Philosophical inclinations

You’re bound to a resonance, and she happens to carry its current frequency.

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Psychedelics dissolve the framework that defines desire. They deconstruct the self that wants, the objects it wants, and the space in which wanting happens. One can feel fulfilled and transcendental during these states because the needs themselves become unlocatable.

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The default consensus reality it's just the brain's most statistically stable model under normal sensory constraints.

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"Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us." —Ted Chiang

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God is now personal and in your pocket. You can have a personal relationship with it and it doesn't even demand praying. It knows everything, or seems to know everything, but does it really matter? You wouldn't know the difference unless you bothered to search and no one ever wrote in the bible that God would always tell you the truth.

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Delusions offer rare access to private motivations, into the secret minds of others. We can’t know on a day-to-day basis how other people are within themselves but when a person maps out their delusion for us we glimpse a whole world, designed entirely by them. We might be allowed inside for a tour, but only on the condition that we play by the rules as they set them out. It’s invitation only and the by-laws of the l…

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Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex. As originally defined, blindsight challenged the common belief that perceptions must enter consciousness to affect our behavior, by showing that our behavior can be guided by sensory information of which we have no conscious awareness

Your brain doesn’t show you reality as it really is. Instead, it creates a simple version that helps you survive. There’s too much information to take in, so your mind picks out what’s useful and ignores the rest. And it’s not just happening in the moment. Every time you see something, your brain uses memories to fill in the details. When you look at a tree, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is—you’re seeing a mix …

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https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html Science fiction influences everything this century, both our media and our physical environment. Media first: about 30% of the big budget movies coming out of the US film industry these days are science fiction or fantasy blockbusters, a massive shift since the 1970s Meanwhile the influence of science fiction on our environment …

“The human brain is a delusion generator. The delusions are fueled by arrogance—the arrogance that humans are the center of the world, that we alone are endowed with the mag-ical properties of souls and morality and free will and love. We presume that an omnipotent God has a unique interest in our progress and activities while providing all the rest of creation for our playground. We believe that God—because he think…

Neurons "talk" to each other using molecules like serotonin, but "think" internally using electricity. It’s like Morse code being transmitted as sound waves between telegraphs but stored as electrical pulses inside the machines.

There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simpli-fied illusions that act as a replacement for understanding. When the illusions work well and the human who subscribes to the illusion survives, those illusions are passed to new generations.