"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second layer of the discipline of speed, fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because things in the mind do not have true inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in full detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks - myself, visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute, or yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound - then we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because they don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly.  I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly."

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."

"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second layer of the discipline of speed, fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because mental qualities do not have intrinsic simple inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in full detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks - myself, visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute, or yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound - then we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because mental facts don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly."

"I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly."

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."

"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second layer of the discipline of speed, fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because mental qualities do not have intrinsic simple inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks - myself, visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute, or yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound - then we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because mental facts don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly."

"I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly."

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."

"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second discipline of speed, which is fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because mental qualities do not have intrinsic simple inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks - myself, visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute, or yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound - then we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because mental facts don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly."

"I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly."

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."

"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second discipline of speed, which is fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because mental qualities do not have intrinsic simple inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks, and then just be that.  For myself, that'd be visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute.  For yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, it'd be visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound.  Maybe we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because mental facts don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly."

"I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly."

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."

"Ha.  No, that's not what it means in dath ilan at all.  It's the second discipline of speed, which is fourteenth of the twenty-seven virtues, reflecting a shard of the Law of Probability that I'll no doubt end up explaining later but I'm not trying it here without a whiteboard."

"As a human discipline, 'If you know your destination you are already there' is a self-fulfilling prediction about yourself, that if you can guess what you're going to realize later, you have already realized it now.  The idea in this case would be something like, because mental qualities do not have intrinsic simple inertia in the way that physical objects have inertia, there is the possibility that if we had sufficiently mastered the second layer of the virtue of speed, we would be able to visualize in detail what it would be like to have recovered from our mental shocks, and then just be that.  For myself, that'd be visualizing where I'll already be in half a minute.  For yourself, though this would be admittedly harder, it'd be visualizing what it would be like to have recovered from the Worldwound.  Maybe we could just immediately rearrange our minds like that, because mental facts don't have the same kinds of inertia as physical objects, especially if we believe about ourselves that we can move that quickly."

"I, of course, cannot actually do that, and have to actually take the half a minute.  But knowing that I'd be changing faster if I was doing it ideally is something I can stare at mentally and then change faster, because we do have any power at all to change through imagining other ways we could be, even if not perfectly.  Another line of that verse goes, 'You can move faster if you're not afraid of speed.'"

"You seemed to think that the first layer of speed made perfect sense, so I thought I'd go try the second layer on you.  Though that may have been a little ambitious now that I'm actually saying out loud what all goes into layer two."