My current thought is that the most useful skill is the ability to adapt to change. Change is a most fundamental nature of this world. When we suiffer, it's usually in some part because of a failure adapt to change. We got to where we are as humans because we adapted. — Yohan
Here I agree it's context dependent or not answerable.Are you essentially arguing that non-attachment is the overarching skill here; or resilience? — Tom Storm
Well, it seems like you adapt naturally so you don't have to contemplate all that it involves.Is adapting to change different to accepting change? What do you consider to be a change requiring an adaptive shift? — Tom Storm
most useful skill — Yohan
Seeing indeed involves a range of other skills. Think about how complex the brain is. You can't see without consciousness. To have consciousness the brain needs to have the skill of self organization , self management etc.
You also have to have the skill of receiving the light Into eye, skill of eye sending information to the brain, and then brain translating or making sense of the information...(rogh estimate abouthow seeing works, I don't know) — Yohan
Seriously?Adaptive ability doesn't quite cut it because it fails Kant's maxim. What if everyone adapated (to each other)? I would adapt to you and you would adapt to me but that doesn't make sense because if I adapt to you, you wouldn't need to adapt to me and vice versa. — TheMadFool
How does everything supervene on thinking?Thinking well. Given everythjng else supervenes on this one skill, it would stand us in good stead if each and everyone of us honed it to perfection, if possible of course. — TheMadFool
Not skills so much as the body doing its thing. I see a skill as something a human being can acquire or not. Being able to see in a particular way may be a skill. Being able to see in itself, not so much. — Tom Storm
Humans mistake thought for reality.
That's why there are all these ideologies. That's why people go to wars. That's why people do so much harm to make money. That's why people believe lies. — Yohan
You got me thinking very basic.
I think now as the most useful skills:
Being, awareness, action, and relating. — Yohan
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