Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my work. I very much appreciate it.
You are correct that Autognosis is designed as an individual practice. The intention is to primarily educate the practitioner on instinct literacy to enable cognitive and intentional response to stimuli. This goal was developed from the observation that human beings largely operate on limbic autopilot- wholesale automatic reaction to instincts.
Autognosis does not prescribe predetermined prosocial models or behavioral expectations. It is left to the individual to author their own morality and ethics. These choices will inevitably be shaped by social forces, but the premise is that if enough individuals consciously engage with their instinctual signals, then society itself will shift. Structures would no longer rest on unexamined biological drives, but on thoughtful, self-aware, and ethically grounded principles.
I found the Amish example interesting, though I see it differently. Their culture seems to suppress instincts through external authority and fear of religious consequences, rather than through self-authorship. Autognosis takes the opposite approach: it emphasizes individual literacy and intentional choice. While social structures will always shape behavior, the goal is not conformity to inherited beliefs, but conscious authorship of values in dialogue with society.
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my work. I very much appreciate it.
You are correct that Autognosis is designed as an individual practice. The intention is to primarily educate the practitioner on instinct literacy to enable cognitive and intentional response to stimuli. This goal was developed from the observation that human beings largely operate on limbic autopilot- wholesale automatic reaction to instincts.
Autognosis does not prescribe predetermined prosocial models or behavioral expectations. It is left to the individual to author their own morality and ethics. These choices will inevitably be shaped by social forces, but the premise is that if enough individuals consciously engage with their instinctual signals, then society itself will shift. Structures would no longer rest on unexamined biological drives, but on thoughtful, self-aware, and ethically grounded principles.
I found the Amish example interesting, though I see it differently. Their culture seems to suppress instincts through external authority and fear of religious consequences, rather than through self-authorship. Autognosis takes the opposite approach: it emphasizes individual literacy and intentional choice. While social structures will always shape behavior, the goal is not conformity to inherited beliefs, but conscious authorship of values in dialogue with society.
Thank you again for your time and commentary.