Quote of the day

[Syne]

"Every theory of consciousness on offer is a bit insane… Physicalism asks you to believe qualia are either fully describable as structure or they don’t exist (whatever that means), property dualism asks you to believe non-physical properties float alongside matter with no intelligible causal story, cosmopsychism asks you to believe the universe is one giant mind, and panpsychism asks you to believe electrons have some form of inner life. The hard problem doesn’t have a ‘sane’ solution!"--Nino Kadic

A logically consistent theory is actually not that hard. Compelling evidence is.
Non-physical properties of dualism have an intelligible causal story, but few care to hear it. And the interface between them and matter is also pretty simple, but people like their thought-terminating cliches over any real thinking.

[Magical Realist]

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people... On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."-- H.L Mencken

[Syne]

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people... On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."-- H.L Mencken

Yep, Biden was president.

[Magical Realist]

“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

[Magical Realist]

“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere, completely unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be" —Duncan Trussell

[Magical Realist]

“We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.” ---Terence McKenna

Art by Anderson Debernardi
https://debernardigallery.com/

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[Magical Realist]

“The great paradox of the brain is that everything you know about the world is provided to you by an organ that has itself never seen that world. The brain exists in silence and darkness, like a dungeoned prisoner. It has no pain receptors, literally no feelings. It has never felt warm sunshine or a soft breeze. To your brain, the world is just a stream of electrical pulses, like taps of Morse code. And out of this bare and neutral information it creates for you—quite literally creates—a vibrant, three-dimensional, sensually engaging universe. Your brain is you. Everything else is just plumbing and scaffolding.”― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

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[Magical Realist]

“Civilization is sick: stand awhile and be quiet and drink the sea-wind, you will survive.”—Robinson Jeffers

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[Magical Realist]

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”― Richard Buckminster Fuller

[Magical Realist]

Remember all those times in your life when you didn't say or do something you really wanted to say or do for fear of what people would think? Precisely..