I don’t have it in me yet to make this the kind of place with new content on a consistent enough basis. So for now this blog just doesn’t work that way. I’m generally too preoccupied with information “arbitrage”, shuttling links back and forth across the hive mind, to set myself the task of summarizing my understandings in a readable form. Although I am more than willing to take questions.
Almost all my content is dense and resource rich. I haven’t specialized in creating content, I’ve specialized in tying content together in discrete bundles.
These are some of my longer, resource dense, and/or most popular entries (in order of popularity):
“This video offers a solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness. It contends that there are 2 epistemological hurdles that have historically prevented man from solving this mystery… and these epistemological hurdles are a consequence of evolution.
(This is a condensed version of my 5 part series on “Solving the Mystery of Dualism”.)
I like where he ends up, but don’t use the same steps.
I think the combination of two lectures below paint a more accurate picture. I don’t think we are EM [electromagnetism] either. Electromagnetic fields can obviously exist without self-awareness. The point of interest has to be how matter and energy are arranged to represent an information processing system that can represent itself. It’s the properties and organization of information processing itself that create the possibility of representation, and this software is, in principle, capable of operating on any “physical” platform of sufficient resolution and complexity to support the requirements of said software system.
Being alive is being software on a replication machine “designed” through natural selection to compete with other replication machines. “Feeling” what it is to be alive is for information processing to begin biting its own tail, i.e. representing the representational process itself. “Knowing” what it is to be alive is to become of aware of the recursive process as nominally independent of the larger field of reality. “Awakening” fundamentally recognizes the illusory nature of one’s projection of reality including the projected boundary line delineating “the self” or “ego.”
There is no world to a process that doesn’t represent one. Stage one is representing (is). Stage two is representing representing (something is). Stage three is representing representing representing (I am something). Stage four is representing representing representing representing (I am that I am / All is).
Why is there not an open source campaign being run for every public office? Why isn’t anyone running on a platform of free energy[i] and free internet[ii]? Haven’t people seen enough TED talks[iii]? We, as a species, have so many good ideas (and criticisms). Do we really have so little confidence in each other that we don’t trust each other enough to upvote the problems we care about most and the solutions we like best? How is government by elected representatives working out for you? Do you really feel like your voice is being heard? Remember this and this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Most_popular_vote_for_change.jpg
Why should one of the most popular ideas on change.gov (and rightly so) be dismissed in a sentence? Why is it still up to someone else to make the rules of how we decide to make collective decisions? Why isn’t it up to us? As soon as enough of us decide it is up to us, it actually is up to us; that’s how society works. We’re running for office (or run yourself and do the same). Write in Neil deGrasse Tyson everywhere. Let him be a Trojan horse of direct democracy. Take back your power. Start having a say in the laws that bind us. If you don’t have any power over decisions that affect your life you’re not free. Let’s become a free people again.
“There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
OPEN SOURCE ALL THE THINGS! FREE ENERGY AND FREE INFORMATION FOR A FREE PEOPLE!
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
[i] “Energy with no or negligible feedstock cost, including solar power, telluric power, water power, and wind power[; or] more exotic free energy mechanism including cold fusion, magnet motors, gravity motors, and electromagnetic overunity.” http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Free_energy
[v] “The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/
“Of all the topics on which I’ve focused, I’ve likely written most about America’s two-tiered justice system — the way in which political and financial elites now enjoy virtually full-scale legal immunity for even the most egregious lawbreaking, while ordinary Americans, especially the poor and racial and ethnic minorities, are subjected to exactly the opposite treatment: the world’s largest prison state and most merciless justice system.” http://www.salon.com/2011/04/14/justice_10/singleton/
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