Precisely against the backdrop of philosophy's conservatism in our day, its orientation toward the past,
the Netanya School surprises with innovative thought that faces the future. Befitting our era, its style is
fragmentary and reveals the development of thought in the process of writing, yet distances itself from all
esoteric discourse - it is equally distant from the charlatan obscurity that has spread in the Continental
tradition and from the theoretical dryness that has mummified the Analytic tradition. From the totality of
fragments emerges a synthesis between the scientific roots of Analytic philosophy - including significant
influence from mathematics and computer science - and a thinking style that is essentially radically
Continental, as befits a school that grew at the eastern edge of Western culture, in an American satellite
state with European roots - which is a philosophical banana republic.
The First Banana Notebook
The estate of the head of the Netanya School is no less than an amazing collection of ideas in all
fields of knowledge, spirit, science, art - and philosophy. It's hard to believe that one mind is
capable of producing such a wide variety of thoughts, in a grotesque Renaissance composition
particularly marked by the influence of algorithmic complexity theory, but also Jewish thought, art
history, the history of ideas, and the world of science fiction - and scientific fiction. Beyond the
recurring motif of the banana and the ape, one can discern the philosopher's feverishness, who
labored on his armchair 24 hours a day, never uttered a banal sentence in his life, and whose
innovation is literally infinite - like an ever-strengthening spring. In the notebook his thought
unfolds before the reader in abundance, in confidence, in breadth of thought and conciseness alike -
like one of the ancients. If Leonardo had been connected to the internet and never left home
Opening: Instead of a Suicide Note
Fragments from the philosopher's notebook, who tried to commit suicide in his home salon last
summer by choking on bananas, in order to transform from the greatest living Netanyian philosopher
to the greatest Netanyian philosopher period. We stole the notebook during our last visit to the
philosopher's salon while he went to the bathroom, and after Sisyphean deciphering of the
handwriting from among the banana stains we will publish his thought gradually
The Philosopher Discovers America
The finest researchers of the Netanya School labor over deciphering the "Banana Notebooks," and
this time deciphering another page - on the subject of America and the expected Copernican
revolution of artificial intelligence. Will artificial intelligence aspire to see the world not
through human glasses, or conversely, will it adopt man himself as glasses through which the world
is seen? On the philosophical parallel of the discovery of America - similar to the philosophical
parallel of the Copernican revolution
The Physics of Philosophy
Why is there philosophy in the world at all and not just physics? And why will the future computer
be more interested in philosophy than man - and less in physics? Is there a mathematical or physical
limit to scientific-technological progress? And what will happen in the eternal Middle Ages that
will reign after it? Why do historians, archaeologists, and researchers of ancient man tend more to
err in dating toward the present instead of toward the past? Is the sense of historical acceleration
based or based on illusion? Why did Roman organization defeat Greek creativity? And why do cultural
achievements (for example, great thinkers) often come in pairs, despite their rarity (like prime
numbers)?
Homework Notebook
A notebook of lessons that the Netanyian thinker cannot teach at the university, and therefore
taught them in his home salon. These are summaries written by the students of leadership outbursts
by the head of the Netanya School when he is frustrated by the lack of recognition from the
philosophical world outside Netanya - and outside the salon. The summaries deal with diverse topics
such as: intelligence and misogyny, Kant and algorithms, deep connections between theology and
science, political science and learning systems, aesthetics and technology, and more. On one hand,
they contain a mixed multitude of intellectual provocations in the Netanyian stream of
consciousness, and on the other hand, intense and original conservatism emerges from them. A
fundamental concept woven throughout the notebook is learning, which replaces language as the
paradigm at the center of philosophical gravity - in a move whose implications are far-reaching for
the future of philosophy
Why Did Intelligence Stop?
Did the tendency of intelligent men to choose specifically beautiful women lead to a lower speed of
intelligence evolution? Can the history of the Jewish people be explained as the history of creating
a different species, in which natural selection criteria are different and revolve more around
intelligence, and therefore it performs beyond the human, and arouses tremendous hostility? On the
society of Jewish scholars as the first historical attempt at creating super-human intelligence,
from religious motivation to decode the word of God
The Principle of Superiority as Overriding the Principles of Pleasure and Reality
When the secular need for a sense of superiority over the religious clashes with the need for story
- the hand of the need for superiority has the upper hand, not to its benefit. Satire is a type of
story that is a weapon against another story, and therefore those lacking story make excessive use
of it, since there is no way to attack them back. The result is vulnerability to the eruption of
monstrous and anti-religious super-stories, like fascism and communism. On the denial of the
secular-religious dimension of the Holocaust: extreme modern Nazi secularism against the most
ancient religion
An Act of Ugliness
Kahneman's happiness research discovered that aesthetics indeed doesn't affect happiness like other
parameters, but unlike them it affects it long-term - we don't get used to it. We don't get used to
a sea view, unlike winning the lottery, which has no long-term effect on happiness. Aesthetic
culture - very distant from Israel - was an essential part of lifestyle in the ancient world, and
contributed to shaping society long-term more than any law or leader. This is the secret of
classical cultures, which were much more aesthetic cultures than modern ones, which revolve around
ethics
Critique of the Power of Drawing
A hidden connection runs between drawing and mathematics - it's about abstract ability (and even in
the most realistic drawing - the abstraction is to forget what you're drawing and draw what you see:
not to draw a woman but a shape and stain). Therefore they are perceived as masculine subjects, like
philosophy. But actually, these are two opposite directions of abstraction: one analytical and the
other synthetic. Therefore the problem of computer vision is the bottom of the artificial
intelligence problem, while the problem of computer proof is its uppermost part
The Movement of Davka [Specifically/Precisely]
As an alternative to the progress of the history of spirit through antithesis and synthesis,
religious logic advances through two other operators: also and davka [specifically]. Thus
religiosity is expanded to new domains and then established specifically in them. For example, from
a movement that added to religion also the book, Judaism became a movement that sees religion
specifically in the book. From seeing prayer also as intention, and the spread of religious
commandment also into the heart, the conception became specifically as intention - and specifically
as the duty of hearts [reference to medieval Jewish philosophical work "Duties of the Hearts"].
Soon, the entry of religion also into the computer world will become a conception of specifically in
the computer - and there will be the religious domain
The Peak of Individualism
The idea of the individual, that is the indivisible, like the idea of the atom a hundred years ago,
stands before an explosion. The moment forces are released from within the individual, for example
dopamine and different parts of the brain, there can be a completely new motivation of people, and a
new social energy source. Until then, feminism dismantles the molecule of society - the family - and
then the chemical bond itself of coupling. In parallel, population aging will contribute to
dismantling an even more basic chemical bond - parenthood
Biologization of the Inanimate
Which meta-metaphor will replace language in philosophy and in the spiritual world of the 21st
century? On the surface, it seems that technology is the buzzword of the era. But a deeper look will
reveal deeper layers of meaning that are better candidates for standing at the center of the new
conceptual world, such as organicity, learning systems and "evolutions"
The Capitalism of Meaning
No historical direction continues forever but in the end returns in a pendulum movement backward,
and so too the sexual and feminist revolution. A series of phenomena can cause feminism to be
remembered as a historical episode, perhaps even a positive one, but dead. The traditional power
sources of the twentieth century - money and sex - will be emptied of their meaning, while
inequality grows dramatically. The result will be a world where power is meaningfulness, and it is
controlled by a narrow and very masculine technological elite, which alone has meaningful influence
on the world
Against the Direction of the Spikes
The philosophy of science can also be replaced by a theory of learning, which will replace "The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions." On one hand, science is not a certain logical inference,
atemporal, and on the other hand, it is also not a collection of paradigms that cannot be compared.
On the contrary, it is evolutionary development, that is a learning system in time, which goes and
adapts to reality on one hand, and on the other hand goes and rises in its level of complexity.
Mammals are not the paradigm after reptiles, but are built upon them, and it would not have been
possible to skip over them directly from amphibians, and their adaptation to reality is not
arbitrary - but also not tight. All this according to deep learning, where there are many layers to
every paradigm
The Dog Ate the Notebook
Remnants of notes, from what is an enormous loss to philosophy: the dog ate the philosopher's third
notebook, who fell asleep in the armchair after a philosophical bulimia attack, in which he vomited
into the notebook everything he had learned together with banana remains. From among the tears,
researchers of the Netanya School managed to decipher a limited number of passages, but precisely
from their eclecticism a systematic philosophical doctrine is gradually growing, until its
maturation at the end of the notebook, which is the philosopher's last composition. From there the
landscape of the notebook is already seen not as fragments of impressions of a distinguished
intellectual tourist, but as a pilgrimage journey to the peak of a system that raised the future as
its flag - in what is a victory of the spirit of philosophy over the spirit of the dog
The Intellectual Sublime
Philosophy of philosophy, which studies the sublime in philosophy as opposed to the mythical in
religion - in an unsentimental view. Philosophy has accumulated around itself throughout history
many sentiments, and many myths, which hide from us its true way of operation, just as the myth of
the artist hides from us the way of creating art. From love of wisdom philosophy became specifically
fear of wisdom, and accumulated prestige as the highest discipline in the spiritual world, parallel
to mathematics in the natural sciences. What made it so?
The Great Novel of the Next Century
All great literature is built on the collision of motivations and drives (vectors) of people.
Therefore, to know in which conflict the great literature of the generation should engage, one must
understand what are the strongest vectors of the era, and examine how they can collide and what
happens then. Usually it's the rise of a new vector that replaces the old ones and collides with
them forcefully, and preferably in an internal and not just external conflict. Or in a tragic type
of conflict, where human desires and vectors collide with a reality stronger than him, above him
Feed = Intellectual Food. And What About Intellectual Sex?
In the current world, how can cultural works still influence a person deeply, as before the
internet age? Which of the technologies are actually only external form, and which among them are
also content that causes internalization? Why depth, as in sex, is defeated by the repetitiveness of
food. On the spiritual portrait of the Netanya thinker as a parable for the era, for the spirit of
the time - and the matter of time
The Mother of the State
Feminism will win not when a woman rules instead of a man - because the structure will turn her
into a man - but when the structure turns from masculine to feminine - and from domination to
nurturing. The easiest narrative for identification is of a single person, and therefore religions
that told the story of the individual in a concentrated way (Christianity and Islam) had an
advantage over religions that are feminine systems, like Judaism, without a central individual (but
rather a people). But today one must build specifically a narrative of systems, and not of
individuals, in order to succeed in managing in a world of giant systems
Value as Future and Future as Value
A new philosophical theory of morality and aesthetics according to the philosophy of the future,
including appropriate epistemology. From it, one can answer the question what are the two things
most important for a person to bequeath to the future - and why. In this view, what a person
bequeaths to the future has unique value philosophically and even ontologically
The Revolution of Meaning in Urbanism
Toward an architecture of meaning. A proposal for a new agenda for world architecture, which draws
its characteristics from ancient world architecture and poetry - and combines narrative and cultural
content with form. Such a paradigm could replace modernism and post-modernism in architecture, and
then we won't understand why we saw urban alienation, empty formalism and meaningless copying as
decrees of fate
The Future of Love - Between Him and Artificial Her
What if what is perceived as the highest phenomenon in the human world - love - is actually the
most basic phenomenon? When there are two unique systems in the entire biological world - the
question arises whether specifically the unique connection between them is what created them, and
created the human itself. The unique and accelerated evolution of man and intelligence apparently
passed through a mechanism unique to it, which combined the brain and sex into one unity, and caused
unprecedented sexual natural selection regarding intelligence
The Smallest and Largest Meet at the End
Could intelligence have been created in larger orders of magnitude in the universe than ours, or
smaller ones? Indeed, we are trapped between its maximum size determined by the speed of light and
the minimum determined by the uncertainty principle, but why specifically our order of magnitude,
and not others - is there something special about it? And do the theoretical connections between the
world of elementary particles and the entire cosmos teach about a darker connection between the
smallest and largest in our world? One cannot deny the similarities between these two levels: being
composed of enormous emptiness within which tiny spheres of matter in rotational-cyclical movements
and between them forces operate from distances
The Smart 1% Against the 99%
Population culture means genius culture, but despite genius culture complexity also grows and
accelerates, to the extent that it's not clear whether understanding reality is not specifically in
retreat. Toward a medieval stage - where only a few have broad enough education, conceptual ability
and grasp of reality - one must return to medieval methods of governance. The project of the
education and schooling system for all by the state is going bankrupt before our eyes, and without
it democracy is a disaster
The New Anti-Semitism
A new class division is rising in the information age. Until now, every intensification of
education for the masses was accompanied by a smarter society overall, but as the democratic and
individualistic propaganda of the media flatters more the average person, his wisdom, his
understanding, his talent and his rights - so rise the arrogance and hubris of the public, to the
point of cultural catastrophe. Only a new class division within society will stop the barbarism
The New Wealth of Nations
If we look at nations from a computational point of view, we'll discover that their power stems
from weighting between human processors, non-human ones, and organizing the form of connection
between them - to a kind of general effective computational power of the state, instead of GDP. In
contrast, if we look at cultures according to the size of their effective cultural memory, we'll
discover that their wealth and importance can be measured through this simple external parameter.
Cultures and states that internalize this insight will understand that it's hard to change their
resources - but relatively easy to move to more effective algorithms, which will give them a
significant relative advantage, considering the primitiveness of the social algorithms that haven't
internalized anything from the sophisticated algorithmic knowledge that has accumulated in the last
half century
On the Non-Use of Mathematics in Public Policy
Mathematics still has enormous potential for uses in a variety of disciplines and fields that have
remained mathematically illiterate, including the public sector. Ultimately, its demands for
feedback for optimization will cause the implementation of learning processes in institutions that
currently operate arbitrarily and full of biases. The claim that not every result can be measured is
based on primitive measurement methods, which higher mathematical knowledge would allow to replace,
and certainly would lead to more stringent examination of policy that is currently based mainly on
gut feelings
Enough with the Sourpusses
Does culture serve the rich person, or is he - trapped within the capitalist wealth ethos and
therefore creating economic activity like a donkey and financing society - the one being exploited?
As part of the exhaustion and turn of philosophy against individualism, a concept will arise that
will replace the single person in terms of value and focus of interest. The day is near when the
value of the individual will be understood only as serving culture, and therefore death will no
longer be perceived as a problem, but only as creative sterility and cultural damage. The Holocaust
will no longer be perceived as the holocaust of individuals, and the holocaust of culture will be
perceived as the center of the crime
The Explosion of Sexual Knowledge
It's not pornography that is the greatest influence on sexuality today - but specifically the
sexual education that is growing and spreading in the population, when knowledge that was once
esoteric becomes a common asset and basic knowledge. The period of sexual education and
enlightenment, together with scientific innovations that only recently began massive research of
sexuality, is the arrival with delay of enlightenment into the darkest, most secret and private
human domain. It is expected to have a similar effect - in raising the level of human pleasure and
sexual happiness, while extinguishing the medieval sexual heritage - for better and worse (loss of
charm and mystery). This is good news for marriage and coupling - and for the human species
The Name is One
Contrary to current research, which sees the Bible as a kind of testimony to power struggles whose
blurring didn't succeed, in imitation of Foucauldian thought, one should extract historical insights
from the Bible specifically through ars poetica thinking that gives enormous credit to the writers
and their aesthetic tendencies. The question that should be asked is how the unique biblical
aesthetics grew and why specifically in Judah and Israel. And then the answer is obvious: this is a
necessary aesthetic result of iconoclastic monotheism, where the physical worship of God and the
popular religious emotion around it were replaced inevitably with textual work around the word of
God, which created great literature, into which the best popular religious emotion was invested.
Because behind great literature stands enormous cultural effort - and not conspiracy
The Indians of the Future
What is common between Indians and Jews, which caused these two traditional and fractured cultures
to choose democracy as default? The powers of the 19th century, led by Britain, made an enormous
mistake by not conquering China and creating colonialism there - and we are paying for the results
of this mistake today. In retrospect, British colonialism was the most successful of all, and
therefore one should recreate an alliance built on the greatest empire ever, which succeeded in
creating more stable democracies than any other empire
The Tragedy of Philosophy
There can be two main aesthetic tastes in the form of philosophical writing: philosophy that
reveals its source and its way of thinking and follows the beginning of the development of ideas,
and philosophy that presents ideas in their most refined, aesthetic and complete form - and evokes
wonder. The second taste teaches less how to do philosophy, and it contradicts the principles of the
philosophy of learning, but it teaches philosophy itself better, and evokes a sense of sublimity for
philosophy and the height of its ideas - because it throws away the ladder. But there is also a
third and tragic form of philosophical writing: when philosophical work does not reach completion,
and evokes sorrow for the spiritual loss, but also opens a door for continuation
Philosophy of Mathematics of the Future
The philosophy of mathematics, in its aspiration for supra-temporal eternity like its object, does
not take into account developments in physics as changing fundamental conceptions of mathematics.
Were it not for its success in the sciences - which is most strange according to the current
scientific picture (meaning this picture is probably incorrect) - the entire conception of
mathematics would be different, as chess is perceived, namely as arbitrary and not as eternal truth
at the foundation of the universe. Mathematics can be conceived as a type of physical experiment
that reveals basic low-level physical truth that is also expressed at the high level of thought,
namely a physical law that is not limited to a certain lateral order of magnitude in the universe
but crosses vertically through all orders of magnitude in the universe, and is therefore accessible
to us also at the level of thought, which enables doing a physical experiment in the brain at the
level of elementary particles and thus penetrating the secrets of the universe
The Future of Israel
What is strategy in the eyes of the philosophy of the future? Analysis of the learning capabilities
of a system, versus rivals. That is, we are not dealing with future content (a problematic concept)
but with future form - not the specific goals are examined in strategy, but the methodology. So the
examination does not revolve around data, or even trends and directions, but around learning
algorithms that operate in the system. Demonstration of algorithmic thinking about Israel
If Morality is Dead - Is Everything Permitted?
Demonstration of the philosophy of learning applied to the field of morality. Unlike the philosophy
of the future, which would examine a moral act according to future judgment toward it, the
philosophy of morality claims that there is no such thing as future judgment (when? in a thousand
years? a million? after all, even in the future judgment will change and reverse again and again) as
an object to which one can aspire (asymptotically). On the contrary, one must understand morality as
a system of learning in the present, in which we have no future pretension (to reach a limit),
except aspiration to advance (in the current derivative). In fact, ontologically, the future itself
will be defined as the direction of learning's progress, which emerges and is created from within
learning as a byproduct, and not as an imaginary metaphysical object placed somewhere on a timeline
that does not currently exist
On the Principle of Self-Repetition
Why do thinkers repeat themselves? Why is what is a literary flaw not at all a philosophical flaw?
If one understands learning as evolution and not as learning that reaches a certain conclusion, then
philosophy itself is a learning system, in which every philosopher is another stage in learning, or
another direction for an evolutionary branch. And unlike a linear story, in evolution there is
crucial importance to copying, and in learning there is enormous importance to repetitions - to
internalizing the idea and learning to use it, making it into a tool, and finally into part of you.
That is, ideas undergo a technological process, in which the tool becomes part of the person
The Network of Interest
The tourism site deteriorates into a collection of shooting angles, and into a ritual of
reproducing canonical photographs, namely into a Facebook feed, and therefore receives a similar
spiritual structure. Tourism is always an intensification of reality, and therefore one can use it
as a seismograph for trends that later take over reality, and on the other hand propose alternatives
in it. Thus for example, travel in the past was much more prolonged and included also an inner
journey, sometimes with a religious or spiritual component that was not strongly anchored in
material but in the spirit and culture of the traveler. Therefore not all journeys were
"performances" of the same tourist route, when like in a concert the tourist or traveler is measured
by "performance". In contrast, the traveler is a listener - and precisely because of this also a
composer
The Human Genius
The philosophy of the future is actually proven in practice. Almost never do we recognize the
greatness of the great in present time, and in contrast we are amazed at people of the past who did
not recognize the greatness of the great in their days. That is - it is actually impossible to see
and distinguish the great in real time, because they are truly not great from the perspective of the
present, but only from that of the future. Therefore only the future can judge greatness. And thus
also the understanding of who is foolish and who is wise crystallizes only in the future, because it
is determined according to results, and the wise cannot know that he is wise and the fool cannot
know that he is fool and the great cannot know that he is great. Therefore, wisdom and foolishness
and greatness are not knowledge or awareness in the present, but seeing the future
What is Philosophy of Learning?
Philosophical learning, like any tree search, can be didactic and orderly, but also greedy and
working on the principle of demonstration. When dealing with an unordered tree - there is an
advantage to philosophical learning of the type presented in these notebooks. Like in evolution, it
includes a component of random mutation, which suits searching in a space with infinite dimensions.
In the end, philosophy is a form of thinking, or more precisely a form of learning, and the
notebooks demonstrate a form of thinking and learning. Happy is the person who will learn it - and
will not continue it, but will continue to learn
Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy
Summary of trends in the Netanya School. Following the glorious philosophical tradition of those
who were not understood at all in their lives - the founder philosopher establishes a new tradition
of those who were not read at all. Prolegomena as summary - this is a fitting end to the work of a
school that dealt with the future. In the best tradition of the compressed style of the school,
whose single book contains material equivalent in value to a thousand non-fiction books, and which
condenses the waste of time that is philosophical jargon (which broke negative records in the
twentieth century, in a trend shared by both the analytic and continental traditions), the Netanyite
compresses his entire doctrine into a short article. And the rest go and learn
Friday: Philosophical Dreams
Method of philosophy as system and not as collection of doctrines | Technology, language,
intelligence, consciousness - as evolution of learning itself | The evolution of learning is the
evolution of man | Learning of the highest order - as definition of philosophy | On the unreasonable
effectiveness of physics and nature in mathematics | The third rule of learning | The fourth rule of
learning | Application of the fourth rule to mathematics as way to solve impossibility questions |
Philosophy of mathematics as learning | Philosophy of science as learning: instead of paradigms -
the second rule of learning ("within the system") | The connection between learning and the Jewish
concept of "covenant" | The contribution of historicization of the system to learning, as
continuation of Hegel and Nietzschean genealogy | Future directions for philosophy of learning |
What was before learning in philosophy? - brief history of learning | Why did we come to the world?
- to learn
Essay on the Fermi Paradox
The problem of empty skies - like a kind of inversion of God's existence - evokes terror in every
reasonable person, and received brilliant formulation in the "Fermi Paradox" (about which there is
an excellent and sleep-disturbing entry in the world Wikipedia). On its face this is a
probabilistic-scientific problem, but in its depth this is a philosophical problem of exceptional
order of magnitude, which forces philosophy to return to its source as cradle of physical and
biological science - and creates an exceptional perspective in its distance on man (on the border of
the inhuman). If our point of view on the universe is completely unreasonable (statistically!), how
do we appear from the heavens - from the point of view of the universe?
Confucius of the Future
"Jewish Confucius" - or "Proto-Netanyite" - are the nicknames of an anonymous thinker from before
the beginning of the Netanya School, who was perhaps the teacher or initial inspiration of the most
important philosopher in Netanya, who later disowned him - when he turned from Eastern thought to
Western thought. Very little was preserved from Proto-Netanyite thought, which remained partly
sealed and signed for a generation that will discover it in the future, but some of the teacher's
ideas precede the student's ideas - and particularly the philosophy of learning and the future. From
the fragments that remained it appears that this was a kind of mystical group that existed in
ancient Netanya around a charismatic teacher - and sexually ill. The thought is arranged in two
condensed files, one of the teacher and the second of the student, and it was found in the
Netanyite's house after his suicide, and was apparently his favorite reading material in the
bathroom, but he denied any connection to it in his life, and claimed he never read it and was not
influenced by it at all
Essay on Learning
Brief presentation of the philosophy of learning - as heir to the philosophy of language. Why is
learning a paradigm? And why is learning not only a paradigm and not mainly a paradigm, and actually
presents a radical alternative perpendicular to paradigmatic thought, and replaces it with learning
thought? On the difference between a scholar and a lover of wisdom, which is like the gap between
Talmud and philosophy. This paradigmatic gap indeed founded philosophy as the field of wisdom, but
inclined it far from "learninghood," when only today is the synthesis between wisdom and learning
made possible
Essay on the Four Postulates of Learning
Learning is the future: a very short essay that analyzes learning into its components and gives
them signs - according to the four rules developed in the concluding Netanyite seminar. The essay
before us parallels them to the four main branches in philosophy, which receive a learning version:
philosophy of language is replaced by philosophy of learning, ethics is transformed to ethics of
learning, epistemology is formulated as learning epistemology and aesthetics as learning aesthetics.
This is how it's done: learning about learning
On the Learning Consultant
On the profession of the 21st century, which will combine treatment of the individual
(psychologist) and treatment of the organization (consultant) and treatment of the system (manager)
- because the individual and the organization will both be understood as a system. With the spread
of the learning revolution, we will discover that we are all learning-consultants, half necessary
and half superfluous, because the half state is the consultative state - and the learning state.
Advice is direction - not instruction, and not just possibility, but an intermediate state between
possibility and instruction. This unique logical state, between the possible and the necessary,
dwells in the space between language and programming, that is in the space where learning takes
place