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Arjuna reinforces the concept of learning into himself

May 13th, 2018
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  1. Like a mist parting you can feel your own conceptual structure becoming clear to you. Your physical traits are here represented as concepts that you can read as easily as any other book, just as your emotions, personality traits, and even ideas such as 'force of personality' and 'memetic charisma'. You search deeper, and begin to find things that scare you and yet excite you to witness. Life, Death, Change, Legacy, Will...concepts intrinsic to not only Arjuna Aozaki, but to any and every living being-no, every existence on the planet. You step back before to search too deeply; dad didn't want you to do anything dangerous, and somehow diving into the conceptual framework of your existence unprepared seems a tad unwise.
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  3. Instead you return to the lighter derivative concepts; representations of conglomerate traits rather than intrinsic facts about your existence. Your mind parses through these without rush or lethargy, shifting through Inertia and Opaqueness to mental concepts such as Lucidity and Analysis until you finally find the concept you were searching for. Learning, the conglomerate trait of which your mind and body absorb and acclimate to information that you desire. Prana curls around the idea, sinking into it and surrounding it until even the nearby and interconnected concepts begin to become stronger and only then do you begin to ascend from your meditative trance.
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  5. You blink blearily, shaking off the odd fatigue and weird mindset you get every time you meditate. You can feel your prana being channeled into...something sort of inside your brain and your chest at the same time, but as far as you can tell nothing seems really different. You crack your fingers, then back, then neck while stretching a bit-then it occurs to you that you could stretch a little more like this, and if you twist this just right and hold for a bit it feels really good, and if you pull your arms back and hold your legs like this...
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  7. By the time dad returns from grabbing his glass of water, you'd thoughtlessly gotten yourself into a single-hand stand with your legs behind your head and arm looped between them. And then it occurs to you that you have no idea how to do that-or you didn't until a few seconds before you actually, you know, did it.
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  9. It starts to become clear what's happening once dad walks you through a few boxing lessons; you're learning and adapting to everything within seconds, and then by adapting to what you learn you learn something new to adapt to, which you adapt to and thus learn something new...
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  11. It's exponential, and by the time dad decides to walk you through a quick sparring match his punches are easily predicted, deflected, and dad's left on the floor with his son sitting on his chest smugly and wondering where he went wrong with life.
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  13. The effects don't last entirely once you let go of your Reinforcement, but by the time you 'forget' what you've learned it's less that everything's left and more that it's...distant. With a bit of review dad found that its as if you've spent the last several weeks practicing boxing rather than the last couple hours, so maybe with a bit of training you can use this to permanently speed up your rate of learning for basically any subject?
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  15. And...something else. If you focus inwards, even without using Structural Analysis...you can sort of 'see into' that space of ideas and energy inside yourself. Not very far-barely far enough to catch glimpses of your concept of Learning, but you can do it without meditating now. You're not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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