trees101

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by trees101 5y ago
agreed, the giveaway is the label "far right" to describe anyone who doesn't agree with their politics.
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by trees101 5y ago
Flat Earth is true in the most important sense, which is our direct experience. Although we regularly use technology which relies on the standard scientific understanding of the Earth and Solar System, our everyday experience and all our pl
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by trees101 5y ago
Interesting. So perhaps another term for "contextual framework" is "mental model"? I like the way you've thought about this. I don't share your atheism, but without wanting to start a debate it would be interes
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by trees101 5y ago
Im interested in your categorisation of learning. Can you elaborate on "contextual framework"? Are these your own concepts, if not where do you get them from?
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by trees101 5y ago
the problem is that words we use are like well-worn tracks in the snow. We use them without pondering what they mean. It takes something like a crisis in our lives, or a psychedelic trip, can jolt us out of the same old mental rut. The word
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by trees101 5y ago
Any stable human being has some kind of framework whereby they don't just live to please every desire as soon as it pops us. The closest thing we see to immediate self gratification is the drug addict under the bridge. There is nothing
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by trees101 5y ago
I don't insist that you believe anything, I just tried to pick an example that you might already believe in, and draw analogies to belief in spirits so you can better understand the more nuanced view of spirit that is actually what a r
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by trees101 5y ago
I don't question the existence of thoughts, I merely pointed out that "existence" is different for different types of things. I think there are "layers" of existence, similar to how the OSI networking model works. O
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by trees101 5y ago
what do you mean by "exists"? They don't exist as a solid physical object. They exist more like a gust of wind, which moves all the leaves in the same direction and that's all we see. You can't "prove" tha
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by trees101 5y ago
isn't it just obvious? We have to make decisions. Each decision is made (consciously or subconsciously) by weighing up the predicted outcome according to a set of values. Those values inevitably conflict, so they have in turn to be jud
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by trees101 5y ago
Many atheists do believe in higher powers, though. What about something like Patriarchy or institutional racism? These are higher powers that are said to exist beyond any individual, and to be propagated subconsciously and perhaps even unwi
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by trees101 5y ago
I think of religion's relationship to humanity, in terms of the OSI model for networking. By this analogy, you might consider religion to be questions concerning the Application layer, the layer that 99% of people actively care about.
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by trees101 5y ago
A useful way to think about religion, is to acknowledge that there are certain universal human features that never go away. For example, there will always be a highest principle by which a person's life is ordered (if they seem to chan
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by trees101 5y ago
That is an excellent talk
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by trees101 5y ago
the article itself is an example of that. It's so frustrating to be preached to about "facts" by someone who makes no use of "facts" in their own argument. Same for "logic" and "rationality".
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by trees101 5y ago
The article assumes a particular framework of understanding. This framework is not in any way "proven" using "facts" according to its own standard. It just baldly assumes a way of understanding, and then demands that ot
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by trees101 5y ago
https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
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by trees101 5y ago
A good free way to achieve this is to use Signal. This project https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli enables you to send Signal messages from the command line, including from Raspberry Pis. It obviously needs an internet
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by trees101 5y ago
do you mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers ?
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by trees101 5y ago
an Argo tunnel is even easier. You can even get it for free; https://noise.getoto.net/2019/06/15/a-free-argo-tunnel-for-y...
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by trees101 5y ago
My longer summary: The author uses the story of Odysseus blinding the Cyclops in the cave as an example of techne (guile/cunning), and of the emergence of the self/ego out of the dark, primitive child state. Thrusting a sharpene
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by trees101 5y ago
My attempt at a one sentence summary: Technology is a one-sided outwards manifestation of our inner cunning that allows us to become fully human out of our childish natural origins, but as technology crystallizes around us, we run the risk
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by trees101 5y ago
https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad ...* distressing and functionally impairing meditation experiences of 60 Western Buddhist meditators. They documented 59 types of adverse effects in their study,
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by trees101 5y ago
This is a challenging article. To paraphrase, it suggests that a suite of religious practices have been shown to have real world benefits. The author suggests that scientists should overcome their personal allergy to religion and instead tr
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by trees101 5y ago
The false promise of "secular" therapy is that it will give you the view from nowhere. A scientific, independent perspective untainted by beliefs or bias. Unfortunately, anyone who has met a person knows that this kind of independ
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by trees101 5y ago
obsidian is great for both notes and checklists. It allows you to have a simple checklist up front, but with clickable links that hide as much (multimedia) information, internal and external links as you need.
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according to some theories, there is enforcement of Chekov's gun. Reality is combinitorial explosive, ie. there are vastly too many inputs for us to synthesize. So our perception and memory both function to "chunk" events a
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by trees101 5y ago
Great work, thank you. Have you considered Obsidian, and Obsidian publish, as a medium? Take a look at Andy Matuschak's site as one example, there are many variants out there too https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_th