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by davidhs 4y ago
What are the other 4 top programming books?
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by davidhs 4y ago
To give a better context for my comment to OP, I began (again) practicing meditation early January this year by following the book The Mind Illuminated. I am now mostly working on stages 3 and 4 of the book. I noticed, in my mind, when I wa
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by davidhs 4y ago
I do concentration meditation. After about 15 minutes most of my mind chatter has dissipated.
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by davidhs 5y ago
I mean "simulated" in the same sense as how computational machines can simulate any other computational machine, as in you can define some arbitrary state and arbitrary rules and with such a machine apply those rules to the state
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by davidhs 5y ago
The simulated experience is the real experience.
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by davidhs 5y ago
I think what you mean by reality is physical reality, if so then it is impossible for us to directly experience it. You are a simulated being in a simulated world. The simulated world runs on a physical brain. Everything you experience is &
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by davidhs 5y ago
What if we have the misconception of thinking we are a physical person in a physical world that has access to a weird mind? What if instead they physical brain is simulating the universe we find ourselves individually in, and we are only si
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by davidhs 5y ago
> I think it is impossible to understand Consciousness because Consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe. I think it's much more likely that consciousness is a result of brain activity. For example, if consciousness cre
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by davidhs 5y ago
I don't think consciousness is an embodied phenomenon. It's probably just a property or set of properties of the simulated world that we find ourselves in (the simulated world running on the brain). To me, embodiment such and such
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by davidhs 5y ago
> What I find fascinating about consciousness is that it seems to be bound to your location. But how and why? Why are you inside of your body and not in someone elses? From what I can best tell, consciousness is a property or a set of si
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by davidhs 5y ago
Certain kinds of pain stimulus causes you automatically to move away from it, such as when you put your hand on a stove. But parts of your body might be sending pain signals into the brain for which there are no automatic actions for, e.g.
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by davidhs 5y ago
Well, I think in some sense it's all just "controlled" hallucination, but, to me, it doesn't say much. Sometimes I think people have some intuitive sense of how things ought to work but but they can't reconcile it w
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by davidhs 5y ago
Well, the reason we have experience at all is because that is being simulated by the brain. For me a more interesting question is how it is being simulated by the brain.
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by davidhs 5y ago
I have orthostatic hypotension, which doesn't affect me as much since I've gained weight, and I've lost consciousness from standing to quickly up, but sometimes it doesn't all go away. I black out, a moment later I am so
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by davidhs 5y ago
I was a physicalist (and in some sense still am). In a nutshell your self and everything you experience and can experience is simulated. I live inside a simulation. The simulation is running on a physical brain, part of a physical human whi
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by davidhs 5y ago
You are a simulated person running inside a simulated universe that is being simulated on a physical brain inside a physical human inside a physical universe. With meditation you can learn for example how to turn off your simulated self. Wi