there is a quote from #naval i love: >Men are the means; women are the motive when i first head this quote it strike deep in my brain, but nothing happened, i did not know what do it with it a few decades later i read it again and again and things started to make sense as all naval quotes, these are inverted pyramid which underlying layers are years of introspection and reflections from him layers and layers of abstraction spirituality is the highest level of abstraction while physics is the lowest level of abstraction if you think about it our evolutionary brain intelligence is made to understand things in terms of layer of abstraction each layer hide away things so we can process, allocate an attention span once at a time coming back to the point, motive, what is this? it seems to be a pretty high layer of abstraction, just as "mean" a kind of direction in the forest, when your conscious mind is not able to take a decision given the information in its possession, an internal compass a compass that drives you, always, towards a destination a destination that yields infinite reward a source of abundance what about means? means is action, men often have a bias to action, which, in itself, can often be a disadvantage, although we are not talking about advantages or disadvantages here acting is re-ordering the entropy of our universe towards a motive changing the structure of the world organising the world information the abstraction hierarchy continues: physics (lowest) -> biology -> psychology -> philosophy -> spirituality (highest) each layer hiding complexity below each layer serving the layer above just as means serve motives just as action serves direction just as masculine serves feminine in the dance of existence #philosophy #spirituality #reflection #neuroscience #philosophy #spirituality #reflection