Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 7
Notice something. Every scientist is a terrible, miserable philosopher. Why?
Why does science suck so much at epistemology and ontology? Because they never took it seriously. They just assumed is wasn’t necessary for good science. Which is obviously false. You can’t be good at anything you don’t take seriously. Science as an institution, as a culture, has never taken epistemology and ontology seriously. Why not? Because these fields cannot be objectified. Epistemology and ontology is inherently 1st-person, subjective, experiential. If you took epistemology and ontology seriously, you would have such an existential crisis that you could not do science. You would be paralyzed by not-knowing, self-doubt, uncertainty, and inaction. Professional science cannot stomach this. Science is horny for results, solutions, answers, technology. So science just makes shit up, science invents the answers it wants, and in this way corrupts itself. The very foundation of science, its very first step on the path to truth is already self-deception and bias. Science does not contend with serious not-knowing. Science is a teenager who is too horny to fuck to sit down and do his homework and meditate. Nothing science does can ever overcome this fundamental mistake. While all the scientists were out there fucking, I was sitting alone in a room contemplating epistemology for 20 years. Which is why I realized God and they didn’t.
By the way, do you know why Albert Einstein became the world's greatest scientist? Because in his youth, before he started doing science, he read a book about epistemology. That book impressed him so much that he took epistemology so seriously that it allowed him to question the scientific dogmas of his day and invent General Relativity. But today's scientists are so stupid that they don't understand that this is what Einstein did. The lesson is right there, yet nobody learns it. If you understood this lesson you would quit your science for ten years just to master epistemology. Then you could return to science, if you still even cared about it. But survival has you by the balls and you're too irresponsible to do that. Hence science is as corrupt as it is. All the corruption of science is just the scientist's unwillingness to take epistemology seriously. That's what happens when you put the cart before the horse. There is a proper order of operations here: first epistemology, then ontology, then self-mastery, last science. If you skip the first three steps the Devil will fuck you in the ass.
Anyone who reduces any aspect of reality in any degree is immediately wrong.
- A human is just cells.... Wrong!
- A cell is just a bunch of amino acids... Wrong!
- A computer program is just a series of calculations... Wrong!
- A thought is just some neurons sending chemical signals to each other... Wrong!
- Happiness is just a chemical in the brain... Wrong!
- Red is just 700-nm electro-magnetic radiation... Wrong!
- Color is just light hitting your retina... Wrong!
- Light is just photons... Wrong!
- A river is just a bunch of water molecules... Wrong!
- A forest is just a bunch of trees... Wrong!
- A book is just a bunch of words... Wrong!
- A corporation is just a bunch of people... Wrong!
- A national border is just a line drawn on a map... Wrong!
- Race is just genetics.... Wrong!
- Science is just empirically testable propositions... Wrong!
- Science is just hypothesis, experiment, analyze data, report result... Wrong!
- Truth is just sentences that correspond to the world... Wrong!
- The Earth is just stardust... Wrong!
- The sun is just hydrogen atoms undergoing fusion... Wrong!
- The universe is just particles... Wrong!
- Space is just X/Y/Z coordinates... Wrong!
- Thinking is just transformer networks... Wrong!
- Language is just a network of symbols all pointing to each other... Wrong!
- Consciousness is just an arrangement of matter... Wrong!
- A psychedelic trip is just hallucinations in the brain... Wrong!
- Dreams are just random firings of the brain... Wrong!
- Memories are just arrangements of neurons... Wrong!
- God is just nonduality... Wrong!
- God is just Nothing... Wrong!
- Experience is just see/hear/feel... Wrong!
- Life is just chemistry... Wrong!
- Protons are just quarks... Wrong!
- Water is just H2O... Wrong!
- Salt is just sodium and chloride... Wrong!
- Evolution is just random mutation and genetics... Wrong!
- Spirituality is just enlightenment... Wrong!
- Reality is just distinctions... Wrong!
- Everything is just math... Wrong!
- Doing math is just crunching numbers... Wrong!
- Music is just vibrations of air... Wrong!
- Coca Cola is just sugar water... Wrong!
- A chicken nugget is just chicken meat coated in bread crumbs... Wrong!
- A diamond is just carbon... Wrong!
- Hydrogen is just an atom with 1 proton... Wrong!
- Basketball is just throwing a ball into a hoop... Wrong!
- A drawing is just ink on paper... Wrong!
- Religion is just psychology and politics... Wrong!
- Psychology is just the study of human behavior... Wrong!
- Intelligence is just IQ... Wrong!
- Love is just a chemical emotion... Wrong!
- Sex is just inserting a penis into a vagina... Wrong!
- Gender is just XX/XY chromosomes... Wrong!
- A video game is just computer code.... Wrong!
- An animation is just a series of images... Wrong!
- Understanding is just true beliefs... Wrong!
- Money is just digits in a bank account... Wrong!
- An omelet is just cooked eggs... Wrong!
- A city is just a collection of buildings... Wrong!
- A woman is just a man with tits and a vagina... Wrong!
- Lightning is just electricity... Wrong!
- A tornado is just a bunch of moving heated air... Wrong!
- Time is just whatever a clock measures... Wrong!
- Mass is just an object's tendency to resist motion... Wrong!
- Sand dunes are just a bunch of sand... Wrong!
- Legos are just plastic bricks... Wrong!
- Force is just mass x acceleration... Wrong!
- An economy is just a bunch of self-interested rational agents exchanging goods with each other... Wrong!
- Schizophrenia is just a mental disorder involving lack of serotonin in the brain... Wrong!
- ChatGPT is just an advanced word calculator... Wrong!
- Mysticism is just fantasy and irrational thinking... Wrong!
- Hair is just keratin protein... Wrong!
- The mind is just the brain... Wrong!
All of this is slop. Reductionism is stupidity. Scientists are hopelessly lost in it.
What does the Christian halo represent? Christians don't even know!
Infinity.
It represents Infinity.
How do I know? Because I am Infinity.
By the way, the notion that all of Jesus' disciples were Awake is laughable to me. If they were Awake they wouldn't be following him like sheep. And there's no fucking way that he would gather eleven Awake people under him. He would be lucky if one of them Awoke. This is why you can't take these Christians seriously. They will make up whatever stories to flatter themselves. I would assume none of his disciples were Awake. Which is why they invented so much bullshit after his death.
Jesus didn't Awaken through effort. He Awoke because he was a genetic freak.
Cuba is a socialist disaster. There is no better example of the evils of socialism. Regardless of how evil capitalism is, socialism is still more evil. Leftists don't fathom this because they have a fantasy of socialism in their mind.
The self-deception of socialists is that when they are shown the horrors of socialism implemented in the real world, they deny that it is socialism. They play this game endlessly. Nothing is true socialism to them because their fantasy of socialism cannot exist. But they don't understand that because they are ignorant of human nature, and they cannot admit to being wrong. So the delusion of socialism is a zombie that never dies, rising from the grave every full moon.
A socialist is like a child asking for a skunk as a pet. Everyone tells the child that skunks are awful pets. But the child insists that skunks are cute. When he is finally given a skunk he says, "Ewwww... this stinks! This isn't a real skunk! Give me real cute non-stinky skunk." But there is no such thing as a skunk that doesn't stink. A non-stinky skunk is called a cat. Here's a cat. "But the cat bites and scratches!" Yes, but at least it doesn't make your house an unlivable stink-hole.
I have several outstanding books about Cuba in my book list. Read them.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease:
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But these are not the same as the original video. The original has nice footage of Solzhenitsyn himself, which I liked.