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That's indeed how it goes by law of noncontradiction. But it's not universal, you get to choose where to apply it strictly or be flexible. Most likely you wouldn't tell your mother "your problems are not my problems", despite logic suggesting that to be correct. What defines which words are your own? Depending on the standard employed, those which you haven't created from scratch may not count as your own. For that matter, do you know for sure that Davino and Leo are not the same person? Maybe it's just an alt account. Reality is so nebulous and profound that it's backwards — it's only literally impossible for something to be impossible. He probably wasn't, I just made it up for him on the spot. Then again, who knows. True enough, that's a widespread issue. However, it's possible to use an alternative interpretation: one can decide that the person asking the question will be better served by deferring to the more extensive source material than their paraphrasing, even though that's not what was explicitly asked. Just like a good professional will do a job not by mechanically following instructions, but fulfilling the client's actual needs. It even makes sense in the given context; this is Leo's forum, so naturally most members will use the terminology in a very similar way to him, therefore the way the community as a whole defines those things provides more clarity than individual opinions. Not to say that's really what happened here, it could well be that he was simply being lazy. We have a user that literally only links YT videos as a response to any given topic.

Joke's on you, he's making a meta-point that Leo's words are his own words.

Consciousness as a whole is Undefined, since there is nothing to define it with/against. So it defines itself, in other words it's whatever you define it to be. It's no coincidence that the more of a blanket term you apply to Consciousness, the more accurate it gets, hence we also call it Infinity, God, Nothingness, etc.; but words will fail rather quickly so you'll have to drop them. This will all seem like self-contradictory nonsense until you get very comfortable with twisted, paradoxical thinking, which is one of the abilities of higher consciousness. Doing so requires going beyond causation, reason, language, sanity... There awaits absolute logic that resolves all contradiction, as there is no contradiction in self-definition. A ∧ ¬A is not only perfectly consistent, but necessary. 'Conscious' and 'aware' can often be used interchangeably, but not always. For instance, you can be aware of all the gossip and scheming going on at your workplace, but that doesn't make you any more conscious; neither is an animal with spatial awareness several orders of magnitude better than human more conscious than you. One can even be aware that what they're doing is wrong, but not be conscious of why it is so. Consciousness is more like self-awareness, it is not contingent on surroundings, information, knowledge, sensations (as in Ibn Sina's floating man thought experiment); higher consciousness simply means raising your self-awareness until you're fully aware that you are reality itself. Becoming more loving, truthful, present, etc. are merely consequences of this realization. A person can be "made aware" (of something, like a fact), but cannot be made conscious, only be/become conscious, i.e. it's an act only you are capable of. I can bring to your awareness that Google search and everyone replying to this thread are projections of your mind that you're using to teach stuff to yourself; however this doesn't mean you'll be capable of accepting that, and even if you were, unless you become directly conscious of it, that'll just be a belief.

The one and only, absolute Truth. This poll invites a peculiarity, the ones voting for 'lower' levels of truth will in most cases be more truthful and integrous than those who consider themselves more conscious.

Kisses 😘 to all you dreamers I have an assortment of quality teas from around the world. Though connoisseurs would take offense at the fact I drink them with sugar and milk, as a kid would.

Might be able to do it for you if you wire the equivalent amount in roubles and provide the necessary credentials. Only if you trust, of course.

This can be framed as a good thing, such rampant corruption will self-destruct quicker and is clear for everyone to see and learn from. What we need to exorcise devilry in ourselves and people around us is to get it all out in the open and gradually heal through awareness; sweeping it under the rug turns out to be counter-productive. Not unlike a brain tumor. After all, the real test of love is to see the full extent of the ugliness of humanity and still love that, as it is Truth. I also don't check the news much anymore, but the toxicity doesn't disturb me, it's just that the content is all the same; you can skim a digest once a week or even month and not miss anything significant. For some positive contrast, there's a YT channel that does summaries of the good things happening in the world.

I don't know... The only certainty is that we need to break the structure at center-left, there's nothing to do on the right side. Either push pawn to e4 attacking the knight with bishop and opening up the diagonal for potential future check. Or sac the knight at f4 to force king's g3 pawn to take & move; that seems like something Tal would do. Or perhaps the right move is completely different, like moving a piece back to set up some crazy positional play. In any case there's a long way to go whatever is chosen, probably 15 more moves at least. That's why I'm no good in real games, can't see that far ahead. Wanted to check the actual game, but there's a playlist of like 20 matches between them, ain't got time to sift through all that. I like that there's no more square labeling and the board is flipped, forces the brain to adapt and learn. Chess notation is its own language, similar to musical notes. It's always impressive when GMs play out entire games in their mind simply through that, or how composers hear the music from a sheet. Amazing visualization/abstraction abilities, goes to show how poor we are at it; gotta train this faculty of mind much more.

There's an idea https://www.infinitechess.org/ https://mchess.io/

Apart from some already mentioned here (Chainsaw Man & Death Note): Attack on Titan (for the clever worldbuilding, incredible twists, heart-wrenching circumstances, plus one of the best OSTs and occasional brilliant animation sequences), Code Geass (can't exactly pinpoint why I enjoy it so much, just do; it's like Death Note on a global scale and I find more characters compelling), and Violet Evergarden (visually stunning and deeply emotional, the main character's journey towards gradually understanding human empathy and love is very relatable to me). Honorable mentions — Kaguya-sama Love is War, JJBA Part 5, Bleach and Naruto (but only certain arcs), NGE, Hellsing Ultimate, Kuroko's Basketball, Takopi's Original Sin, Look Back, Kaiji & Akagi (both really obscure stories written by a guy obsessed with gambling; Kaiji was Squid Game before Squid Game). Expanded to manga and visual novels, therein lie my favorite pieces of fiction bar none.

If that's an actual offer, 'fraid I'd get wiped the floor with; my ELO is probably around 1450 if that, puzzles are only easy due to limited variations and unrestricted time to think, plus I like dabbling in logical ones and sudoku. We should someday hold an Actualized.org chess tournament though, where everyone's free to use any psychedelic/nootropic they wish, let's see who can best harness infinite intelligence.

Assuming it's black to move, there's really only pawn to e4 or whatever square that is, covering the queen's diagonal to threaten a quick checkmate. White's only choice is to cover with its own pawn, from there I don't wanna look much further but should be a simple sweep as the whole structure falls apart. Immediate check with pawn might be tempting, but it leaves the queen too mobile and able to defend. The philosophical exposition actually makes it much easier to find 😛

Back to silly examples, last year after the blog post praising croc socks I immediately went and bought a pair. Turns out they're not comfy to wear at all, particularly putting them on. So they just collect dust in the drawer most times except the rare occasions I hand them to guests as an entertaining prop.

That's not quite fair since the point of the episode was to make the audience realize their full responsibility for their epistemology, behaviors, relationship to reality, and so on. The whole conformity spiel was a long-winded buildup to the heart of the matter — autonomy of mind and live intelligence. And it's these two crucial aspects that don't get the proper attention in discussions here; we can list all the examples we want but it's all content, not true structural analysis. Of course Leo self-aggrandizes to an extent, a lot of his own examples aren't that much better; some are deep but most just inflate the list, though that's still useful to demonstrate the breadth of the issue. "4 hours of explanation wasn't enough" is also a moot point, very few Actualized episodes work at full power as standalones; really grasping this one requires at least synergy with the Survival series, What is Will, How Your Mind Interprets Reality, Content vs. Structure, Social Matrix, and a bunch of other auxiliary ones. That's been repeatedly stated elsewhere but the viewer should also be intelligent enough to intuit it on their own. So the other side of what you're trying to say is a meta-lesson to stop relying so much on Leo's guidance and draw your own conclusions he himself may not have considered yet that'll also be fine-tuned to your particular situation. For instance, the episode largely dealt with collective conformity, but to those of us actively self-actualizing or very hermit-like by nature that's not necessarily relevant, far more insidious is the personal conformity of getting stuck in ways/paradigms we ourselves developed, especially when those have been yielding results far above par.