Jack Preston King

Nov 7

I really don’t know what are you waiting for. The time is always running out. Are you per chance doing something you don’t love? Because that woul…

Ninety Nine Cents — Extended

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Ah, but what if there is no work you love?

Ah, but what if there is no work you love? I suspect that is the reality for the vast majority of humans. Work is a necessity because in Capitalism if you don't work you don't eat. So we work. I feel blessed to have found a (day job) career I…

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Oct 3

“This is the distinction I am trying to explore.

Sender Spike

I hope people come behind us and read this conversation.

I hope people come behind us and read this conversation. We are leaving bread crumbs along the path. Thanks for this, SS!

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Oct 3

…omes to the role of an observer and consciousness in this process, my main question is simply this: if conscious observation is responsible for collapse of wave into particle, how is it possible that we can consciously observe the wave itself (interference pattern)?

The QM references I use serve only as a demonstration.

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My guess is what collapses the wave function is the act of measuring, which is done by the device.

My guess is what collapses the wave function is the act of measuring, which is done by the device. But without the conscious observer there would be no measuring being done or devices doing it so the photon would stay in an indeterminate state. Suggesting that perhaps our senses are…

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Oct 2

This is exactly the problem I tackled in that article about Sisyphus – a different kind of science…

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In other words, it's not the lack of, or adherence to a particular kind of, belief or…

In other words, it's not the lack of, or adherence to a particular kind of, belief or interpretation why we cannot walk through walls. The questions rather is, "Why, under ordinary circumstances, that is the obvious case? It kind of is a belief thing, though, if we can walk through…

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Oct 1

What you describe is causality depicted as Laplace's daemon.

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You know more about science than I do, but I I have to think it matters that every single thing we…

You know more about science than I do, but I I have to think it matters that every single thing we know about the universe is an extrapolation of observing less than 5% of what exists. The rest of course is dark energy/dark matter, which we cannot observe and can't…

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Sep 30

A nice story you tell yourself there. Now, let go of that narrative, too :D

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I think what bothers me about causality is that, at least the way I generally encounter the term…

I think what bothers me about causality is that, at least the way I generally encounter the term, causality is used as a synonym of determinism. Both imply the blind mechanical nature of reality. If every cause was known we would see that there exists zero spontaneity anywhere in nature…

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Sep 29

…ng, is perfect, that is to say, omnibenevolent, because any conceivable option literally goes. Yet, you, too, imply that serving ego is evil and following path to self-realization is good. And you describe the effects of both choices (i.e. causes) quite to the point.

Of course, good and evil are just labels.

Sender Spike

Not objectively, though.

Not objectively, though. It depends on one's goal. In my opinion, just for me, serving ego is evil because it defeats my goal of self-realization. And serving essence is good because it advances my goal of self-realization. If I had no goal, or had a goal of seeking pleasure and…

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Sep 28

The absence of good and evil you describe is eerily reminiscent of the amoral "anything goes" attitudes which you can find in e.g. neo-advaita ("there's no one there so there's no one to suffer") or some…

Good point; in similar vein you can also argue that Job was, indeed, proud exactly as his friends…

Sender Spike

I find the concept of Objective Good and Objective Evil unlikely.

I find the concept of Objective Good and Objective Evil unlikely. Reality is neither. I lean toward Gurdjieff's notion that good and evil only exist in relation to a goal. Most people have no conscious goal, and spend their lives serving the pleasures and whims of ego. "Service to self"…

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Sep 28

…tions about divine providence (remember, while he rejects the naive interpretations of his friends, he still thinks that his ordeal is unfair), has no idea why things happen as they do. And since Job in still “unenlightened” at this point in…

I don't know how you came to that conclusion as in the first speech of God there is absolutely no…

Sender Spike

This is where I get Good VS Evil.

This is where I get Good VS Evil. What people label good is what they like. Evil is what they don't like. Job feels God is being unfair because Job himself does not like parts of creation such as disease, poverty, etc. Job thanks God for his health and prosperity…

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Sep 24

Furthermore, while you treat death with indifference, it amounts to the same as considering yourself immortal on the phenomenal level, because with such attitude death practically does not matter. Accepting mortality means that you let it fully influence you so you are palpably aware of the graveness and urgency of your predicament.

Exactly – if our constraints are reification of our assumptions about reality, making zero…

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I by no means treat death with indifference.

I by no means treat death with indifference. I see that I am the one who introduced that word, indifferent, but I think it was probably the wrong word for what I mean. I mean that I accept the fact of the inevitability of physical death the way I accept…

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