Where are You Going?

[Phil8659]

Early in my learning stint in dreams, I was asked a question. "Where are you going?"

It is the most fundamental question one must answer.
Our function as a mind, is predictive behavior, in short, our mind is designed to learn, i.e. remember, and to use that memory to maintain and promote our life. A functional mind is designed to answer that question, "Where are we going?" It must be answered both in the perceptible and in the intelligible. In the perceptible, the simple, it seems that from the moment of conception, we are simply going to die, we come into existence, and we go out of existence. Making up oxymoronic stories of existing when we will not be is perhaps a shaggy method of motivation, but that is all it is. Even the story disappears when we are gone.

Plato's Banquet, which some believe to be on love, is actually about what Socrates stated, we seek immortality. i.e. a life support system is designed to maintain and support life. We are faced then with a contradiction. We are a life support system which, from the start, become aware that our job is to maintain and promote life, yet no matter what we do, it seems, we are going to die. Literally, we are a step in the march of life. A step comes and goes, but the march goes on.

The question then becomes, what are we going to do between point A, our birth, and point B our death? It is the same for every relationship between two people. If you do not know where you are going, you cannot possibly end up in the same place with someone you expect to spend a life with. I always made sure I stated my intentions, but I only got a false story in return.
So, which question is the most important? What are the mechanics of predictive behavior, which turns out to be simply Grammar Systems?
As Plato penned, the unexamined life is not worth living, and predictive behavior is our life, it is the very foundation of making sure that what we do during point A and point B, is simply not a misstep, a wasted step, for life, itself.
At what point in a person's life, can they truthfully answer the question. "Where are they going?' Nobody can answer that question for you, and most everyone will lie about it as they do not examine their own life.
How can anyone claim to answer the question, when one does not even know basic grammar, our Grammar Matrix, Common Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry? That is what it takes to examine one's own life, the very tools by which that examination can be faithfully made.

[Phil8659]

We start by examining ourselves. If we do not conclude that we are one of several life support systems of a living organism, we missed the mark.
Then we learn what our job is, predictive behavior.
Then we learn how to do that job through grammar systems.
Then we must learn the best method of learning the particulars of grammar, what experiences are required.
We end up with a general notion, mapping our environment, where it is, where it should go, and how to get it there. etc.
We have more work ahead of us than any one, or group, can manage in a lifetime.
So, who, but the dull, can ever say, they have nothing to do, or that they are bored?
The sane must learn to suffer the insane, the intelligent how to suffer fools. But, all in all, there is never really a dull moment, just dull people.

[promethean75]

I am going to the library to study grammar systems. Where else would any reasonable man go?