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Axial Revolution
Is the period after the Bronze Age, when at the same time around the world, the great intellectual, philosophical, & religious systems that came to shape subsequent human society emerged—with the ancient Greek philosophers, Indian gurus (creators of of Hinduism & Buddhism), Persian Zoroastrianism, the Hebrew Prophets, the “Hundred Schools” (Confucianism & Daoism) of ancient China.
The phrase originated with the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, who noted that during this period there was a shift—away from more predominantly localized concerns and toward transcendence.
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Money as a psycho-technology
As people started trading more and more during the ancient times, money became used. And coinage was a massive cognitive upgrade:
- Money popularises abstract thought. Accepting an abstract representation of value was a massive shift for the time.
- Money makes people think mathema...
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Second Order thinking
Second order thinkers ask themselves the question “And then what?” It is a form of meta-cognition that allows for investigation of our own thinking.
It became a thing during the Axial Revolution, when writing allowed us to store our thoughts, reflect on them and communicate with ot...
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Archaic Learning: Implicit, Intuitive, Metaphorical
Implicit learning refers to the process of acquiring knowledge about the structure of the environment without conscious awareness. Like how we learn to ride the bike. Explicit learning is a conscious operation where the individual makes & tests hypotheses in a search fo...
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Transcendence during the Axial Revolution
Transcendence means “to go beyond.” In the case of the Axial “revolution”, “going beyond” has several meanings:
- a shift to thinking about the cosmos and the way it works rather than taking for granted that it works
- the rise of second-order thinking abo...
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The power of metaphors
Creativity is when different parts of your brain connect. It's what happens when we are in a state of flow, during meditation or in psychedelic experiences.
Metaphors is how we do that in language. Most of our language is metaphorical. We ask "Do you see what I am saying". We say "Hope this...
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The second part of this amazing course. It discusses the transition from Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. At the end of which we get the Axial Revolution when get the likes of Buddha and Plato. Abstract thought. Second order thinking.
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