MoL-1 Harmony is the Meaning of Life
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2023-11-07

What is the meaning of life?  Harmony!  This video is the first in a six-part series in which I, Andrius Kulikauskas, host of Math4Wisdom, present my understanding of the meaning of life, as stated in the structural language of Wondrous Wisdom.

In this first introductory episode, I present my conclusions.

1:00 I first presented my ideas in 1989, in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, to philosophy graduate student Žilvinas Beliauskas, who was studying meaning, as in the works of semiotician Algirdas Julius Greimas.   
2:15 The meaning of life is harmony and there are 3 kinds: Justice in the external world, duty in our internal world, loyalty relating them.  Plato talks about justice, St.Paul – loyalty, Andrius – duty.
3:40 The learning cycle (take a stand, follow through, reflect) and 4 levels of knowledge (whether, what, how, why) together yield the meaning of life.
4:35 We internalize external perspectives imposed on us (justice, loyalty, duty) by freely choosing them (obeying, believing, caring) even when life is not fair.
8:35 When our consciousness obeys, that is Why there is justice. We can choose between our unconscious and our conscious. What does it mean to be completely obedient?
12:00 Beauty is the absence of disgust in that we have no inside, all is outside, so we can't be disgusted.
13:00 When you have been obedient, and then feel beauty, you will be courageous, following through on your stands. Fleeting moments of beauty will resonate through the immortality of your courage. God plucks you like a string.
14:45 Levels of knowledge get ordered differently when we consider our experience of them.
15:20 St.Paul should have included loyalty in his Hymn of Love. Why are we loyal? Because we are believing voluntarily. We can then even have an imperfect relationship with God. We can believe in the one who obeys.  
17:15 Unhealthy emotions (hate, anger, relief, depression) arise when you expect what you don't wish for.  
19:15 Love is the impossiblity of hatred because you don't expect things you don't wish for.  When you feel love you will be inspired to hope.  You prime your unconscious by believing.
21:00 I don't want to obey or believe much.  I am skeptical, poor-in-spirit, yet willing to care, and so appreciate those who believe and obey.
23:20 Duty is imposed. We take that to heart by caring. When you thereby prime your unconscious, you will not feel fright because you don't have an outside, there is only inside, so you will feel intimacy, and you will be honest.
25:30 Your caring makes you an antenna for intimacy which yields your honesty.  Obeying makes you an antenna for beauty. Believing makes you an antenna for love. 
26:15 When you internalize, then you live by these virtues in your treasure chest, your eternal life. 
27:40 That is the meaning of life, of eternal life. God does not have to be good, but we can obey, believe, care. God can't do that for us. We are talking to God and God replies by plucking us like strings.
28:25 The sixsome expresses this structurally. 
30:40 Stating the learning cycle as steps, relative or absolute. Better God be, do, think than I. But if I am not in touch with God, then I watch over myself with the learning cycle.
32:25 Divisions of everything are conceived by way of conceptions. Sixsome has 2 conceptions, as questions (will we internalize cognition?) or answers (God immortalizes emotion).
35:50 Internalizing, we're idealists making choices, as between unreal absolute justice and real relative caring.
38:35 A materialist sees, deterministically, that the unconscious receives positive emotions which trigger virtues. In the three-cycle, the shift from one node to another equals the third node. 
41:30 Why is there harmony in justice? because we are obeying. What does that feel like? Beauty. How is that working? It makes us courageous. Obedience reorganizes our unconscious.
42:40 We extend harmony to our voluntary life. God preserves harmony, it is self-preserving.
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44:05 This is the first of 6 episodes, part of the Wondrous Wisdom series.
44:30 Part 2: Preliminaries of Wondrous Wisdom: Threesome and Foursome
44:50 Part 3:  Intertwining Threesome and Foursome: Plato, St.Paul, Andrius and the Meaning of Life
45:10 Part 4: Further Grounding the Concepts: Beauty, Love, Intimacy; Obeying, Believing, Caring; Justice, Loyalty, Duty.
45:35 Part 5: New Improved Version 2.0 of the Meaning of Life!
48:30 Part 6: Further Research: Verbalization, Argumentation; Autognomics; Life + Meaning
52:45 Concluding prayer

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