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by swayvil 3y ago
Is the brain the source or is it just a relay? Hard to tell. Occam suggests the prior. But by that logic there are little people living inside my tv.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We are of quite differing tastes. I like Egan's Permutation City Banks' Excession Hugh's Fine Structure
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by swayvil 3y ago
A romcom then
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by swayvil 3y ago
Rick and Morty was the rare quasar in a mess of warm gas. And I say "was" because it fell off a cliff after season 2. As for "everything everywhere all at once". Quite meh. Turned it off halfway.
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by swayvil 3y ago
An absence of preaching X does not necessitate preaching Y. We can also do without any preaching at all. Scifi is large. That other stuff is small.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's a recent thing.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I guess I'm aware the whole time. I fall into distraction sometimes too tho. I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I use the terms (awareness , attention) synonymously. To put it another way. It's like a flashlight. I shine the
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by swayvil 3y ago
>Everyone, 24-7, is paying attention to something Not to nitpick but that ain't necessarily so. In meditation we study attention and do neat tricks with it. One trick is a refinement of plain old concentration. The other trick is br
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by swayvil 3y ago
Concentrating your attention (we here are all quite familiar with it) has a flipside. A vast blindness. Because the degree to which you concentrate upon a thing (ex : a puzzle, thoughts about a puzzle, thoughts in general... to name some co
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by swayvil 3y ago
Re eggshells : Speaking as a guy who just got flagmurdered for nothing. No shit.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Oh, I thought that you thought that I was insinuating that the heart attacks were caused by the vax. Oh yes, I was definitely suggesting that the heart attacks were caused by covid. Covid is notorious for messing with your heart. Right?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I've had great results from vipassana meditation. Any of you experience similar?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I'm looking for pictures of a guy with the exoskeletal running augmenter strapped on.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I love to get high while surrounded by animated salesmen.
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by swayvil 3y ago
If 2 parents make a good kid then maybe 3 parents make a better kid. It used to be people lived near their extended family. Lots of parents there. Be aware that this "nuclear family" is a recent and historically strange thing. It
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by swayvil 3y ago
Maybe another dog to keep him company. My dog hates to sleep alone. Could that be an issue? Also, being old. Subject to the ails of that. Can raise your anxiety level. Maybe that's what's going on.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We recently adopted a dog. The prior owners had decided to kill it. On the advice of the dog's psychiatrist. We convinced them to give the dog to us instead. The prior owners both take prozac. The dog was on prozac. I suppose they figu
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by swayvil 3y ago
No eyeball bleeding per se but yes, I predict that you would definitely sustain a significant amount of hearing damage. My dinky 9mm leaves my ears ringing shooting it just once, without protection, in a grassy field. So I'm drawing fr
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by swayvil 3y ago
I would totally live in one of those. Do you think they have a vibe? Haunted?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that they are mutually exclusive. Just that this sphere of language definitely has a limit. (Which leads to various important stuff)
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by swayvil 3y ago
I get what you mean. But we also have this thing called Science. Where a firsthand encounter with nonlinguistic reality is considered key. And Science has proven its power over and over. And you'd think that would impress people. Even
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by swayvil 3y ago
School of the Prophets (or something like that). A flavor of Sufis.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We have a local mind-control cult where I live. When asked they'll retort "why yes, we are a mind control cult. We teach you how to control your mind." ...but that isn't what I meant. Controlling the language. It's
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by swayvil 3y ago
If your reality is largely compromised of language, soft language is the natural evolution of language. Of course we who live wrapped in language are going to modify our terms for comfort. When you're wrapped like this, comfort trumps
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by swayvil 3y ago
Would split-tweak (chaikins, jareks...) be applicable here? It's easy. (It's weirdly difficult to find an example to link) Here's chaikins https://sighack.com/post/chaikin-curves
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by swayvil 3y ago
The input would probably be like they say. Create or modify the "spirit door" or "elf house" or whatever. Output... maybe watch for phenomena in your imagination (which becomes distinctly visible in half-sleep, hypnagogi
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by swayvil 3y ago
Refactoring has a price. Not refactoring has a cost. Either way, you pay PRICE. COST. PAY. 3 roughly synonymous terms used when one would do just fine. Why? For example : Refactoring has a price. Not refactoring has a price. Either way
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by swayvil 3y ago
Suspension of disbelief. Or assuming a different set of beliefs. These beliefs being a set of assumptions or rules underlying a story or a game. To move from one world to another. To enter a movie, story, game... we are all pretty familiar
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by swayvil 3y ago
These devices all interact via theater. Like there's a fiction, or a dream, that we can interact with via fiction/dream things. The afterlife and dreamland are one and the same? You see it in other cultures too. Little houses for
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by swayvil 3y ago
So there should be a size limit corporations. Too big and it starts interfering with the system. The system that maintains the lives of us citizens. I think that's straightforward enough.

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