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This Philosophy professor has a great series of videos on classical critical thinking and formal logic. I found it quite useful as someone not in academia to quickly get up to speed with academic philosophy and learn to structure my own arguments. I'm currently working on developing my own writing and it's been very helpful. Anyone with a serious interest in discussing philosophical or spiritual topics in a formal 'money-on-the-line' setting should get good at this.

Smacked in the face with truth by Leo once again. Great point.

Such a place does not exist. It would not be sustainable without falling into a cult-like pattern. That's 21st-century reality for you. Better to just exhibit those traits within yourself and lead by example.

An attack on the scale of 9/11 is near-impossible nowadays. The precident was set then and security measures have increased immensely. Information warfare and targeted assassinations of key POIs are the real concern now. It should be obvious now that any mass civilian attack in the west only provokes extreme retaliation. Very interesting share @Leo Gura. I never knew the soviets attacked Afghanistan at that scale.

The voice chat is so good. I hope Claude implements it soon.

I've tried the paid versions of both and Claude provided better quality responses for me. Though that as before GPT-4 came out. Open AI's feels a bit watered down and loose in its responses for my liking.

I don't see any reason why materialism and idealism can't both be true at the same time. Idealism grasps that in order to perceive anything it can only occur within consciousness. Materialism suggests things can exist independent of consciousness. The fault is in assuming consciousness arises from matter, or that matter arises from consciousness. Assuming one must be the defining force of the other. But they could just be simultaneous interlinked phenomenon. Matter = consciousness. Therefore, a rock is conscious. Don't know for sure though, just a hunch.

Nice share, thanks @Hojo. I've not come across his work before.

Really great video on complexity and systems thinking from a comp-sci perspective. Irreducible complexity is very akin to an insight I had about how reality has made a justification for everything. Everything has infinite depth and complexity, you can keep zooming in forever and find more nuances and distinctions forever. In my work I need to understand the human visual system and how we interface with light. I am trying to connect the dots from the physics of light, to the display technology we use, to the conscious experience in our brains. It's clear even only half decade into this work that I'll never reach the bottom. Just like the mandelbrot set.

Agreed. I kept clicking neutral because there were so many exceptions to consider for all the questions. I could not get more neutral for the regulation spectrum if I tried, apparently

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Being hardened is not necessarily better than being softened. They are appropriate in different contexts. The point is not to be tough or weak, but appropriate to any context.

1. Make a website calling yourself a life coach. Use Squarespace or Framer 2. Enroll in a quality course, study endlessly 3. Provide sessions over zoom for free while you're studying, practice what you learn each week 4. Once the course is over, start charging the people you coached for free & keep finding new customers Done!

Because of nunya.

It is a blessed, endless task.

Peter Ralston mentioned a similar experience while training martial arts. He was focusing on learning gravity and grounding when his sense of self dropped into the floor beneath him. And this perspective helped him to fight well.

Survival Things feel bad because the body knows too much of it will kill you. Things feel good because it helps you survive. However the body is easily tricked, and it always reacts unconsciously. So you have to use your intelligence to discern when the body is reacting unconsciously, and use your wisdom to force it to react consciously.

@Nemra You won't realize god through rational debating. You need deconstruction. As your self-appointed consciousness doctor, I prescribe you 20 psychedelic trips and a Peter Ralston workshop. 🫡

No, only one if them is god. And you are it. And I'm not trolling you - I'm trying to get you to look at it differently. You'll need to stop drawing distinctions and grasp directly in order to get it.

One of these emojis is god. Which one is it? 🍹 or 🐢 Choose wisely. (Working on my Zen Koan writing skillz 😉)

It's like round earthers vs flat earthers arguing, without either side having had the brilliant idea of putting on a spacesuit and looking for themselves. Be the astronaut

People thought they lived on a flat earth for a long time, before they learned it was round. The same situation applies now for understanding God. Use whatever word you like to describe the Absolute. No requisites required, only insight and high levels of consciousness. You are God, so no additional connection required. Just more consciousness and grasping of paradox.

You are here. That's all you should need to confirm God. The link between physical reality and a conscious experience is magical and inexplicable. In theory, you could map every feeling and thought onto a set of atoms behaving in a particular way. You could demonstrate that 'sadness' for example is caused by certain neurons firing. Yet you are still no closer to solving where the experience of consciousness comes from. That's god.

Will you complain when robots replace all the sweatshop slaves? The sooner basic needs-meeting can be automated the better, so we can all get on with self-actualization.

Swifties, please just let him just lose the election fairly first.