Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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My only advice for Mr Tyson is to take his own advice more seriously.
If you were truly humble, if you truly did not know, you would realize you don't know whether science is true.
Science fools itself by telling itself that it is already humble.
Not humble enough.
Contemplate this: How does science know that its own opinion of its humbleness is true? What if every scientist is actually not humble but arrogant, and in his arrogance thinks himself humble, because science trusts its own opinion of itself too much?
See, this is real skepticism. This is why science is not skepticism.
"Science is humble" is NOT a scientific statement! It is pseudo-science! Where is the research paper that proves science is humble? Oh, right, there isn't one. Then why are you making unscientific claims about science?
When I claim that science is a hallucination, my position is not contradictory, because I am not using science to make it. But when you claim that science is humble, your position is contradictory, because you are making unscientific claims about science and you believe that science is the end-all-be-all. If science is the end-all-be-all, why are you making unscientific claims about it? Why don't you only stick to scientific statements? Oh, right, because your mind cannot function on scientific statements alone. Why not? Because science is not fundamental.
As a serious scientist, don't you feel it's important that science not make unscientific claims about itself? Then why do you keep doing it? Why are scientists so unscientific?
Why do I — someone who doesn't even believe in science — have to educate scientists on their own lack of scientificalness? Because I'm more honest then them.
Don't forget that honesty trumps science. Science ain't worth shit if it isn't honest. And you cannot use science to check science's honesty! Do you see that?
Who does a scientist ask if science is honest? Another scientist?! Get the fuck outta here, you clowns. You don't even understand what honesty is, yet you crown yourselves with PhDs. The king has crowned himself and sees no problem here.
Don't you see? Science has crowned itself. I am taking away the crown. You weasels have played with it long enough. Your crown is a self-serving fantasy and you lack the self-reflection necessary to see that. You don't deserve the crown because you are too epistemically sloppy. The crown belongs to God. Y'all just got together and convinced yourselves that it belongs to you.
Consciousness mesmerizes you. Because it is literally a hallucination. A hallucination sucks you into its reality. Hallucination is not just a random figment of imagination, hallucination hypnotizes you into its own world. Science literally hypnotizes humans into itself for 50 years! When you are hallucinating you can’t resist it. It just sucks you in by overwhelming you, flooding you with a world. That’s what academia is. Once you get sucked into the world of academia, it is no different than being under a hypnotic spell. The spell is so powerful that most academics will only awaken with physical death.
The epistemic problem is so much deeper than facts, logic, research, or arguments. The epistemic problem is, How do you break someone out of a 50-year-long hypnotic spell? Facts and logic rarely break a hypnotic spell. The person in a hypnotic spell does not believe you when you tell him he’s in a hypnotic spell. In fact, he attacks and demonizes you for it.
Science is a hypnotic spell.
Abra-kadabra motherfuckers!
Here's a physicist acting like we don't know if the universe is Infinite:
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Of course it is Infinite. We know this perfectly well. Infinite does not just mean infinitely large, it also means infinitely small. You do not need to fly to the edge of observable universe to know that it is Infinite. You can know that just by looking at any square inch of it and realizing that it has infinite resolution. Your pinky finger has infinite resolution. It goes infinitely deep.
The Infinity between 0 through 1 is enough to know that numbers are infinite without having to count up forever. There are an infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1.
Your pinky finger is the 0 through 1 of Infinity. If your pinky is Infinite (and it is), then the universe is Infinite.
Every square inch of the universe is Infinite. Infinite does not mean that there are infinitely many stars in the sky. The number of stars could be finite, I don't know. But it means something far more profound: that each star in itself is Infinite — just like your pinky.
Consciousness has infinite resolution, and the universe is just Consciousness. So of course it is Infinite.
Here's what scientists don't understand: You can just look at your pinky and realize it is Infinite. No scientific method bullshit. No research papers. Just look at your pinky and realize it is Infinite. That's all.
"But Leo! How dare you!"
No, how dare you! How fucking dare you try to limit my mind with your shallow scientific ways?