I think maybe it's good or important to give yourself opportunities to stare very far away at things well beyond your grasp.
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Idk. Maybe it's like "if a medieval project rho had planned for colonizing a Lagrange point, maybe we'd be there by now."
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"Well beyond your grasp" can change. Or maybe it's about the opposite, grokking your limits.
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Or "Staring unthinkingly at things is something we do enough that maybe it has an emotive/cognitive purpose, who knows"
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Or maybe it's about far construal mode being like sacredness-perception.
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Or maybe staring at things and letting your emotions come to conclusions about the thing helps to form memories of the thing
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One example of many I'm thinking of here is Obama pausing to look back over the crowd after his second inauguration ceremony
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"I shall not pass this way again", "The time will never come back to us". Maybe it's about mortality salience.
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Maybe staring at things is like a conceptual but non-linguistic version of prayer, keeping bad parts of your mind occupied
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maybe staring at things is the noun phrase of vision
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