for - unexpected finding - hippocampus - active for imagining future instead of remembering past

for - claim - Mental Time Travel into the past and future are instantiations of one simulation system

for - paper - title - Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation - author - Donna Rose Addis - adjacency - memory - imagination - the same - from - paper - https://hyp.is/0Fb6NqdjEfCyTTddI20_aQ/www.dovepress.com/memory-sleep-dreams-and-consciousness-a-perspective-based-on-the-memor-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS

summary - memory and imagination are proposed as fundamentally the same process. - It is the ‘mental’ rendering of experience that is the most fundamental function of this simulation system enabling humans to - re-experience the past, - pre-experience the future, and - comprehend the complexities of the present.

for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism

question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.

for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC

summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.

for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.

for - definition - Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness - - Daniel Dennett

for - MToC claim - purpose of consciousness - same as - purpose of memory - understand the present - imagine possible futures - plan accordingly - adjacency - MToC - memory - consciousness

for - like - Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception - ITP - to - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - https://hyp.is/wqV4gKdkEfCRZGPrIOjeOA/utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3232f1fb-ed19-4614-9dd5-648c4d443629/content

for - adjacency - memory - perception - no boundary - Hinze Hogendoorn - to - - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - author's study of - Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

for - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness (MToC) - The very awareness we have of sensory analysis, of perception, is based on the operation of this memory system. - In other words, the sensory information that constitutes an event is assembled at encoding and consequently can be remembered later.

for - research claim - dreaming - byproduct of sleep-based memory consolidation - adjacency - dreaming - sleep-based consolidation

This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."

Adler creates a very specific and subtle definition of ownership as it applies to books.

It's not too dissimilar to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea of ownership or love of people. "Unique to me in all the world"

Many have spoken of "books as wallpaper" or "intellectual furniture", but here Mortimer J. Adler goes beyond owning them solely as material culture, but turning them into intellectual and personal culture.

When they sit upon the shelf after being intellectually owned, they can serve as a mnemonic touchstone, which is a method of supercharging their value as lowly "decorative wallpaper", and instead making them living active, intellectual wallpaper.

for - language - Wordbank - children's vocabulary - from - article - Atlantic - The Mystery of Babies’ First Words - https://hyp.is/OKsHnqU-EfCLelsZRWUhxw/www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/babies-first-words-babbling-or-actual-language/588289/

for - language - first words of babies

for - definition - constitutive view of language

for - language philosophy - book - The Language Animal - Charles Taylor - language philosophy - book - Sources of the Self

for - source - telegram channel - Michael Lennon - Forms of Life, forms of mind - Michael Levin and Hananel Hazan-led weekly symposium exploring platonic space - from - youtube - interview - Michael Levin - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/H727RKOrEfC5IAN-dmo5uw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOJ9PWcPmo

for - multi-scale competency architecture - extend hierarchy of human body to society - continuation of levels - human being as cell in social superorganism - adjacency - multi-scale competency architecture - social superorganism

Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of spirituality

• alliteration -> facades again (link to Rhapsody, Preludes and Prufrock

synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see

Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)

synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity

Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of sspirituality

• alliteration -> facades again (link to Rhapsody, Preludes and Prufrock

synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see

Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)

synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity

Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans

Smith-Corona Electra users:<br /> - Joyce Carol Oates - Electra 220<br /> - William Styron - Electra 210 - Robert Caro - Electra 210 (New York Times) - Allen Ginsberg - Electra - Truman Capote - Electra 110

reply to u/peachaphrodite at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwu77s/sears_scholar_specific_letters_are_faint/

Issue with light imprints on a, w, q, etc.

Are you a touch typist or a two finger hunt-and-peck typist?

Solely based on the letters, I'll guess there's nothing wrong with the machine and that you're a newer touch typist whose two weakest fingers on your non-dominant hand just need some exercise to get a better imprint. I'd guess the same happens to your z and x as well, but you use them less. Practice typing about your "qwaze axes and saws" a few times a day for a week to improve your finger strength and technique.

If you're a hunt-and-peck person, then your typebars may need some gentle forming/fine adjustment using some specialist tools to give better imprints. Those letters on the ends of the segment more often go out of alignment than others. If this is the case, try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html

我也好不喜歡常常看到那種毫無脈絡就突如其來的一句感嘆

所謂 theory of mind，竟然並非人人都有

i found this via https://www.thefp.com/p/i-founded-wikipedia-heres-how-to

i need a premium account to comment on that article, so let me post my comment here

Once upon a time, there was an institution that was trusted by the public as an impartial and reliable source of information. Then things changed. The institution still claimed to be impartial. Its leaders still repeated the same mantras about the truth and trustworthiness, but the information it provided grew steadily more ideological. The change became impossible to ignore—and the public started to ask: Does this institution deserve our trust?

If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it could describe so many of the institutions that we once relied on to bring us information. In fact, it might just be the story of our times. This crisis of trustworthiness is the skeleton key to understanding so much of the turbulence and disorder in public life today.

It’s certainly the story of The New York Times, NPR, and countless other media organizations. It’s the story of all too many institutions in medicine and public health.

It’s also the story of Wikipedia.

probably the biggest example of this story is the catholic church...

Wikipedia has an article titled “Yahweh.” I am a Christian, and I consider Yahweh to be the name of my God.

the religion of Christianity started as a small group of rebels, but then (as the group became larger) this opposition ("trend") was integrated into the empire, and from then on, it was just another controlled opposition, publicly giving hope to the small people (slaves), but privately controlled by the empire.

"you have owners. they own you." -- george carlin

There are two common types of blocks that I object to: the partisan and the petty.

my wikipedia account (Milahu) was permabanned in year 2024, because i have "insulted" other editors (i called them "stupid"), and the ban log says "Apparently he has no desire to contribute to the encyclopedia" in other words "he is just a troll", because their definition of "contribute" is "he follows our orders"

here is my edit, which was later removed as "vandalism"

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Liste_von_Justizirrt%C3%BCmern_in_der_deutschen_Rechtsprechung&oldid=240510827#Michael_Ballweg

translation:

Michael Ballweg was innocently held in pretrial detention for 279 days, apparently for political reasons, because Michael Ballweg was an organizer of the Querdenker protests against the coronavirus dictatorship. As a pretext for the pretrial detention, the prosecutor constructed a “flight risk,” but the confiscation of valuables and the pretrial detention obviously served as an attack against the Querdenker protests.

See also: Michael Ballweg#Strafprozess (where, unfortunately, only mainstream sources are cited, which protect the regime with their opinion journalism).

[...]

But I'll spare myself the edit in the article, because also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure. (Hate me cos im honest.)

[...]

The fact that Wikipedia only allows sources to be cited that have been approved by the Ministry of Truth only confirms my statement that “also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure.”

my radically simple analysis of all these problems is that "all large organizations are evil", so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large".

the same analysis applies to "our" culture in general: every "too large" state automatically devolves into this disgusting "dictatorship of pacifism", always followed by overpopulation, degeneration, and collapse.

a similar observation was made by the youtuber Tilman Knechtel in his slogan "Trau keinem Promi" (trust no celebrities), because there is a "magic line" when people become "too famous" (too large), then they are offered a choice: either they "sell their soul" (become a controlled opposition) and work for the empire (give false hope to the slaves), or they continue their real opposition and get sabotaged and punished by the empire.

so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large"

see also: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

so the obvious solution is some peer-to-peer network, but as they say, "peer-to-peer is hard"... (what they actually mean by that is, most of our problems are not technical but social problems.)

two building blocks for such a peer-to-peer network are: tribalism = efficient teamwork in tribes of 150 people (https://github.com/milahu/alchi), and a generic voting and tagging system (https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp/blob/main/doc/2025-09-04.generic-tagging-and-voting-system.md#prompt-1)

i am collecting possible solutions in my p2p-killerapp repo: https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp

i am documenting abuse of power in my hate-maintainers repo: https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored (more people should do that!)

for - health - insulin doctor - youtube - diary of a CEO

You have to love the analogy of General Montgomery to chromosomes here and the duplication of information.

Everyone knows the general direction they're moving, though the information in soldiers is different in form and function versus chromosomes which aren't conscious.

What happens when a soldier is captured and questioned though? How does that effect strategy and does it outweigh the effects of a commander dying and their next in command being able to quickly take over? or of the individual soldier presented by a difficulty, but able to make a decision because they know where the general might direct them for the outcome the general desired?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%27s_law

It wouldn't be until almost a decade later that Delbruck, Golomb, et al. would be using math on the topic.

was this possibly the inspiration of Cathy O'Neill's book title?

historical evidence of the scientific shift from Newtonian clockwork physics into an underlying statical mechanical one

Archive / online catalogue - Typewritermuseum<br /> accessed on 2025-09-22T15:36:11

"settlement"?

Known historical users of the Remington Quiet-Riter:

• Hermann Hesse
• Halldór Laxness
• Martha Gellhorn
• Jack Lemmon's character in Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)

https://angelineboulley.com/about-angeline-boulley.html

Recommended to me by Deb Pearson as one of her favorite writers on 2025-09-14

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162194238069678/

Alice Denham, novelist and 1956 Playboy Playmate. She eventually wrote a memoir called “Sleeping With Bad Boys” about her life in the 50s/60s NYC literary scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSTSs7zLIo&t=41s James Patterson uses a Triumph Perfekt from the early 1950s

via https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162403163204678/

Tengo que verlo. Necesito verlo.

Exposure, networking and mentorship...these are three huge opportunities for post-secondary institutions to strategically embrace. These are key indicators of success outcomes and higher ed has a competitive advantage, especially in-person and residential campuses.

From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem

ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.

I highly agree with the statement that "talking back" is/was seen as a form of disrespect even when the child was just expressing themselves. Now, I do also believe that it also determines on the way you take that approach which separates It from being disrespectful and the child responding

https://www.todlippy.com/writing/interviews/bad-day-black-rock

for - consciousness, AI, Alex Gomez- Marin, neuroscience, hard problem of consciousness, nonmaterialism, materialism - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on conciousness

Summary - Alex advocates - for a nonmaterialist perspective on consciousness and argues - that there is an urgency to educate the public on this perspective - due to the transhumanist agenda that could threaten the future of humanity - He argues that the problem of whether consciousness is best explained by materialism or not is central to resolving the threat posed by the direction AI takes - In this regard, he interprets that the very words that David Chalmers chose to articulate the Hard Problem of Consciousness reveals the assumption of a materialist reference frame. - He used a legal metaphor too illustrate his point: - When a lawyer poses three question "how did you kill that person" - the question is entrapping the accused . It already contains the assumption of guilt. - I would characterize his role as a scientist who practices authentic seeker of wisdom - will learn from a young child if they have something valuable to teach and - will help educate a senior if they have something to learn - The efficacy of timebinding depends on authenticity and is harmed by dogma

for - social impact of science - This kind of authentic science education that reaches people takes science out of its ivory tower - and makes it relevant to the masses - We probably wouldn't have a climate crisis if scientists had consistently reached out to lay people but we failed there and allowed climate denialists to promote their agenda with greater efficacy

for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism

for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm

for - citation - book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - to book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - https://hyp.is/W4il7ovIEfCh30P8h49-Hg/www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791

for - adjacency- transhumanism - consciousness - quote - dark force of transhumanism - The transhumanist agenda to me is a very dark force. - It's a force that wants to extinguish humankind while telling us it's going to be great. - Consciousness is going to be key here

for - adjacency - urgency of - alternative views of consciousness - AI

for - metaphor - hard problem of consciousness - trick interview question

for - adjacency - hard problem of consciousness - materialist indoctrination

for - quote - We shouldn't have called it the hard problem of consciousness - By calling it a hard problem, - Yeah. Hard problems you can still solve and we shouldn't have called it a hard problem. - We should have said okay materialism just died.

Comment : insightful observation!

for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world

Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.

Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?

Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired, April 1, 2000. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/.

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Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.

Eaton Fire updates: New photos appear to show start of deadly Los Angeles fire as DOJ files lawsuits against SoCal Edison - ABC7 Los Angeles<br /> by [[Josh Haskell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T14:53:04

Happiness is a Warm Typewriter: 10½ Years On, the Story Stays the Same<br /> by [[Robert Messenger]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T11:21:50

Enthalpy of hydration is negative because adding H2O within the lattice neutralizes the repulsion between ions with like charges. Neutralizing the repulsion decreases the potential energy withing the lattice and therefore results in a negative enthalpy.

for - meme - all over of us - Donald Hoffman

for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.

for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?

New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness

for - youtube - Diary of a CEO - interview - Donald Hoffman - youtube - title - seeing true reality would kill us

summary - I really enjoyed this interview with Donald Hoffman and found it very enriching on menu levels - He articulates many of the same insights as well as questions I have encountered in my own life journey - I didn't realize he had suffered long Covid and almost died of heart failure due to it - His own personal encounter with death makes his interview even more poignant and makes him more human, as he has gone through the litmus test of life and death - I found that he shared many of the same concerns, insights and paradoxes I face as a living and dying human INTERbeCOMing journeying through life. -

for - adjacency - heart of Christianity - shoe love to your abusers - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear

for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

for - comparison - emotional - vs intellectual - belief in the ideas - vs embodiment of the ideas - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - science - spirituality - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - A Answer - you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are. - Donald Hoffman

for - A Answer - the infinite knows itself though infinite number of perspectives - Donald Hoffman

for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman

for - example - hard problem of consciousness - Simulation Theory - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton

for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

• adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
• When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
  • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
• When he says we are the one same reality,
  • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
    • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
  • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
    • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself

for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question

for - adjacency - spirituality - science - silence of thoughts in meditation - descriptions of reality - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - nice adjacency - if our thoughts are dependent on and built upon inputs from our senses - and our senses only provide us with a map, and not the territory, - then thinking will only ever keep us in the map world

for - quote - Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die - Donald Hoffman When I say you transcend any scientific

• Almost all of us think of ourselves as
  • an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die.
• When I say you transcend any scientific theory,
  • that means the theory that I am just a 160lb object in spacetime is just a theory and it's not the truth.
• That's not the truth about who I am.
• That's just a theory that I have because spacetime itself is just a theory.
• Nothing inside spacetime is anything but my headset interpretation of a reality that infinitely transcends anything I can experience.

for - adjacency - theory of everything - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - quote - we know 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - quote - probability of zero that sensory organs are designed to help us see objective reality - Donald Hoffman

for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper

Discover why high-fidelity mockups in prototyping are essential. Learn how interactive, realistic designs help validate concepts, improve UX, streamline development, and enhance stakeholder collaboration.

I found a way to create order from my jumbled ideas | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard]] on writingslowly.com <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T19:54:37

The structure of SOLO reminds me of the relationship of Bloom's Taxonomy and zettelkasten: https://boffosocko.com/2022/04/01/the-zettelkasten-method-of-note-taking-mirrors-most-of-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy/

What do the shapes and sizes in these networks tell us about potential outcomes?

How are these changes created? How are the outcomes and shapes different?

Can we put a mathematical "measure" on them? What do the (topological) "neighborhoods" look like before and after?

I find myself reading this from the perspective not so much of technology, but of these social systems which seem to be being stressed right now. Is it the technologists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc.) who realize that these systems were part of the technology "problem" in the past and now they've figured out a way to attempt to "capture" people to organize their original ends?

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https://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/pages/the-pad

also see Peter Tork at it <br /> via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1myf9js/whats_he_typing_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ms74t0/typewriter_identification/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120118193825/http://www.thesisters.demon.co.uk/nuns-frame.htm

for - quote main goal of life - don't die

for - adjacency - denial of death - discomfort with body

for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - title - The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (I)

summary - A nice summary of the geopolitical implications of a cosmolocal future and the main obstacles that must be overcome to turn it into a reality

for - definition = pulsation of the commons - Michel Bauwens - Throughout history, - in periods of dark ages - capitalism (self interest) rules - in times of civilizational degradation - even commons institutions can be compromised

for - adjacency - agriculture - emergence of cities

Know historical users of the Royal KHM included:<br /> - William Faulkner<br /> - David McCullough<br /> - Al Neuharth<br /> - Mickey Spillane<br /> - Dalton Trumbo<br /> - Frank Lloyd Wright<br /> - L. Ron Hubbard

Great Book of Western World 10 Years Reading Plan<br /> by [[zhex.dev]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-09T10:50:17

found via https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicalEducation/comments/1mgclv1/a_resource_for_edition_choice_of_books_from_gbww/

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ | The Verge<br /> by [[Emma Roth]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T15:49:42

In Jane Austin's time women were valued for their external appearance. In modern society we tend to economically prey on their intelligence and compassion.

Spam production influenced by military efficiency needs Improved military food logistics and inspired canned meat development

https://www.facebook.com/groups/artdeco1930/posts/10161193224076561/

Seeking transparency on the Epstein files, Senate Democrats invoke the ‘rule of five’<br /> by [[Steve Benen]] on July 30, 2025, 8:28 AM PDT accessed on 2025-07-30T14:12:20

Positives about ChatGPT Study mode

Quote about using ChatGPT only to do school work

MIT - Your Brain on ChatGPT

https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html

Users of the Remington Super-Riter and Remington Standard:<br /> - Grace Kelly<br /> - Robby the Robot<br /> - Lina Wertmüller

Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents<br /> by [[Sam Levin]] for | Los Angeles | The Guardian accessed on 2025-07-29T08:16:14

https://graham.uchicago.edu/program/basic-program-of-liberal-education/

Bit sad, that we still need to do this introductions. Digital Humanities is around for so long, but even if we reference this in introductions its still news for some.

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb by [[Greg Sargent]]

oops, Allen accidentally spills this note twice!

Allen, Roland. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. United Kingdom: Profile Books, 2023. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-rolad-allen/6331084.

California is finally adopting phonics, fulfilling a grandmother's dream - Opinion by [[Dan Walters]]

Keeping Notebooks Could Change Your Life by [[John Dickerson]]

Yeah. Web authoring is really just desktop publishing—except in its current state, foiled by the JavaScript industrial complex.

Opinion: This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education by [[Jennifer Frey]] 2025-07-17 in New York Times

Frey argues that it's college administrators who are killing off the idea of a liberal arts education. In her experience, students are thrilled to be in these programs and participate in them.

Me: Some of the pressure, also indicated here, is from toxic capitalism which is pressuring students to be only career-focused in their educational journeys. This pressure leaves much less space for the humanities.

Read: Fri 2025-07-18 7:13 PM Updated: 2025-07-19

Where is the balance between trade schools and universities? Many colleges converting to trade school models are still having trouble maintaining their budgets.

The power of contrasts. The only way for hell to work is for its inhabitants to have hope; if they had no hope, torture and suffering is pointless. Without hope, hell loses its power.

for - Epstein as part of state-sponsored child abuse Kompromat? - Eric Weinstein - adjacency - Epstein - CIA - FBI - state-sponsored pedophilia

Paymaster Corp., est. 1917 by [[Made-in-Chicago Museum]]

for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein - Harvard graduate dept of mathematics - gravity - Eric Weinstein

for - quote - future of humanity - something remarkable has to happen - Eric Weinstein

for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein

for - example - leverage - progress trap - COVID - mix of 4 amino acids inserted into a spike protein

for - stats - history - Nov 1952 - hydrogen bomb - -April 1953 - discovery of DNA

for - Jeffrey Epstein victims - under 10 years of age

for - FBI knows of Kompromat - and asked to stand down

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for - paper - the Role of Artists in Societal Change

for - system change - role of artists - TPF - arts community - research paper - RMIT 2020 - artist traits