Carl-Richard

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What are atoms made out of? What are the things that atoms are made out of made out of? At some point, you reach the unknown, or nothingness, or infinite regress, which means there is nothing to limit it. For every limitation you can identify, there is the unlimited lurking in the background.

Reality is limited and unlimited.

Blue and red are different, but they're both a part of the same reality.

Suffering is cyclical. Suffering will decrease by creating some direction in your life, whether that be through creating a life purpose, daily routines or goals, or by transcending the egoic self. You should also work on various meta-techniques or values that aid towards creating direction: Learn to commit to things for a set amount of time (you can always change your mind later if it doesn't work). Have faith in your commitments as long as you carry them. Be consistent. Don't make compulsive exceptions to your plan; plan the exceptions! Actually listen to your mind. Your mind is amazing at identifying problems in your life, but you've developed a habit of ignoring it, and you start to dislike your mind and experience it as annoying or useless instead of the brilliant tool it is. Don't let it go to waste. Write down every problem that your mind keeps reminding you about, and find a working solution for any given problem (it doesn't have to be a final solution, just one step in the right direction, and of course, commit to it!). And you'll be surprised to find that maybe your mind shuts up for once. Tell the truth, or at least don't lie. Your mind needs as much transparency to itself as possible to work properly. By engaging in lies and deception, you're creating division, disruption and eventually self-deception. And the state that lying puts you in (paranoia) is inherently chaotic and cyclical. Paranoia is poison for minds that value direction. Keep things ordered at all levels: your room, your notes, your files, your clothes. Clutter outside means clutter inside. Be punctual, use timers for remembering things, eat consistently, sleep consistently.

Spiral Dynamics is roughly about culture and cognition. Spirituality (or more specifically mysticism) transcends culture and cognition. Imagine being a Norwegian who goes to a cabin in the woods every winter, who studies in a liberal university and who votes in all local and national elections. You can still awaken to the same truth as someone who lives in the Amazon, who spends their days hunting and gathering and who takes commands from no one else than their tribe elders. Spiral Dynamics describes what is different between those two individuals. Spirituality describes what is common.

Why?

Metabolism is one of the great wonders of the universe, after supernovas. And you would still find something to complain about without it. I thought about this some days ago, and I know there are many hypotheses out there, but I thought about the fact that everything moves in cycles (the Earth, the Sun, etc.), and that especially the day-night cycle would have to be deeply reflected in biological organisms somehow, as all life depends on energy from the Sun. Your job here from a biological perspective is to conserve as much energy as possible for furthering your survival. If nighttime is generally less in your favor (e.g. you're more vulnerable to predators, cold weather or low light conditions), then you would be better off spending the night conserving your energy and doing something else (and opposite if you're a night animal). You should also consider that the animals in the lower levels of the food chain are ectothermic, so they're much more sensitive to the day-night cycle for maintaining their activity levels than endothermic animals (generally birds and mammals), which would dictate the activity of a large amount of both prey and predatory animals, meaning that most animals would be active during the day. I would therefore think that the evolution of endothermy was a big bottleneck for creating nocturnal animals, which is consistent with the fact that endothermy evolved only 100 million years ago (when birds and mammals arrived), while sleep evolved 700 million years ago. Now, this is funny: there is actually something called the "nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis" (which is a little different than this, but still related), which explains how the ancestors of mammals were exclusively nocturnal due to having to avoid large diurnal predators like dinosaurs. This hearkens back to my previous hypothesis about sleep (avoiding periods that are against your favor), and of course the fact that nocturnal life evolved in mammals (due to being the first endothermic animals, along with birds of course). (I might re-write this when I'm not so sleepy hehe).

Diet, exercise, friends and meaningful work. Do you have these things sorted? if not, it's hard for life to not be a nightmare.

Did it feel good to say that?

When you're in the business of transcending the ego, self-deception becomes even more sinister.

What stage do you think they were in and why?

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Go do stuff.

? I only pay for 3 other things: YouTube premium, gym membership and IAI.tv membership.

Imagine being a wave that recognizes it's the entire ocean. Even if that is true, what will the wave do with the ocean? Not much. In reality, the ocean will just keep being the ocean, and the wave will keep being the wave. It's the same when you recognize that you are God.

I'm paying 6$ a month for now :D

Brainscale.net. I like the design and the voice.

Yup. It seems like when you subvocalize, you're filling up the "working space" with more stuff, which decreases the capacity. You're probably just supposed to use what you referred to as pattern recognition and intuition and nothing else. I did a few sets of Dual 3 Back today and I got up to 64% success rate. I actually feel noticably different after I do it. It's a bit like meditation, but it's more a sharpening of focus than a broadening of awareness.

I like to max things out ☺️

I did 12 sets today on Dual 2 Back and hit 100% for the first time. I didn't realize before the 8th set that I had to match both position and sound if they occurred simultaneously lol (I used to only choose position). EDIT: Once you hit 100%, you'll keep hitting it pretty often, so it's probably better to move on to the higher ones. I learned that it's better to be completely silent than to intentionally rehearse the information verbally/internally (not sure if this applies for higher Ns).

Ask it: why are white supremacists generally right-wing?

If I eat cheese before bed, I get vivid dreams and nightmares.

In your writing, do you ever feel like you value authentic expression and flow over clarity of meaning and conciseness?