November 2009
2 posts
∞/0
Zero is just as absurd a concept as infinity.
I am a prisoner of my own indecision.
October 2009
6 posts
There’s no such thing as real.
Vanity (Not Sanity)
Being concerned with others’ impressions of oneself follows “perception is reality.”
Otherwise, that philosophy works out pretty well.
God
If the mind is software and the brain just an elaborate Turing machine, could mind not exist elsewhere? This is a hope of some Singularians. If true, it means it must be possible to either simulate or express creativity in software. What if DNA/natural selection is also a creative process? It seems plausible that DNA/reproduction/selection is a complex enough coupling of mechanisms to be...
Think
Choice/Time
The smallest possible unit of time is a choice.
We create time just by being. Each bit of existence is the collapse of a quantum wave function, and mind is very much entangled with this process of decoherence. It could be said that we make our universe be just by experiencing it.
Consciousness is a quantum feedback loop, each life a continuous cascade of possibilities made real.
Reality is...
False
I hold it to be true that Truth doesn’t exist and truth is relative.
September 2009
2 posts
You
Don’t take yourself so seriously.
You’re part of the joke, too.
It
It’s like everyone is just waiting for something to happen.
There’s this socially innate belief that that there will be a dramatic shift within our lifetimes (be it social, technological, metaphysical, or otherwise) which will somehow save us—from death, labor, responsibility, unhappiness, evil, violence, whatever. That the future is somehow guaranteed to be a...