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Monday, 21 June 2021
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Wednesday, 2 June 2021
We cannot see the self
The fact that you can’t see your eyes doesn’t mean that you don’t have any. Likewise, the fact we cannot see the self doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. The self is that which perceives, it's not itself a perception.
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Age progression of myself
Below on the left is a photo of me taken back in 1985. I uploaded that photo to ChatGPT and said to it "Generate an image of what this ...
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Someone on twitter/X asked the following question: A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the photo below, and asks "Will a c... -
I recently read the following article: What the Buddha Didn't Teach About Reincarnation It says: "This is not to say that “we” ...
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It keeps being claimed (eg David Papineau, Sean Carroll et al ) that if consciousness caused anything in the brain over and above physical c...
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Someone said in a comment under a Guardian article: My solution to this problem is somewhat simplistic. I don't do social media. As in...
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Woody Allen has said : I firmly believe ... that life is meaningless. I’m not alone in thinking this — there have been many great minds far...
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Yesterday I had a conversation with Claude (an LLM similar to ChatGPT) about hemispherectomies (permanently removing half of one's brain...
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I bought the Lenovo D32-45 PC Monitor 10 days ago (it's not available on Amazon). It cost £169.00 which I believe is about the cheapest...
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According to this article Greenland is the country with the world's highest suicide rate. From 1900-1930 Greenland had a suicide rate ...
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It is said that all change in the world is purely due to physical forces playing out. These forces can ultimately be boiled down to the four...
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An interesting Guardian article : It is worth reminding ourselves that the vast majority of our ancestors saw the world in a very different...