This made me wonder whether community isn't just helpful for learning, but essential to it. There are certain ideas we can only understand once they're challenged, refined, and expanded through dialogue with others.
In my experience, without community, it is very difficult for someone to progress through philosophy. The main reason is that a key part of philosophy is dialogue and learning how to talk through ideas with others.
"Autodidacticism is awesome, but it’s not for everyone. I think part of the reason its so popular is that there aren’t many places where people can go for real community learning...."
I did this type of learning, into understanding. This process began at age 15 - discovery/discovering Soul Touch connection/communication, and then the wanted reasoning behind crushing/devastation within. The completion.... The full emptiness within, when soul touch empathies become permanently removed from connectivity (literally living with a no resonating energy - a black hole within the human constitution - just in person, yet with a clean, clear consciousness - no anxiety. No depression. Just live in person performing).
For 40+ years (59 now), part time performing autodidacticism while only obtaining a high school diploma., yet now with a makeshift thesis, which rests within the hands of the head librarian of the Masonic Library in Boston, Ma., as well as two pieces of this work (a third and final piece pending correction) sitting within the Berggruen Institute. This was to be a great novel - The Altruistic man - then during research about boys and girls scouting I came across the University of Michigan — Felix Warneken’s Research on Early Altruism:
Core finding: Infants and toddlers spontaneously help others without being taught. This research overturns the old assumption that children are born selfish and must be trained into cooperation.
Key Observations:
• Children as young as 18 months show spontaneous helping behaviors.
• They will put another person’s interest ahead of their own, even without reward or instruction.
• This includes helping adults solve problems and sharing resources.
• Warneken’s work is featured in the Netflix series Babies, highlighting how infants naturally act from social concern and relational awareness.
• A related Michigan project investigates the neural circuitry of altruism, showing that caregiving and helping behaviors activate brain systems associated with parental care and social bonding. This suggests altruism is biologically rooted, not culturally imposed.
Fourteen years of developmental psychology research, which includes Felix Warneken’s work at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington’s food sharing studies does validate infants display spontaneous, untrained altruism. They help others solve problems, share resources, and even give up valuable food when hungry. These behaviors appear before language, before identity, and before social conditioning. This research confirms that selflessness is the biological baseline of the human being, and that selfishness emerges only after collapse enters through fear, scarcity, and ownership....
....the thesis that was completed within the novel became a possible remedy for ills plaguing humanity. The novel could not be finished, for the financial backers stepped away upon this published study - the novel was no longer a novel....
So, this is within the 3rd installment...
Humor: Welcome, graduates of the University of Michigan. You have gained outstanding knowledge and exceptional abilities over your tenure here. We, the leadership of this institution, now expect you to step out into the world and selflessly share everything you have learned with everyone. After all, as our research proves, altruism is your natural human baseline... But don't forget to pay back the $250,000 you borrowed from us to learn it! And remember: you all now possess the brilliant capability to build intergalactic vehicles... just to travel to employment you will absolutely hate…
…Inquiry: Is follow the sciences a mantra offered into consensus, to then become practiced reality? Is this altruistic study then a top-down, not a bottom-up phenomenon? If this is humanity as our baseline… then: To… what ends? Is Altruism - being the human biological baseline – interfere with investment institutional overlays, into consolidations - the actual discontinuity - my definition of the tantrum never escaping human adulthood)? Is such an offering the reasoning behind collapsing survivalism, as a behavioral output? Should not the real inquiry be: What does an authentic human altruistic personality resemble into developmental adulthood – the whole purposefulness of becoming a PhD scholar – the discovery of once the mysterious?
I have formulated the Behavioral Field Theory... the 3rd and final piece of the human puzzle!
This made me wonder whether community isn't just helpful for learning, but essential to it. There are certain ideas we can only understand once they're challenged, refined, and expanded through dialogue with others.
In my experience, without community, it is very difficult for someone to progress through philosophy. The main reason is that a key part of philosophy is dialogue and learning how to talk through ideas with others.
"Autodidacticism is awesome, but it’s not for everyone. I think part of the reason its so popular is that there aren’t many places where people can go for real community learning...."
I did this type of learning, into understanding. This process began at age 15 - discovery/discovering Soul Touch connection/communication, and then the wanted reasoning behind crushing/devastation within. The completion.... The full emptiness within, when soul touch empathies become permanently removed from connectivity (literally living with a no resonating energy - a black hole within the human constitution - just in person, yet with a clean, clear consciousness - no anxiety. No depression. Just live in person performing).
For 40+ years (59 now), part time performing autodidacticism while only obtaining a high school diploma., yet now with a makeshift thesis, which rests within the hands of the head librarian of the Masonic Library in Boston, Ma., as well as two pieces of this work (a third and final piece pending correction) sitting within the Berggruen Institute. This was to be a great novel - The Altruistic man - then during research about boys and girls scouting I came across the University of Michigan — Felix Warneken’s Research on Early Altruism:
Core finding: Infants and toddlers spontaneously help others without being taught. This research overturns the old assumption that children are born selfish and must be trained into cooperation.
Key Observations:
• Children as young as 18 months show spontaneous helping behaviors.
• They will put another person’s interest ahead of their own, even without reward or instruction.
• This includes helping adults solve problems and sharing resources.
• Warneken’s work is featured in the Netflix series Babies, highlighting how infants naturally act from social concern and relational awareness.
• Neurobiological Extension (Michigan Psychiatry Collaboration)
• A related Michigan project investigates the neural circuitry of altruism, showing that caregiving and helping behaviors activate brain systems associated with parental care and social bonding. This suggests altruism is biologically rooted, not culturally imposed.
Fourteen years of developmental psychology research, which includes Felix Warneken’s work at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington’s food sharing studies does validate infants display spontaneous, untrained altruism. They help others solve problems, share resources, and even give up valuable food when hungry. These behaviors appear before language, before identity, and before social conditioning. This research confirms that selflessness is the biological baseline of the human being, and that selfishness emerges only after collapse enters through fear, scarcity, and ownership....
....the thesis that was completed within the novel became a possible remedy for ills plaguing humanity. The novel could not be finished, for the financial backers stepped away upon this published study - the novel was no longer a novel....
So, this is within the 3rd installment...
Humor: Welcome, graduates of the University of Michigan. You have gained outstanding knowledge and exceptional abilities over your tenure here. We, the leadership of this institution, now expect you to step out into the world and selflessly share everything you have learned with everyone. After all, as our research proves, altruism is your natural human baseline... But don't forget to pay back the $250,000 you borrowed from us to learn it! And remember: you all now possess the brilliant capability to build intergalactic vehicles... just to travel to employment you will absolutely hate…
…Inquiry: Is follow the sciences a mantra offered into consensus, to then become practiced reality? Is this altruistic study then a top-down, not a bottom-up phenomenon? If this is humanity as our baseline… then: To… what ends? Is Altruism - being the human biological baseline – interfere with investment institutional overlays, into consolidations - the actual discontinuity - my definition of the tantrum never escaping human adulthood)? Is such an offering the reasoning behind collapsing survivalism, as a behavioral output? Should not the real inquiry be: What does an authentic human altruistic personality resemble into developmental adulthood – the whole purposefulness of becoming a PhD scholar – the discovery of once the mysterious?
I have formulated the Behavioral Field Theory... the 3rd and final piece of the human puzzle!