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The AC explanation for consiousness is just far more elegant than the DC explanation.
There’s never been a continuity of consciousness argument to have in the first place.
It’s not continuous (to a human body) at all.
BREAKING PROOF!! Continuity we perceive in consciousness is an illusion! We flip between conscious and unconscious states every 60 milliseconds and we recognize backward speech when played every 20 milliseconds. Listen to this!
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Accurate.
Everyone knows that the burning of European cities is the product of two related factors: Unassimilated mass migration and three decades of economic stagnation. In other words, the destruction of Europe is the product of a set of policy choices about immigration and economics that were ratified by European voters at the ballot box. Socialism was a choice. Europe was a choice. Mass low-skilled immigration was a choice. The destructive consequences of those choices are plain.
America is now confronted by a similar set of choices:
—Mass migration of unskilled people who hate the West vrs. encouraging immigrants with needed skills and crafts who embrace Western liberal values.
—Sectarianism and group preferences becoming more embedded in the law and institutions vrs. a legal order that promotes individualism and merit-based hiring.
—More government-mandated bureaucracy vrs. using new technology to de-bureaucratize our institutions and our economy.
—Embracing centralized control and redistribution vs. a market-oriented economy that puts a premium on innovation and growth.
—Teaching our children that our country is generally a force for evil rather than a force for good.
The consequences for Europe of fifty years of well-meaning policy choices approved of by generations of experts are plainly disastrous and probably irreversible. We still have time to choose our own fate and renew the social contract on which this country was founded. But only if we are willing to stop making excuses or blaming others and learn from what is happening in front of our eyes.
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Words be damned.
In the final balance, it will be understood that intention is the lingua franca of the cosmos.
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Honestly, Elon Musk is the only pioneer left who makes you truly inspired & amazed by innovation. Landing rockets backwards, driving cars upside down...it feels like our great American pioneer spirit went dormant since the Apollo missions, and we've felt stuck in time, but he's reawakened it...and for the first time in decades people are actually asking "what else is possible?" instead of this gloomy malaise of stagnation and planned obsolescence. Just the dumbest thing imaginable to bet against this guy.
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It’s simple.
You are FOR human freedom
or your are against it.
The current most relevant social razor.
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
~Aldous Huxley
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You are a steward of atoms and their interactions.
That’s what YOU is/are.
Act right.
Be a good steward of the atoms.
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“The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”
~ Aldous Huxley
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Build a personal library of books that a future civilization will find and be able to piece together all of the most important things you can consider or find.
Just in case.
And for fun, really.
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It really is a shame more people aren't interested in what they are and where they are from.
What happened to a generalized interest in Human Nature?
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Perhaps the clearest, most illustrative and concise summation of our whole current fckng mess.
Listen up, humans.
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.
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They exist in fear.
Hiding any acknowledgment of this fear from themsleves
while paying whatever it costs, in debt (with interest), to drown out any and all acknowledgment of this fear
with ever more elaborate and sophisticated distractions
from catalogues of products and offerings and challenges and quests designed to placate-as-palliative until…death, I suppose.
It’s all soma.
Tack toward truth wherever and whenever you catch a whiff of it.
Occupy as much of your attention and bandwidth as you can in this effort
in every conscious moment you can make yourself aware of if.
There is really nothing else of merit or matter in this world to occupy your time with here.
Be not afraid. Be not idol.
Be a Truth seeker.
art: beeple
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