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You might want to watch this: 00:22:35 Chris Langan, the CTMU, and Distributed Solipsism

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The mistake materialists make is that they think telepathic abilities have to be equal to moving your fingers or taking a leak. It's more like seeing a squirrel or meeting an old friend. Besides, reading thoughts doesn't require an ethereal transfer of information from one head to the next. All you need is empathic awareness of the other and a similar internal framework ("what would I think in her situation?") Many thoughts arise more or less dependently on the environment. In communication between two or more people, the environment is shared. It's not so wild that thoughts can be shared as well. In fact, that is what communication is about: acknowledging your shared experience.

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Systems theory (relationships, feedback loops, externalized costs), cross-paradigmatic operations (evolutionary theory x economics x policy) and focus on sustainability across different domains.

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Growth. If it happened in aliens, it can happen in humans.

At least I'm not alone in feeling this way

27. Criticizes itself constantly

Speaking of the vatican, you should change your name to St. Peter Jordanson

Yes it is.

Ah, so it's a normie trait. Got it!

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When you say experience, I understand that as Absolute Truth. Relative truth is thought.

Case in point

Integrating all aspects of yourself.

The truth is not in the communication. Communication is a means to an end; utilitarian. Truth is existential. Truth cannot be spoken. Speech is noise, Truth is silence. If there was any intention behind the communication, it was to put an end to it

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If you do something that is not beneficial for survival, your body will tell you by sending some signals. If you keep eating cake after you've had enough cake, your body will tell you by making it taste bad. If you touch a hot stove, it will feel bad. If you don't eat food when you're hungry, it will feel bad. To maximize pleasure, you must do the right things at the right time. Your body as a self-perpetuating life system needs to maintain a steady internal state (homeostasis) in order to survive. Survival means to keep a fixed boundary between yourself and the environment, and complex creatures like humans have evolved elaborate behaviors to aid in this process (avoiding predators, routine feeding behaviors, seeking shelter etc.) along with more basic physiological processes (maintaining a constant body temperature, acidity, water content etc.). The nervous system is one of many systems that work to control such behavior and maintain homeostasis by using signalling molecules like dopamine. Dopamine is involved in things like movement, motivation and seeking rewarding stimuli, but pleasure only happens once you do the work that dopamine tells you to do, and when the work is over, systems like the serotonin and opioid system take over (movement stops, you rest, sleep etc.). You seek what is pleasurable because it aids in your survival, and things that give you pleasure generally do aid in your survival. If you go against your own survival and homeostasis, your signalling systems will tell you this, and hedonic adaptation is one such process, i.e. feeling less pleasure from eating more cake after you're full, or drinking more water after quenching your thirst, or having sex for the 12th time in a day. There is a myriad of different adaptation mechanisms in your body that all work together to make your life possible The need for success and achievement is a higher-order expression of deeply rooted survival drives, and they follow the same adaptation mechanisms and use the same signalling systems as the lower ones. For example, the movement through a social hierarchy is tracked by serotonin levels. Your motivation to finish a project is driven by dopamine etc. Your signalling systems also generally respond to changes in stimuli. If you sit on your butt for a while, the feeling of pressure that you experience while initially sitting down slowly disappears. When a stimulus becomes persistent and static, you adapt to it by decreasing the receptiveness (unless there is a positive feedback loop that increases it, like with certain pain pathways). This tendency to respond to change is what drives people to constantly seek new stimuli and explore new environments. It's why millionaires keep earning more money even though they have all the money in the world. It's why the biggest bodybuilders think they look small in the mirror. Experiencing change is also a source of strength and health as it challenges your system in new ways, engages a fuller range of capacities and resources, and perks your senses. Experiencing stagnation makes you numb, depressed and nihilistic. In many ways it's the voluntary confrontation with change that creates desire, drive, meaning and not least pleasure.

When you see the magnitude and diversity, scope and potential, complexity and depth of reality, your experience becomes more fluid. When people say "this is real, this is not", they do this because their experience of reality is very solid, straightforward, clear-cut. When you try to wrap your head around Absolute Infinity, one word that is fluid enough to contain its range of expression is imagination.

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Communication. If you want experience, go grab it

Black and white concepts like "grass" and "color" fall far short of truthfully representing experience. Experience is an infinite gradient.