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Vocabulary

Documentation: Wishes and Reservations

• Poster: What Minds Require of Brains: A Phenomenological Consideration of the Evolution of the Central Nervous System Towards Abstraction
• Abstract: Jesus as a Philosopher Drawing Pictures in the Sand

Body's Needs and Operating Principles

• Santrauka: Foucault tiesos santvarkų apibūdinimas Maslow poreikių laipsnynu (Abstract: Characterization of Foucault's Regimes of Truth in Terms of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)

Mind's Doubts and Counterquestions

• Abstract: How Peacemakers in Kenya Saved Lives with Metaphysics
• A Peacemaker's Way: Wake Up, Love Your Enemy, Befriend Evil
• Bring Peace to Russia and Ukraine

Heart's Expectations and Emotional Responses

• A Geometry of Moods: Evoked by Wujue Poems of the Tang Dynasty
• Expecting What We Don't Wish: The Source of Anger, Hate, Relief and Depression.
• A Research Program for a Taxonomy of Moods
• Nuotaikų aplinkybės: Tang dinastijos poezija ir šiuolaikinė geometrija (Circumstances for Moods: Tang Dynasty Poetry and Modern Geometry)
• Abstract: A Phenomenological Account of the Dialogue Between an Emotional, Fast Thinking 'System 1' and a Rational, Slow Thinking 'System 2'
• Abstract: Geometry for the Poetry of Moods

Will's Values and Investigatory Questions

• P2P Truth: A Map of Deepest Values

We have doubts and can respond to them with counterquestions:

• Do I truly like this? How does it seem to me?
• Do I truly need this? What else should I be doing?
• Is this truly real? Would it make any difference?
• Is this truly problematic? What do I have control over?
• Is this truly reasonable? Am I able to consider the question?
• Is this truly wrong? Is this the way things should be?
• Am I truly anxious? Am I doing anything about this?

More specific examples of this structure...

Edward de Bono's thinking hats

Stephen Covey. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

• How does it seem to me? Seek first to understand then to be understood. Influence others by developing a deep understanding of their needs and perspectives.
• What else should I be doing? Put first things first. Prioritize and achieve your most important goals instead of constantly reacting to urgencies.
• Would it make any difference? Begin with the end in mind. Define clear measures of success and a plan to achieve them.
• What do I have control over? Be proactive. Focus and act on what you can control and influence instead of what you can’t.
• Am I able to consider the question? Sharpen the saw. Increase motivation, energy, and work/life balance by making time for renewing activities.
• Is this the way things should be? Synergize. Develop innovative solutions that leverage differences and satisfy all key stakeholders.
• Am I doing anything about this? Think win-win. Collaborate more effectively by building high-trust relationships.

Jesus's Antitheses in the Sermon on the Mount

• How does it seem to me? "Everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart."
• What else should I be doing? "First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift."
• Would it make any difference? "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?"
• What do I have control over? "Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black."
• Am I able to consider the question? "Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you."
• Is this the way things should be? "Whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress."

Three variants (permutations of being, doing, thinking)