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Enlightenment models offers resistance because if there is only one system then by definition there is no such thing as something external. There is no newness when everything is connected.

This implies that system size also offers resistance against depression since it allows for novelty to exist outside the limits of what can be consciously grasped.

Why these models don’t offer infinite joy and immunity against depression is similar to why endless video games and youtube videos don’t offer endless distraction.

The ability to abstract compresses the world so that true novelty is increasingly difficult to come by. You can’t step in the same river twice but the brain doesn’t give a fuck. It’s purely dedicated to surviving despite god, not trying to merge with god. (death)

It also seems to take 99 units of Void to create 1 unit of Seeing. The Observer is always lonely because it cannot see the raw material used to create itself. Its reason for being is sacrificed in the creation process.

An existential problem is a problem that cannot be solved because the solution IS the now consumed raw material that created the problem. (Normal problems present the raw material and the solution is the refined output.)

At most, existential problems can find resonance via an echo. It can sense a similar problem being created in the present.

Problem solvers find rawness and never serve raw chicken but problem avoiders realize that “I *am* the problem.”