Everyone can do nothing about it

Mind and felt sense. The brain chops. The body knows.The brain is a chopping machine. That’s what it does. It takes the world — this continuous, interconnected, flowing thing — and cuts it into pieces small enough to think about. A tree. A feeling. A problem. A person. Little LEGO blocks of reality, labeled and… Continue reading Brain and body

Solipsism and Idealism. Solipsism is the fact that you can never directly know anything about anyone else’s inner world, about their experience. There is absolutely no way to prove that other people have an inner world. That they experience anything. The lights could be off and you would never know. Perhaps this, your experience, is… Continue reading Two things

Our beliefs create our reality and our experiences will be influenced by that belief system. We look back at history and smile a little condescendingly at what people used to believe. Superstitions, magic, gods, spirits, witches, curses, blessings, ghosts. Silly stories that obviously can’t be true because we now understand the natural world through the… Continue reading Reality is belief based

We’re believers. Humans create reality through belief. It is what we do. It is how we are wired. And we think there is one true reality. But all reality is belief based and no belief is true. No belief is true. But the stories that we tell, the beliefs that we hold, are real. Because… Continue reading Believers

The way we understand the world is through thinking. We observe, categorize and reason. All the while chopping the world into little bits through concepts. Those concepts are made up and have arbitrary boundaries (check for yourself). The universe, the thing we apply the concepts to, is in fact one continuous ‘thing’, kind of like… Continue reading Thinking and feeling

Me – Everything is just stories You – I disagree Me – How would you show that my claim is false? You – …

The human species has become totally dominant on this planet because of fictions. Made-up stories that allow us to cooperate to an extent that no other animal can. Yuval Noah Harari writes about this in Sapiens, but the concept is very simple. Without fictions a troop of apes can be about 50 individuals. Beyond that… Continue reading Fictions

We’re humans. Some special category. Apart from animals. We are thinking, rational creatures. We conceptualize. We categorize. We analyze. We master ourselves and our environment. And we live our entire lives in our heads. And it’s killing us. Individually and collectively. We’re traumatized and we’re sick. Our planet is on the brink of ecological destruction.… Continue reading Animals

Are here… and so are self driving humans. Yeah, you. That human you think of as you. Is doing its own thing. You ain’t doing nothing (so to speak). That control that you think you have… you don’t. We only know the LEGO block view of reality. Little bits that we have labeled. Like you.… Continue reading Self driving cars

How do you get to any sort of reality beyond pattern in consciousness? Matter for example, stuff. Where’s the evidence for matter? And how did you obtain it? How do you know there’s anything beyond appearance in consciousness? And if you don’t know, then are you just assuming? Furthermore, how do you get to true… Continue reading Tell me…