I think of you as a naturist which includes being an animist. Although animist seems to me to refer to any physical entity that has a spirit or spiritual that directs their life sustaining actions. There is the individualism of survival of the fittest along with nature protecting the smaller spirits as with the cummunalism of dogs descended from wolfs protecting and nurturing their young and even other species young. Always in life, there is the sustaining compassionate impulse and the arrogant selfish one on display in all forms of nature both on land and in the seven seas. Doing excellent sustaining actions is superior to juggling so many belief structures in one's head. We are all linked with everything. It's our choice by our actions whether such connection is fulfilling or negative. The best is to as much as possible let all life or support all life so as to allow it to fully be itself. Don't know if that's too complicated but it works for me and happy with anything similar I see in others.
Love this perspecive! Your point about initial impressions really hits home. It's like how an AI model trains on a dataset, then new input totally changes its 'understandig' of reality. So insightful to challenge those mental shortcuts. Keep exploring those places!
Thanks! And sorry for the late reply. Your AI perspective is fabulous, one I did not consider. But yes, AI algorithms look into your past data and then try to predict what you want in the future. They build dangerous echo chambers, a danger most of us are dimly aware of
I think of you as a naturist which includes being an animist. Although animist seems to me to refer to any physical entity that has a spirit or spiritual that directs their life sustaining actions. There is the individualism of survival of the fittest along with nature protecting the smaller spirits as with the cummunalism of dogs descended from wolfs protecting and nurturing their young and even other species young. Always in life, there is the sustaining compassionate impulse and the arrogant selfish one on display in all forms of nature both on land and in the seven seas. Doing excellent sustaining actions is superior to juggling so many belief structures in one's head. We are all linked with everything. It's our choice by our actions whether such connection is fulfilling or negative. The best is to as much as possible let all life or support all life so as to allow it to fully be itself. Don't know if that's too complicated but it works for me and happy with anything similar I see in others.
Hi Larry, what you say makes a lot of sense! I did not think of myself as being a naturalist but, you are possibly absolutely right!
Love this perspecive! Your point about initial impressions really hits home. It's like how an AI model trains on a dataset, then new input totally changes its 'understandig' of reality. So insightful to challenge those mental shortcuts. Keep exploring those places!
Thanks! And sorry for the late reply. Your AI perspective is fabulous, one I did not consider. But yes, AI algorithms look into your past data and then try to predict what you want in the future. They build dangerous echo chambers, a danger most of us are dimly aware of