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by nico 3y ago
Even the way the title was written. When I first read it, I missed the last word and it seemed to be saying that the crypto community was rooting for the guy It would be much clearer if it said something like The crypto community calls for
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by nico 3y ago
Public companies also do this, they buy their own stock and drive the price up Maybe the process is more transparent, but the mechanism is the same
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by nico 3y ago
Checkout the group size theories about humans’ Dunbar number Dunbar figured out that within apes, the one factor that correlates to every species brain size, is group size If you apply the formula to humans (ie. measure brain size and calcu
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by nico 3y ago
It is definitely nice to know and also nice to experience (at least after the fact, as the leading up to it can be terrifying) You can have a death experience through meditation, breath work, hypnosis or psychedelics It’s very liberating to
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by nico 3y ago
There are many ways to have a non-self or non-dual consciousness experience Do some research, you can get into meditation or find a safe way to experience with psychedelics Also, it’s a natural part of our own human experience. Babies are b
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by nico 3y ago
In a way yes, your whole reality is your own internal hallucination, and there is no way to break out of it That doesn’t mean you can’t explore anything within that In fact a lot of eastern philosophical and religious traditions focus exact
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by nico 3y ago
About 10 years ago I went to the Amazon rainforest to a place where you could climb trees. The host there explained to us that trees made it rain by “sending fairies” up into the clouds - then when he saw our faces he said the fairies were,
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by nico 3y ago
That’s a very thoughtful and thought-provoking article, thank you It sucks that communism and pretty much anything related to it is almost impossible to discuss in earnest I doubted even clicking on that link for a while, dismissing it just
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by nico 3y ago
Physics is philosophy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37721284 You might not like it and prefer to focus only on the models and the math But fundamentally, all of our knowledge, including physics only really exists in
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by nico 3y ago
> They existed for billions of years before I came around. And how did you come to learn this? Through your consciousness Everything that you can know or experience is mediated through your consciousness Anything you believe to be object
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by nico 3y ago
Not rejecting your comment. Just a note that consciousness does not need a sense of self You can absolutely be conscious without having a sense of self
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by nico 3y ago
> the section of population that just can't abide that AI could be 'conscious' are finding all these more esoteric arguments about the universe being 'consciousness' Panpsychism asserts that everything is conscio
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by nico 3y ago
> What's the deal with these things being lumped in with physics? Definition of natural philosophy: > natural science, especially physical science Physics at its core is philosophy, and its models, as sophisticated or complete as
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by nico 3y ago
> we can picture an experience Picture it, but not experience it, it’s two different things Whether our own perception is an accident of our genetic makeup or a fundamental property doesn’t really matter, it’s still the only way we can e
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by nico 3y ago
I said it’s two different things, and explained why/how Now, if you actually have something interesting to add to the conversation, please do
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by nico 3y ago
To me, the quote and your questions seem like different concepts Regarding your questions: There is a difference between intellectual knowledge and experience Sometimes the concept of gnosis is used to differentiate them So for example, you
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by nico 3y ago
Interesting. Another potential spectrum could be people wired more for concrete vs abstract Personally I mostly think and understand the world in terms of abstract concepts, but I know that a lot of people don’t really have or care for the
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by nico 3y ago
> Bengston's "The Energy Cure" is a pretty good example of what happens when you start doing that Curious about this. Could you explain a bit more what happened? Thank you
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by nico 3y ago
This is an excellent observation The idea has been somewhat famously illustrated in the concept of the muse, an external entity or influence that is the actual source of the ideas that we then channel into our reality Similar also to what M
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by nico 3y ago
Great take. Alan Watts described the issue pretty eloquently: > It's beyond all categorization whatsoever, and so the Upanishads say, “all we can say of it positively is the negative.” Neti neti; 'it is not this, not that. The
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by nico 3y ago
If you are not open to discussing any ideas except asserting your opposing view of mine, then who’s the troll? What you are doing is the very behavior that makes HN a toxic place and why so many end up avoiding discussion You can’t control
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by nico 3y ago
Which you will never be able to prove because we can never experience anything outside of our consciousness You can speculate all you want and create as many models as you please, yet you can never know what reality is to anyone else but yo
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by nico 3y ago
Says the troll that has nothing to add to the conversation except crapping on other people’s ideas without actually saying anything insightful at all. Well done
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by nico 3y ago
You mean it’s not a novel insight to you It’s still a great insight, regardless of who is remembered in history for coming up with it first
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by nico 3y ago
So according to you, nothing that anyone has discovered before is a great insight? Now, regarding the dark matter issue, maybe there are more levels that models can be separated in. It seems overly simplistic to separate the whole immensity
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by nico 3y ago
So? What’s your point? That it can’t be used for anything else because some people, including you, already knew about it, hence it can’t be applied in novel ways? Btw, no one said it was a novel insight
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by nico 3y ago
What I meant is that whatever we experience of the universe (thinking in dualistic terms as us being a separate thing from “the rest of the universe”), then that experience is happening through, or in, our consciousness And sure, we are tec
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by nico 3y ago
> many phenomena that can’t be inferred from the goings-on at the microscopic level, it is nonetheless a real, emergent feature of the macroscopic world. He offered the physics of gases as a parallel example. At the micro level, one talk
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by nico 3y ago
Unfortunately we will never truly know, as the only way we can experience the universe is through our consciousness, in that sense, from a human perception perspective, the universe and our consciousness are inextricably intertwined and any
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> Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward, explaining the workings of the tiniest quarks to the largest galaxy clusters. But explaining things that reside “only in consciousness” Everything we know about anything i

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