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Post by Kyrin Wyldstar on Jan 15, 2021 17:24:36 GMT
Random thoughts for the day...
No person has the right to use another persons body without their consent.
Never choose comfort over knowledge.
The most important things are also the most dangerous thungs.
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Post by Kyrin Wyldstar on Feb 7, 2021 22:14:50 GMT
Thoughts on Energy
Entanglement - a particle is in all positions which is actually the same position because "space" does not exist until the wave function is collapsed through observation (presumably a consciousness)
Dark matter - evidence points to its existence even though we can't detect it directly. Dark matter is the label we give for the phenomenon we can measure the effects of through indirect observation.
Is God a label for some phenomona we can measure the effects of?
The difference is, with the idea of "god" there is no measurable, reproducible, physical effect of physical bodies that is grounded in math.
However the philosopher Michael Jones argues against this. He asserts that time and space are the result of the quantum wave collapse by consciousness and so a diestic worldview is more probable because the universe can't exist without a necessary and immaterial mind that created the univers...what we call God.
EMERGEANT UNIVERSE Digital physics, the 3d universe can be described by 2d information. This means the universe is emergent and not fundamental. It is holographic in nature. It can be conceived of as the output of a deterministic and probabilistic computer program. The analogue universe is a continuous waveform (superposition) void of time and space. The collapse of this by mind gives us discrete events and discrete measures we experience as separate objects that are set apart from one another by space within the medium of time. The mental creates the physical in this way.
The quantum world is fundamental. The physical universe is emergent. It takes observation to collapse the quantum wave function. Therefore mind must be what collapses the wave function into discrete time and space.
The counter to this is chaos theory. This is the idea that in the wave, which is continuous, one can never get to the exact state of anything that makes up the wave. You can always go one step deeper. What is actually in motion here is not a "thing" but a probability.
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS This is the idea that consciousness is irreducible. But there is a difference between consciousness and sentience. Consciousness is an awareness of environment and an ability to react to it. Sentience is the ability to self reflect on those actions and modify that behavior. So where does experience come from? Is it necessary (true in all possible worlds) or contingent ( true in only 1 or more worlds). Experience seem to not be activated by brain manipulation. Things like will and belief can't be modified by physical means. If this is so then why do traumatic brain injuries often result in radical personality modification? Perhaps its not so cut and dried, we just don't understand this connection yet.
INTROSPECTION The mind exists, we experience that. It appears properties of the mind are not that which matter can have influence over. Mind is not reducible to matter. In this idea substance dualism is unnecessary because all reduces to mind. This assertion is unproven but intriguing. It says the governing mind brings forth the vast array of contingent minds. This still does not eliminate the idea that matter still may come about by entirely non aware processes.
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Post by Kyrin Wyldstar on Mar 1, 2021 19:58:46 GMT
The DEATH of Kyrin Wyldstar Well it seems I have been put on secret trial here (totjo) and condemned to execution. I did not get a chance to even defend myself in this trial and so the result is nothing more than a kangaroo court. Ironically enough it started when I actually re-requested membership again so that I may volunteer to help out in the edu-admin dept, helping to develop the B-Div path for non-Knights. Not only was it voted that I not be made a member, they also voted to ban me forever. The charge against me used to ban me – incompatibility. Nothing more than a fancy puffed up word used to facilitate this leaderships own hypocrisy. I don’t believe in the Gods they believe in and so I am to be put to death as a result.
I don’t claim to know anything, I only claim to doubt. This is the very root of the idea that I know that I know nothing. Some claim this is the start of wisdom. But I do not know this to be true either. I only know that I am good at asking questions and exposing fallacy. These are not the acts of malice, they are the acts of compassion. If I did not care I would not take the time to even challenge you. But this has been regarded as disagreeable behavior at this temple and not allowed. But what is the result of disallowing dissenting opinion of a position or criticism of a body? It is preconceived bias not exploration. It is a cult mentality, not a temple of Jediism. I have been cut from the herd because the autocracy here that protects these predispositions is threatened by me. I ask, who will be next?
I have been deemed evil, a detriment to the temple. But these terms, good and evil, are just ideas attached to certain experiences. They actually have no objective reality beyond the human mind. As Jedi, who strive to see all sides of an issue so that a fair assessment can be made, this idea should be paramount. However in this case it seems to have been missed by the very leadership that guides this temple. They have looked only to the surface of this situation and failed to see the deeper dimension to this very real human experience that is beyond simple material assessment. They miss the idea that there is something deeper to us than material form. What that is I cannot say, it is simply the question I seek to explore. But I have been dismissed for exploring it too deeply and too honestly. I ask, is this the sort of leadership you want taking you into that darkness beyond your comfort zone?
This is an important question because it cuts to the heart of who and what we experience ourselves as. Each of us are an explicit and intentionally specific material manifestation of a more fundamental property forming and informing the universe. We are literally nothing that emerges as something for a period in this strange medium we call space-time. We are literally the senses that the universe uses to know itself and it is only our mind that creates the illusion of dichotomy, of separate things. A blade of grass can’t exist without the sun, the earth and the air. It is actually made up of those things just as we are made up of the very elements of the universe itself. When we lend this idea to a religious doctrinal paradigm such as this temple espouses, oneness actually informs diversity and diversity becomes oneness. It is all a singular and spectacular unity of unfolding. The illusion in this is ones belief that this can be controlled as the Knights have tried to control me by getting rid of me. They fail to see the very depth to which they ascribe themselves. They are not banning me, they are only banning themselves, they are banning opportunity. I consider that a dangerous policy.
I encourage all here to consider these words. Do not mourn for me. I shall go on. I will always be around, no matter how much they try to silence me. Instead of partnering with me in this quest, they chose to strike me down. But in doing so they have allowed me to become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
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Post by Kyrin Wyldstar on Mar 1, 2021 19:59:44 GMT
Suppose you have a bucket of water you wish to know the temperature of. Suppose also that the water is not exchanging heat with either the bucket or the environment. Now you drop your thermometer in the bucket. In general, the thermometer will not at first have the same temperature as the bucket. The two will exchange heat, equilibrate to a common temperature that you can read off the thermometer's display. To the extent to which you can trust your thermometer, you can trust that the temperature of the water now matches the one displayed. However, it is no longer the same temperature the water had before the measurement. Since you had several pounds of water but maybe a drop or so of mercury, it will be so close that that tiny discrepancy will not matter for your purposes.
Now imagine you do the same, but to a mere glass of water. You can still trust the measurement to reflect the initial temperature, but you know that trust must come with caution.
Now you measure a single drop of water. There is no telling how much your thermometer has changed the water's temperature. That reading, though accurate in the end, is almost certainly entirely unrepresentative of the sample's initial temperature and you know it.
This is the observer effect. You cannot measure anything without interfering with it. In many cases that interference is much weaker than the signal you are trying to capture, but if there was none at all, you wouldn't be measuring anything. It is not important whether there is a mind absorbing information either. You can automate the measurement, store the data on a hard drive and let it be displayed on a screen at a later date. The magnetic domains of your computer's hard disk will not suddenly swap between the screen displaying the numbers for no one to see and finally your reviewing them. The observer effect already occurred during the measurement and has nothing to do with your knowledge.
Consciousness is not a requirement in this.
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