Fantasy/psychosis maxxing:
Imagine a world where you believed in a god which wanted you to do 100 pushups everyday, or improve yourself in some other way.
This kind of God is obv silly, but if you could temporarily pretend you believed it you would gain an insane amount of motivation
Its like an energy machine you can redirect as firepower toward different desires.
Lucid dream maxxing:
Taking control of your dreams is fun and allows study, instead of allowing the narrative go up to random chance
Remember you are like a GOD of your mind. You can wish anything into existence in both imagination and lucid dreams, including (theoretically) the exact feelings stimulated by the sensations. I’ve had plenty of dreams where I drunk or got stoned, fucking and falling in love, etc etc.
Visualization maxxing:
While images created in dreams tends to be very vidid, in imagination they tend to be much less bright and salient. But the fact is that mental/conceptual objects share the same field as sensory ones, competing for like the “pixels” of our spotlight of attention.
This leads into visualizatonmaxxing, which involves a “battle” on the visual field between data from our senses and reflection
Reflections on self:
Memories appear automatically, with or without the process of inner reflection. The self which walks around and retrieves/stores memories inside your head is part of a theory, not percieved directly.
Because we can only use our senses to gather data + can’t see inside people’s heads, we construct a theory about what happens inside of people involving the ordinary everyday objects of the world. This involves a tiny person puppeting around the body from inside the head, looking out the eyes and into an external world.
The problem for this inner room theory is that we DON’T find it when we crack open the head, only our brains.
This led people initially to explaining the mind as something OUTSIDE the head, and the material world entirely.
As dualism lost favor over materialism, people started placing the self inside the head. This is like a “folk” theory which requires insight into neuroscience to debunk.
The main issue is we have no sensory access to our brain states, i.e. we cannot actually SEE the neural processes in our own brains. If we could, we would gain much more insight into our own processes (at the cost of time/effort)
The invention of the lens and other tools in the 16th century extended our senses into this smaller realm, containing an entirely new set of entities. This includes cells like neurons and even more complex structures, like the network of synapses in between neurons.
The limited resolution of the naked eye locked off people in ancient and medieval times from the most basic entities composing reality. They constructed theories from a higher level of composition, projecting what they COULD observe to fill in gaps in their knowledge (e.g. fire, air, water, earth as basic elements)
Trust the one who has interpreted the most science, with relation to his cognitive skill.
kill the chads
—Ehren
Imagine a world where you believed in a god which wanted you to do 100 pushups everyday, or improve yourself in some other way.
This kind of God is obv silly, but if you could temporarily pretend you believed it you would gain an insane amount of motivation
Its like an energy machine you can redirect as firepower toward different desires.
Lucid dream maxxing:
Taking control of your dreams is fun and allows study, instead of allowing the narrative go up to random chance
Remember you are like a GOD of your mind. You can wish anything into existence in both imagination and lucid dreams, including (theoretically) the exact feelings stimulated by the sensations. I’ve had plenty of dreams where I drunk or got stoned, fucking and falling in love, etc etc.
Visualization maxxing:
While images created in dreams tends to be very vidid, in imagination they tend to be much less bright and salient. But the fact is that mental/conceptual objects share the same field as sensory ones, competing for like the “pixels” of our spotlight of attention.
This leads into visualizatonmaxxing, which involves a “battle” on the visual field between data from our senses and reflection
Reflections on self:
Memories appear automatically, with or without the process of inner reflection. The self which walks around and retrieves/stores memories inside your head is part of a theory, not percieved directly.
Because we can only use our senses to gather data + can’t see inside people’s heads, we construct a theory about what happens inside of people involving the ordinary everyday objects of the world. This involves a tiny person puppeting around the body from inside the head, looking out the eyes and into an external world.
The problem for this inner room theory is that we DON’T find it when we crack open the head, only our brains.
This led people initially to explaining the mind as something OUTSIDE the head, and the material world entirely.
As dualism lost favor over materialism, people started placing the self inside the head. This is like a “folk” theory which requires insight into neuroscience to debunk.
The main issue is we have no sensory access to our brain states, i.e. we cannot actually SEE the neural processes in our own brains. If we could, we would gain much more insight into our own processes (at the cost of time/effort)
The invention of the lens and other tools in the 16th century extended our senses into this smaller realm, containing an entirely new set of entities. This includes cells like neurons and even more complex structures, like the network of synapses in between neurons.
The limited resolution of the naked eye locked off people in ancient and medieval times from the most basic entities composing reality. They constructed theories from a higher level of composition, projecting what they COULD observe to fill in gaps in their knowledge (e.g. fire, air, water, earth as basic elements)
Trust the one who has interpreted the most science, with relation to his cognitive skill.
kill the chads
—Ehren
