Absolutely not. Things are going to get better before they get worse.

They’re going to get better very rapidly, and this will surprise many.

People will say “yes” to Bitcoin.

Many people. And not just westerners.

Feels like the government is trying to radicalize people. Feels like they’re baiting us. This is not a good feeling

Yes and they say X/Twitter and social media is not tamping down unhelpful conspiracies that are hindering relief efforts.

Prebunking, debunking, programming.

There seems to be very solid reasoning that its because they have "relief contracts" with "preferred vendors" and they can't have normal people in helping. There's nothing to loot in these areas anyway.

I'm sure the "stop the looters" and "we don't want to have to save more people" line is the excuse they use. Sitting right next to the "for the children" and "stop terrorism" wrapping paper.

'If a thing loves, it is infinite.'

William Blake

#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney

I love The Power of Now. I once recommended it to a friend and he read it and told me it was the dumbest lamest scam piece of trash he ever read. LOL he completely didn't get it.

Yeah NC is a swing state right? I’m not sure this is how the current admin will swing it back to their favor. I hate to think that they are “dismissing the deplorables” but that is certainly a suspicion among Appalachians.

Just showing yall - I have an audience of 38k and not a single one of my last 3 posts about Helene relief got more than 1k views. If that’s not evidence of censorship, I’m not sure what is. Please share Appalachian voices!

Shitshow

what was that one of the mezzanine floor in Being John Malkovich?

Huh... That's a cool question. Can an automated process work without conscious input or attention... Shoot. Frank Herbert is right. We need spice enhanced psychic navigators to travel between stars... You can fall asleep in an elevator without it breaking down, but software seems to need to be pushed by an observer to initiate a planned sequence of actions. The whole system of robotaxis and orbital delivery pods might rest on a computer tracking it all and a guy watching the screen.

Or the material world is actually there. IDK. We need to go find aliens.

I personally like your first option, but I have no idea why I have the preference.

I resolve animal consciousness in two ways, both of which are more for their entertainment value than anything else. One is to say that consciousness comes before matter, as different personae of the same logos, so the animal is the vessel of the divine experience. The other is to relegate that idea to only humans, and explain animals as egregors - psychic constructs that maintain themselves independently of conscious direction. Like I said, it's more for entertainment value than serious thinking. I like how you can build whole structures of explanation for the physical present as plausible alternatives to the usual explanations of empirically observed phenomena.

"organizes backwards from present" -- I like that.

Penrose does say "consciousness...is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known."

He does talk about consciousness in monkeys and dolphins so I would have to go back and read some gaps to see if he suggests animal consciousness is also part of the totality that is consciousness