The focus of this sensemaking is the faculty of predictive attention, and the motivation that provides internal incentive. Assuming a mechanistic view of consciousness will allow for these ideas to be organized.
"Motivation" is a complex phenomena related to the interface of the metaphysical and the physical in human beings. It tends to have root in something external—traditionally an out-of-sight "higher power", while being a self-reflecting memetic feedback loop in practice. If people build out internal motivation structures that are reconcilable between their instinctual and rational self, the trigger for this popular variety of low grade anxiety may resolve. This is the central thesis: that the alignment of projected meaning and sensation into productive harmony is the resolution of latent anxiety.
The aim of this sensemaking process is to represent the resources at hand, and compress the governing functions of their interactions into parsable communication. By doing this, we can develop more complete value systems and derivable heuristics. With enough accuracy and consistent granularity, these functions can remix and combine to create accurate, nuanced models reflective of human nature.
Background
These days, average-based thinking is being absolutely leveled. The predictions and decisions formed by it are always one step behind the future. Ignoring one's instincts and vitality can disempower or lead in a negative trajectory. However, making decisions from sensuality and emotional determinations can also be a regressive crutch. Each axis of consciousness forms a poor basis for judgement on its own. Instead, I want to make sense of how someone's mind can be in alignment with their body.
"Critical thinking, knowledge, beliefs—everything needed to be probabilized. Until I came to realize, twelve years ago, that I was wrong in this notion that the calculus of probability could be a guide to life and help society. Indeed, it is only in very rare circumstances that probability (by itself) is a guide to decision making. It is a clumsy academic construction, extremely artificial, and nonobservable."
— Nassim Taleb
"Stories replace probability judgements."
— Robert Glushko
The development of natural philosophy is closely tied to the philosophical affordances available to the physicist's intuition. When the unknown unknowns are too significant, the use of induction is not safe or effective. There is instead a necessitation of narrative for the construction of one's predictive intuition or creativity in that space. Narratives work through the activities and value systems of consciousness, and can resolve into an aesthetic when isolated outside of context into abstract form.
Survey of Philosophical Metaphysical Traditions
Consciousness Health/Wellness Practices: Limited, egocentric metaphysical scope, allowing it to be clean and effective at local aim. When scope is stretched to an aesthetic absolute, reasoning becomes circular or self-immolating.
Spirituality: Somewhere between self help / security, and a landscape of spirits. Spirits can facilitate the divination of particular motivation vectors.
Religion: Spiritual power and justification through an external rather than egocentric model—that is, through "other gods". Scalable, indirect / curated / suppressed / hierarchical spirituality.
What is Being Organized
Ultimately, what is being organized are recursive, time-scale functions of resource combinations. We're focusing on the resources and interactions involving motivation and inspiration. Within the consciousness of 'self' and 'other', self-systems and images of other systems can mimic each other in a feedback loop. Memetics is then about the pattern creation of pattern-recognizing processes. 'Emergence' is the term for when such a complex system develops compressible descriptions or forms of behavior.
We're after the correct emergences in our organizing system—a compression ecology of adaptive, sustainable properties. The ability to imagine idea, expound on idea, and perform idea are each covered. The organized representation of these emergences (of self, motivation, and inspiration) will be enabled by visual artifacts of form.
Inspiration Vector for Predictive Attention
Within our known self and reign of vision and competency, straightforward induction and probabilistic rational reasoning suffices for coordinating actions and making predictions. However, outside of this known space, we often still need to move or perceive. The way this attention is enabled and distributed is through scaffolding motivation vectors. The coordinates of the aim are contextually derivable.
Something like stoicism will try to help develop these scaffoldings without care for the context or absolute orientation of the vector—which when seen from the contextual frame may generally improve fitness, or lead to investment of resources into a locally positive but absolutely negative place.
Competency and sanity itself doesn't cover the bases for aesthetic perfection in present satisfaction, because the requirement for meaning has to transcend localized time frames.
Self & Interaction with Inspiration Vectors
(predictive attention) × (time & space) = mimetic evolution. Promise, truth, ability, and time influence this personal evolution trajectory.
Self as a nonlinear system means that germinating ideas can produce huge changes. We don't always know ourselves, and we aren't always well-rounded, so our center of self and center of mass don't necessarily line up. This effects the dynamics of our metaphysical movement: the path we take is influenced by the vibrations of our internal dynamics.
The main point of our contextual diagram is how to zone for understanding and rationality. Within the area the self already has a handle on, we work with logic. Outside of that space, we work with belief.
"Logic creates lossless compressions along an absolute high entropy maxima. Belief creates lossy compressions along absolute low energy substrate tolerance."
— Patrick Ryan
In regards to ultimate aim, it could be considered pursuit of the divine. As you move closer to the perception of 'perfect', your definition of the perfect changes. It's the adaptive process of pinpointing and progressing, but aimed towards the divine. Direct observation is out of reach—a 'god-shaped hole'. In the gradient between reaction and proaction, coordinating relative to the divine supersedes all other rationalistic framing. It is the superordinate goal oriented activity.