Thoughts and insights

[Jannes]

9 minutes ago, Jannes said:

What would be absolutely game changing for open source AI robotics would be a "central nervous system" like AI. 

The central nervous system manifests in humans in all kinds of unconscious ways: When you gain weight or put on a backpack for example your central nervous system adjusts in real time, calculating new balance standards and creating new strategies to move optimally. If you loose one of your legs and use a stick for balance your whole body learns to use new strategies. You can get your tongue can in half and then move each part seperately! 

Well AI is way more adjustable then a human body of course. You can change legs, arms, make it a spider, make it a drone, make it a dog. What would be cool especially for private people who want to built their own robots if you could have this central nervous system AI which will adjust in real time to the new body that it has gotten. If you got a very powerful central nervous system AI you could make almost anything work. Just put the central nervous system AI in the center and slap some machinery on it and the central nervous system will carry. That would be a strong answer to industrial designed robots. 

There are already a few projects working on this.

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[Jannes]

Destroying pointers to god

I just contemplated environementalism a bit and suddenly had a profound insight. By polluting and destroying the environement we loose very important pointers to god!

Of course, God is everywhere - but there are certain things, like stars in the night sky, a beautiful sunset, or an exotic animal, that especially evoke a sense of God for the human mind. But when the sky is clouded with smog, when animals go extinct, and when we destroy the natural beauty of the world, we lose these pointers. And when we lose them, people may feel less connected to God - and as a result, might even act more godlessly.

It’s like we’re creating a bubble that separates us more and more from god. And the more ungodly this bubble becomes, the more intelligence and inner clarity it takes to still see God through all the mess.

And that’s just the environmental part. It makes me wonder what other areas of life have been corrupted or distorted in a way that also cuts us off from God.

Edited May 18 by Jannes

[Jannes]

On 15.4.2024 at 7:18 PM, Jannes said:

The deepest beauty in the most ugly:

The more ugly something is the less you can see relative beauty in it because relative beauty is beauty relative to other ugly things. So when you find the most ugly thing in the world and try to find beauty in it and there is nothing more ugly to compare it to you can only find metaphysical beauty in it because metaphysical beauty is above comparison. So paradoxically the the most ugly things reveal the biggest picture of beauty. I snapped an even better picture which brought me to this thought but I cant find it anymore.  

On the other hand, maybe you only start searching when you lost it. Remind me of this as an analogy:

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”

— Alan Watts

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Everything for everything.

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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (c. 1944) by Francis Bacon

 

Description (GPT 4o):

This triptych presents three distorted, part-human, part-animal figures against a flat, burnt orange background. Each panel isolates a creature contorted in anguish, echoing mythological Furies and symbolizing raw emotional states—rage, despair, and suffering. Painted in the aftermath of World War II, the work reflects Bacon’s bleak view of the human condition. The figures are unsettling and grotesque, merging flesh and furniture in a surreal, nightmarish vision.

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I love myself some good art. While this picture is aimed to capture the emotions after World War II, it feels very much applicable to everyday people as well. Most countries arent in immediate risk of war but survival and unconscious ways of going about it are still going on in every domain at every moment. We justify our unconscious ways until the day we die, but if we were stopped in our tracks while we were still going strong, forced to confront all truth about ourselves all at once, thats the ugly face we would reveal. Thats what we are without spirituality.

Edited June 3 by Jannes

[Jannes]

When I intuitively contemplate about reality I catch myself relying on certain profound quotes or pictures for their richness quite often. So why not put all of these important pieces into one picture as a new piece of art. 
 

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'Moral people' are profoundly disconnected from spirituality.

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Pointers to God

Whether you follow a particular religion or see yourself as “spiritual but not religious,” let’s put our differences aside for a moment. Can't we all agree that whatever each of us calls the highest truth—THIS is pointing towards IT?

 

 

Edited June 3 by Jannes

[Jannes]

On 31.3.2025 at 3:59 PM, Jannes said:

That one I knew: I hate hypocritical "moral" people. I especially need to hate them because I easily fall into the trap of using morality as a defense mechanism because I am often in weak social situations so without that thick hate wall of hate as a defense mechanism I would fall into dellusion.

I am a consciousness engineer! 💡 This is obvious from a small dose of LSD. 

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Post AGI - life fullfillment strategies

I am contemplating a lot about Post AGI scenarios where AGI would replace most people from work which would create a broad sense of meaninglessness for a lot of people who don't do any important/ impactful job anymore. So I am thinking how this would play out and if there are strategies to go about it. 

I think genetically very ambitious people would suffer a lot more from it. Our species might need to become less ambitious over time if AGI replaces most jobs.

The other option would be to shut down AGI. But that would be incredible difficult because companies and countries not relying on AGI are not compedetive, it would need to be in a bubble outside of capitalism. This still may be less satisfying then before because people know in the back of their minds that AGI could do everything way better if they just let it. On the other hand there are communities who are way less developed, know it and still seem happy about their simple way of living or even choosing it like the amish people in america. 

 

I am imagining what would happen if in the next year or so many people would loose their jobs with no way of getting back into the job market. If these people got some sort of universal basic income, how could these people find strategies to regain fullfillment in their life?

I think these could be strong foundations to built a life around which can be expanded upon - it would be important here that AGI works in the background providing stuff with drones for example but not interfering with day to day living that much as that would destroy the vibe that humans are still important: 

1) Bringing survival challenges back ( kniting clothes, gardening, building homes, making challenges out of collecting food ... )

2) Relationship (much time spent on friendship, intimate relationship, ... )

3) (Fantasy) Games (DnD, long strategy games, sport ... )

4) Spirituality

5) Art, Dance, Music 

6) Fighting or other somewhat dangerous challenges for those who need it 

 

Edited June 7 by Jannes

[Jannes]

Dont hold onto it, enjoy the moment while its fleeting by. 

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I created this near the end of last year but didnt upload it as it needed a little polishing which I forgot. I am just keeping it this way now. The idea is perfect though. 

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Drawing a line in my head. 

When I try to draw a line in my head from what feels like the ego aka I try to force my mind to draw a line, I can't do it. When I let go of that and let the drawing of a line happen, it happens effortlessly. It feels like no one is drawing the like, but that's the only source a line can be drawn in my head. 

This is not about drawing a line in my head.

[Jannes]

No guarantees

When you realize nothing in life is a guarantee, so you spread your chances and maximize each one, you come as close to a guarantee as possible.

So basically the more you think that nothing is guarenteed the more likely you are to find a guarentee, thats the balance.

And there is something interesting to add. The thought of getting a guarentee stems from you recognizing your own potential and thinking, "will all of these grounds, something has to grow out of that it is guarenteed." But when you remaind there and slack off nothing will happen. But when you do the process of trading the potential into the manifestation of that potential that potential will bite just as much as you thought about your potential in theory. 

But it's interesting, the person that thinks that there are no guarentees and therefore is close to a guarentee doesn't recognize that they are having a guarentee.

You can only have it when you don't have or don't have it when you have it. 

 

This touches on an observation I made before which is about 'the more you give it away the more it comes back'. 

No kewl person ever thinks of themselves as kewl, no good person ever thinks of themselves as good, ...

 

Edited July 4 by Jannes

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On karma

Karma is a real thing. Depending on your behaviour, you get karma for it for practical reasons, like people wanting to support or work with you, or not, even though it’s pretty messy in the real world. The more selfishly you act, the more pushback you get. However, you don’t know the whole picture of who you are or all your evil ways. So as you become more and more conscious of yourself as a devil, the karmic pushback becomes more transparent or subsides altogether when you let go of certain behaviours.

Edited July 8 by Jannes

[UnbornTao]

On 5/9/2025 at 10:24 PM, Jannes said:

photography idea

I generated the basic idea, the prototype with chatgpt. I am not satisfied with it yet, maybe an actual snapshot could capture what I had in mind. Basically the seeds of the dandelion can kind of look like stars. In reality they dont like stars enough sadly so they need to be edited a bit. The picture could showcase a bit of an illusion, where the seeds look very similar to stars so they mix right in and that would create a feeling of transition and also connection between earth and the universe.

I like the idea.

[Jannes]

On 8.7.2025 at 1:11 AM, UnbornTao said:

I like the idea.

Thanks. 

[Jannes]

Implicit sources of information

In academic philosophy I learned most in the lectures at the beginning in examples or glosses, which were about the stuff I would later learn supposedly. But the real gems were at the very beginning.

 

I find it ineresting when sources like big companies drop little glosses in the form of art or presentation, there is so much implicit information you can study.

Like the background photo on the newest iPhone. The apps that they use convey a certain way of living in that you should be stylish, social, keep in touch and distract yourself with the newest hits. 

 

Of course you shouldnt really deduce details out of it, but when you can catch the vibe roughy, that can be very valueable for sensemaking.

[Jannes]

Relative beauty in styles

Styles only look good relative to a certain environement and outside of that environement they are the exact thing that gives rise to beautiful outfits.

If you live and breath in a professional career for example, wanting to be influencal, making lots of money, being a winner, suits can look great and a tie with the right pattern might be like the greatest thing ever for you. When you are a rebellious teenager hating on authority, doing drugs, getting lost, living for the thrill, this exact thing can look horrible. A jeans with some holes into it is like the best thing ever. Or maybe you like to be a minimalist and all that seems like distraction to you, the quiet of simplifying your life gives you a deep sense of inner piece and grounding, and an all black'n white outfit is the greates thing ever for you. Or you are more of an artist and you live in your creativity and expression. You value art, beauty and authenticity everywhere and for you an individual complex layered, rugged look is the ultimate thing. Or you are a practical sports person. For you there is joy in life when you get work done which helps to move the world in a positive direction. So you like to wear workers trousers with a sweat absorbing sports shirt. 

Ultimately all these are relative dreams, not capturing the whole of the reality. 

I wanted to wear something spiritual but you cant wear anything spiritual, reality can only be contextualized as spiritual so then every appearence, every outfit becomes spiritual.. Or maybe one can point towards it, I am not sure. 

Point is in most cases you need to dream to find these things beautiful. You can fall into all the dreams I mentioned and from there certain things will appear beautiful and stylish. That the beauty is seen requires you to dream.

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'Who am I' inquiry

https://www.actualized.org/insights/nisagardatta-on-self-inquiry

I did quite some "Who am I" inquiry for a week or more like 3 years ago. All in all I experienced one beautiful glimpse (not an awakening) and some early serious signs that this was working. I was at a train station and saw a guy who looked similar to me maybe 15 meter away walking along and for a moment it felt like I was walking there. That shocked me for a moment and I needed to remind myself that, "I am standing here, he is standing over there, I move my feet, he moves his feet." After this experience many other instances followed where I felt like I was another person who looked similiar to me. I bet thats just the beginning, when I deconstruct even more, then I might identify with other people and objects in the same way. Thats how serious deconstructing your ego self is, it radically transforms your experience of reality. 

So that was fascinating. As I just reminded myself of this exercise again and just asked my mind the question "Who am I" just once, it felt like I triggered some trauma. And I remembered the picture of how my mind tried to defend itself back then. It presented an idealized version of myself and asked me "Why do you want to kill me, I am so beautiful." Like this anime girl. This was crazy stuff. 

Edited Friday at 10:37 PM by Jannes