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Ep. 37 - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Reflectiveness Gap and Absurdity

This is modal confusion this is the right from but very much you can also see it being addressed by the stoics and Buddhism as bachelor argues. So for flexion last time we talked about this this is the reflectiveness gap this comes from the fact that what we can do is we can step back and look at our own processing. This affords us regaining our agency from the chaos of being the impulsive wanton. But when we open up the reflectivity gap too much we get also a loss of agency we get the tragedy of hamlet. The problem here right it with the self world relationship is absurdity, like in Monty Python there's an overlap zone between absurdity and

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