Students

A student adds that the anti-Purgatory souls are visibly happy, which Jiang accepts as part of the contrast with hell.

A student says memory depends on time and space, and another says it also depends on emotion.

He says teaching is one of his strongest experiences of connection to the Monad because he can feel students learning and being edified in real time.

He argues that game analysis must rank player power because not all players matter equally; in schools, students may be the majority yet their actual wants matter little.

He says students are in school mainly to please parents and teachers because parents pay for life and teachers give grades; learning is not the actual priority in the game.

He says students also play multiple games: doing well in school, friendship/popularity, and pleasing parents; in his ranking, pleasing parents comes first, friendship second, and actual learning last.

Asked what he would do as a 12th grader, Jiang says university is now a rip-off because students pay administrators rather than professors; he would focus on self-education and real skills.

Jiang acknowledges the traditional explanation that Aristotle wrote his own books, the books were lost, and students later reassembled his thought from memory, while stressing that no original Aristotelian writing survives.