Relevance, Giving a Damn, and Authenticity

We can see the relation between distinctively human cognition and distinctively human mortality through three interconnected levels of conditioning for our thinking. Relevance, giving a damn, and authenticity. Okay. So let's talk about relevance first. If we just like limit ourselves to probably what this room, there are indefinitely, if not infinitely many opportunities to say something semantically significant. And that's fancy for saying there are probably infinitely many things, statements that could be made truly about what's going on in this room right now. The cell phone is, you know, three centimeters, right? Right? From the pen, right? Six half centimeters from the pen,right? Twelve quarter centimeters from the