I was reading The Beginning Of Infinity and it was breaking my brain.
Then I was like why is thinking so fucking painful?
Deutsche’s work made me realize that we mistake coherence for truth because our brains are optimized for simulation, not verification.
But if we compress reality by creating better explanations, we can re-simulate it more accurately and edge closer to truth.
This hurts because it breaks the old coherence. Every new insight like a neural demolition.
Essentially the mind grows by breaking and reforming itself over and over again.
Which is why real thinking is unpleasant, because it’s a process that if done in earnest destroys parts of your own mind.
But nothing new can form in your mind without this painful fracturing.
This means that collapse is necessary for renewal.
And if it’s true on the individual level, then it’s likely true on the collective level as well.
Which means we cannot stop what’s coming and further more why would we want to?
Because to stop it is to retard progress and our understanding of reality.
