different things and then you could just like the people there's a kind of genetic influence and Hi this environmental influence or you might say like a river natural phenomena where there's some random aspect to where it river ends up being but there's also some shaping which is the rivers going towards the bottom of valleys it's a bit more than that your your thing was was was not just constructed by route is overlooked at random but by the actions of other human beings. things over which we have a say like, how school how did running in school for example? Yeah. How how your parents took you, sir me?
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this is also where we, I'll come back to it, there's a really big connection with the Buddhist, non self and other things. Because if you like, there's quite a strong relationship between what I would call ontological essentialism that you have an identity, yes, you kind of part of it being essential, or having an identity is in some sense, it's fixed. I mean, it's something that's completely down. That tree is different for me because I mean, even though you could somehow more factory into me all the atoms that make up between atoms, they can be fairly different. And there's something you said that normally goes into this essentially different. What there's a fixed this, the essence, is that essence, were changeable, it wouldn't really be in essence, the very meaning of the word essence is changing. This is a relationship between I would call it preference essentialism, a preference fixedness. And the concept of you as a person. For me, for example, the famous there are famous cases. One is if, if you have a tragic case, and someone has dementia, and they gradually we say lose their mind, they lose their memory. They lose, we say they know they are no longer there, they are no longer that same person. Or there's this famous case of a guy called Phineas Gage, who in the 19th century, was working on a railway. And there was an accident. A big metal pin sharp exploded, and then some kind of blow through his
forehead. You Yes.
So you somehow survived. But he had lost a big chunk of his frontal cortex changed as a human being. They've been hardworking and diligent, and now he was irresponsible spending money on stuff. So so. Anyway, come back to the point is to say, this idea of preference. On torture thing, fixedness is quite deep. Yeah. If you start questioning, under it undermines all of these we just, for example, most of our economic activity is focused on satisfying preferences. Yeah, it's about producing goods that we want. Eventually, certain preferences are changing. Even basic education, that's like a very concrete area where it's really related. We can focus most of our educational efforts on giving people skills to create the goods that people want to whether it's to be programmers or plumbers, or be literate, all we can focus our education on them being happy, in fact, profoundly joyful with what they already have. Changing their preferences. So really, whatever food pretty much they're eating, they're like, oh, wow, this is amazing, amazing food. This is delicious. Whether whether it's the best steak in the world, or it's just some fried rice, they're like, Oh, my God, this is delicious. And I really enjoy.
It doesn't mean those are two things we could spend energy on in education. What we currently spend that into is the full Yeah, pretty much.
In fact, also society people report grave concern in the news media when consumption forms. People are like, Oh my god, amazing. People are consuming less. This is a massive win massive report in the news like fantastic shoppers, their stores are empty shopping is down across the economy. Yeah, people are satisfied with less than more joyful what we will recruit the people to join him. Joy is up and shopping is down what is Hill excess. That is not what you generally see in the news. So although consign II Buying stuff. Yeah, yeah it's it's quite deep in our society. And this assumption that the way to be happy is you've got these fixed ones. You want ice cream. The way to be happy is to get ice cream. Again, we emphasized that he makes some OPC allegiance is absurd What is this? I'm ej intuitive support for that because some things is like well I don't have water I'm gonna die this week we'll have experience of I need to go to the toilet I think they're very strong needs when you satisfy them are very satisfied. If you know satisfying, you might not even be around anymore. Yeah. But so much of our preferences don't seem like I met even those those deep preferences like the preference. Sudden we have a very strong preference not to die. Yet we will die. Yes. bodymind no one so far has lived, at least in the body mind forever. Yeah. As this body. And so this preference. That's one that no amount of technology yet. No amount of effort has changed. And in fact, we will have a lot of evidence the desire to avoid death has led to a lot of suffering involved. So really ask yourself is the you know, is there a way for people to be happy with die that will lead to a lot less suffering maybe if people were not wanting to die at peace when they were dying? So we go back there's several there's the social argument nature, one of the most invisible assumptions won't call the ontological fix the assumption that whatever your view of human nature, it is kind of given and specifically on the nature of things like my everyday preferences.
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this
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the cave, the cave and they see the shadows basically people cave that stuck to the chain in a cave and there's a fire shadow people and all they can see is the shadows I hate you know, me too.
And so what in the plane is joining the kind of what is the the essence of these forms is like, the true nature. So, yeah, the essence of things. Whereas a famously played with sort of was in debate with what I call the pre Socratics. Whatever it Sherif Cletus had this way, you could never step in the same river twice. Yeah. Why did he say that? What does he mean by you can never step in the same inventory. So of course I can I can go step into a boy today, and I can separate it tomorrow. Why is this academic step in the same image
wise? Because the world is changing?
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Yeah, you cause them in the same room. So it's a different river. But then, there's obviously some subtlety there. Because there is some connection between the river Yes, and that's why we can talk about it being the same but different, but there's some kind of profound differences getting other than or even more than there is no essence.
There is no essence. Whereas if there's a fixed you, then hit a wave and let people tell you your preferences and sway are changeable is always a threat to you. Well, who am I? If I find cheap, my preferences can change who am I? It's like those movies where you know, suddenly you wake up and you're different, then you're no longer you. It's very disturbing. But the thing that's disturbing, maybe is to realize that actually that's happening all the time. But suddenly Mr. Bucha is out.
Or even liberating to realize that it's also politically racist to come back to the key point. If we think that we're unfortunately fixed in the amount of cooperate, we have a debate about how competent we are. But in a way it's fixed. We can have a debate about how altruistic we are, you know, we could say, well, we're nerds or hunter gatherers, or like there's, you know, we can have a debate about the amount but it's sort of given. Right, it's either a lot or it's not a lot is a lot more gray, maybe we can do that. It's not a lot. But in a sentence ontologically it's fixed. Like we can argue about what we should do about fossil fuels, but there's only so much to burn. It's not like we can make more or change it.
Once we have ontological plasticity, we can walk onto the golf course through transformative nervous
that anytime you can change
that's, that opens up massive possibilities because it would say for example, cooperativeness is trainable. And maybe not trainable, individually but trainable as a culture. overtight late trek developable as a culture over time
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You know, if I gotta find for the holidays, the beach, you know, I'll be happier if I, you know, there's all of this stuff known about you know, I don't almost single mindedly is like, we have to consume more stuff, that's how we're gonna get happier. And it's also reasonable things like landmark are so powerful because actually like even my mother or many people say things to you, I don't know how to perfect, I can't change, people don't change, your dad won't change. Have you ever heard that phrase from someone you know, your grandmother words, your brother would change. They're like that. Yeah. Your axe is just like that, I'm just like that, yeah. I need something, even if it's an impulse level, in the forum or other transformative practices, whether it's, whether it's your psychotherapist, or something else, or yoga or whatever, that you don't, that you discover that you're not fixed. That, and particularly the forum is so dramatic, because it's been off days, things that were like, just that way, you realize, one and in particular, you view and realize that preferences, by the way are generally made of at least two things. And actually liking or disliking somewhere that what you value what you do. But the other is your views about that. So we might be everyone might agree that I want to I want to have a great relationship with my daughter in law and my mother and I want that that's where I would value that's where we live. But my mother in law is just so difficult. And so, what you can see is maybe at least behavior or what which actually matters lady is made up of these two things, strictly we could call preferences and your views, but again that often sort of mixed together. So, what we see is that
try trans
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so that's the key point that ontological transfer livity implies political possible. Yeah, I might possibly mean like, big possibility. Big opportunity
doesn't matter.
So in particular there will be important points. Let's just take one very concrete example, right now when this could relate several levels, which is the climate crisis. So one point is much as the climate crisis connects to material production output, a lot of what produces carbon emissions is us. Things, cars, houses, energy producing energy. No, we want to obviously we need some of that that's gonna happen. But there's a kind of question like, do people need better things do they need three calls? A $5,000. Barbecue? Do they need to travel as much as we knew they needed? Another we'd like to the question you could ask you this point is that what we really care about? Well being that happiness that joy You got freedom, peace. If it's actually the case that the biggest impact on that changing preferences, so joy, you could say in a way I enjoy more or less a war because what we see is that people have a lot of suffering and dissatisfaction even though they have a lot of stuff. Yeah.
Dissatisfied with the things they bought, there'll be like I bought this stuff. I thought it would make me happy. I bought a dress last week, but it didn't write free Can you see that?
Yeah
so maybe we should be spending a lot more of our resources or chain transforming our preferences. And the interesting thing about that is a lot of the technology for doing if I can use that isn't expensive. It doesn't require special machines. It's things like mindfulness community friendship Wait a second. Where did we go
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football football football pretty much
but
but you can't even get
to your destination
the other it's okay you can keep walking through the point that's so we went we basically went to
the G so
where do we want to go
beach
that's the way it looks like
I said me that seems Green
Public Assistance
looks like it goes out
yeah
it's not going to be a lot of classes. The sun's there it's not really gonna be a lot of shade and
