Components of Paradigm from California

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Written and Arranged by Neil R. Miller
© 1991, 1992, 1997
current processing edited December 7, 1997

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I. The High Level Patterns

II. Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, The Meaning of Life;
All Very Simple, Clearcut, Obvious, and Same for Everyone

III. Just A Little Mathematics

IV. Hierarchy is Good

V. Truth Clearly Defined as an Obvious-to-All Matter

VI. Perception Defined Equally Easily

VII. Lying About What One Understands

VIII. Excellent Intelligence Is a Learned Skill, Aquirable At Any Age

IX. On Conversations

X. On Protection

XI. Life and Death







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I. The High Level Patterns






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II. Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, The Meaning of Life;
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IV. Hierarchy is Good


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VI. Perception Defined Equally Easily



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VII. Lying About What One Understands




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VIII. Excellent Intelligence Is a Learned Skill, Aquirable At Any Age




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IX. On Conversations




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X. On Protection





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  Framework of                                    'Framework' of                 
  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  Things can work out well all around.             Some people are always going to do         
                                                   badly; that's just the way things are.     


  Work out well is easily and                      Work out well is different for each        
  universally defined.                             person.                                    


  'Right and wrong' can be clearly and             'Right and wrong' is different for         
  consistently defined.                            everyone.  What's good for one is          
                                                   sometimes bad for the other; that's        
                                                   just in the nature of life.                


  Accurate                                         Not Accurate                  




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  Any combination of points from one side and the other results in inaccuracy and nonsense.                                          
  As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.        



                                                                                     
  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  A cooperative, caretaking system                 The basis of evolution is competition,     
  evolved as the basic human structure.            and man, as part of nature, is             
                                                   basically a competitive creature.          


  The term 'meaning of life" means                 The term "meaning of life" is just         
  building, healing, or caretaking.                some vague thing that's probably a         
                                                   hoax anyway.                               


  The 90% problem currently facing every           There's lots of problems, and people       
  person can be identified as                      thwarting or hurting other people is       
  'humans-thwarting-humans'.                       just the way things are, that's all.       


  The major difficulty that our species            The reason why things go badly for         
  experiences,                                     people is that life is just like that,     
  "people-thwarting-people", is an                 that's all; it's built into biology or     
  unlikely and correctable anomaly.                genetics or something.                     


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  Excellent intelligence is a learned              Some people are just smart and some        
  skill and, under encouraging or work             people aren't; that's all.  It's           
  out well circumstances, can be learned           something you are born with or             
  or accessed at any age.                          conditioned for when you are young.        


  The overall purpose for figuring                 The main purpose of sorting things out     
  things out is to find a way wherein              is because it's fun or interesting.        
  things can work out well all around                                                         


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  As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.        



                                                                                     
  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  Intelligence means putting a lot of              Intelligence means being quick-witted,     
  different and seemingly contradictory            or clever, or knowing a lot of things.     
  information together into a system                                                          
  whereby things work out well all                                                            
  around.                                                                                     


  Reaching conclusions requires taking             You reach conclusions by choosing this     
  into account many factors.                       thing or that thing or by believing        
                                                   this person or that person.                


  A person figures out what is accurate            The only way a person can decide what      
  by carefully evaluating many different           is true is by believing whatever they      
  sorts of things, side by side, using             happen to think or by believing            
  the understanding that something is              someone they trust.                        
  singularly true, that is, that there                                                        
  is some fact regarding the subject at                                                       
  hand that is absolute, never changing,                                                      
  and the same for everyone.                                                                  


  Figuring out things makes things very            Figuring out things makes everything       
  simple.                                          very complicated.                          


  Increased understanding in a solving             If you understand things, it takes the     
  direction makes life more interesting.           mystery out of life.                       


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  The truth is a different entity from             The only things you can know is what       
  perception.                                      you perceive so you couldn't ever tell     
                                                   that there was any difference between      
                                                   truth and perception.                      


  Unlike the truth itself, perception of           The truth and perception are, in the       
  truth is a matter of very high                   end, basically the same thing.             
  likelihood.                                                                                 

                                                                                         
  More than 99% of the perceptions that            Everyone perceives things differently      
  any person has are accurate renditions           from everyone else.                        
  of the truth and almost all such                                                            
  perceptions are understood in the same                                                      
  way by everyone.                                                                            


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  Any combination of points from one side and the other results in inaccuracy and nonsense.                                          
  As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.        



                                                                                     
  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  Persons who claim to believe that                It is perfectly sane, reasonable, and      
  there is no such thing as absolute               sincere to claim to believe that there     
  truth while at the same time claiming            is no such thing as absolute truth, or     
  that something is true, usually appear           that one doesn't know whether absolute     
  very confident while relying on the              truth exists or not, while at the same     
  arguments of above parties who,                  time claiming that something is true.      
  unbeknownst to them, do not exist.               Further, there are people at high          
                                                   levels of academic, scientific,            
                                                   intellectual, or spiritual life who        
                                                   could back that up in a confident or       
                                                   reasonable way when faced with the         
                                                   statements in the left hand columns.       


  Persons who operate from an                      Persons who actually believe that the      
  understanding that the truth is                  truth is singular and absolute are         
  absolute often appear nervous and                naive, deluded, mistaken, dishonest,       
  unconfident while relying on a set of            psychotic, or uninformed.                  
  high level patterns that have been                                                          
  central to life for five billion                                                            
  years, are present within every                                                             
  individual, and are referred to every                                                       
  minute of every individual's daily                                                          
  life.                                                                                       

  
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  Biology, and life, consists of a small           Life is just everything or life is too     
  group of 'forces of physics' out of a            broad or too vague a concept to really     
  much larger group present in the                 say, exactly, what it's made up of.        
  universe.                                                                                   


  The high level patterns of life are              Science is looking at specific little      
  sometimes called science and sometimes           things and you can't define what God       
  called God.                                      is.  As for high level patterns,           
                                                   that's all too vague to ever be really     
                                                   defined.                                   

                                                  
  In life, most things, especially most            Nothing lasts forever.                     
  good things, last forever.  That is                                                         
  meant in the practical, scientific,                                                         
  and literal sense, in letter and                                                            
  spirit.                                                                                     


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  No 'a little of this and a little of that'.                         
  Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense                                          
  As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter;        
  in or out, black and white, take it or leave it, no middle ground.  The distinction     
  is absolute.                                        



                                                                                     
  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  Events of the past are set and cannot            History can be rewritten.                  
  change.                                                                                     


  Nothing is inevitable; the future is             Whatever is set to happen is going to      
  not set.                                         happen; there's nothing anyone can do      
                                                   to change it.                              


  At any given moment, it's too late for           It's too late.  Or alternatively, it's     
  some things and not too late for                 never too late.                            
  others.                                                                                     


  Out of all the thousands of                      Out of all the thousands of                
  continuations that could come to pass,           continuations that could come to pass,     
  there are a very few, perhaps one out            there are none by which things can         
  of thousands, by which things can work           work out well all around.                  
  out well all around.  High level                                                            
  biological patterns, including human                                                        
  thinking processes, were specifically                                                       
  designed, through evolution, to find                                                        
  that work-out-well-all-around pathway.                                                      


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  Every person has an ideological view.            Some people have an ideology and some      
                                                   people don't.                              


  A person can change their high level             Some people are just too rigid to be       
  framework, easily with good                      able to change their high level            
  protection, and with difficulty                  framework of understanding and other       
  otherwise.                                       people don't even have such a              
                                                   framework.                                 

                                                                                         
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  Paradigm From California                         Commonly Believed Ideas            


  The "Commonly Understood Beliefs"                The "Commonly Understood Beliefs"          
  framework, illuminated in the right              framework listed in these right-hand       
  hand columns was designed, through               columns is just the way life is.           
  evolution, for unthinking reactive                                                          
  behavior under rare, alone, and tragic                                                      
  circumstances; it was not designed for                                                      
  evaluation and problem-solving.                                                             


  The "Paradigm From California"                   The "Paradigm From California"             
  framework, illuminated in these                  framework, listed in the left hand         
  left-hand columns, was designed                  columns, doesn't mean anything; just a     
  through evolution as the thinking,               bunch of gibberish or just someone's       
  evaluating, and problem-solving system           opinion.                                   
  for Homo Sapiens Sapiens.                                                                   


  The only way the 'Commonly Understood            Well, in the end, nothing really means     
  Ideas', those in the right hand                  anything, life is just an illusion.        
  columns, are defended is by claiming             The best you can ever do is just think     
  that 'nothing means anything'.                   whatever happens to come into your         
                                                   mind and say whatever you feel like.       


  The Commonly Understood Ideas                    The reason why a person gets so very       
  framework operates, metaphorically               confused when they try to figure out       
  speaking, as "sand in the gears of a             the basic reasons for things and           
  person's intellect".  The Paradigm               figure a work out well pathway is          
  From California framework is the                 because life is just confusing and         
  structure designed through evolution             there are no real solutions.               
  to allow a person to access their                                                           
  intelligence.                                                                               


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  Everyone routinely reads other                   You can't really read another person's     
  peoples' thoughts.                               mind.                                      


  More than 90% of all human interaction           People don't like it when you try to       
  involves people attempting to                    read their mind.                           
  accurately read the mind of another                                                         
  person and attempts to make one's own                                                       
  mind accurately readable.                                                                   

                                                                                         
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  As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.        



                                                                                     
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  People often insist that they believe            When a person says they think              
  things that they do not believe.                 something, you just have to believe        
                                                   that they really think it.                 


  Claiming to believe something one does           Claiming to believe something one does     
  not believe is an extremely                      not believe doesn't have any               
  destructive activity.                            particular effect on anything, one way     
                                                   or the other.                              


  Unwise to make explanations to a                 If a person's not being honest, best       
  person who speaks dishonestly about              to just explain to them what's really      
  what they understand the case to be.             true.                                      


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  The truth is singular, never changes,            The truth of something can be              
  is the same for everyone.                        different for different people, it         
                                                   changes, antd there can be many            
                                                   truths.                                    


  That which is true is unchanging and             Everything changes, and anyway,            
  is sometimes different from what                 talking about the difference between       
  appears to be true.                              what looks like it's true and what's       
                                                   really true is just trickster talk, or     
                                                   "philosophical" meanderings.               

                                                                                         
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  nonsense.                                          
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  Every person's thinking system and               You can't really define how people         
  overall evaluating system involves               think about things or nail down            
  three systems working together.                  exactly what thinking is or what it's      
                                                   made up of.                                


  Attachment judgment is one third of              Some people just follow other people       
  the basic structure of everyone's                and some people think for themselves.      
  internal thinking and evaluation                 Anyway, you can't divide up parts of a     
  system.                                          person's thinking processes that way.      


  Cognition judgment is one third of               Cognition judgment is just some vague      
  everyone's basic thinking system.                concept or is just a 'trick' with          
                                                   words.                                     


  Imagination is one third of everyone's           Imagination has nothing to do with         
  basic thinking system.                           thinking but is just things that you       
                                                   make up.                                   


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  The major patterns of life can be                There are no major patterns, and even      
  accurately sorted out.                           if there were, you couldn't sort them      
                                                   out.  Maybe God could, but only an         
                                                   egotist would think that a person          
                                                   could do it.                               


  Thoughts, feelings, emotions are                 Thoughts, feelings, and emotions are       
  specific, definable, measurable                  way too vague to identify and measure      
  entities.                                        like you can measure a quart of water      
                                                   or a block of wood.                        


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  Hierarchy is structural to biology and           Hierarchy is necessarily harmful to        
  human life and proper arrangement of             persons in lower hierarchical              
  hierarchical relations can engender              positions but is necessary, or,            
  people at all levels having roughly              alternatively, people can live without     
  equal strength, satisfaction, health,            hierarchy.                                 
  and intelligence.                                                                           


  Survivable hierarchical relations                Hierarchy means people at the top have     
  involves protection and security                 it good and people at the bottom are       
  mostly going down the hierarchy and              powerless and have a bad time of it,       
  anxiety (pain and difficulty) mostly             that's all.                                
  going up the hierarchy.                                                                     


  Freedom means unhindered caretaking              Freedom means being able to do             
  that goes well.                                  whatever you want.                         


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  Every person's thoughts, emotions, and           You can't really influence another         
  operations are influenced by other               person; everything they think or do is     
  people.                                          just their own decision.  People just      
                                                   do what they're going to do and  it        
                                                   has nothing to do with influences on       
                                                   them.                                      
                                                                                         

  Every person has a certain amount of             People are totally caught up in            
  internally controllable,                         circumstances beyond their control and     
  decision-making power over themselves            do not have influence upon the events      
  and the world around them.                       in the world around them or even upon      
                                                   themselves.                                


  Although there are things that are not           Life is just contradictory, that's         
  yet understood, that is, are still to            all.                                       
  be figured out, there are no                                                                
  fundamental contradictions among life                                                       
  on this planet.                                                                             


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  "Personality", that is, a particular             "Personality" is far too vague a           
  individual's behavioral structure for            concept to ever be precisely definable     
  seeking protection, is precisely                 in the specific sense that a table or      
  definable.                                       a tree can be defined.                     


  A person's confidence in themself                Confidence comes from a lot of things;     
  comes mostly from their perceived                you can't say that one thing or the        
  ability to get protection.                       other is mostly what it comes from.        


  'Mental disorder' comes from a person            'Mental disorder' has a wide variety       
  not believing they can get protection            of causes including genetic causes and     
  for their caretaking.                            its real causes can not be precisely       
                                                   identified.                                


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  Logical Types and Logical Levels is a            Logical Types and Logical Levels is        
  simple, easily understandable concept.           way too complicated for an ordinary        
                                                   person to understand.                      


  It is useful to understand                       Best to just grasp a sense of what         
  specifically what is being stated and            someone is saying and forget the           
  the context in which it is being                 specifics.  Or, alternatively, best to     
  stated.                                          just get the specific information and      
                                                   forget the overall point.                  

                                                                                         
  People become destructive as a result            People become destructive because they     
  of being urged to do so, however                 just want to, or because they don't        
  covertly.                                        know any better; it has nothing to do      
                                                   with anyone else.                          


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  Sometimes, a person will make a                  People just say things that they           
  statement in order to specifically               think; that's all.  You can't say that     
  influence another person in a damaging           there are these complicated motives.       
  way, then will deny having made the                                                         
  statement.                                                                                  


  To manipulate means to influence                 To manipulate means to change things       
  another person in a dishonest manner.            in a way that another person doesn't       
                                                   like.                                      


  Destructive influences are usually               A person cannot be influenced to think     
  arranged outside the person's                    or act in some way or other unless         
  awareness.                                       they want to be influenced in that         
                                                   way.                                       


  Unawareness of an internal pattern               Internal patterns may not even really      
  generally makes that pattern more                exist, but anyway, if they did, if you     
  rigid.                                           can't even see them, you can't really      
                                                   say what's going to effect them.           


  A person being aware of the influences           The influences on a person is a vague      
  on them allows the person to adjust              matter that you can't really nail down     
  those influences.                                exactly, and you can't really control.     


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  Things can work out well all around.             Some people are always going to do         
                                                   badly; that's just the way things are.     


  Work out well for any Homo Sapien can            Some people want security and some         
  be universally defined as a good                 people don't; some people want anxiety     
  balance of security (protection),                and some people don't; some people         
  anxiety (risk), and vitality                     want vitality and some people don't.       
  (caretaking), and lack of a large                                                           
  amount of untimely loss.                                                                    

                                                                                         
  The 90% problem currently facing every           There's lots of problems, and people       
  person can be identified as                      thwarting or hurting other people is       
  'humans-thwarting-humans'.                       just the way things are, that's all.       


  Accurate                                         Not Accurate                  



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  Loss of caretaking in the world                  The loss to a person of their own life     
  generally is the largest loss to life.           is the biggest thing anyone can lose,      
                                                   and anyway, there are lots of things       
                                                   you can lose that are more important       
                                                   than loss of caretaking (whatever that     
                                                   is).                                       


  The largest and worst effect of a loss           The worst thing about a person dying       
  is to those left alive.                          is that that person loses their life.      
  Any group or any policy that has as              The way you make things better is you      
  its primary goal getting rid of                  get rid of, or defeat something bad.       
  something destructive, rather than                                                          
  creating something healthy, will                                                            
  always end up with something vastly                                                         
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                        EVERY PERSON HAS AN IDEOLOGICAL VIEW
    
    
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    High level patterns of understanding,      High level patterns of understanding,
    ideology, a consistent overall system      ideology, a consistent overall system
    of operations, is something that           of operations, is something that some
    everyone has and operates on,              people have and others do not have.
    whether they believe it or not,            Such is not a requirement for human life.
    whether they admit it or not -
    in all cases.
    
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            THE MAJOR PATTERNS OF LIFE CAN BE ACCURATELY SORTED OUT
    
    
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    The overall patterns by which the          There are no overall patterns,
    bioecosystem and human operations          and even if there are, they could
    work can be accurately discerned           not be discerned by the human mind,
    and can be sorted out such that a          and even if they could be, they
    way can be found for things to             would turn out to be such that
    work out well, ongoing, for                things could never be arranged to
    everyone or almost everyone.               go well for everyone or even
                                               almost everyone on into the future.
    
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                     THINGS CAN WORK OUT WELL ALL AROUND
    
    
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    It is possible for things to work out      It is inevitable that things will
    well for everyone or almost everyone.      work out poorly for a large proportion
                                               of the population.
    
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                 WORK OUT WELL IS EASILY AND UNIVERSALLY DEFINED
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    Work out well for any Homo Sapien          Some people want security and some
    can be clearly and universally defined     people don't, some people want vitality
    as a good balance of security, anxiety,    and some people don't, some people want
    and vitality through a long and            anxiety and some people don't.
    reasonably eventful life, and lack of
    a large amount of untimely loss.
    
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                       SURVIVABLE HIERARCHICAL RELATIONS
    
    
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    Protection and security is what above      Protection or security is what you
    parties are charged by nature with         get when you pay off the people above
    providing to below parties, vitality       you, anxiety is what you strive to
    and satisfaction are what derive from      eliminate, or, in lesser cases, what
    successful caretaking of below parties     you engage in for kicks, and vitality
    and the world around, and anxiety is       comes from exercise and spare time
    what one must take on when there is        activities.
    not enough protection to enact the
    required caretaking.  Obviously.
    
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                THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM 'MEANING OF LIFE'
    
    
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    The term 'the meaning of life'             The term 'the meaning of life'
    refers to the caretaking of less           refers to a 'philosophical'
    powerful persons and the world             concept, different for everyone,
    around, and the creating of                impossible to really describe
    protections for those below and            exactly, and possibly non-existent.
    for the future.
    
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                  DEFINITION OF THE TERMS 'RIGHT' AND 'WRONG'
    
    
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    Things going well for people               Right and wrong is different for
    generally and for every individual         everyone and, anyway, can't really
    as regards a balance of operations         be defined in any specific, concrete,
    that bring a good measure of               consistent, and universal way.
    security, vitality, and anxiety,
    is the ultimate measure of right,
    as opposed to wrong, in terms
    of life on this planet.
    
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             THE 90% PROBLEM IS DEFINED AS 'HUMANS-THWARTING-HUMANS'
    
    
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    The 'human-thwarting-human'                The 'human-thwarting-human'
    problem accounts for in excess of          problem is only one of many faced
    90% of the difficulties and                by people, and is far too complex
    threats faced by all persons and           and 'imbedded' to be really
    is an easily correctable problem;          solved, easily or otherwise.
    correctable by large numbers of
    people seriously considering this
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           THE MAJOR DIFFICULTY IS AN UNLIKELY AND CORRECTABLE ANOMALY
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The 'human-thwarting-human'                The 'human-thwarting-human'
    problem has been with humans for           problem has always plagued
    less than one tenth of one                 mankind and is basic to the
    percent of humans' existence,              genetically, biologically
    less than 10% of Homo Sapiens'             arranged structure of mankind.
    existence, and is a result of an
    entirely unnecessary and twisted
    lesson 'taught' from generation
    to generation; it does not
    emanate from the basic structure
    that all humans are born with and
    are initially headed for in
    adulthood.
    
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                            IT'S ALL VERY SIMPLE
    
    
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    All this is simple enough,                 All this is far too complicated
    obvious enough, and consistent             for anyone to sort out, much less
    enough for any third grader or             bear in mind.
    adult to easily grasp, to easily
    understand, and bear in mind,
    provided he or she was not
    getting their 'lights punched
    out' as they were trying to
    think.
    
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     LOGICAL TYPES AND LOGICAL LEVELS IS A SIMPLE,EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE CONCEPT
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The structure of logical levels            "Logical levels" and other
    is easily understood: many                 concepts of that nature are
    different things of a similar              ethereal concepts, of value only
    sort (type one) discerned,                 to mathematical type persons;
    selected from, and organized               most people don't really have the
    together (type two) into a single          ability to understand such
    "higher level" system (type                things, don't have practical use
    three). It's easy to learn and as          for them, aren't interested, and
    simple as simple arithmetic, and           it doesn't matter much anyway.
    as important or more important
    for reaching clear, accurate,
    everyday, life and death
    conclusions and decisions.
    
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               HIERARCHY IS STRUCTURAL TO BIOLOGY AND HUMAN LIFE
    
    
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    Hierarchy is a fundamental                 Hierarchy is necessarily
    structure of nature and also a             destructive to at least some
    fundamental structure of human             members and humans can operate
    relationships.  It is no more              without it.
    good nor bad than the circulatory
    system or the digestive system is
    good or bad.  When it is
    operating in a deranged mode
    many people get hurt and
    destroyed;  when it is operating
    as per the design which was
    arranged through evolution,
    everyone does well, at all
    levels.
    
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    THE TRUTH IS SINGULAR, NEVER CHANGES,IS THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The truth is singular, absolute,           There is no such thing as
    is the same for everyone, and              absolute truth; what is called
    never changes, that is, is                 truth is really just someone's
    constant for all time.                     perception, different for each
                                               person.
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    THAT WHICH IS TRUE IS UNCHANGING AND SOMETIMES DIFFERENT FROM WHAT APPEARS TO BE TRUE
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    Most people do not know that               There is no difference between
    there is a difference between the          the appearance of truth and the
    appearance of truth and the truth          truth.
    itself.
    
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    THE TRUTH IS A DIFFERENT ENTITY FROM PERCEPTION
    
    
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    Truth is an entirely separate              Truth is a 'philosophical'
    entity from the appearance of or           concept (rather than a clearly
    the perception of truth.  That             defined and concrete one) and is
    which is true is a concrete                really just whatever is
    entity which never changes and is          perceived; nothing is really true
    the same for everyone whereas the          except what a person thinks is
    perception of truth can vary               true or can get others to
    widely.  The importance and                believe.
    absoluteness of the distinction
    must not be underestimated, else
    life becomes thin, flat, tortuous
    and the species perishes.
    
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    UNLIKE THE TRUTH ITSELF, PERCEPTION OF TRUTH IS A MATTER OF VERY HIGH LIKELIHOOD
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    A person can discern the truth to          You can never really say that
    a .000001% degree of likelihood,           anything is really true.
    or a 10% degree of likelihood, or
    a 60 or 90 or 98 or 99.9999999%
    or more degree of likelihood, or
    conclude that "for all practical
    purposes" it can be seen that
    something is absolutely true.
    This matter of discernment or
    perception of truth is quite
    different from the truth itself
    which, in this bioecosystem, is
    an absolute, 100%, constant for
    all time and same for everyone
    entity.
    
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    PEOPLE PERCEIVE MOST THINGS IN THE SAME WAY
    
    
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    Well over 99% of the things we             Everyone sees and perceives and
    perceive every day, we all                 understands most things
    perceive in the same way, and              differently from someone else.
    most of our conceptual
    understandings are also
    understood in the same way.
    
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    EVERYONE ROUTINELY READS OTHER PEOPLES' THOUGHTS
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    Attempting to understand and               A person cannot discern, as a
    accurately discerning what                 basis for action, what another
    another person is thinking                 person is thinking.
    constitutes a primary basis for
    every persons actions.
    
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    CLAIMING TO BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT ONE DOES NOT BELIEVE IS AN EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVITY
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The phenomenon of a person                 Just about everyone often claims
    claiming to believe something to           to believe things that they do
    be true that they do not believe           not believe, and it doesn't
    to be true is an extremely                 really matter all that much.
    destructive activity, and an
    acute alertness to this
    phenomenon is an absolute life
    and matter for every person on
    the planet.  The considerable
    skills required for discerning
    such in other persons must be
    learned by everyone if anyone is
    to survive.
    
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    UNWISE TO MAKE EXPLANATIONS TO AN UNTRUTHFUL PERSON
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    It is usually destructive to               Making verbal explanations to one
    verbally explain truthful things           who speaks untruthfully about
    to one who speaks untruthfully             what they understand helps them
    about what he or she understands.          to understand things more accurately.
    
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    EXCELLENT INTELLIGENCE IS A LEARNED SKILL
    
    
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    Excellent, high level                      Excellent, high level
    intelligence is a learned skill;           intelligence is something that
    the structure for it is present            only a relatively few 'geniuses'
    in everyone and it can be learned          posses and such facilities are
    by anyone and everyone at any              just not open to the everyday
    age.                                       person.
    
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    INTELLIGENCE DEFINED
    
    
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    Intelligence is defined as the             Intelligence is basically
    ability to hold together many              indefinable but has to do with
    disparate thoughts, emotions, and          "quick-wittedness",
    ideas, and come up with a non-             knowledgability, and cleverness.
    destructive, systemic solution to
    a large scale pain-producing or
    destruction- producing problem.
    
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    REACHING ACCURATE CONCLUSIONS REQUIRES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT MANY FACTORS
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    Conclusions are best reached by            Conclusions are ideas that are
    taking into account many factors,          seized upon by agreeing with
    laid side by side, including,              something or reacting against
    indeed especially, those that              something else.
    seem to contradict one another.
    
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    IT IS USEFUL TO UNDERSTAND SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS BEING STATED
    
    
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    In conversations regarding                 It is not useful to write down
    matters of human operations, it            specific statements in the course
    is useful to write down specific           of a discussion of human
    statements for reference, and for          operations.  because life is too
    specific and detailed scrutiny,            complicated, too unknowable, and
    particularly when using such               too ethereal to "pin down" in a
    statements as a basis for further          precise and accurate way.
    statements.
    
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    THINKING INVOLVES THREE SYSTEMS WORKING TOGETHER
    
    
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    The system by which each                   The system by which an individual
    individual human makes judgments           makes judgments and draws
    about what is true and what is             conclusions cannot be
    not true and what is better or             specifically or accurately
    what is worse and so forth can             described.
    usefully be seen as the
    combination of three specific and
    different internal systems: 1)
    the attachment judgment system
    which goes on 'belief' and is
    tethered to the judgment of above
    individuals; 2) the cognition
    system which goes on what makes
    sense as regards reason and logic
    and is tethered to the singular,
    same for everyone, constant for
    all time truth; and 3)
    imagination which operates during
    times of anxiety and risk and is
    tethered to overall solution to
    danger and damage-producing
    problems.
    
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    INCREASED UNDERSTANDING IN A SOLVING DIRECTION MAKES LIFE MORE INTERESTING
    
    
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    The more fully one understands             If you understand things it takes
    any particular aspect of life              the mystery out of life.
    such that damage- producing
    problems can be solved, the more
    passionate, depthful, and
    fascinating life, as well as the
    next level of understanding
    becomes.  Shallowness derives
    from lack of understanding and
    lack of solution.
    
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    THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS ARE SPECIFIC, DEFINABLE ENTITIES
    
    
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    Thoughts, feelings, emotions,              Thoughts, feelings, emotions, are
    are concrete substances that are           ethereal, abstract entities, that
    constantly being created,                  cannot be "pinned down",
    utilized, destroyed, transferred           specified, or concretely
    and so forth.  They can be                 measured.
    specifically identified,
    measured, and visualized.
    
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    A COOPERATIVE, CARETAKING SYSTEM EVOLVED AS THE BASIC HUMAN STRUCTURE
    
    
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    All people are born with, and are          Some people, or all people are
    initially headed for in                    born with selfish, or criminal,
    adulthood, a balance of                    or destructive tendencies.
    enactments wherein they tend to
    do more caretaking, more
    building, more creating, more
    maintaining of healthy
    structures, than the protection
    that they receive.
    
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    EVERY PERSON'S OPERATIONS ARE INFLUENCED BY OTHER PEOPLE
    
    
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    Every person's actions are                 People operate independently of
    affected by the things that other          the influences of other persons.
    people do in a way that can be
    specifically traced.
    
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    PEOPLE ARE INFLUENCED BY OTHER PEOPLE
    
    
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    Every person's understandings are          A person's thinking operates
    affected by the things another             almost entirely independently of
    person says.                               the influence that other people
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    PEOPLE BECOME DESTRUCTIVE AS A RESULT OF BEING URGED TO DO SO, HOWEVER COVERTLY
    
    
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    All people who become destructive          People who are or who become
    in their overall operations, do            destructive become that way only
    so at the specific behest of more          because they want to, or because
    powerful person who have                   such is in their genetic make-up,
    indicated dire consequences                but in any case, it is not
    should they fail to become                 because they are specifically
    destructive in their overall               forced under dire threat to do
    operations.                                so.
    
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    TO MANIPULATE MEANS TO INFLUENCE ANOTHER PERSON IN A DISHONEST MANNER
    
    
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    The term 'manipulation', in the            A person's thoughts, words, and
    context of human interactions,             activities cannot be influenced
    refers to the matter of one                by another person unless the
    person influencing another in a            influenced person is conscious of
    way that the influenced person is          such influences or is desirous of
    not aware of and because of that           them or both.
    lack of awareness, has little
    control over.  Thus, the term
    'manipulation' means to influence
    in a hidden and dishonestly
    presented way.
    
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    SOMETIMES, A PERSON WILL MAKE A STATEMENT IN ORDER TO SPECIFICALLY INFLUENCE ANOTHER PERSON, THEN WILL DENY HAVING MADE THE STATEMENT.
    
    
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    A certain sort of person often             People don't insist that they
    says that they believe something           believe things which they
    to be true which they do not               actually don't believe in order
    believe to be true in order to             to have a particular influence on
    have a particular influence or             other people, on what other
    effect on another person's                 people think and on what other
    thinking and operations; then,             people do.  Besides, people do
    once the effect is achieved the            things because they want to, not
    person will insist that they               because they have been influenced
    never said such a thing.                   by other people.
    Meanwhile the influenced person
    is operating within a framework
    brought about by the original
    statement, often unaware of what
    has happened.
    
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    "PERSONALITY", THAT IS, BEHAVIORAL STRUCTURE FOR SEEKING PROTECTION, IS PRECISELY DEFINABLE
    
    
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    A person's personality is the              A person's personality is formed
    outcome of difficult events in             and operates independently of
    childhood; it forms specifically           other people's personalities;
    in complementarity to other                cannot be specifically 'pinned
    personalities and must operate in          down'; and is an essentially
    adulthood in complementarity to            random peculiarity of nature.
    other personalities, and it
    specifically evolved to have the
    function in nature, to form a
    vital part of the structure of
    solution to dangerous and
    destruction-producing
    circumstances.
    
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    DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCES ARE USUALLY ARRANGED OUTSIDE THE PERSON'S AWARENESS
    
    
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    The less conscious a person is of          People are not influenced by the
    a particular influence on them,            actions of others if they are not
    the more easily they are so                aware of those influences.
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    A PERSON BEING AWARE OF THE INFLUENCES ON THEM ALLOWS THE PERSON TO ADJUST THOSE INFLUENCES
    
    
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    A person being conscious of                A person's conscious and overtly
    having a particular                        stated awareness of something
    characteristic allows that person          about themself indicates that
    to adjust it, evaluate it, and             that characteristic is a
    change it.                                 powerfully governing
                                               characteristic.
    
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    THE LARGEST EFFECT OF A LOSS IS TO THOSE LEFT ALIVE
    
    
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    The greatest loss regarding an             The most important loss regarding
    untimely death is to every other           an untimely death of a person is
    person in the species left alive,          the loss to the person who dies.
    and, if the cause of the
    untimeliness is left unsolved,
    those still to be born; the
    second most important loss
    regarding an untimely death is to
    those persons who were close to
    them and to others immediately
    affected; and the third most
    important loss regarding an
    untimely loss is to the person
    themself.
    
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    A PERSON'S CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELF COMES MOSTLY FROM THEIR PERCEIVED ABILITY TO GET PROTECTION
    
    
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    To the most significant degree,            Causes of various human
    understandings regarding internal          conditions and characteristics
    human conceptualizations such as           can not be traced to a simple,
    self-esteem, sense of worth, and           easy to understand source.
    so forth are the direct outcome
    of a person's understanding of
    their ability to get protection
    and enact caretaking.
    
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    FREEDOM MEANS UNHINDERED CARETAKING THAT GOES WELL
    
    
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    If a person can receive good               If a person thinks that their
    protection for a maximum variety           words and everyday actions
    of caretaking activities, then             profoundly affect other persons
    they have maximum freedom.                 in a specifically health-
                                               producing or damage-producing
                                               way, then they do not have
                                               freedom.
    
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    PEOPLE OFTEN INSIST THAT THEY BELIEVE THINGS THAT THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
    
    
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    People often speak inaccurately            A person might say something
    about what they understand the             that's not true,  but if they say
    case to be.                                they believe something, you just
                                               have to go on that they believe
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    'MENTAL DISORDER' COMES FROM A PERSON NOT BELIEVING THAT THEY CAN GET PROTECTION FOR THEIR CARETAKING
    
    
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    More than 95% of all mental                Mental disorder is the result of
    disorder in humans is the very             genetically determined dynamics
    direct result of a person's not            as well as a wide variety of
    having any sense that they can do          sources that can not be easily
    any caretaking of other persons            traced.
    or that they cannot get any
    protection from others or both.
    
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    BIOLOGY, AND LIFE, CONSISTS OF A SMALL GROUP OF 'FORCES OF PHYSICS' OUT OF A MUCH LARGER GROUP WHICH IS PRESENT IN THE UNIVERSE
    
    
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    Biology and life on this planet            The basic make-up of life can not
    consists of a particular group of          be discerned.
    forces of physics, out of a much
    larger number of forces in the
    area, which became organized into
    a coherent group producing
    proteins and DNA about 3 or 4
    billion years ago.
    
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    UNAWARENESS OF AN INTERNAL PATTERN GENERALLY MAKES THAT PATTERN MORE RIGID
    
    
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    A person being unconscious of a            A person being unconscious of a
    particular characteristic, or              particular characteristic, or
    unable or unwilling to, overtly            unable or unwilling to, overtly
    discuss it indicates, if they do           discuss it indicates that they do
    operate with that characteristic,          not have it or it is not an
    a rigid inability to evaluate or           important governing factor in
    alter it.                                  their operations.
    
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    LOSS OF CARETAKING IN THE WORLD GENER-ALLY IS THE LARGEST LOSS TO LIFE
    
    
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    The greater the caretaking,                Every untimely loss of life has
    however unseen, that the person            an equally damaging effect on
    was doing and was likely to do in          life altogether.
    the future, the more damaging to
    everyone alive, and to life
    altogether is the untimely loss
    of their life.
    
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    THE ONLY WAY THE 'COMMONLY STATED IDEAS' ARE DEFENDED IS BY CLAIMING THAT 'NOTHING MEANS ANYTHING'
    
    
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    There is no one, NO ONE on this            There are persons at the high
    planet who could refute the                levels of intellectual thought -
    Paradigm From California on the            professors, writers,
    basis of accuracy, logic,                  philosophers, scientists, or
    scientific principles, or common           whatever who could show that this
    sense and no one, NO ONE who               list of Commonly Held Beliefs is
    could defend the 'Commonly Held            accurate, or correct, or the most
    Beliefs' on such basises either.           practical to hold and who could
    This is because people who defend          show that the Paradigm from
    the 'Commonly Held Beliefs' do so          California structure is faulty.
    on the basis that there really is
    no such thing as real truth, no
    such thing as real accuracy, and
    that things just do not and can
    not make sense! Anyone who
    thought that some things actually                                                                    
    are really true,and that sense
    could be made out of things,
    would find our paradigm to fit
    the current human condition and
    the four billion year old
    biological condition precisely.
    And would further find that this
    paradigm is the only one ever
    developed to date that did so fit.
    
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    A PERSON CAN CHANGE THEIR HIGH LEVEL FRAMEWORK, EASILY WITH GOOD PROTECTION, AND WITH DIFFICULTY OTHERWISE
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    A person can relatively easily             Only a very weak or a very
    shift their high level                     fanatical person or a very
    understandings, their overall              close-minded person would have
    governing framework of                     trouble changing their mind in
    understanding if there is                  the absence of good protection
    protection from others,                    for doing so.
    particularly protection from
    above parties. This is the case
    when such governing framework is
    self-destructive of the person
    and the world around and is also
    the case when such governing
    framework is constructive to the
    person and the world around.
    
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    EVENTS OF THE PAST ARE SET AND CANNOT CHANGE
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    What has happened in the past is           History can be rewritten.
    set forever and cannot change.
    Naturally, you can discover new
    things about what has happened in
    the past and one can speak or
    write untruthfully about what
    happened in the past, but the
    actual events themselves can
    never be changed.
    
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    NOTHING IS INEVITABLE; THE FUTURE IS NOT SET
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The future is not set; likelihood          "Whatever will be will be" and a
    and possibility as regards events          person's decision-making and
    of the future is the way of this           operations cannot alter whatever
    bioecosystem - continuations are           future arrangement will come to
    powerfully affected by human               pass; the future is 'set', it is
    decision-making among other                inevitable.
    things.
    
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    THE HIGH LEVEL PATTERNS OF LIFE ARE SOMETIMES CALLED SCIENCE AND SOMETIMES CALLED GOD
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The terms 'God', Mother Nature,            There are fundamental differences
    the overall bioecosystem as                between the concepts of 'God',
    scientifically understood, human-          ideology, and science.
    decision-making, the patterns by
    which DNA replicates genes all
    refer to the same entity.
    
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    PEOPLE OFTEN DIRECT THEIR PAIN TOWARDS, AND EVEN DESTROY, THE LEAST DAMAGING PERSONS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE MOST RECEPTIVE
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    When a person is in pain, they             If you can "catch" someone at
    often project it at the most               something, that's to the good.
    vulnerable persons, because the            After all, if they get caught,
    perpetrators will only laugh or            that proves that they are
    ignore or kill them.  Knocking             operating in a more destructive
    out the people one can get to,             manner than someone who didn't
    often leaves the most deceptive            get caught.
    and brutal in charge.
    
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    EVERY PERSON'S OVERALL EVALUATING SYSTEM INVOLVES THREE SYSTEMS WORKING TOGETHER
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    The system by which each                   The system by which an individual
    individual human makes judgments           draws conclusions and makes
    about what is true and what is             judgments cannot be specifically
    not true and what is better or             or accurately described.
    what is worse and so forth can
    usefully be seen as the
    combination of three specific and
    different internal systems: 1)
    the attachment judgment system
    which goes on 'belief' and is
    tethered to the judgment of above
    individuals; 2) the cognition
    system which goes on what makes
    sense as regards reason and logic
    and is tethered to the singular,
    same for everyone, constant for
    all time truth; and 3)
    imagination which operates during
    times of anxiety and risk and is
    tethered to overall solution to
    danger and damage-producing
    problems.
    
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    ATTACHMENT JUDGMENT IS ONE THIRD OF EVERYONE'S BASIC THINKING SYSTEM
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    A one third component of every             A person just believes what they
    person's biologically endowed              have been told by more powerful
    overall judgment system is                 figures, or, alternatively,
    tethered to the judgment of those          people just think for themselves.
    who are more expert than the
    person, or have power over the
    person, or are higher in a
    hierarchy than they are.  This is
    called 'attachment judgment'.
    This component does not use
    accuracy as a standard, but
    rather acceptance by this or that
    above figure. The biological
    design of Homo Sapiens has this a
    about a 50% factor but in today's
    societies it runs about 95% of
    everyone's thinking.
    
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    COGNITION JUDGMENT IS ONE THIRD OF EVERYONE'S BASIC THINKING SYSTEM
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    A one third component of a                 A person cannot really determine
    person's judgment system is                what is actually true, and people
    tethered to a discerning of the            mostly go on just whatever
    truth itself, which is singular,           happens to come into their mind,
    never changing, and the same for           or what more powerful people
    everyone.  This component is               convince them of.
    called cognition judgment. Homo
    Sapiens are designed to use this
    as a 45% factor, but instead, it
    is used only to about a 4% degree
    
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    IMAGINATION IS ONE THIRD OF EVERYONE'S BASIC THINKING SYSTEM
    
    
    Paradigm From California                   Commonly Stated Ideas
    
    A one third component of every             No one's mind can think of
    person's judgment system seeks             anything really new, and to
    out 'out of the blue' ideas, and           whatever extent anyone does, it's
    new arrangements of previously             just for fun, or for beauty, or
    understood ideas.  This component          because it's interesting.
    is tethered to overall solution
    to damage producing and loss
    producing problems.  The Homo
    Sapien brain was designed to use
    this to about a 5% degree, but
    instead, it is to be found in
    about .01% proportions.
    
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Components of Paradigm from California - 50 One-Liners

[End Notes]




Distribution History

"Components" written: October 15, 1991
First Distribution (U.S. Postal Service): August, 1992
US Postal Service receipients through July 15, 1995: 120
First Internet posting: September 16, 1995
Second Internet edition: May 28, 1997
Most recent reprocessing: November 2, 1997





Other Files of Relevance

Parent document (1992 Paradigm Summary)

Backbone for a Cooperative Society / Schema

Truth Defined, Other Definations, Criteria for a Proposal

What if Nobody Lied

Ballad of a Sailor

Bibliography

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