He’s really talking about how to maintain focus and neurological energy, but doesn’t have the right words.

Fwiw, I wrote about it here:

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/the-inner-game-of-knowledge-wo...

It’s something I struggle with, too.

I love how you have connected the dots between evaluation of ideas, metaphorisation & invention of consciousness. Linking to relevant book.

I've come up with the same, internalised, realisation, based on my relation with religion & science. Both are a way to describe our world with metaphors (e.g. electric & water currents). At some point, for some people, one is a more attractive way, to describe our relation with the environment.