That covers all phenomena, surely
I'm not rejecting science. I think it's fine.
What is a "scientific phenomenon"?
"Provable"? Nah. I prefer "useful".
This desire for "Truth" is strange to me. I see no necessary connection between ideas and phenomena.
You are implying that we aren't safe.
What constitues "something scientific"? That sounds fascinating.
I've seen stuff fitting the popular descriptions for "underworld afterlife city of the dead", "the creator of the universe" and "discarnate spirits", so I sorta go with that.
I'm into meditation.
I think that arguing stories vs stories is bad epistemology and childish noise.
The screen sings its song of doom for you. But not for your benefit. Balance that against a lifetime of parental love.
Why is the screen heavier? High technology of course.
The only people who care about this are those for it and those against it. Who together form a very small minority. I call them both precious obsessives. To them I say get outside, touch grass, look at a cloud.
Is language mostly solipsistic?
Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.
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The words, how they're arranged and such.
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The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.
99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what's going on here is you talking to yourself.
Why are we so concerned with impressing each other?
"How impressed everybody is" is the basis of money, law, self-worth and our models of reality. But that's a pretty shabby basis if you ask me.
What are the taboo subjects?
The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.
Data and Lor, the meaning
Data. Lor.
Lore.
Data and Lore are 2 different kinds of information.
That just occurred to me.
What's science fiction without the machines?
I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".
I mean there's gotta be another way. Examples?
looking for meaning
If it doesn't feel right then it's hard (impossible) to give a shit. I hear that a lot here.
Money, grades, the advice of revered authority. None of it works. I just blow it off. And suffer of course. But I'm still poking along.
But a couple of things have felt right. And those things go very well. I can draw, I can write software. I can successfully give my attention to a project like that.
One such thing is meditation. Whatever's going on with ADHD, meditation messes with it. I found the button in the center of my head that makes ADHD happen. It feel 100% right. It's like I found a magic thing.
So if you are an ADHD guy then maybe it would feel right for you too.