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  2. Too cynical. I'm sure he will learn many painful lessons. He probably learned a lot already after 1 night in jail. Remember, he's not some superhero, it's just a guy, no different than you.
  3. Yesterday

  4. What is some music you like?

    cetus replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    @Joseph Maynor Right back at you.......... it sounds great on Blue Note vinyl.
  5. @Jodistrict He's too rich to learn anything in prison.
  6. I doubt it has anything to do with Covid. He is like Trump. He is a master manipulator who saw the winds of change and hopped on board with a new identity. He used his verbal skills and voice hypnosis to override people’s critical thinking and sold his identity change as the natural progression of a thoughtful person. What I find interesting is how will he adopt to prison life? Will he be able to form a successful identity that works in prison? Will he be baptizing ax murderers?

  7. Half-thoughts

    Jirh replied to Jirh's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

  8. When we help a lost soul, we are only helping ourself. All I meet are me in disguise. A purpose in life is to figure out who of my selves out there am I going to benefit today. It is a very hard question. For me it boils down to, is my few minutes devoted to them going to make a jot of difference? A human cannot truly know the answer as to whether they can assist another human. Therefore do whatever is helpful to your own evolution. The more awake I am, the more light I shine.
  9. All correct brother. In the beginning, we need to tell people you have meaning and you have purpose. Else there is no way forward and no way out of madness. It's a device, a slap, a ruse, to jolt people from their solid conviction about life and the world. Everyone thinks I know what life means and I know the reason that makes life worth living - and if they don't they spend time discovering it. So the Course yes you do have meaning and purpose. And it sets them on the road. It gives one's life a better meaning and purpose. The better meaning is I am of God and the better purpose is I shall realize this. Then step by step you have to stop correcting the ego thoughts with beneficial thoughts - I am not better than you with I am the same as you. It is ego neutralization if you will. Don't fight ego. When it rears it heads, you see it and say this isn't for me and moment by moment I am going to choose peace. Openness as you call it, is the result.
  10. You could write a book on that one. But I will say, of course, it doesn't happen overnight. Why? Self-preservation. Survival. Natural instinct.
  11. I don't know. Enlightened or no shit happens. These mofos wanna act like they know enlightened dudes. They don't. Enlightened dudes can be anyone off the street. Shit. The inmate sitting next to you in jail. God is a mothetuckong tricky beast
  12. AI is a P-zombie. It's behaviorally identical to a human but completely lacks phenomenal experience. A calculator does not experience 2+2 = 4 when you hit enter. I suspect human experience is the brain drawing all of its senses onto a screen And it uses tricks of memory to create continuity, object permanence and time. The fly is experiencing something. Self awareness is not necessary for experience.
  13. Let's not forget, emotional triggers are both negative and positive. You can't have one without the other. So, you're talking about the complete elimination of all emotion. Which would essentially mean you'd be dead inside. Personally, I don't want to be that enlightened. There will be plenty of lack of emotion when I'm dead.
  14. Woop Dee-Freakin' Doo! Who would have thought that proper intuition and observation of how real brains develop would be the catalyst to make some real progress in AI advancement? Even I kinda knew this already in a subtle way. When I get chronically-sleep-deprived I can't learn or remember effectively.
  15. AI (2001)
  16. I often think of the masses as sheep being taken advantage of by wolves. The wolves are usually a few steps ahead of the sheep. But now, the sheep have caught up and the wolves have to go into hiding and plot their next moves. It's a cycle. Imagine if every human on the planet were taught how marketing works to manipulate people. The sheep would have caught up to the marketers and the marketers would have to go back to the drawing board. It's an evolving cat and mouse game.
  17. To clarify, I'm talking about the relative self (lowercase self), not the total Self or total consciousness. I feel like there's a lot of debate around questions such as: "Is a fetus conscious?" "Are animals conscious?" "Could AI develop consciousness? If not through electronic hardware, what about AI built using organoids or biological neurons (wetware)?", "When does a baby or child become conscious?" "When was the first time you felt your relative self or ego forming?" When would you say a relative self, ego, or sense of "I" forms, and why/how? Is it dependent on specific areas of the human brain, or is it more about higher-order complexity, information processing, and the capacity for self-reflection? For example, let's say you could connect a fly's brain to a second brain that significantly increases its processing power, memory, and capacity for self-reflection. Would the fly then develop a sense of "I"? Would it become self-aware in a way it wasn't before? How would you even create, define, or measure that? I'd be really curious to hear people's thoughts on this!
  18. Right, I was mostly pointing to the one that looks invisible
  19. Yes, Covid rotted his brain. I read some of his books and enjoyed them before then. They were about his recovery, they left out the rape though.
  20. @Jodistrict Yes!
  21. Super interesting! It keeps reminding me how intelligent nature is. Millions, billions of human "scientific" minds are researching, and yet we're still deeply invested in modeling and copying what we see in nature. I think I also saw researchers having to add actual muscle tissue to a robotic arm to make it move more fluidly and flexibly for its tasks, or even using a dead spider as a more efficient and flexible version of a claw machine, haha It's possible you might even see more "wetware" organoid neurons being used in AI to optimize energy efficiency and reduce power consumption.
  22. My mother came from Italy and that was her state of being. The surrounding culture didn’t change her identity. But it did change me. I am just beginning to realize the confusion it created for me. Because as a child I assumed that the world she created at home was reality but the external culture I was having to grow up in was radically different. So, I was never in sync with the culture that I was growing up in. This stuff is real and deeply buried in the unconscious.

  23. Human Music > AI Music

    Xonas Pitfall replied to jimwell's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    I guess it's a slippery slope 😅; a lot of humans also just "copy," yet people find their songs deeply emotionally moving. I'm not going to argue that humans aren't more creative than AI. I was just saying that some AI songs can feel "as moving," and a lot of humans do just "copy" too.
  24. But can it learn how to feel?
  25. Todd prolly has that baking in the oven for a quick cash grab. Milk the desperate fans.

  26. What is some music you like?

    Joseph Maynor replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

  27. You wish that was default. Default is racism, xenophobia, and tribalism.
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