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Unread 05-26-2015, 05:26 PM   #325 (permalink)
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Taking it from this that you are a naive/direct realist.

Primary/secondary quality distinction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to the world-simulationist perspective primary and secondary properties alike brain-dependent.



Many worlds interpretation is misleading, there's one world and it's called the multiverse. interference effects between the branches never completely go away. I think conventionally there are a possible infinite number, but that's probably wrong. infinities aren't physically real.
I'd watch the labeling game, people find that really annoying. Coming from firsthand experience. Also it betrays too much emphasis on superficial judgment.

By judging and labeling everything, particularly everything that is in opposition to what you believe to be true (which you have convinced yourself is actually the truth) -- whatever that is, you are missing out on a lot. Your mind is lost in this world of ultimately meaningless symbolic intepretations of reality (language and other symbols for reality), but this is not the real thing, or at least not the realest thing a human being can experience.

You still haven't answered my question of what your goal or end-game or mission is with all this research of yours is. Do you wish to make it big in philosophy -- discover something others haven't? To do this you will have to extend yourself outside the strict physical realms of science and philosophical labeling you are used to. Einstein did it, Oppenheimer did it, Newton did it --- as did the greats such as Plato, Nietzche, Kant. All of them dabbled in metaphysics and the occult and it seems to me that you somehow see yourself above even trying to understand these concepts.


Without a higher goal than yourself you simply come off as pursuing whatever you are pursuing as a way of defining, labeling, and indeed seemingly trying to come off as smugly superior, when I believe your intention should be to teach. So are you teaching or...what? Because if you are you need a lot of work at it.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.

― Terence McKenna

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