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General Earwa / Re: Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Bonus: R. Scott Bakker, Consciousness & Consult
« on: October 03, 2017, 09:46:49 pm »After listening to the spoiler section a few times, it's pretty revealing as far as Bakker goes. In describing the relationship between the Gods and the World, Bakker draws from Kahneman's two distinct modes of decision making: System 1 (fast, unconscious, automatic, error-prone) is the Gods; and System 2 (slow, conscious, deliberate, reliable) is the World.So that's why sealing the World is necessary, not just because of damnation but because it removes the subject (God) and everything collapses into object...
What kind of blew my mind (hey, that's the name of the podcast!) was how these constructs relate to several other metaphysical concepts raised in the series:
System 2 => World, Conscious, Object, Watched
System 1 => Outside, Subconscious, Subject, Watcher
System 0 => No-God, Unconscious, Absolute
In short, the series itself is an allegory of human cognition! Which is pretty cool.
A spoilerific thought stemming from this way of imagining the world:(click to show/hide)
Yes. To be clear, though, the interpretation about meaning and the NG is mine, not Bakker's. :-)
Also, the NG facilitates the sealing rather than doing the sealing. But I think that the method of sealing is only possible with the God of Gods (and therefore, the Gods) removed from the board.