Carl-Richard

@Scholar The hubris is not helping. I think this is a part of the disconnect that is happening: when we're talking about metaphysics, often it involves reducing something to the most fundamental thing there is. This is what I think Leo is doing: "nothing is random; everything is patterns". He tries to give you the most fundamental one thing there is. You on the other hand are doing an investigation into some secondary aspect (which you can still call metaphysics, but still, it's secondary), which you've conceded yourself, but yet you're not seeing that this causes you to talk past what Leo is saying.

I know essentially nothing about this, but my intuition is yes. You should test yourself dozens of times to see how it fluctuates. To borrow a term from @Michael569: mechanistic speculation is easy, and it doesn't mean much before you do the actual tests.

If you can say there is an "I", then I can say there is an "I" that makes choices. It's as simple as that. There is no "I" in an ultimate sense, yet we speak about an "I" in many situations. In the same way, there is no choice in an ultimate sense, yet we speak about making choices in many situations.

Yup. Like I said in a previous post, there are many possible ways to model these things, and there will be overlap, as life is complex and interconnected. The purpose of presenting the three-way split is to provide some broad coverage of the concrete domains that you inhabit, of the "implementation". I just prefer that split because it pops up in so many places.

I was reading about Marr's Three Levels of Analysis, and I suddenly saw the similarities to this map. https://blog.shakirm.com/2013/04/marrs-levels-of-analysis/

Who is saying? There is no "I".

Read and respond to stuff.

I'm not missing the point. The point you're making is included in my point.

This is why our civilization is collapsing ?

I think my position is compatiblism: there is a reason why we talk about making choices on an everyday level, and there is a reason why we talk about how in a more ultimate sense we don't have a choice, and both reasons are valid.

That's a limited perspective. I gave both perspectives earlier.

There is a lot of wild shit that pops into my mind that I choose not to say.

You have free will in the sense that choices seem to present themselves to you and you're able to evaluate each choice according to some inner thought or feeling, and then you'll experience yourself making a choice according to that. You also don't have free will in the sense that you don't choose which choices, thoughts or feelings present themselves to you.

You could've chosen to not say that

"Are you an INFP too?! Awww, we're meant for each other!" ?

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True rationality is when you're in dialogue with your emotions: not a slave to them, but also not completely above them.

My mind can't help but to draw comparisons to the hugely profitable business model of Hustlers University by Dr. Emory Andrew Tate lll himself. Their purported goal is to drive down the price of a bachelor's degree to 4000 dollars, which sounds like a noble pursuit in itself, but charging this amount of money before having achieved accreditation does seem like a bit of a hustler-esque kind of move à la Tate the lll, right? (because an unaccredited "bachelor's degree" isn't really a bachelor's degree, right?). At least there doesn't seem to be a MLM component involved (for now ). But do they really need that when they charge 4000 dollars just for some video lectures? I'd be interested to see what those lectures are about and what types of degrees they're offering. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKnYuGvOGf/?hl=en I just imagined a scenario where some controversial political figure 100-200 years ago ended up creating their own education institution and what that would've looked like today given some sort of success. I mean, isn't that essentially the story of many universities today (e.g. Harvard)? Maybe in the not so far future, what looks like a shady online business in its startup phase might be largely indistinguishable from most universities today.

@Jehovah increases Stop talking to yourself.

Bruuuh 76% success rate on Triple 3-Back (86%+71%+71%), first attempt after a 2-day break. Maybe you're right that you should take breaks.

We've been over this already. Different people have different relationships to food. If you could be me for a day, you'd be surprised how easily I'll eat 2500 calories and more.

I had the same type of guy come up to me when I was out buying some new pants a few weeks ago. He showed me these small pamplets about spirituality and talked about needing money to finance travelling to India. When I gave him the "I'm just a poor student" routine, he said "just out of the kindness of your heart, you know, for good karma; what goes around comes around". I denied and he left, and I thought the same thing as you: "what if he cursed me and my future is fucked?". After all, the guy seemed pretty fluid. What if he was actually awakened and has some kind of spiritual abilities? What if he knew that I was into spirituality because he is just that awake and knew that I would get tripped up when he mentioned good and bad karma? Then I also thought "what kind of supposedly spiritual person goes around guilt tripping people to give them money?". I also think he lied straight out when he said he was a psychology professor as a response to me studying psychology, but I wasn't quick enough to ask him which university and what field, which could've maybe tripped him up. Other than that, he seemed passionate and genuine, but the professor thing made me thing that he could just be a super charismatic conman. I'll never know, but he surely tripped me up a bit.

Obviously because his name is world famous by this point.

@Jehovah increases Be nice.

It's inbuilt. Think of there being an ethics module inside your mind. It competes with other modules. An ethical person is one who achieves a well-integrated functioning across the different modules, who is not unbalanced or stuck on just one of the modules. That often requires some work, and anything that promotes general functioning and health will lead you there.