Strange Loops Mega-Thread

[Carl-Richard]

@Loving Radiance Feels like zoning out on some psychedelic visuals.

[Loving Radiance]

@Carl-Richard  You mean getting mesmerized? Yeah

[Holygrail]

you need a surgeon's brain to do surgery on a patient's brain. 

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Holygrail said:

you need a surgeon's brain to do surgery on a patient's brain. 

That's not the half of it.

You need a patient's mind to imagine a surgeon to do surgery on the patient's brain

[AtheisticNonduality]

@Leo Gura Do you think all worlds I can imagine exist? Like a world where Christianity is the correct religion and we all go to hell at the end of this. Or a world just like this one where we evaporate in ten seconds. It seems all these things exist because they are Nothingness the same way my reality is Nothingness. So they are all identical. So they all exist.

[Leo Gura]

@AtheisticNonduality There are no limits to what consciousness can imagine. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's being imagined right now.

[Greatnestwithin]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@AtheisticNonduality There are no limits to what consciousness can imagine. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's being imagined right now.

isn´t it supposed that it imagines everything that could ever be at all once? or is it different?

[Leo Gura]

@Greatnestwithin Awaken and see.

[AtheisticNonduality]

9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@AtheisticNonduality There are no limits to what consciousness can imagine. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's being imagined right now.

If there are no limits, that means a dinosaur could pull up behind ya and eat your ass within the next ten seconds. This is unsettling to me, even if it isn't happening in my immediate moment.

[Natasha]

[Carl-Richard]

33 minutes ago, AtheisticNonduality said:

If there are no limits, that means a dinosaur could pull up behind ya and eat your ass within the next ten seconds. This is unsettling to me, even if it isn't happening in my immediate moment.

If there are no limits, there have to be cases where that is extremely unlikely to happen.

Edited May 31, 2021 by Carl-Richard

[AtheisticNonduality]

@Carl-Richard There is absolutely no way for me to know which world I'm in.

[Carl-Richard]

32 minutes ago, AtheisticNonduality said:

@Carl-Richard There is absolutely no way for me to know which world I'm in.

In this universe, there is no reason to fear something that has never happened before in the history of the universe.

[Preety_India]

1 hour ago, Natasha said:

That's so cutie 

[AtheisticNonduality]

35 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

In this universe, there is no reason to fear something that has never happened before in the history of the universe.

You scientist! The laws of physics can change!

[Guest EmptyVase]

I would never lie to you.

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, EmptyVase said:

I would never lie to you.

Not a proper formulation of the liar paradox because you could be telling the truth, in which case there's no paradox.

A proper formulation would go something like: "I would never tell you the truth."

[Guest EmptyVase]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Not a proper formulation of the liar paradox because you could be telling the truth, in which case there's no paradox.

A proper formulation would go something like: "I would never tell you the truth."

I see, you got a point there.

I factored in that lying is such a core human thing, regardless of how subtle that might be. 

[Bernardo Carleial]

“Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think.
What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.”

David Bohm

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Bernardo Carleial said:

“Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think.
What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.”

David Bohm

Hehe, beautiful.