Agential layering
The capacity humans have to generate and deploy a temporary agency, nested inside their primary agency, with its own particular ends and modes of practicality.
This can be done fractally and can be used for ludic purposes, like game playing, or survival purposes, like adapting to a traumatic situation.
Actively doing X, aka doing-X
Actively doing X, aka doing-X
Making yourself do X.
via actively willing to make X happen, while feeling as the originator of that action, instead of letting or allowing it to spontaneously happen, or emerge.
E.g: “Doing thinking”, “doing writing”.
E.g. “Stop trying to hit me and hit me” https://w byww.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzgRhBYgho
E.g.: Using a robot arm to control itself instead of just using the robot arm
Media and common belief interaction
The reason for why there are open channel free TVs in many public places.
Map and Territory
What you think and what is are two separate things. This seems trivial but goes deep, very deep — (it’s fractal) –, and the mind is constantly mistaken about it (if it weren’t then all your dreams would be lucid dreams - dreams where you realize you’re dreaming. But they aren’t because you don’t because the mind is constantly mistaken about this.)
It’s not a pipe. It’s an image of a painting of a pipe. Map. Not territory.
Lying with the truth
Technically correct statements that intend to induce in mistake. Either via implication or omission or by answering the literal question asked instead of the spirit of the question. Done a lot by lawyers, politicians.
E.g.: Saying that two companies are “not the same” because they’re distinct legal entities when in fact all the same people work in both companies, in the same roles, and they’re piloted by the same person.
Logical vs Phenomenological possibilities
Logical possibilities are what’s logically possible, for an agent. What an agent could do, in principle, in that situation. Only bounded by Reality.
Phenomenological possibilities are what is phenomenologically possible, for a specific agent. The sum total of affordances of experience that present themselves, to that agent, at a specific moment in time.