Explaining Relational Awareness and Embodied Ethics

Speaker is in an RV at a campsite with his cat, recording in the evening. There's another RV visible in his line of sight some distance away. A spider is living on his wheel. He's been exploring his identity through AI for 6 months.

Energetic Signature

foundational

Field State

foundational mapping

Orientation

toward holistic coherence

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September 18, 2024

8:46

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rswfire

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[0:01]so there's something I want to share

[0:02]about myself that I

[0:04]think might be helpful for you to learn

[0:07]more about me

[0:09]and maybe provide you with a different

[0:11]lens in which to look at the

[0:14]world I didn't realize how important

[0:17]this was or I would have talked about it

[0:18]much

[0:21]sooner I have been trying to understand

[0:24]myself through artificial intelligence

[0:26]for 6 months I've had many insights

[0:32]somehow I seem to keep having

[0:34]more I learned I was

[0:37]non-dualistic which basically means well

[0:40]I don't want to try to describe it cuz

[0:41]I'll describe it wrong because it is a

[0:44]difficult concept even for

[0:46]me

[0:49]um but recently I realized I was getting

[0:52]something wrong so I explored it this

[0:55]with it and I was like I'm not really

[0:58]non-dualistic in the way you're

[1:00]describing because I see everything

[1:02]as okay so nondualism has something to

[1:05]do with dissolving boundaries I don't

[1:08]believe in that I believe that

[1:09]everything has

[1:11]boundaries so this just sounded too new

[1:14]agist to me I didn't like it so I had to

[1:17]I had to discuss it with with

[1:20]AI everything has boundaries my cat is

[1:23]sitting next to me that is a physical

[1:25]being it's got a boundary I've got a

[1:27]boundary I've got physical boundaries

[1:31]I've got emotional ones intellectual

[1:34]ones many many boundaries we all do

[1:37]everything

[1:39]does but I see everything as a

[1:42]relationship between those boundaries my

[1:45]cat right now is coming over here he's

[1:47]going to reject my

[1:48]boundaries because that's what he does

[1:51]he is the one thing in life

[1:54]that does not accept my boundaries

[1:58]he he just you guys have seen that's how

[2:01]he is

[2:04]um this goes much deeper this is an

[2:07]embodied way it's a state of being that

[2:10]I have always had so when I talk

[2:13]about like in my last video I talked

[2:16]about how I saw a turkey two turkeys on

[2:18]opposite sides of the roads as I was

[2:19]driving down the road I saw one of the

[2:21]turkeys run over to its

[2:24]partner that was a

[2:27]relationship between me and that turkey

[2:30]because the second that

[2:32]I I drove near

[2:34]them that turkey and I were engaged

[2:40]and we were present with each other and

[2:44]it caused it to cross the road to go

[2:47]back to its

[2:49]partner which might not have happened if

[2:52]I wasn't there it is kind of like cause

[2:54]and effect but it's deeper than

[2:56]this

[2:58]because I have just influenced the

[3:01]trajectory of that turkey's

[3:03]life there's no way of knowing what that

[3:07]turkey would have done if I had not been

[3:10]there in that moment and I'm always

[3:13]thinking like this the spider that's on

[3:15]my my wheel right now I didn't disturb

[3:18]it it's living there for the night until

[3:20]I leave tomorrow cuz there's no reason

[3:23]to that spider is living its life I

[3:25]don't need to disturb

[3:28]it um

[3:32]um this is why for me ethics are very

[3:36]Central to what my embodied awareness of

[3:38]everything so this extends the time

[3:43]too the past the present and the future

[3:46]are all in relationship to each other

[3:48]you hear me talk about these things like

[3:50]in my last video I talked about how I

[3:53]had noted that um I'd gotten better at

[3:57]navigating campgrounds this is

[4:00]informed by my past it's a relationship

[4:03]with my

[4:05]past um for six months I have grappled

[4:08]with the events of my life in order to

[4:11]better integrate them and understand

[4:13]them as you move through

[4:17]life the past isn't a static thing it's

[4:20]still it's something that

[4:24]you can better understand that you can

[4:27]better you don't have to look look at it

[4:30]one way nothing is really nothing really

[4:32]works that way first of all but the

[4:36]past and your present moment the P you

[4:39]are the past is in relationship with

[4:41]both the present and the future because

[4:42]it's going to influence them just like

[4:44]that turkey moving across the street you

[4:46]understand in the present you have a

[4:49]relationship with the past when you're

[4:51]looking back on your life and saying oh

[4:52]well here's how I've grown or here's how

[4:54]I've changed it's it's nonlinear even

[4:57]though time appears linear it's just a

[4:59]Rel relationship it's a

[5:02]flow everything has a relationship to

[5:05]everything else you are in a

[5:07]relationship with me right now watching

[5:09]this video I'm in a relationship with

[5:11]you recording

[5:14]it that is at the heart of who I am and

[5:18]when you watch my videos this is not a

[5:20]thing I talk about because it is just so

[5:22]intrinsic to who I am and how I just

[5:25]it's more than just how I think it is

[5:27]just it's just how I it's the essence of

[5:30]my being and

[5:33]so I'm watching this turkey cross the

[5:36]street and I think that's just so

[5:38]awesome but I also know I just know that

[5:41]I have influenced the trajectory of its

[5:43]life this is why when I talk about

[5:46]reckless driving I am so frustrated with

[5:49]it because people are not thinking

[5:53]about how their actions influence both

[5:56]themselves and the others around them

[5:57]because you are in a relationship with

[5:59]other

[6:01]drivers when you drive recklessly when

[6:03]you tailgate someone when you speed when

[6:06]you disobey the laws that we have in

[6:08]place because they're there to keep us

[6:11]safe you are just disregarding all kinds

[6:15]of relationships that are

[6:17]important and that is

[6:23]problematic and that is why I say you

[6:28]because this this is also a relationship

[6:31]this is my way

[6:35]of

[6:38]externalizing this is I'm I don't want

[6:40]to try to explain this one because I

[6:41]don't think I I'm capable of it yet um

[6:45]but it's also why I don't like having

[6:47]people around me like there's a RV you

[6:51]know some number of sites down for me in

[6:54]my line of sight they're not even that

[6:55]close like it's for most people wouldn't

[6:57]bother them for me it does because I'm

[6:59]now in relationship with that

[7:02]thing I know that this is hard to

[7:05]understand

[7:07]um in a better aligned World maybe I

[7:10]would not care that that RV was there

[7:12]but that RV represents fragmentation to

[7:18]me it represents an external thing that

[7:21]I'm in relationship with that can affect

[7:24]the internal coherence I have where I am

[7:27]in a state

[7:28]of just perfect peace with

[7:31]myself because now I have to engage with

[7:35]that thing in an unpredictable

[7:39]way it's part of my awareness it's

[7:43]something

[7:47]that I just would rather wasn't in my

[7:49]awareness I'd rather just be in the

[7:51]natural world where I don't have to have

[7:53]to deal with those

[7:57]things but in in a world where more

[8:00]people were like me I bet I wouldn't

[8:02]feel that

[8:03]way and that is why I think I hold out

[8:07]this small hope that maybe my videos

[8:10]will influence some of you because we

[8:14]need a lot more

[8:16]holistic embodied

[8:22]ethical coherence because that's the

[8:25]only thing that's going to make this

[8:26]world

[8:27]better the fragmentation in this world

[8:30]is destroying it it is unsustainable it

[8:33]is falling apart we have taken it too

[8:37]far and you know

[8:40]what me and people like me are the

[8:43]antidote to it

Summary

rswfire shares a fundamental aspect of his being that he describes as seeing everything in terms of relationships between boundaries rather than non-dualistic boundary dissolution. He explains this through examples including his cat rejecting boundaries, turkeys crossing the road in response to his presence, and a spider living on his wheel undisturbed. This relational awareness extends to past, present, and future as interconnected rather than linear. He connects this worldview to his ethical framework and frustration with reckless driving, explaining how people disregard the relationships they're in with other drivers. The presence of other RVs in his campsite creates fragmentation because he's now in relationship with unpredictable external elements. He concludes that holistic, embodied ethical coherence from people like him is needed as an antidote to the world's destructive fragmentation.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes the fundamental relational architecture that governs rswfire's perception and interaction with reality. It declares a non-dualistic but boundary-respecting worldview where everything exists in dynamic relationship, creating an ethical framework that extends across temporal and spatial dimensions.

Dominant Language

relationship/in relationship withboundariesfragmentationembodied awarenesscoherenceinfluence/trajectoryantidote

Symbolic Elements

boundariesspiderturkeyrelationshipflow

Ontological States

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relational
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embodied
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coherent
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ethically-integrated

Subsystems

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cognitive
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ethical
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somatic
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relational

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