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• for: stress - satisfaction, lack project, poverty mentality, David Loy
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  • what is interesting is that there is strong emphasis on Buddhist and other contemplative teachings on acceptance of the present state and cessation of searching.
  • In Buddhist teachings, desire is an expression of a dissatisfaction of some aspect of the present and drives change
  • and last but perhaps most importantly, Buddhist teachings teach that the source of the desire is indicative of attachment to the constructed self narrative
  • hence, at first read, it would seem the goal-oriented nature of the definition is at odds with Buddhist teachings.
  • David Loy refers to desires as a way to fulfill something we feel is missing. He refers to this as a "Lack project"
    • When we feel incomplete, we are motivated to strive towards those things that we perceive to make us feel more complete. This is also referred to in some branches of Buddhism as poverty mentality: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality
  • If we penetrate the self construct and see it's constructed, provisional nature, then we also expose the greater already existent reality that we already are.
  • It seems paradoxical. While we are strongly reifying the self-construct, we will be goal-seeking and a priority goal may be to experience the self as a construct, which has the effect of ending root level goal seeking.

• for: definition, definition - stress, stress
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  • this is a generalized definition of stress that includes basal cognitive organisms
• definition: stress
  • In the context of a generalized definition of intelligence applied beyond the traditional definition that applies only to organisms with neurons and nervous systems to include organisms that display basal cognition,
    • stress is defined as the delta between
      • current state and
      • optimal state,
    • or the difference between the goals at different subsystems’ levels
  • Reduction of this stress parameter is a driver that keeps the system exerting energy in action to move and navigate within the problem space.
  • The authors note that stress can be seen as the inverse of “satisfaction”, and is relative to a contextual and non-stationary target.