righthereonthisrock comments on Chaotic Inversion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 12 January 2011 12:58:22PM *  3 points [-]

I think that the mundane truth is that everything you think of is some degree of stupidity, were I to define stupidity as a feeling of reeling from the unknown...

And every temperature is some degree of heat; it doesn't make sense to say that everything is hot.

Comment author: righthereonthisrock 12 January 2011 01:14:56PM -2 points [-]

I guess I'd say that when thinking gets too intense for your mind's environment, do you start thinking really hard about something that might seem like less thinking because you're being fed the thought?

When lifting weights gets too intense for your body's environment, do you go to the next room and start dancing to cool off?

...does that relate them well enough?

Considering that this is an observation of an experience as it applies to the process of "abstraction in the highest", I think perhaps some abstraction in your path to understanding can be helpful.

Comment author: shokwave 12 January 2011 01:29:05PM 0 points [-]

...does that relate them well enough?

No, unfortunately.

Comment author: righthereonthisrock 12 January 2011 02:21:21PM -2 points [-]

Don't think too hard. In fact, sit on the floor for a while. :)