The world in here, the world out there

In life you navigate two worlds.

In the world out there, your weapon is reason. This world is made of systems. The better you understand a system, the better you can predict it, control it.

In the world in here, your weapon is empathy. This world is made of people. The better you understand a person... TODO

In the world out there, you communicate in order to transmit information. Communication is a tool, a means toward the cooperative end of common understanding of some underlying truth.

In the world in here, the way you transmit information is almost more important than what you say, because communication is the game itself. What you say doesn't matter so much as what, what you say, says, about what you're thinking.

In the world out there, you can find abundance.

In the world in here, you can find love.

The world out there is that of physical reality.

The world in here is that of social reality. It only exists in people's minds.

Both worlds lay claim to each other's sovereignty.

After all, what is a mind but a brain? What is a brain but an organ, made of neurons, cells, and molecules? The world in here is but a detail in the world out there. Down this path leads rationality, whose adherents seem universally to have a lot of trouble with dating.

And yet, why do we care about anything at all? All our perception, all our reality, is meaningful only because it is filtered through our brain. The whole world is, in some sense, the world in here. Down this path leads rs_x, whose adherents seem universally to have a lot of trouble keeping a job.

The world in here is like organic chemistry, a subfield of reality that has gained such immense importance that it eclipses the rest of the entire field.