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Philosophical inclinations

Philosopher and metaphysicist, the pensivist explores life's profound questions in his search for noumenon. Join me on a journey through the mind and the cosmos.

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

The universe is just the storm; we’re the storytellers

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simpli-fied illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.
When the illusions work well and the human who subscribes to the illusion survives, those illusions are passed to new generations.

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

Neurons "talk" to each other using molecules like serotonin, but "think" internally using electricity. It’s like Morse code being transmitted as sound waves between telegraphs but stored as electrical pulses inside the machines.

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

"Key to beat depression is to accept reality exactly as it is"

— Someone on the Internet

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

In his 2012 memoir Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, Koch implies that personal factors influenced his professional judgment. He acknowledges that his quest to solve the mind-body problem has always been emotional as well as intellectual. He describes himself as “not only a dispassionate physicist and biologist but also a human being who enjoys but a few years to make sense of the riddle of existence.”
For most of his life he “forcefully denied that either the Freudian unconscious or traumatic memories that I didn’t know I had… were influencing my behavior.” A mid-life crisis made Koch appreciate Freud’s insights. “I learned over the past years how powerfully my unconscious inclinations, my beliefs, and my personal strengths and failings have influenced my life and the pursuit of my life’s work.”

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

https://paulvanderklay.me/2012/05/14/the-romantic-solution-from-earnest-beckers-the-denial-of-death/

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

An average person normally spends at least 90 min to 2 h per night dreaming. Nevertheless, memories of dream events are not retrieved while awake unless the person awoke shortly after a dream. It is hypothesized here that schizophrenic delusions initially arise because a system that normally inhibits the formation of memories of dream events is defective. Therefore, memories of dream events or fragments would be occasionally made and placed in the normal memory store. The only reason that we really know anything happened to us in the past is that we have a memory of it, and having a memory of an event is sufficient to really believe it. Therefore, the schizophrenic would believe that the dream events actually happened. It is proposed that this is the basis of primary delusions [...]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9667811/

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

Afterword (The Best of Greg Egan)

This collection contains twenty stories that I consider to be the best of those I’ve published in the last thirty years.
If there is a single thread running through the bulk of the stories here, it is the struggle to come to terms with what it will mean when our growing ability to scrutinise and manipulate the physical world reaches the point where it encompasses the substrate underlying our values, our memories, and our identities. While the prospect of engineering our minds might still seem remote, anyone who has read a few case studies by the late Oliver Sacks will understand that we have already confronted the materiality of the self in the starkest terms. In its details, a story like ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’ might not describe a real affliction or a technologically feasible cure, but in essence it does no more than acknowledge that the kind of radical distortions of perception, personality and identity that Sacks observed all had physical causes, and the corollary of that is the possibility of equally radical physical cures.

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

A fundamental difference between feelings and emotions is that feelings are experienced consciously, while emotions manifest either consciously or subconsciously

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Apr 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

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