Theories of Mind

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind ....... www.amazon.com/Sociological-Insight-Introduction-Non-Obvious-Sociology/dp/0195074424

We make deals with the animals

Because us humans, we are so flexible

Beyond the walking vegetables

We learn more now, than the instinct

And so it makes a life more convincing

Into one festival for the skeptical

We will bathe in this non obvious,

But now we're trapped inside the plentiful

Closer together, but further apart,

As avatars in these beautiful junkyards

Forgetting how the contents of my mind

Are not the contents of yours...

Primed to show all of these worlds 

How, yet we all of us are blind

     still, we all of us paint pictures...

And We know this to be an instinct

One that can never be learned

One that must only be lived

To be truly returned

Author's Note

Reviews

[KWP]

There is something in that instinct being lost - to me this is what has made us lose our connection - you poem summarizes humans perception at this point in time - yes we are trapped inside this plentiful - layer upon layer of consciousness, fragents of your reality crossing over on my reality, the millions of trajectories of peoples stories spinning off like the universe itself - the truth covered up, the original mustard seed now buried so deep in interpretation we may as well have just cooked it in a curry - the thought without a beginning or an ending - and life goes on.

I wanna get back to that basic instinct - for starters :)

[Davidgeo]

You should read a book called "sociological insight: an introduction to non obvious sociology" by a dude named Randall Collins. It combines at least 6 different classes across three different subjects in less than 225 pages. Most "modern' academics are not capable of writing anything that doesn't bore the fluid out of your eyeballs on a regular basis.

[KWP]

yes dear - I will take a look now - I am back to reading novels again to watch writing styles.

[Davidgeo]

It's not a novel. It's really well written academic bullshit. I stress the word bullshit. These fellows are over invested in sounding more intelligent than they actually are.... don't forget. (but some of it is, irreplaceable. Have you ever heard of a fellow name Erving Goffman?)

[Davidgeo]

..."named"

[KWP]

Who is Erving ?

[Davidgeo]

He wrote two books that are directly responsible for how modern psychology and sociology are taught today. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" and, I think more importantly, "Asylums" aka 'essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates'.

[Davidgeo]

(The presentation of self is his key work.... I'm just a borderline crazy person so I always pretend "asylums" is his keystone work.... it's not... but it is great... if you're a borderline crazy person)

[KWP]

sometimes I think I am borderline crazy - or at least just not run of the mill - I get bored so damn easily - I like stimulants in any from - from nature to not nature - I think you have a lot of time to read - can you read this stuff to me please - while I sleep?

This morning I woke up to the alarm at 4:15am (normal time) but the last thing someone said in my dream was 'JUST DO IT ALL' funnily enough I have been theorising on just this in recent times - all - no attachments - just all - just life experience - to gain life experience so next life the experience is not priority because the learnings are already solid and in place - know what I mean?

[Davidgeo]

That is absolutely not how it works.

Somebody owes me some f****n' pushups if I'm wrong.

[KWP]

Pushups are not my strong point - chocked interval training is my focal point just now ...

[Davidgeo]

I love me some pushups. Especially when you alternate lifting one leg up in air every other ten. It's good for balance and getting those hidden little muscles that are rarely used to liven up when you do that. I think though, the best pushup routine I ever had to do was what we called 50 to zero. You do 50, then 40, then 30, then 20, and so on. You never leave the pushup position and you can only take 45 seconds in between (every once in a while you mix in some diamonds or wide position). It sounds easier than it really is. Eventually I got up to 100 to zero, but, that was a long time ago when I was getting paid to work out. If you can do 50 to zero.... you're a stud.

I'm still a bigger fan of the pull up club though. Not chin ups. Pull ups. Ten at a time, four times within 15 minutes twice a day, every day... it'll turn you into a f*****g monster I promise. You're back will look like the map of a very treacherous mountain range.

[Nariko]

This poem reminds me of how we can forget that other people's minds can work differently than ours and it's not easy to make people understand what goes on in our own minds

[Davidgeo]

Your ice cream does not taste like my ice cream does not taste their ice cream does taste like our ice cream. Every single interpretation of reality is different in a way that fundamentally cannot really be explained. Which is mostly a really spectacularly awesome kind of thing. Mostly.

[Nariko]

I like the way you interpreted that!

[Davidgeo]

Thanks... Ice cream is pretty fun to taste regardless ; )

[KWP]

The ice cream analogy works at a surface level ... the visual of human trajectory and Interpretation is quite spectacular if you light it up in neon 😊