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For the brave among you, I actually can recommend reading some parts of it. His main ideas are quite interesting. I wasn't really able to follow, but neverthele

by k0k0r0 4y ago

For the brave among you, I actually can recommend reading some parts of it. His main ideas are quite interesting. I wasn't really able to follow, but nevertheless I was able to get something out of it. I find the idea and subject interesting, and I would really love to learn more about his expieriences, but it's very difficult to read because of all of his temperament. I stopped reading when I noticed I started missing the actual descriptive information of his attempt to capture all of his thoughts. It is buried in a whole lot of strong opinions about details like what paper to use. At some point somewhere at the beginning he says he'll just spit the text out since it is better if he serves any readers with this than providing nothing. And actually that he spits this text out is kind of a perfect summary of how I feel when reading. I wish he had been slighly more relaxed when writing this text. But I guess he practised his approach to get a complete map of his thoughts in a equally unrelaxed manner. In his defense, he says somewhere he is 25 (at the time of writing) and that is probably were some part of his energy comes from. I am not much older and multiple times while reading I asked myself whether - or to what extend - his text is a look in a mirror. And promised myself to take care to be less convinced of my own conclusions.

Mo3 4y ago
Completely agree, I had a really hard time following through with reading this because it seemed so opinionated and at times inconclusive. On another note, trying not to talk out of my own opinion, if you ask certain people with philosophical, spiritual, meditation practice etc background, this is somewhat expected. When the mind has nothing to think about but thoughts, and you deeply identify with every single one, you lose touch with reality. Thoughts are generated after the fact, by themselves, feeding off the universe of your own neural connections. Even when they say “I”. Raw concepts swap from the subconscious into the conscious mind, and the conscious mind assumes them as coming from itself. In a way you would be thought, and don’t think, identity is imagined after the fact, the only free will is in observing and focusing.. Personally, I believe this could be comparable to feeding DALL-E a description, taking the generated image, feeding it into a image-to-text classifier, and then the generated description back into DALL-E, ad infinitum. Like an endless game of telephone where the conscious mind can influence the participants bias to some degree, yet both the imagined concepts and perception of reality slowly drift further and further away from the initial neuronal activity, and in the meantime we filter out all the actual new thoughts and perceptions, despite them being much closer to the current moment, initial perception and/or neuronal activity and thus also much more rational and functional. Focusing the stream of thoughts in a certain direction seems possible, but only through being aware of it, not being it, as that would imply firing up the telephone game again and getting lost it in it again.

by k0k0r0 4y ago

Mo3 4y ago

Completely agree, I had a really hard time following through with reading this because it seemed so opinionated and at times inconclusive. On another note, trying not to talk out of my own opinion, if you ask certain people with philosophical, spiritual, meditation practice etc background, this is somewhat expected. When the mind has nothing to think about but thoughts, and you deeply identify with every single one, you lose touch with reality. Thoughts are generated after the fact, by themselves, feeding off the universe of your own neural connections. Even when they say “I”. Raw concepts swap from the subconscious into the conscious mind, and the conscious mind assumes them as coming from itself. In a way you would be thought, and don’t think, identity is imagined after the fact, the only free will is in observing and focusing.. Personally, I believe this could be comparable to feeding DALL-E a description, taking the generated image, feeding it into a image-to-text classifier, and then the generated description back into DALL-E, ad infinitum. Like an endless game of telephone where the conscious mind can influence the participants bias to some degree, yet both the imagined concepts and perception of reality slowly drift further and further away from the initial neuronal activity, and in the meantime we filter out all the actual new thoughts and perceptions, despite them being much closer to the current moment, initial perception and/or neuronal activity and thus also much more rational and functional. Focusing the stream of thoughts in a certain direction seems possible, but only through being aware of it, not being it, as that would imply firing up the telephone game again and getting lost it in it again.