MoL-2 Puzzle Pieces of Harmony: Threesome and Foursome
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2023-11-15

How do the Threesome and Foursome fit together?  These puzzle pieces are key to understanding harmony as the meaning of life.  

This video is the second in a series of six videos on the meaning of life, which is part of a longer series overviewing Wondrous Wisdom, a language of wisdom expressed in terms of cognitive frameworks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhTHq9v5DkM&list=PL4jG0jj6NdI0yEv37VmD-zvzaZPNSQAas&pp=gAQBiAQB

I consider preliminaries that are important for considering how the Threesome and the Foursome fit together.  The Threesome is the learning three-cycle of taking a stand, following through and reflecting. The Foursome organizes four levels of knowledge: Whether, What, How, Why.

0:00 A challenge for modeling the Meaning of Life is to understand how the Threesome and the Foursome fit together.
1:00 This is the second of six videos on the meaning of life.
3:25 The Twosome, Threesome, Foursome are the most basic building blocks. I discussed them in an earlier video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x69-Xxv6L0
7:20 The Threesome and Foursome are relevant for creating my own ethical system: What 
should I do? Why should I do it? How should I get myself to do it?
11:05 The Unconscious, Conscious and Consciousness are three operations that, respectively, given a division of everything, add a perspective, a perspective on a perspective, and a perspective on a perspective on a perspective.  These three operations sit inside the Foursome as What, How, Why, respectively.  We experience them as the Threesome.
22:25 Emotion is how the Unconscious speaks to the Conscious. Cognition is what the Conscious imposes on the Unconscious when the Consciousness binds them together.
23:35 These three operations act on the eight divisions of everything, and thus shift our state of mind from one division to another.
26:05 There are two ways of conceiving the foursome, fivesome, sixsome, sevensome, in terms of increasing slack (as with questions) or decreasing slack (as with answers). There are four ways of conceiving the nullsome, onesome, twosome, threesome, by way of the scopes: Everything, Anything, Something, Nothing.  Thus there are six Conceptions, ways of conceiving the whole.
32:10 The four conceptions of the Twosome illustrate this. In order to conceive the Twosome (opposites coexist & all is the same) we need to make it concrete as either free will & fate, or outside & inside, or theory & practice, or same & different.
37:15 The four conceptions of the Threesome are especially important because they yield the twelve Circumstances, the ways of isolating a perspective within a division of everything.  I consider especially the conception in terms of being, doing, thinking and how it relates to Descartes's "I think therefore I am". That is an example of an analytic a posteriori statement, which Kant incorrectly argued could not exist.
50:50 In mathematics, it is interesting to consider how the complex numbers can model the Twosome.  The three-cycle of the quaternions can model the Threesome. Also, the Foursome can model the quaternions as complex numbers with complex number coefficients. Thus the quaternions may model how the Threesome and Foursome fit together.
59:25 The third video will present the meaning of life in terms of Plato's virtues, St.Paul's virtues and Andrius's virtues, in each case intertwining the Threesome and the Foursome.
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