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How do you idealists explain answering a phone call? If someone calls you and you talk to them on the phone, by definition, they exist outside your consciousness. How could the phone ring in the first place if nothing exists outside your mind?

Here’s an example of GPT vs Claude: Me: What is self image, self-esteem and self-worth? GPT: **Self-image** refers to the mental picture or idea one has about themselves. It includes how you see your physical appearance, personality traits, abilities, and roles in different areas of life. This image is influenced by past experiences, relationships, and societal expectations, and can be positive, negative, or somewhere in between. **Self-esteem** is the evaluation of your self-image—how much you appreciate and value yourself. It's about the overall judgment of your worth, abilities, and qualities, often influenced by how you perceive others see you, achievements, and life experiences. High self-esteem means having a positive, appreciative view of oneself, while low self-esteem reflects feelings of inadequacy or inferiority. **Self-worth** goes deeper than self-esteem and is the belief that you are inherently valuable, deserving of love, respect, and good things, simply because you exist. It’s an intrinsic sense of worthiness that isn’t tied to external achievements, validation, or circumstances. A healthy sense of self-worth means seeing yourself as worthy regardless of successes or failures. In essence, self-image shapes how you see yourself, self-esteem evaluates how you feel about that image, and self-worth defines your inherent value as a person. ————— Me: What is self-worth self image self-esteem? Claude: Self-worth, self-image, and self-esteem are related psychological concepts that describe how individuals perceive and value themselves: 1. Self-worth: - The sense of one's own value or worth as a person - Belief that you are valuable as a human being, regardless of external factors 2. Self-image: - The mental picture or perception you have of yourself - Includes how you see your physical appearance, personality traits, and abilities 3. Self-esteem: - Overall evaluation or appraisal of one's own worth - Encompasses beliefs about oneself and emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame These concepts are interconnected: - Self-image contributes to self-esteem - Self-worth influences and is influenced by self-esteem - A positive self-image can lead to higher self-esteem and a stronger sense of self-worth Would you like me to elaborate on any of these concepts or their relationships? See how ChatGPT gives more in-depth analysis? ChatGPT is objectively superior.

ChatGPT can remember things you’ve said in previous conversations. When you open up a new chat in Claude, it does not recall who you are or what you talked about. ChatGPT knows I am a 27 year old male and other details about me and my conversations. It will literally bring things up I’ve said in previous conversations. This makes GPT superior in my book.

Play Life Is Strange. Not a good idea messing with time. The way you remember your reality won’t be the same. Wouldn’t that suck?

In many ways I prefer ChatGPT better than Claude. I use both because they are both good for their own reasons. In ChatGPT, it can actually link me the sources it used, whereas Claude doesn’t have access to links. ChatGPT also remembers all of your previous conversations with it and can point out your contradictions better whereas Claude can’t do this. ChatGPT is hands down more versatile than Claude. I like Claude for philosophy discussions but anything else, I use ChatGPT.

OP makes a good point. There are plenty of things happening outside of your consciousness right now, which ofc exist inside of your consciousness once you become aware of them. Look at police brutality. Just because you aren’t aware of it now, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening right now outside of your awareness. Look at children. They couldn’t exist without the sex their parents had, which you weren’t around to witness that. Yet, it happened. It would be foolish to say that children exist without coming out of a woman.

Found this gold mine YouTube channel that I wanted to share. Hope it gets incels to stfu.

You miss that everyone is a hypocrite. Sometimes you have to lie to sustain the illusion. If honesty were introduced into politics, the whole system of BS would collapse. People are honest conditionally. No such thing as unconditional honesty unless you are like Socrates.

I don’t have the balls to do that crap.

If someone is killed in the forest and if no one is around to witness it, are they dead?

Leo said in the past that jerking off more than one time a day is a waste of time. Just do it once and move on.

This is stupid. The fact that you can form coherent sentences already puts you above beige lol.

Here are some of the main contradictions I see in Post-Modernism: 1. Naturalistic (Is/Ought) Fallacy - How can you make a moral decision, justify it, and try to convince others to join your cause if your position is relative? 2. Cancel Culture - Isn't multiculturalism a feature of postmodernism? Isn't cancel culture counter-multiculturalism? How can you celebrate multiculturalism but then pick and choose perspectives you don't agree with and try to cancel those? Your cherry picking. 3. Absolute Truth - How can you say absolute reality doesn't exist when all of your ideas are occurring in some basic reality that which is shared? I think the main one I want to point out here is cancel culture. What is the purpose of cancel culture? How can you say you are pro-diversity and are pro-cancel culture. Some people will say they are so pro-diversity that they are against all perspectives that try to undermine diversity. You can take this position, but notice that you are being just like the anti-diversity people when you take the attitude of cancel culture. In a way, you are no better than phobic/discriminatory people because cancel culture itself is a form of social shunning and silence. White supremists and lgbtq+phobes are trying to silence voices already. I can understand the need to silence their voices to silence others' voices. There are circumstances where fake news may need to be silenced because of the harms it can do to others. The line here isn't so clear as to what speak and perspectives we should allow. Going too far extreme on either cancel culture or free culture can be dismantling. But notice that being pro-diversity is more in alignment with free-culture; otherwise, it is selective diversity.

How can there be any deep understanding if everything is an illusion? By that logic, your deep understanding is also an illusion because there is no understanding without consciousness.

I respectfully disagree. Consciousness is the one thing I cannot doubt and cannot be an illusion. I can doubt the contents within consciousness but not consciousness itself. There is nothing prior to I AM. Your true nature is Now. The whole concept of an illusion is occurring with your consciousness, so what does it mean to say that consciousness is an illusion?

I agree. It’s a self-defeating question begging statement because how do you know everything is an illusion? Did you explore everything in the Universe to determine this? It’s so question begging.

“I have a concept of a plan.” - Donal Trump Lol

Right. Everything is Consciousness. Consciousness is not an illusion. Illusion cannot exist without consciousness.

It’s basically still saying the same thing, half full or half empty however you wanna look at it. What would you say is not an illusion? Illusion?

Saying everything is an illusion poses a paradox like the liar paradox. Illusion must be an illusion since it is part of everything. This is why when Leo says reality is imaginary, it is no more valid than saying reality is real. The same logic works for everything being imaginary. If everything is imaginary, then that means everything being imaginary is also imaginary. Postmoderned yo ass.

Not quite. What I am suggesting is that even illusion is an illusion. It is a paradox to say that reality is an illusion because it loses its meaning. Is illusion real or is it an illusion? If illusion is real, then saying reality is an illusion has no more valid than saying reality is real. If everything is an illusion, then even illusions are also an illusion. It’s just another form of the liar paradox. What exactly is an illusion? Something that appears real but isn’t? Well, what if the real illusion is illusion itself? What if appearance is reality? What is A=A? Reality = Reality?

Postmodernism itself is a social construct but truth is not!

This is a contradiction because to have or say anything is a social construct requires conscious experience lol.

If everything is an illusion, then illusion is also an illusion since illusion is part of everything.

Hello. I just wrote a blog post, and I felt called to share it and hope it gives value and joy to those who read it. Teleportation or Knowledge? Which Superpower Would You Choose? If you had the choice to pick a superpower of being able to instantly travel to anywhere you wanted in the world or to be able to instantly read and comprehend all the knowledge in a book at the snap of your fingers, which would you choose? This question, although hypothetical, can be a thought-provoking way of helping you to discern your priorities in your life at the moment. Go ahead and think about your answer and your reasons for justifying it. Before I give you my answer, I want us to first analyze these two options in-depth. So what would it look like to have instant travel? I imagine that you could instantly teleport to any place that exists in the physical dimension. This means that you could instantly travel to New York, Ireland, Japan, the Moon, Mars, and the sun. Of course, we have to recognize that if you traveled to a place unsuitable for life such as the sun or Saturn, you would die. But you could literally travel to anywhere in the known universe with this power. I say known because how can you visit a place you don't know exists? The only way you can visit a place you don't know exists is by traveling to a place you already know exists first. If I don't know about The Petra in Jordan, then I could never visit that place except on accident. What would you do if you had the power to instantly travel anywhere you wanted? What would you do? Where would you go? I imagine myself traveling to all of the places in the world, going to all the hotels, go kayaking on the lake, seeing the majestic sights of the Northern Lights, camping at a national park, climbing up Mount Everest (yes, I said climb), and go scuba diving in the ocean. One thing I want to note is that having this power can be very deceptive and can defeat the joys and purpose of traveling. Part of traveling is the thrill of adventure. If I just snap my fingers, and I am up on Mount Everest, it is not as rewarding if there is no difficulty or risk associated with it. This power, while quite appealing, can be very self-defeating because something is lost when you can gain it at the snap of your fingers. It is like watching only the highlights of a movie and missing out on the rest. You miss so much of the world if you only focus on what you believe to be the highlights. But some might argue differently that this ability would set them up to have more time to go places. The other option is to be able to instantly read/comprehend a book and gain all of the knowledge instantly. I find this very appealing to me because reading has been something of a challenge to me. Reading is something can be very boring, but the rewards of acquiring knowledge can be quite worth it. But imagine that you have the ability to read a book at the snap of your fingers. This means that in 10 minutes, you can read and understand 600 books! In 1 hour, you can 3,600 books! In one hour, you could read more than what the average person will read in their lifetime! Just think that you read a book at a pace that a person reads a word. Think about all the knowledge and personal development you can gain from such an experience. You can instantly comprehend a book in any field you desire from philosophy to gardening to politics to business to music. It is endless! Even though I love being active and love to travel, I feel like being able to instantly gain knowledge from a book is quite appealing. I imagine I would use this hypothetical ability to feed my insatiable curiosity, to learn about history, and to learn from all the authors and brilliant minds throughout history. With this power, I imagine that it would help me to write an excellent book of my own, having read all the sources I need. I can see that I would know all the traps of business, all the scams, I could read a news article with a single snap and know the latest AI laws being implemented. Heck, there would be no AI taking my job! I would be putting AI out of business! Just think of all the patterns you would be able to see if you were able to read, comprehend, and retain all the sources you read. You would be unstoppable! Or would you? One of the issues with this superpower is that of course, you are human! Your brain can only process so much information. Even if you could somehow process an endless amount of information, you would be considered closer to an AI than you would a human. Part of being human is having the limitations of being human. At some point, too much information does not become helpful. In fact, too much information can take an emotional toll on you and your relationships with others. Brilliant characters like Einstein and Sherlock Holmes were very great, but everything has a cost. The cost of being brilliant is also being secluded. It can be an isolating experience to be so brilliant that you feel like the only adult among kids. I know I have personally felt this way, and I am not a genius. My insatiable curiosity and interest in philosophy alone makes me feel alone because most of the people I interact with do not seem to be at all concerned with existential matters (at least until crap hits the fan). I imagine that this superpower would only multiple my experience a billion fold. So, what is my final answer to the question? None. No superpower. I know. Sounds nuts right? Well, when I had this insight, I fell to my knees crying in gratitude and awe. The Universe is absolutely amazing, and there is a joy in accepting the powers that the Universe has already given us. The real superpower is realizing that you are super, and that you are inseparable from the entire Universe! The human being is one costume and one character that the Universe is wearing and playing right now. The Universe is also playing as a squirrel, a dog, an ant, etc. The Universe is one big song in complete harmony with itself. I realized that the Universe designed life in such a way that having any kind of superpower like time travel, strength, teleportation, or infinite knowledge would take so much away from you. There is power in being vulnerable and in enduring the challenges of the human experience, which of course include suffering and the resilience that follows. If you are invincible, what is the point? Without growth, where is the meaning in life? Of course, that is for you to decide. I would say that the real superpower is in resilience and in the desire for growth and expansion. I believe that we appreciate things the most when we have to work for them. Like anything else, the human mind becomes to accustomed. We can see our limitation as a positive because inside our very limitations lies the greatest potential for our growth.