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on another youtube channel sean said other parallel universes exist in something called "Hilbert Space". I'm dying to know what or where that is, but PLEASE NO EQUATIONS.⚛😀
It's very interesting, Carroll is always well understandable BUT a lot of maybes/ive-no-idea, and of course cannot be any different. I think there was never another age in history in which we had really no idea regarding the "what is all about ?" question. PS are we seeing a more "open" Sean Carroll ?
Shermer’s insistence on materialism is so utterly boring. He seriously needs a strong dose of 5-MEO to unlock that obtuse knuckle head of his to what is always already the case prior to 1st person point-of-view.
1:16:20 To his point, it may indeed prove to be true, that human beings are the Center of the universe, in terms of spiritual intelligence. I’m hoping we develop the science to send ASI bots to populate the universe and report back to us their findings. Perhaps in the next 20 years or so.
If you want to see the cozy relationship of the media and politicians, just look up the white house correspondents' dinner. They're on the same exact team. The elites were disappointed that they were betrayed by the people in 2016 by voting for Trump, and ever since then there has been a never ending crusade to make sure the people are never allowed to make that same mistake again.
Michael I love you but you saying DMT is supposed to be “relaxing”. Lol. That is wildy incorrect. Read the book by Rick Strassman, dmt the spirit molecule. Thats not to say it is bad, its just not relaxing. Exhilarating and profound are much better terms.
52:07 gahhhhhhhhh........ "terminal lucidity" and stuff like that, to the extent that it exists, comes from DEEPER in the brain! Not somewhere "out there"! 🙄🙄🙄
This whole fkn argument only exists because you western imperialist hogs practically outlawed teaching Karl Marx! They don't have these arguments in Vietnam! 🙄🙄🙄
The fundamental wave function of the universe is the Schrödinger equation, iirc! That's all the Laplacian Demon can see! Everything aside from the wave function is just as real on its own level! Humans are real on the human level! And they shouldn't piss and moan about not being real on any other fkn level! 🤪🖕
"Twit" is a British slang word for fool. Twitter was meant as a harmless place where the "bewildered herd" (Walter Lippman, 1920) could express their Happy Days, Roseanne opinions.
Consciousness is all that actually exists. Everything else we experience is Perception In Consciousness. This is what Max Planck meant, I proffer, when he said "matter is derivative from Consciousness."
MS: I do have a question on the data itself. I'm going to ask Jonathan about this when he comes on next week is . . I think it's an open question that is to say how big is that spike really. What if some of it is a not just an expansion of the category of depression or anxiety or whatever, so you throw more people in that bin but also some of it is self-fulfilling . . . I think Jonathan says it's not just redefining what depression is because the behavioral curves, like hospitalizations, match the self-reporting curves. (Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of The Anxious Generation (Part 1) Intelligence Squared, April 2024.)
WHY IDEALISM SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT POSITION 1. Your mind exists 2. Other minds apart from your own also exist 3. Things independently exist outside minds 4. Things outside minds can generate minds A true sceptic realises that materialism violates Occam's razor and concludes that idealism provides the simplest and most effective, metaphysical explanation of reality. Materialism, or physicalism, requires all these four statements to be true. Idealism only requires the first two to be true. As you can see, materialism requires more leaps of faith than idealism. The only statement that one can be sure of is number one, but in order to avoid the problem of solipsism and pragmatically uphold the theory of mind, both metaphysics must consider that statement number two must be true: other minds exist apart from one's own. This is the only leap of faith required of idealism-and it is a small one since we already know, from personal experience, that a mind can and does exist. It's easy to extrapolate from what is already known and posit the existence of a plurality of the same kind of phenomenon, namely, the conscious perception of other sentient beings. Materialism requires statements three and four in addition, and both are bigger leaps of faith, since we can never truly confirm that a world exists outside of consciousness without being aware of it in the first place, and we have no evidence nor the slightest idea of how anything unconscious could ever give rise to consciousness. As the scientist Bernardo Kastrup pointed out, '...everything you can ever know comes into consciousness the moment you know it, so the belief that there are things outside consciousness is an abstraction beyond knowledge.' So now consider how bad the last statement is as it postulates that things whose existence you cannot verify are responsible for the only thing you can be absolutely sure to exist: your own consciousness. Statement number four runs counter to the natural direction of inference, which is, the unknown is inferred from the known, not the other way around. Materialism isn't empirically deduced from the scientific process, it is a belief born out of medieval propaganda to politically subvert the power and influence that ancient religious dogma had over people. It began with the heretical rebellion of the Middle Ages as religion stood in the way of freedom and progress. Materialism isn't just false, it's untenable. The only reason we have come to believe in the last two statements with the advent of the age of reason is that we seem to share a common world. After all, two different individuals can describe the same surroundings and come to a mutual agreement based on what they observe simultaneously. But idealism is congruous with this observation without requiring huge leaps of faith like materialism. Metaphysical idealism doesn't require solipsism to be true as we have already established. Different conscious observers can agree on a shared mental construct that makes up an ostensibly external reality apart from their egoic minds. One can have one's private dreams as well as share a collective dream, as it were. At the moment, as human beings, we experience a narrow and limited perspective of reality, but without our anthropic avatars, we are, in theory, unbounded consciousness. We are both the part and the whole as access to other states of awareness, including a primordial and pristine cognition, is available to us through certain types of meditation. The interactive holarchy described in the alumnus Cosmin Visan's idealist theory of consciousness-which was brought to my attention recently-aligns well with subjective as well as ostensibly objective, verified facts about reality.
It amazes me now that I understand Ideolism and "The Direct Path" from Vedanta, how I could have ever been a materialist?! You only know when you know (and clinical death 3 times, flatlined) before returning as well as having experienced countless NDE's and mystical experiences over my EXTREMELY traumatic 17 years with the 2 x most painful and horriffic Autoimune Disseses a human being can possibly aquire. Once you have directly experienced the Spirit Realm you don't need to believe... You 'know!' 🙏 No need for faith or religion when you have "knowing" with direct lucid experiences. Great podcast and YES! ITS ALL CONNECTED!! ✨️💫
I prefer listening to Koch more and more as he gets closer and closer to the answers of IIT founder Giuili Tononi, which is really scientific theory. I like to see you talk with Tononi.
Long long ago....I can't imagine a journalist ever directly revealing their own candidate preference. Enjoyed listening to her, but was taken aback when she giddily "squealed" her enthusiasm for a presidential candidate from a few years ago. Morley Safer spoke at my school in the 1970's, revealing that he never voted, in any elections, state or federal.
Michael did not really understand donald hoffman nor does he want to accept christophs view of reality and stuff, nor does the current physics Orthodoxie accept that conscious is primary, all mystical traditions know this, we will need to learn and accept this new consciousness paradim, it will take a few decades till it becomes common.
Death is a mystery noth new here, but there is smth in us that goes beyond that process. Call it energy, consciousness, soul but we dont just dissappear in the eternal darkness and void. But then again i might be wrong. Ill let you know when i die 😂
This is basically a Rorschach test. You take two images. One extremely vague, then after revealing the other image, you find ways to make them fit together. It’s entirely possible, he was even subliminally (consciously or otherwise) dropping hints and suggestions because he WANTS to be proven right. This is anti science. You can EASILY prove the skill true or false by coming up with a test that is either an absolute pass or fail, like laying five cards on a table. There’s no interpretations to be made. It’s absolutely pass or it’s absolutely fail. No in betweens. The other caveat is that it should be truly random and nothing guessable like a location or a hobby.
All words are allegories; their meaning derives not from themselves but from their juxtaposition. Say you had a vocabulary with only one letter D, how would you even know it was that with the rest?. Same with numbers And even space and time, we can only measure each in contradistinction to each other, and this recursivity is reflected in the torturous tautologies that can only be eliminated by renormalisation.
The worst thing that you could ever do is to believe in the American government and the American Dream is All FAKE like democracy in America and Canada 🇨🇦 they are big puppets of the United Kingdom nsa gets off on silencing people Timothée David @csis Canad INA
