Before I start: consciousness is the sickest of the sickest of the sickest there is.
The universe we live in is so layered. It has all these little corners and secrets in it. Unbelievable.
Not that I want to compare myself to Magnus Carlsen, but I once saw a documentary where he said something like, "Chess is always in the back of my mind. Even when I'm walking here with you, I'm thinking about chess."
I have that with consciousness. It's always in the back of my mind.
How do thoughts work? Why do I think this?
I think I was around six years old when I asked my brain, "How do you work, brain?" and started getting answers.
It took me around 30 years to understand that you actually can figure out how your brain works from the inside out.
Kennis is zoveel mooier als het tijdelijk is.
Sommige mensen vinden het leuk om kennis zo lang mogelijk op te slaan, bijvoorbeeld op een computer. Ik niet. Ik zou het prachtig vinden om alle kennis in levende breinen te hebben en die dan per generatie over te dragen. Dus zo min mogelijk op papier, zo min mogelijk op harde schijven, zo min mogelijk op band.
Het voordeel daarvan is dat wij dan live het geweten van het universum zijn. Met alles dat leeft. Naast de reflectie van alles dat ooit heeft bestaan natuurlijk. Kennis in zijn puurste vorm hoort zo te zijn, in mijn ogen.
Het brengt ook gelijk een schitterende verplichting met zich mee: de verplichting om kennis over te dragen aan nieuwe generaties. Een ander voordeel: je kunt er altijd bij vertellen wat je bedoelt. Met kennis die langer blijft bestaan, ontbreekt die nuance. Je kunt er niet goed meer bij vertellen wat er oorspronkelijk mee is bedoeld.
De Bijbel is zo’n ding zoals het laatste. Je snapt niet goed waar het over gaat. Het is kennis die in zekere zin nooit had moeten worden opgeschreven, omdat de finesse er dan uit gaat.
The pros see their brain as a stack of Mikado sticks: the trick is to solve it backwards.
So if 2 thoughts “jam” within my brain, you first have to identify which 2 thoughts they are and what they are there for.
Yes, that is possible.
You solve it backwards, therefore.
Getting to know yourself is more like: yes, I really am a nervous wreck indeed.
And I am completely okay with that too.
One thing is not one thing.
A thought is:
a memory
and
a ball of electricity
and
an emotion.
Depending on how you look at it.
This principle goes for all of reality. One thing is multiple things at the same time.
In this comparison, science looks from one angle. Religion looks from another.
Theory of Everything
A real Theory of Everything already exists. The fact that we look at the same universe and draw completely different conclusions is unbelievable in itself.
I think the reason why people don’t want to have children anymore is because life is less fun than it used to be.
Doubting whether you want children or not is a very healthy reaction to that.
If life were infinitely fantastic, I couldn’t wait to make a baby and bring it into this world. But it isn’t. Modern life is extremely performance-driven: you constantly feel like you need to do stuff so you don’t fall behind. It’s honestly as if everybody has completely lost their mind. Making the same industrial and environmental mistakes for the thousandth time (we really don’t need AI). Watching the 20,000th war or genocide. It’s unbearable to look at.
Is that actually worse than it used to be? I think so. I work full-time. I work out every day. I have to clean. That is my life, basically. I fill the rest of the emotional holes by watching YouTube. My head is complete chaos, nowhere near equipped for modern-day life. Every new thing becomes another task. "Oh, just do this and that as well, you'll feel better." I don’t want to.
You started it with all the nonsense we didn’t need in the first place. Nobody needs AI. The environment doesn’t need AI. You don’t even need a dishwasher, you unbelievable ***. You can do that yourself.
I can't remember the last time I cried. Well, I constantly cry on the inside.
Back in the day, when I was chilling on a Friday night with a friend, debating science and religion and whatnot, that was life for me. We just did it with a childlike curiosity.