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I believe this phenomenon is called “linguistic relativity”, or “The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis” [1], which says that a language affects its speakers' cognition or even personality. I'…

Yes, it's called Advaita Vedanta. Swami Sarvapriyananda's lectures are always a great source of knowledge about Advaita. So Advaita is about you, that is, about consciousness. You …

Your comment is the exact plot of "The Want Machine", a story by Exurb1a.

This is true, we can travel only up to 8.2 billion light years (radius of the affectable universe/2) which is the largest completely causally connected region, in the sense that ev…

I make jazz piano music and funky electronica, drum & bass occasionally. My most representing albums are The Box of Unusables, Nightly Blues, Gematria. All available for free downl…

That's naive. Why would I let it go? Firstly, contrary to Benatar, our lives are not "meaningless", even from a cosmic perspective. Our personal problems, concerns, relationships, …

Someone posted this, whatever that means: 𐐌 𐑊𐐴𐐿 𐑉𐐴𐐻𐐮𐑍 𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐮𐑅 𐐻𐐯𐐿𐑅𐐻, 𐐮𐐻 𐑊𐐳𐐿𐑅 𐐿𐐭𐑊. 𐐶𐐲𐑉𐐿𐑅 𐐼𐐮𐑁𐐲𐑉𐐲𐑌𐐻 𐑄𐐰𐑌 𐑅𐐻𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉𐐼 𐐬𐑊𐐼 𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑌 �…

As Greg Egan in "Permutation City" once put it: Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms -- a result of information b…

>do mathematical objects exist? Yes, they do, in an abstract sense. Existence in math means a very different thing from existence in physics. There are mathematical objects that ex…

There is so much wrong with this. It's clear that you're essentially presupposing there is either "free will" or "determinism" when in fact the right distinction to make is "free w…

This reminded me about Tegmark's map of relationships between various basic mathematical structures: https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf (on page 2)

That hard drive is basically just a reduced music version of The Library of Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

I was referring to this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1068238562443841538

Learn how to make more friends. Communicate. Learn how to talk with people, how to be adaptive and contextual. Learn about yourself as much as you can, either via introspection or …

I once memorized 200 digits of pi when I had nothing more fun to do on a long boring lecture. Sherlock popped into my mind, so I imagined a journey through my house where I chunked…

merry kurisumasu

> mechanism by which subjective states are experienced by the entity Why are you implying some kind of mental entity that "does the experiencing"?

Yes, there are objective mathematical truths, but you cannot be sure there exists a physical reality or anything that corresponds to our experiences. You just know that there are s…