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Ditto I disagree with your labeling of what scientists/I think/do, pardon me for trying to correct what I believe to be mislabeling and claims without evidence. I gave examples for why I believe you to be a direct realist, where is your reasoning for your claims, and what do you think i've convinced myself of?Without mind-melding how is it possible to talk about anything without labeling? Quote:
"The primary/secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality" Quote:
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you've officially triggered me motherfucker, congratulations
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The thoughts that the brain generates are not one of these senses. As long as a person identifies primarily (or, more hellishly, solely) on mental "stories" they are living in a kind of illusion, maya. Their own conditioning and past, often taken not only for granted but with the expectation that everyone else has experienced the same, acts a colored lense through which one interprets the datum of the senses. The brain is merely a tool for using these senses in a constructive or creative way, but because of the nature in language, the average ape gets mesmerized in the complexity of ideas and belief systems (including your own strong belief systems) and denies the senses, denies the reality of their own living experience, instead choosing the cloudy haze of the symbols in language as the primary basis of reality. The fact that most people identify with their thoughts and mental constructions versus the physical reality of their senses is the reason many of us are indeed living in Hell, which is and always has been a psychological state and nothing more. Of course we need symbols to speak and interact, but it only matters if you have something noble or worthwhile to talk about. It's one of the reasons I don't really like to talk much anymore, or see people, or "hang out". Unless they are interested in talking about the things that matter (practical, effective, "things we can do right now that don't involve armchair philosophizing" methods of improving the world, even one's own), then there is nothing to talk about. The reason I ask about your mission is because you're not particularly fun to talk to. You're very closed-minded, truth be told, and at your current stage you are only able to filter the experiences of others (including the language they use to try to to connect with you) by filtering it through your highly exclusionary lexicon of complex scientific terms that, as I have already said, are merely contemporary renamings of ideas and concepts that predate modern science by millennia. You're simply barking up the wrong tree conversationally here. Outside of me, who ONLY knows the terminology that you use because you make it impossible to communicate on a base level otherwise, there is no one here to talk to you about the things you want to. I find it amusing you are doing it to "find out interesting things" because I find virtually (pun intended) nothing you really post interesting, probably because you drag it down with a weighty, square scientific language that is, as I have said, just ape gibberish. But maybe it sounds pretty to you. I don't mean that as an insult. I mean with how I don't find sports interesting. I get that other people really like it. And I've tried to be interested in it. But it's just not fun. What's the last "fun" thing you posted? But, and this is the biggest part of this whole equation: without actually having a clearly expressed personal GOAL or reason to be doing all this mental gymnastics you are doing...its a HUGE waste of your time and life. Huge. And subsequently, I realize as I write this, a waste of mine too. As if life isn't happening to you right now. As if you couldn't be pursuing much more hedonistic imperatives than you are now. Our fundamental disagreement is this: I am much more interested in observing and taking in as much beauty as possible in life because beauty is all that there is to experience here; nothing else matters, you can't take it with you, beauty (which some people call love) is the quality that makes life worth living for me. If it is not beautiful somehow, I don't find it interesting. I simply can't relate to you anymore on the scientific side of things. I'm kind of "over" that, for reasons I have expressed earlier. It explains nothing, the only beauty expressed in it is very empty-feeling and has an unspoken nihilism about it. Science, at least in terms of explaining true meaning, or things like love, or empathy, or relatedness (beyond relativity), just isn't beautiful. It falls short. I know you believe it to be the end-all-be-all, but I believe that reality precedes language, and thus has qualities that are unable to be described language. I believe you think language can describe reality totally with the right scientific theory, and whether you realize it or not, this drive is what compels you forward. P.S. - I hope you take note of the lack of block quotes, unreferenced quotes I expect you to know the authors of, long videos with barely a sentence of explanation that I expect you to watch on your own free time simply because I posted it, etcetera. Also note how personal this has been about trying to talk to you as a friend would talk to a friend; open, vulnerable, and genuine. I'm not trying to hide behind a veil of confusing half-formed sentences and philosophical elitism. P.S.S. - Just to continue my good social example of actually answering your questions genuinely and specifically: "What Concepts?" Any concept that may describe reality that is outside of your extremely limited scientific viewpoint. Psychological concepts that may explain and indeed expose a certain psychological bias you may hold that you may not even be aware of and indeed may be subconsciously avoiding the discovery of. Mythological motifs and archetypes that describe the human journey, long before your own personal ego (mask) popped out of your mum's lotus-flower. Any of these concepts. Literally anything to expand your worldview past the scientific cage of terminology it is currently trapped in. | |
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people without eyeballs can experience phenomenal redness, the presence of an eyeball is neither necessary nor sufficient. [If you think this is happening "through your senses" please explain why, otherwise there's my refutation] Quote:
everything i've said disagrees with this statement, "I don't believe" would be accurate. (Fire in the equations, mathematics describing only the relational-structural properties, qualia, lost in hilbert SPICE) I am dissapointed that you believe this and i'm going to find all the quotes where I believe I've been saying the opposite.Couple of ad hominems and a bunch of you telling me what's beautiful (which isn't science, because you understand it), that science falls short of something it never attempted, and again informing me of my belief that language gives a complete description of reality. Impressive word count though. Quote:
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Just seeing your edited post now.
Not insulting you with ad-hominems, calling it exactly how I see it, whether or not you are conscious of your own behavior. Calling you "not fun to talk to" is not an insult, mate. It's my opinion of our interaction based on how much is produced from it --- squat. You are a very smart person but your complete lack of a motive other than seemingly pushing other people's buttons is, categorically, an unfriendly personality trait, one I myself have been trying to overcome for years. I suggest you do the same. Quote:
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The point is, the case is hardly closed in regards this one example, and it is weak supporting evidence for the point you're trying to argue which is, and correct me if I'm wrong: "We do not perceive everything from our senses." I can agree with this statement in terms of thought, or a priori knowledge. How do you believe they are perceiving this redness, if not through some form of sensory data? What implications does that have for your worldview? Quote:
"From this point of view the universe in general and playing in particular are, in a special sense, "meaningless": that is, they do not ---like words and symbols --- signify or point to something beyond themselves, just as a Mozart sonata conveys no moral or social message and does not try to suggest the natural sounds of wind, thunder, or birdsong. When I make the sound "water", you know what I mean. But what does this whole situation mean ---- I making the sound and your understanding it? What is the meaning of a pelican, a sunflower, a sea urchin, a mottled stone, or a galaxy? Or of a+ b = b + a? They are all patterns, dancing patterns of light and sound, water and fire, rhythm and vibration, electricity and spacetime, going like Thrummular, thrummular thrilp, Hum lipsible, lipsible lilp; Dim thricken mithrummy, Lumgumptulous hummy, Stormgurgle umbumdular bilp. Or, in the famous words of Sir Arthur Eddington about the nature of electrons: Quote:
Words and language are just symbols. They themselves are not real, in the tangible sense. And the world of the living, breathing senses of your daily experience are much more real and tangible than the mental realms we are conditioned to accept as reality. Nothing means anything, really, but in that void of meaninglessness there is still beauty. Yes there is beauty in science. And it often gets ruined with white coats, sterility, and otherwise extremely boring and dead environments. | ||||
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Thanks for responding, I quoted Strawson on Eddington and used that exact quote here:
Consciousness, Death, Existentialism etc. (Link corrected.. my post starts with "I don't think this has anything to do with science" ) " Eight slithy toves gyre and gimble in the oxygen wabe; seven in nitrogen..." My comment was that I love the analogy, the post in general was trying to get at how a description of a thing is not the thing itself, the word "phenomenology" is, as you say, just a symbol. Not the "ding an sich" you accuse me (or at least that's how i've taken it) of thinking that this symbol somehow encapsulates what we're talking about, instead of it being some sort of placeholder. It's frustrating as obviously I haven't explained my position well enough, and at the same time hilarious. Here's one more quote for the pile. "what makes the universe fly?" Quote:
"dent ya limey bastard, whats necessary and sufficient for redness?" Quote:
World simulation model, instead of perceiving things in the world what our brain/mind is doing is constructing a virtual reality that tracks patterns in the real (mind independant) world. the ability for the virtual world in our heads to track what's going on outside has been improving for 500+ million years. Doesn't matter if you're a human, eagle or and other sentient, you'll never have access to the "the real world" only your simulation. If i'm dreaming and see a mr blonde that mr blonde is internal to me, if i'm awake and see a mr blonde that mr blonde is still internal to me, the only difference is that I infer there's a sentient being behind the zombie in my image. It's not just colours tastes sounds (secondary qualities) etc that the mind/brain is simulating and mapping onto reality, we're simulating our whole world. Visual acuity sounds like we're somehow honing in on something that's really there. Quote:
Everything that's ever happened is experiential (or is experience involving...), long before biology, the big bang or the multiverse is experience involving. If this isn't the case you need experience to emerge from non-experiential stuff, I don't see how this can happen. If it can happen biology has no explanation as to how. Quote:
Back without eyeball stuff, experiencing a memory of the colour is experiencing the colour. where is this colour memory stored and how could the mind brain recall phenomenal red? Quote:
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Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists aim to consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that brings about the greatest positive impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism https://80000hours.org/ earning to give https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earning_to_give Play poker and give it away https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin...fective_Giving stop summon suffering AI demon Foundational Research Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machin...arch_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre...istential_Risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future...nity_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveWell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can |
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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.
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I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones | Voices | The Independent
WELL IT'S THE WORLD I KNOW YEAH, IT'S THE WORLD I KNOOOOOWWWWW |
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Sam Harris is writing a book about AI with Eliezer Yudkowsky of Welcome to Less Wrong
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They're hostile towards quantum consciousness, that's sure.
SPERGLORDS https://www.facebook.com/algekalipso...09026402522850 Got a link to Yudkowsky/Harris confirming the book? heard something on it a few months ago |
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Can't remember where, but a mixture of Sam's blog and Twitter made it pretty much definite. I'm very interested to see how it pans out because Eliezer is probably one of the most intelligent people on the planet imho.
Excellent podcast from last year between Dan Carlin from "Hardcore History" and Harris. It's nice to listen to a podcast where the guest actually understands what Harris is actually saying without going on an emotional SJW tirade, about something that isn't even what Sam actually said. At times it seems like Dan is needlessly arguing with Sam, but it's really just him doing his "other side of the story" thing he does in his podcasts. Plus it is nice to see Sam have a challenge to his mind, Dan Carlin is on point with his conversatorial skills. |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comme...e_ways/d5mhfnx
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We're all doomed. It's over. The human race has no future. Mods, pls lock thread, thx.
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Eat healthy, including minimizing meat consumption as much as possible, take supplements and exercise, we might live long enough to have age-reversal technology!
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