This website shares books, documents and links to other websites on subjects that I hope will cause us to question our most deeply held beliefs, world views , assumptions and our understanding of our relationship with the cosmos.
tag > Philosophy
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Connecting the dots? Or disconnecting from the unknowable cause clinging to illusory dots?
Decoding/Encoding 'consciousness' ('brains', a energetic spacetime pattern, call it what you want) is seemingly getting much easier and more reliable: from understanding individual mammal brains all the way to decoding the neural signals of 8 billion human monkeys and using it as part of closed-loop 'mind control' systems, based on exotic models of 'reality'. But to what end? Despite all efforts, we are still chasing the illusive white bunny of Alice in Wonderland. The deeper we probe, the more ghosts appear in the shell. The map is easily confused with the territory. Within infinity there is no "absolute truth" or "objective grounding" - but everything (incl. nothing) is a paradoxical, imaginary, timeless piece of... music? Seeking certainty and control here is a fools game - Learn to relax and go with the flow instead. Ask yourself "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, in infinity?", and then call off the hunt and simply keep quiet.
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“Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.” ― Heraclitus
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Voltaire on Meditation
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
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"We adhere to the values of..."
- Tao Te Ching, 400B.C.
- Confucian Ethics, 500B.C.
- The Cyrus Cylinder, 539B.C.
- Magna Carta Libertatum, 1215
- The American Constitution, 1781
- The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, 2000
- The Rome Statute & International Criminal Court, 2002
- Most frequently adhered to "values" of the 2020s? Amnesia & Think Tank Defined "Ethics"?
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"Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor" - Yoruba Proverb
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Jung on Friends
"An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: 'No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you." - Carl Jung
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"The Universe Is Not Only Queerer Than We Suppose, But Queerer Than We Can Suppose" - J. B. S. Haldane (?)
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"To think that I am not going to think of you anymore is still thinking of you. Let me then try not to think that I am not going to think of you." - Zen Saying
