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So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to themselves. He speaks the truth. Speaks truth. Okay? Because for most of..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "He extends the answer into moral causality through Achilles: Achilles wants Agamemnon's apology, remains trapped by that refusal, and Jiang says Achilles effectively sacrifices Patroclus in order to return to battle. This lets Jiang formulate prophetic truth as both prediction and moral judgment: if you do evil onto others, evil must come onto you.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang answer continuing from the prior segment.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1969.04, "end": 2039.46, "time_label": "32:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the story of Achilles, right? Where Achilles, he's stuck in this situation. He wants Agamemnon to apologize so that he can go fight the Trojans. Agamemnon refuses to apologize. So Achilles, what does he do? Wel..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang returns from the prophet question to Homer as poet-teacher. 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Bye." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "speaker_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "note": "The focus span is continuous lecture exposition; SPEAKER_00 should be treated as Jiang for semantic purposes.", "suggested_speaker": "Jiang", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0, "end": 93.235, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for you guys about Achilles. The first question is, imagine yourself as Achilles. 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It helps your imagination peer deeply into your own human heart and see how complicated, how complex, how dark..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0004", "segment_id": "seg-0004", "start": 232.47, "end": 313.79, "time_label": "3:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "allows you to think much more deeply into yourself, as well as more imaginatively understand the world around you. Okay? So now the question then is, how does this happen? What are the mechanisms behind all this? Okay,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 963.58, "end": 1041.59, "time_label": "16:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? They do that, every single Greek will be killed by the Trojans. And even at this point in time. Both Agamemnon and Achilles refuses to give up their narrative. Okay? They insist they're right. 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Now what I want to discuss is, okay, how did Homer do this? Because this is a great mystery that has confused scholars for centuries. We all know the..." } ] }, { "term": "Homer's universe", "usages": [ "The imaginative and cultural world created by Homer that later Greek thinkers, including Plato, Thucydides, and Aeschylus, operate within and adapt." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 2108.133, "end": 2182.72, "time_label": "35:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because not only are you able to imagine, but you're able to imagine with other people as well. So if you look at Greek culture, whether it's Plato, whether it's Thucydides, whether it's Aeschylus. Okay? This is the gre..." } ] }, { "term": "Human heart", "usages": [ "Jiang's phrase for the interior field a great book reveals: complicated, complex, dark, and marked by bundled opposites such as arrogance and insecurity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0003" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0, "end": 93.235, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for you guys about Achilles. The first question is, imagine yourself as Achilles. How are you simil..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 161.67, "end": 232.47, "time_label": "2:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the entire point of this exercise is to show you that what a great book does is excite your imagination. It helps your imagination peer deeply into your own human heart and see how complicated, how complex, how dark..." } ] }, { "term": "Identity", "usages": [ "The self produced by combinations of emotionally indexed memories." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1110.09, "end": 1213.35, "time_label": "18:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. All right. So to understand this, let's discuss how identity, how personality, how personality, how personality how consciousness is created. Okay? So basically what happens is that we have experiences. Okay? And..." } ] }, { "term": "imprint in the universe", "usages": [ "The unique pattern created when a person's emotions implant themselves across wavelengths or dimensions of universal consciousness." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0022" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1584.18, "end": 1654.2, "time_label": "26:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But if you assume that the human brain is merely an antenna to the universal consciousness, it makes a lot more sense. Okay? And not only that, but by imagination, by consciousness, we're able to implant ourselves into..." } ] }, { "term": "literary prediction", "usages": [ "The idea that in literature prediction and truth are the same because true speech participates in eternal truth, where past, present, and future converge." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0031" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 2108.133, "end": 2182.72, "time_label": "35:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because not only are you able to imagine, but you're able to imagine with other people as well. So if you look at Greek culture, whether it's Plato, whether it's Thucydides, whether it's Aeschylus. Okay? This is the gre..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2182.72, "end": 2201.87, "time_label": "36:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That's what truth is. Truth is a tool. It's eternal. Past, present, and future collide together. They converge on truth. All right. Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So we have up to book 16 for Friday. Okay? Bye." } ] }, { "term": "Lose face", "usages": [ "The public status loss Agamemnon fears after Achilles challenges him; Jiang treats it as dangerous in a violent honor hierarchy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0007" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 477.65, "end": 544.09, "time_label": "7:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? The first and most important thing is that he's responding to Achilles. Okay? Achilles says, you have to give the girl back. And Agamemnon says, fine, I'll give the girl back. But in return, I want your girl. So t..." } ] }, { "term": "Memories are emotions", "usages": [ "Jiang's compact formula for identity formation: memories that create emotion help make the self, while emotionally empty experiences are not retained." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1110.09, "end": 1213.35, "time_label": "18:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. All right. So to understand this, let's discuss how identity, how personality, how personality, how personality how consciousness is created. Okay? So basically what happens is that we have experiences. Okay? And..." } ] }, { "term": "moral truth", "usages": [ "A truth whose predictive force is moral consequence, exemplified by the claim that evil done to others returns to the doer." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1895.61, "end": 1968.36, "time_label": "31:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to themselves. He speaks the truth. Speaks truth. Okay? Because for most of..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1969.04, "end": 2039.46, "time_label": "32:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the story of Achilles, right? Where Achilles, he's stuck in this situation. He wants Agamemnon to apologize so that he can go fight the Trojans. Agamemnon refuses to apologize. So Achilles, what does he do? Wel..." } ] }, { "term": "personality filter", "usages": [ "The emotional disposition, such as optimism or pessimism, that shapes how a person perceives the world." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1292.1, "end": 1347.8, "time_label": "21:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So you might get a 50 on a test. Some of you will be really sad, but some of you will be like really happy. Like, well, I thought I was going to get 10%. Now I got 50%. Okay? All right. Some of you are like glass..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1433.955, "end": 1513.86, "time_label": "23:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us understand how we're able to perceive the emotions of others. Now, you can say, well..." } ] }, { "term": "poet-prophet-teacher", "usages": [ "Jiang's merged ancient function for figures like Homer: accessing universal truth, transmitting it in words, and constructing civilization.", "A combined historical function in which the poet speaks beautiful truth, the prophet speaks eternal truth, and the teacher helps listeners understand themselves through that truth." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1654.28, "end": 1721.36, "time_label": "27:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? If you're a good person, you have a certain look to your face. Okay? If you're clever, you have a certain look. Okay? So archetypes. Okay? And so what's happening is that what Homer is doing is that he's opened h..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1724.91, "end": 1809.778, "time_label": "28:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we think this is true. Why? Because think about how amazing it is th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1969.04, "end": 2039.46, "time_label": "32:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the story of Achilles, right? Where Achilles, he's stuck in this situation. He wants Agamemnon to apologize so that he can go fight the Trojans. Agamemnon refuses to apologize. So Achilles, what does he do? Wel..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 2040.06, "end": 2108.133, "time_label": "34:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no writing going on. So what he's doing is he's going to different places and he's..." } ] }, { "term": "Predictive coherence", "usages": [ "The quality of a literary world that lets readers infer causes from the past and anticipate future behavior because character motives are coherent." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0013" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 901.33, "end": 963.42, "time_label": "15:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And the reason why we know this is that if this is true, then we're able to understand what's going on. We're able to look back at how this came into being, the past, and we're also able to make predictions about..." } ] }, { "term": "Pride and vulnerability", "usages": [ "A student's phrase that Jiang uses as an entry point into Achilles as mirror and into the paired structure of arrogance and insecurity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0, "end": 93.235, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for you guys about Achilles. The first question is, imagine yourself as Achilles. 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Wel..." } ] }, { "term": "Real character", "usages": [ "A character whose speech and behavior are coherent, responsive, emotionally grounded, and embedded in a world where other characters also have inner lives." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0012" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 620.86, "end": 680.81, "time_label": "10:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? That what he's doing has a rationale. And the rationale is because I loved her. Because you're stealing from me my greatest love. I love her more than my own wife, Claude Mestre. Okay? So you can see how coherent..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 818.14, "end": 900.15, "time_label": "13:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "speak, okay, and I'm measuring and observing the effect of my words, but I'm also able to go into your mind one by one and think about how my words are changing your reality. How they're impacting your emotions, how the..." } ] }, { "term": "shared imagination", "usages": [ "The capacity to imagine with other people, produced through poetry and self-understanding, that Jiang treats as a condition for civilization." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 2040.06, "end": 2108.133, "time_label": "34:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no writing going on. So what he's doing is he's going to different places and he's..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 2108.133, "end": 2182.72, "time_label": "35:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because not only are you able to imagine, but you're able to imagine with other people as well. So if you look at Greek culture, whether it's Plato, whether it's Thucydides, whether it's Aeschylus. Okay? This is the gre..." } ] }, { "term": "sorting mechanism", "usages": [ "The unexplained mechanism by which the same experience is indexed into different emotions by different people." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1213.63, "end": 1291.72, "time_label": "20:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So your identity in a school will be different from your identity at home or your identity when you go to America. Okay? Because you need different identities to navigate different landscapes. Okay? Does that make..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1292.1, "end": 1347.8, "time_label": "21:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So you might get a 50 on a test. 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Because think about how amazing it is th..." } ] }, { "term": "Suicidal narrative commitment", "usages": [ "A condition where actors cling to their account of themselves and others even when doing so risks collective destruction." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0014" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 901.33, "end": 963.42, "time_label": "15:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And the reason why we know this is that if this is true, then we're able to understand what's going on. 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This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us understand how we're able to perceive the emotions of others. Now, you can say, well..." } ] }, { "term": "Top boss", "usages": [ "Jiang's colloquial phrase for Agamemnon's status claim: the War Council must still understand him as superior after Achilles' challenge." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 544.09, "end": 620.56, "time_label": "9:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "In order to save face, I must now demand something from Achilles to show that I am his superior. Okay? He's so conscious of that as well. But also, at the same time, he's going to step back. Okay? And he's going to be c..." } ] }, { "term": "truth", "usages": [ "The universe or God understood beyond space and time; an eternal tool where past, present, and future converge." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0031" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1895.61, "end": 1968.36, "time_label": "31:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to themselves. He speaks the truth. Speaks truth. Okay? Because for most of..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2182.72, "end": 2201.87, "time_label": "36:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That's what truth is. Truth is a tool. It's eternal. Past, present, and future collide together. They converge on truth. All right. Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So we have up to book 16 for Friday. Okay? Bye." } ] }, { "term": "two selves", "usages": [ "Jiang's model in which the human being consists of a material, evolutionary body and a consciousness derived from interaction with the universe." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1433.955, "end": 1513.86, "time_label": "23:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us understand how we're able to perceive the emotions of others. 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So any questions before I move on about this? Okay. Now what I want to discuss is, okay, how did Homer do this? Because this is a great mystery that has confused scholars for centuries. We all know the..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "note": "The identity model is presented as Jiang's speculative explanatory model in this lecture; the focus span does not yet provide the full argument for why this solves the Homer problem.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1110.09, "end": 1213.35, "time_label": "18:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. All right. So to understand this, let's discuss how identity, how personality, how personality, how personality how consciousness is created. Okay? So basically what happens is that we have experiences. Okay? 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