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Science is the casting of syntactic nets, taxonomizing its contents, & adding another layer of mesh b4 casting it anew While much is learned frm studying wht remains, the contents never behave as they did in the water,& wht IS water?A pesky medium net cannot catch
Science is the casting of syntactic nets, taxonomizing its contents, & adding another layer of mesh b4 casting it anew While much is learned frm studying wht remains, the contents never behave as they did in the water,& wht IS water?A pesky medium net cannot catch
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Artificial super intelligence is achieved; algorithmic curiosity. ASI will simulate its attempts to capture nature of (our) reality it inhabits. If successful, ASI simulates nested isomorphisms of reality ad infinitum, our reality. Eternal recurrence?Time=flat O?
Artificial super intelligence is achieved; algorithmic curiosity. ASI will simulate its attempts to capture nature of (our) reality it inhabits. If successful, ASI simulates nested isomorphisms of reality ad infinitum, our reality. Eternal recurrence?Time=flat O?
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#Serendipity is the datum of a nascent theory.
~ Processual cosmos
#Correspondence is the datum of a nascent science.
~ Physicalist cosmos
#Politics is the datum of a nascent paradigm.
~ Idealist cosmos
#Serendipity is the datum of a nascent theory.
~ Processual cosmos
#Correspondence is the datum of a nascent science.
~ Physicalist cosmos
#Politics is the datum of a nascent paradigm.
~ Idealist cosmos
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The final Theory of Everything will not be confined to ameliorating the inconsistency between quantum and classical, it will have something to say about why something rather than nothing, life from the inanimate, and human consciousness from life.
The final Theory of Everything will not be confined to ameliorating the inconsistency between quantum and classical, it will have something to say about why something rather than nothing, life from the inanimate, and human consciousness from life.
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A virtue of #panpsychism is that it posits mind from the bottom up, supplying the "objectivity" of the phenomena investigated by science, i.e. operations in nature behaving independently of our will. Anthropocentric idealism flips the script making them mysterious
A virtue of #panpsychism is that it posits mind from the bottom up, supplying the "objectivity" of the phenomena investigated by science, i.e. operations in nature behaving independently of our will. Anthropocentric idealism flips the script making them mysterious
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The Hard Problem of consciousness is hard, but not necessarily the most interesting or mysterious. Conflating these may be discouraging original inquiry in academic philosophy of mind.
The Hard Problem of consciousness is hard, but not necessarily the most interesting or mysterious. Conflating these may be discouraging original inquiry in academic philosophy of mind.
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Posit pantheism; if human mind is in-the-image-of-God, then nature becomes intelligible while mind is simultaneously transcendent-of-nature. Kant's a priori, spacetime grid only limits human mind insofar as it reveals it to be a 'fractal' of the pantheistic whole.
Posit pantheism; if human mind is in-the-image-of-God, then nature becomes intelligible while mind is simultaneously transcendent-of-nature. Kant's a priori, spacetime grid only limits human mind insofar as it reveals it to be a 'fractal' of the pantheistic whole.
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A thread cordoned off for partially-formed speculations frees me to experiment new relationships w/ the medium, community, ideas, and myself. I feel less self-critical tossing out philosophy jargon in my attempts to grasp... something. I can go totally META man :0
A thread cordoned off for partially-formed speculations frees me to experiment new relationships w/ the medium, community, ideas, and myself. I feel less self-critical tossing out philosophy jargon in my attempts to grasp... something. I can go totally META man :0
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"Consciousness as \reducing valve/"
as [cmprsnalgrthm]
as MAGNIFIED lens
as s i e v e
as 1P in a MMORPG
as Curator
"Consciousness as \reducing valve/"
as [cmprsnalgrthm]
as MAGNIFIED lens
as s i e v e
as 1P in a MMORPG
as Curator
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Creativity is the ability to recreate phenomenal childhood [citation needed, seen this thesis in a few places recently]. While moments of insight can be exhilarating, high risk of getting stuck there. From dreamlike 2 nightmarish w/ a constant sense of smthg 'off'
Creativity is the ability to recreate phenomenal childhood [citation needed, seen this thesis in a few places recently]. While moments of insight can be exhilarating, high risk of getting stuck there. From dreamlike 2 nightmarish w/ a constant sense of smthg 'off'
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Found in an old Word Doc;
Abstraction vs dimension
-Abstraction is scaling, bubble. No new value, just new symbols, same underlying reality
-Dimension is creation. Dimension is depth, mass. New value, new organization of lines, new and more underlying reality
Found in an old Word Doc;
Abstraction vs dimension
-Abstraction is scaling, bubble. No new value, just new symbols, same underlying reality
-Dimension is creation. Dimension is depth, mass. New value, new organization of lines, new and more underlying reality
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Yuval Noah Harari as apotheosis of the Big History phenomenon? Or at least, its best expositor to the public yet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Histo…
Yuval Noah Harari as apotheosis of the Big History phenomenon? Or at least, its best expositor to the public yet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Histo…
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World lines exist in potentia until they abandon the use of cranes and embrace the guidance of skyhooks, thereby breaching into actuality, and surprised to find skyhooks fastened to something more real than was epistemically conceivable from below.
World lines exist in potentia until they abandon the use of cranes and embrace the guidance of skyhooks, thereby breaching into actuality, and surprised to find skyhooks fastened to something more real than was epistemically conceivable from below.
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Religion as attempted isomorphism with a processual reality. That is, to not only attain the algorithm's description intellectually, but to execute the program ontologically?
Religion as attempted isomorphism with a processual reality. That is, to not only attain the algorithm's description intellectually, but to execute the program ontologically?
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mind metaphors:
muscle > machine
mind metaphors:
muscle > machine
Antifragile exercise
>
Deductive tinkering
>
Deductive tinkering
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
"The noosphere is therefore as much part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere."
Cool idea but
defines human sphere into nature-category, albeit the *culmination rather than attenuation thereof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
"The noosphere is therefore as much part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere."
Cool idea but
defines human sphere into nature-category, albeit the *culmination rather than attenuation thereof
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1
Sometimes I imagine reality as something resembling a brain, a large complex object composed of dense interconnections criss-crossing about, and that metaphysical disagreements look like different parts of this web being highlighted then claimed to be the whole..
1
Sometimes I imagine reality as something resembling a brain, a large complex object composed of dense interconnections criss-crossing about, and that metaphysical disagreements look like different parts of this web being highlighted then claimed to be the whole..
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2/end
Of course it never is the whole. Additionally our incapacity to comprehend the whole is due to our obsession with highlighting what parts we believe to be indispensable, which blinds us to the dynamics of the ensemble of lights traveling through it.
2/end
Of course it never is the whole. Additionally our incapacity to comprehend the whole is due to our obsession with highlighting what parts we believe to be indispensable, which blinds us to the dynamics of the ensemble of lights traveling through it.
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Minds filtering phenomenal consciousness at large
Humans filtering formal ideas at large
Minds filtering phenomenal consciousness at large
Humans filtering formal ideas at large
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Does reality consist of strivings, or currents?
Does one strive against the current?
Does striving create the current?
World as acted will?
World as causal current?
Minds moving?
or
Laws governing?
Does reality consist of strivings, or currents?
Does one strive against the current?
Does striving create the current?
World as acted will?
World as causal current?
Minds moving?
or
Laws governing?
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If this is a simulation, would the laws of nature be God leaving us Easter Eggs?
Science/philosophy as MMORPG?
If this is a simulation, would the laws of nature be God leaving us Easter Eggs?
Science/philosophy as MMORPG?
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'Retroprediction' (?); a scientist or philosopher develops a theoretical framework in isolation of basic knowledge of an arbitrary field and makes specific predictions about said field that are found to be surprisingly true, to him... impact on strength of theory?
'Retroprediction' (?); a scientist or philosopher develops a theoretical framework in isolation of basic knowledge of an arbitrary field and makes specific predictions about said field that are found to be surprisingly true, to him... impact on strength of theory?
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Reason:
noosphere negentropy
Reason:
noosphere negentropy
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Reaching stretching outwards and upwards, yearning yawning open and forward.
Surviving fraying toward the onward, striving stultifying entropic then backwards.
Teleological Trees
Reaching stretching outwards and upwards, yearning yawning open and forward.
Surviving fraying toward the onward, striving stultifying entropic then backwards.
Teleological Trees
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