<aside> 🕰️ From Guy’s Lifetoward Wiki “ForMyChildren”, November 2012

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The Nature of... series

The Nature of You

how you developed, an increasingly complex and emergent phenomenon body, mind, heart, and soul experience -> reaction and filtering -> interpretation -> motivation -> means -> actions desires, gaps means, skills, investment the world you know vs the world as it is, the representational model many inner voices, decisions; the inner court helpful analogies: the king and queen of chess

The Nature of the World

it apples, is emergent like you fractals and scopes is consistent according to some rules power, scope, simplicity take it as real, beautiful

The Nature of People, Communication, and Influence

the two-sided mystery and challenge of double translation

the value of the objective common reality

"nothing personal"

managing the communication channel

"listen first" = drain the inbound to clear the outbound

the shallow view, its short-term necessity, and its implications

stereotypes vs group-lumping errors people as agents of the fulfillment of desires people as toys or experimental subjects people as tools people as consumables

Bullies, Meanies, and Misbehavers

The Nature of Mating and Sex

Sex in nature - Sex itself need not imply commitment, relationship, etc. of individuals.Relationships The "FEGC" essay Mating politics Curious idea: women's issues outside mating; suggests a culturally systemic flaw, yet healthy mating relationships tend to disregard it.

The Nature of Groups, Leadership, and Power

strength and ability in numbers; whole greater than sum of parts hardening of the shell groups as organisms subject to natural selection politics - group decision making power and the zero-sum equation (zero-sum except for the "greater than the sum" issue) bounty and scarcity as means to power contrasting leadership and despotism

The Nature of Good and Evil