The fact that dreams exist prove that reality is a hallucination conjured by brain.
(a short thread about this idea)
1/ The only difference between hallucinations while we are awake and while asleep is that the former is constrained by our environment while the latter is constrained by possibilities.
2/ While acting in the world, it makes sense for brain to model the outside world to know what can kill it, while sleep is a relatively safer space for it ans hence relatively less need to model the external constraints.
3/ Reality is a hallucination is a hard pill to swallow. But consider this.
When you fall, the sight of you falling, the sound of falling and the pressure on your body after the fall, arrive at different timescales in the brain.
Yet, the event of feeling seems simultaneous.
4/ If reality weren’t a hallicunation, hallucinogenic drugs wouldn’t work.
Drugs like LSD do NOT carry any content the drug taker visualises.
It’s all his/her conjuring.
5/ There are countless examples of reality as a hallucination.
Consider eye-saccades. When we are looking at something, there’s no stable image on our retina. It’s constantly moving.
Yet, our visual image in the mind remains relatively stable.
6/ That’s it.
7/ This suggests that in theory it’s possible to engineer hallucinations.
Imagine VR but for all senses, so perfectly integrated into your reality that you can’t tell it’s engineered.
If such a device was available, what hallucination would you like to be engineered for you?
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Been thinking that outside of one’s main job (that pays the bills), one should work on things that are timeless.
(a short thread on this)
1/ Think of happiness as not one emotion, but rather a label for a set of emotions.
Sometimes we’re happy that we ate the ice cream, other times we’re happy about the oncoming trip and sometimes we’re happy about finishing a project that took some work.
2/ In that sense, rather than chasing “more happiness”, consider creating “portfolio of happinesses”.
Do things that increase the variety of types of happiness you can experience.
Determined to never let a crisis go to waste, I and rest of the leaders at @wingify reflected on how the year went by for us and the lessons that stood out.
I decided that it’ll be a good idea to publicly share these learnings, so here they are.
2/ Then a caveat:
As you know professional and personal dimensions can differ widely, these ones are for the professional context only. invertedpassion.com/professional-s…
This year has given me many personal lessons too but they’re not documented in this thread.
b) launch a product that people desire but with no significant advantage over established competitors (hence give no strong reason for a customer to switch away).
2/ These two failure modes have their analogous success modes:
a) culture-led startup success where a new desire is discovered and fulfilled;
b) technology-led startup success where new technology is used to fulfill an existing desire.