Witness
07/11/2022I think everything that ever has been exists only so that you can bear witness to it right here and right now. If you did not, it could not. If it did not, you could not. Your ability to witness is the sole constraint on billions of years of random froth t...
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Scientists: The Human Brain Has Odd Similarities to the Entire Universe
11/22/2020Scientists: The Human Brain Has Odd Similarities to the Entire Universe An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon teamed up on the ultimate galaxy brain theory. An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon walked into a room. It may sound like the beginning of a bad...
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Visualize
01/08/2020Visualize a pyramid of history. All of the ways that the past could have led to this moment. You are on top, now, in this moment. Visualize another pyramid, upside on top of you. These are all of the futures from now until forever. These are all of the de...
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What if gravity is not a force?
12/02/2019Gravity is that thing which accelerates us into place onto the earth. It’s well understood that energy (and therefore its mass equivalent) causes gravity. And it’s understood and proven that gravity results in time dilation (where time passes relatively le...
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Simulation
09/09/2019I put a plant in a simulation I model the plant Forward and back The plant grows and shrinks But the plant can’t tell Because everything is normal It grows in the sunlight Blows in the wind Drinks in the water And wilts when it drys A whole plant lifetime...
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Processing Capacity of the Conscious Mind
08/18/2019“The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second. That bandwidth, or window, is the speed limit for the traffic of information we can pay conscious attention to at any one time. While a great deal occurs below the th...
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Memes
07/07/2019Once our brains have built the entrance and exit pathways for the vehicles of language, they swiftly become parasitized (and I mean that literally, as we shall see) by entities that have evolved to thrive in just such a niche: memes. The outlines of the th...
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How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?
11/08/2018From Paulingtons on Reddit: This is an interesting question, if not near impossible to answer properly. However I figured I'd give it a go even if I do have to make some gross assumptions. First, we need to know how many neurones are in the spinal cord....
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Change
09/27/2018We are our habits. We can be whatever we like. We can change our habits. A small change in our daily habit rapidly becomes who we are. Adding a small change every day, we can rapidly change who we are. What habits are you practicing? What habits do you w...
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