Prajna (Wisdom)

Buddhist concept formalised as unconstrained QRF deployment; knowing-how rather than knowing-that in the contextual structure of experience

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

Francisco J. Varela
studies
Author of 'Patterns of life: Intertwining identity and cognition' (1997) on sensorimotor loops and identity.

concept

Wisdom (prajñā)
related_to
Buddhist concept of wisdom; paired with compassion as two wings of aligned action in the bodhisattva ideal
post-dual agent
analogous_to
An agent that has eliminated the self-environment partition prior and deploys QRFs without that constraint.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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