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Ten big ideas that I suspect to be true

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1/ All matter and collections of matter have subjective experiences
2/ Our universe is probably infinitely large
3/ Life is a predictive model that avoids dissipation
4/ Intelligence is a result of an organism exploiting regularities in the environment for its survival
5/ Our entire body and the environment we live in – and not just brain – is intelligent
6/ Disagreements between people happen because we think linearly while reality is composed of many interacting entities
7/ Truth and rationality aren’t universal ideals. They’re simply what humans find useful
8/ Most of the reality will forever be hidden from us
9/ God is a name we give to reality that is hidden from us
10/ Collection of entities is an entity. And all entities matter
That's it.

I explain all these in more detail and also write about WHY I suspect these are true in my new essay.

Read it here: invertedpassion.com/big-ideas-that…
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