tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48624427176011687522012-01-16T23:48:58.196+11:00Strange hypotheses, curious questions, bizarre techniques, and miscellaneous items of dubious value.masterymisterynoreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862442717601168752.post-59711681927881914042010-05-12T08:01:00.003+10:002010-05-12T08:01:20.233+10:00

Drog, Wharf and Zambooka were sitting in the Sub-Orbital Lounge awaiting transfer to Korendi. Drog was feeling rather dispirited, the prospect of spending three lunes in the company of his boozy, roguish brothers was not a pleasant one. continues at cosmic rapture

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How does an object become a subject? What warrants the application of labels such as "creature" or "organism"? What qualifications must a thing have to be deemed to be "alive"? continues at cosmic rapture

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Believer: "I believe in something that is greater than me, something that is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. I call that something "God". God has all the powers and forces in the universe. God is more powerful than all the forces in the universe. God knows everything, God is everywhere." continues at cosmic rapture

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Imagine you are making a cup of tea, and some boiling water drips onto your hand. You feel pain in the part touched by the boiling water. You are aware of your hand, and you are aware of the part of your hand that hurts. In one sense, part of your hand is talking to you (conveying a message of pain) and you know how that part is feeling (sore). In other words, you and a whole bunch of your cells

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Nothing matters is equivalent to everything mattering equally. If everything matters, nothing matters. This doesn't mean that everything is the same. It means that from a universal perspective, everything has the same value, ie is not preferred or valued above anything else, is independent and irrespective of context . From a universal perspective, there are no values--ie all values have the

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How small is small? How big is big? How long is the longest Planck? All qualities (qualia, if you must) are relative. Nothing is big, absolutely. Nothing is small, absolutely. Nothing is red, absolutely. Some things are bigger than others. Redder than others. Smaller than others. The fact is, there is no such a thing as the biggest or reddest or shortest or longest or smallest thing. At one

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Every person helps to create reality. Some create consciously, others unconsciously. It can take a while, a long while, to learn how to create consciously. But every person gets there in the end.It’s not about thinking. It's about knowing. The less you think, the more you remember how to know. People who think they know, don't know, not properly. Thinking gets you know where.Part of it is

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"Morning all, hope we are all well and having fun today on this bright and sunny morn," said the Multiverse to zer parts."Not bad, thanks Lord, under the circumstances, all things considered," responded a few of the parts."Has anyone seen my Son anywhere?" asked the Multiverse, aka God aka Everything That Is (ETI)."Not in ages," responded sum of ETI's parts, "nor even aeons, or eras, nor even a

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Rock blunts scissors: the dead weight of ignorance and superstition dulls the keen, sharp mind seeking truth and knowledge. Scissors cuts paper: the keen, sharp mind is too eager and in its haste cuts the paper on which truth and knowledge are written into disconnected fragments of reductionism and limited perspective. Paper wraps rock: the dead weight of ignorance and superstition is

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Everyone is right about God. All concepts of God are correct. All ways to God are right. God is always right. God has no particular shape or form. God is all forms--from burning bush to pillar of smoke to golden calf and everything in between. God has no particular purpose. God embraces all purposes: from good to evil from right to wrong and everything in between. God has no particular

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Most people enjoy listening to music. I know I do. But music is also a fascinating thing to think about. The connections between music and mathematics (and chess, for that matter) are well-known, and therefore will not be explored in this post. What will be explored are the following interesting questions and speculations: Are there any connections between Fibonacci series, Bode's Law and the

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First a confession. Let me clearly state up front, the words that start after the second colon (“:”) in this post are not mine. They were created by someone else. I can’t remember who created them. I found them on the web one day many years ago, but I’ve forgotten where or how. I congratulate the author on a fine piece of writing and on some very interesting ideas, and I apologise for using zer

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Everything That Is, has been, will be and could be (ETI) comprises all living and inanimate things and everything else, including non-material as well as material things, in this and/or any other universe or reality. And when I say "everything" I do mean "everything": Atoms and breakfasts and mountain goats and clever tactics and cabbages and kings and sealing wax and theories and vacuums and

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In the English language, the word "God" is used in many different ways and contexts. For example, for some people "creator of the universe" is an attribute of an Entity Referred to As God (ERTAG). In other contexts, the word "God" has different meanings, and the ERTAG has different attributes, for example, "The God named 'Zeus' hurls thunderbolts and lives on the top of Mount Olympus". As the

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The following hypothetical conversation between Moses and Zarathustra may help clarify the difference between signs, signifiers, and the signified. It's a conversation in three acts. Act 1 is about the thing (signified). Act 2 is about the qualities (signifiers) of the thing. Act 3 is about the name (sign) of the thing.Act 1. The Thing.Moses: "Are your people deists or atheists, believers or

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"Do you believe in God?" is a stupid question. It's stupid in the very trivial hair-splitting sense that equates the word "in" with the word "inside" so that the question becomes "When you do your believing, are you inside God?". But it is also stupid in a more significant sense related to the meaning of words, and the differences between the sign, the signified and the signifier. In the

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What is free will and what does it mean? Free will means you are free to choose to do anything that is within your power to do; free to choose to think anything that is in your power to think; free to choose to experience anything that is within your power to experience. But most of all, free will means you are free to define your values relative to the All, relative to ETI. Every part of ETI

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I think. My thoughts exist. They don't exist in the material world, but they do exist. My thoughts are real. My thoughts are. I experience feelings. Feelings are not the same as thoughts. I can feel happy without thinking about happiness, or about being happy or about whether my happiness is warranted or about where the feeling of happiness comes from. My feelings do not exist in the material

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John: “The universe is alive, intelligent, aware, self-conscious and interested in what happens to me.” Joan: “A cloud of gas is not alive. Cosmic rays are not intelligent. A lump of rock is not aware. Vacuum is not self-conscious. Spacetime doesn't give a fuck about what happens to you.”John: “If you say so. But think of this: my foot is not conscious, right? But that doesn’t mean I am not. You

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Higher Self: Say you woke up one morning and realised that your deathday had dawned--that you were going to die within 24 hours--what would you want to say, and to whom, before moving on to the next life? Homunculus: Mmm! Interesting… lemme think about that for a minute…Higher Self: Come on, get a move on, you've got 24 hours before you die, remember.Homunculus: Well, it would depend I suppose

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If anyone were to ask me whether I believe in UFO's, I would reply, "It depends what you mean by 'believe in'.If 'believe in' means 'worship', then no--I don't worship UFO's. And no, I don't have to be in a UFO to believe in UFO's or anything else for that matter.However, I do believe that some objects fly,and that some of those flying objects are unidentified. It is incontrovertible, undeniable

masterymisterynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862442717601168752.post-80731938734982151232007-09-07T21:04:00.001+10:002008-03-23T19:05:48.353+11:00

There are a number of unwarranted assumptions underlying the discussion of the so-called "Binding Problem", and an overall flavour of circularity in the discussion. Not to mention the strong possibility that the innate treachery of language may be contributing to the creation of a non-issue re this issue.Consider, for example, the Revonsuo and Newman (1999)* definition: The Binding Problem is "…

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What is meant by "entanglement" is that there is only one thing. What seems to be a multitude of things is actually just one thing--a fact demonstrated by the extensive entanglement of the one thing with itself. Likewise, what seems to be a fundamental disagreement between Atheists, believers and others is only an apparent disagreement arising from the limitations of language and human

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Anger is an acquired taste, just like blue cheese, frogs legs or witchetty grubs. When you first try anger, you’re not sure you like it. But you soon learn to appreciate it. You soon learn how much more enjoyable it is to succumb to anger than to manage it. Many times have I been drunk on Anger. The oh-so-delectable feeling of being out of control---of being authorised, empowered even, to

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What would you say to a person who--brimming with intelligence, talent and creativity--consciously and deliberately sabotages zer potential and walks a path leading to destruction of self? What can you say about a person who--since the dawning of zer own awareness--has sought mediocrity in order to knowingly cripple zer soul? What would you say about a person who assures zerself that zer descent

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The end of the world is nigh; 2012 to be precise. Or so the myths and legends of several different cultures predict. And considering the state of the world today, and the state of our so-called culture, you'd have to admit it's looking pretty bleak. Thing is, I doubt it will be the end of the world. The end of the species may very well be nigh, but the world will get on quite nicely without us,

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People argue a lot, very often about a thing called "God". Often we fight and kill for reasons to do with a thing called "God". There are many different fights about God. About the existence of God (whether ze exists) and the nature of God (what ze is). Whether there is only one god, or many, or none. Fights between people called “believers” and people called “scientists”. Between those who

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Somewhere, somehow, somewhen, someone discovered a secret process to capturing thought. The discovery of the secret process meant that thought could be transported from one place to another; transplanted from one mind to another. The discovery meant that a bridge could be built between the realm of intangible, immaterial things like thoughts, ideas, memories and the like, and the realm of

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Everything That Is (ETI) has been, will be and can be includes the real and the imaginary, the material and the immaterial (is there really a substantive difference?). Within ETI are sentient beings and non-sentient beings, sentient beings with language, and sentient beings without language, subjects and objects, the living and the dead. So the Big Question is not about the purpose of life; it is

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What do we mean by "real"? Is matter more real than energy? Is a tree (in or out of the quad*) more real than the idea of a tree? Is a sound more real than a thought? Is actuality more real than possibility? What is an action? Is an action real? An action is not a physical thing. It is not a thought. Or is it?Is the idea that there is (are) a god (gods) less real than the fact (assuming it is a

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OK. Let's get real. Here's how you make magic. Here's how you kill Schrödinger's cat. Here's the secret. The big one. The Philosopher's Stone. The Elixir of Life. The One Ring to bind them All. The Real Thing.Want to know how to make enemies disappear? Know you have none. Want to have sex with anyone you please? Think about it--you do. Want to have everything there is to have? All the tastes,

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Daniel Dennett's "intentional stance*" is a great way to get inside someone's brain. I use it a lot, especially for deconstructing advertising. Consider for instance the following conversation between ad agency executive and hollywood producer about promoting the upcoming release of the third in a series of movies. Black ponytail: "Our market research suggests the target demographic really likes

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Everything that is, has been, will be and could be comprises a being I name "Everything That Is" (ETI). "Everything" includes everything: hard things, soft things, real things, unreal things, material things (such as rocks and trees and human beings), immaterial things (such as souls and thoughts and dreams and mathematical formulae), and everything in between. ETI is the biggest gestalt of all.

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A name is not the same as that which carries the name. The name of the game is the game of the name. As Shakespeare expresses it in Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Confusion about the names and the things they name leads to much disagreement and hostility. "Zimbabwe" is a name, and so too is "Rhodesia". Thing referred to as

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To understand the nature of reality, and to communicate the nature of reality to others requires context-independence. Context-free thinking is a pre-requisite to such understanding, and the use of context-free language is a pre-requisite to the effective expression of such understanding to others. The lemma is continuous not discreet: the less context-dependence, the closer to the true nature of

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Here's a cute little meme-game anyone can play: List the different sets of which you are a member. I am a member of these sets: Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Vertebrate, Biped, Human, Capitalist Wage Slave, Baby Boomer, Tenant, Anglo-Celtic, Pantheist, Everything That Is, Father, Son, Husband, Green-eyed, Sentient (I think), etc. My partner is a member of some sets in which I am a member, and is a member

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We are building an army in which each warrior chooses to seek truth and tell truth as ze understands truth to be. Will you join us?"Who is us?"Everyone that is."Is what?"Building an army in which each warrior chooses to seek and tell the truth as ze sees it. Will you join us?Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights reserved. home (refresh screen)

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As a person who has carried a heavy burden of anger for most of his life, I have found the following technique for controlling anger very effective and useful. This three-stage technique (thought, word, deed) is based on the proven yoga of visualisation and affirmation.Stage 1, Thought. Take a long, slow, deep breath and while you are doing that visualise these words scrolling across a screen in

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"Know" is one of those mysterious words we use without knowing what if anything it means. And trouble arises when we seek to explain or define what a word means by reference to other words. Godel's incompleteness theorems apply to language as much as to any system. Active knowing: involves intentionality, refers to a state in which the mind proactively seeks knowledge, adopts an intentional

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The so-called "binding problem" of psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, metaphysicians and other horse-thieves relates to the proposition that some aspects of reality are processed in some parts of the brain, and other aspects in other parts of the brain. It's a Problem because the neuromancers cannot explain how datasets from different parts of the brain combine to form an integrated,

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When formal systems such as Arithmetic and Geometry see Kurt Gödel coming, they run screaming into the night. Why? For fear that their foundations will be exposed as rickety, unstable, unsound and unsupported under the merciless microscope of Godel's incompleteness theorems. As a formal system for locating, identifying, capturing and transmitting meaning, Language is not immune to the Gödelian

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The meaning of words is relative not absolute and totally depends on context, cultural and otherwise. For example, some people would consider a person wearing a fur coat (faux or not) on the beach at the height of summer to be "badly dressed" in terms of the environmental conditions, and the desire on the part of most people to avoid dying in a puddle of sweltery sweat. (There are so many

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One of the great parts of bean a human bean is free will. You can choose whatever tickles your fancy. If you choose fear, if you choose to live in fear, no worries. That's fine. Nobody least of all god will criticise you for making that choice. Just one thing though, don't be surprised or complain if and when you feel afraid. Or, do complain if you want, but then don't be surprised or complain

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Close to death now. Real close, real soon now. Coming home, Lord. I'm a comin' home. To the other side. Tear the veil of illusion asunder. Talk to God man to man face to face. And say: "Look God, I don't wanna complain or anything, but I gotta tell ya, Life on Earth sucks, big time!"And I did that! I took my courage in my strong right arm, I girded my loins, and I put the hard word on God, jus'

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There are no disagreements, there is only confusion about labels. There are no arguments about meaning, there is only a failure to understand the difference between the signified and the signifier. This confusion is especially relevant and important in relation to so-called disagreements about god or gods, and the nature and meaning thereof. Both the pantheistic position and the panentheistic

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If I absolutely, positively, definitely had to worship a deity, I would prefer to worship a deity who does not require worship. If I were constructing a deity "from the ground up" so to speak, I would construct a deity who does not lay down commandments to be obeyed. My deity of choice would not require any sacrificial offerings from me or anyone else, would not become jealous or wrathful if I

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Let's start this post with the usual disclaimer about the difference between the signified and the signifier. Part of this post is about what some might call God but to avoid confusion instead I will use the signifier "Everything That Is", or "ETI" for short. People argue and fight about the name/s and nature/s of divinity or deity if you prefer. Those arguments are about the attributes of

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Heraclitus said: "Everything flows and nothing is left (unchanged)" ie you cannot step in the same river twice. What does that imply re the current "me" (whoever that is) taking responsibility for actions performed by a previous "me" (whoever that was)?There are major problems understanding or defining the "self/soul". For starters, there's the issue of where the self lives. Then there's the

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Because everything is relative (including the meaning of words) it can be a challenge to think, speak or act meaningfully across multiple axes. Consider, for example, people going on a picnic. They get to the picnic spot and after settling down they begin eating. Inevitably, someone (often a child) will help zerself to gigantic portions of food, but be unable to eat it all (the "...eyes bigger

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The pure ontology of this diagram has nothing to do with metaphysics or mumbo-jumbo for that matter. However, moving up one level of abstraction you could say that the self-referentially ironic nature of this post does in fact warrant its inclusion. And certainly, this caption itself is a fine example of mumbo-jumbo. However if you really insist on a halfway meaningful rationale for including

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The art of sleeping without sleeping.Applications: A useful technique for manic depressives in the hyper- or hypo-manic phase, and for insomniacs of all kinds including mystics, gnostics and/or anyone in the long dark night of zer soul. A combination of visualisation, affirmation, prayer and meditation, the technique can be used for several consecutive nights, but consult your physician if you

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Whereby the Akashic Record is less record than portfolio or ensemble of multi-dimensional timeslices or instances, all but one of which are potential; and the one which is not potential but rather actual is brought into actuality by virtue of the actualising agent, which would be of the Copenhagen, Everrettian or multiversal School of Thought, whereby the Observer brings reality into being by

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What is the shortest (grammatically and syntactically) correct sentence in the English language? How about "Be"? "Be." is shorter than "Kill." and is the same length as "Do." but based on descending alphabetical order of the initial letter in each case "Be." would take pride of place at the top of the list. The sentence "I." is neither grammatically nor syntactically correct because it lacks an

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Can there be morality without God or gods? First, let's talk about absolute and relative values. I believe all values are relative, and absolute values do not exist. Take murder for instance. Most cultures today would condemn murdering children as "bad" or "wrong", but in many ancient cultures including the Carthaginian and Aztec cultures child sacrifice was regularly practised on a large scale.

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Understanding and defining consciousness is one of the toughest items on any thinker's agenda.Dialogues (monologues? soliloquies? multilogues?) of the self, with the self, between selves, can produce mutual understanding, empathy, congeniality, even love. But these solipsistic conversations can also involve a self holding negative emotions towards itself---hostility, confusion, hatred,

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If I am just a bag of bones, a sack of flesh and bloodthen what are thoughts, feelings, memories and where do they come from and where do they reside?[Now this is not an area where no-one has boldly gone before: many have, eg Descartes. So I am walking well-trodden paths, and I hope you don't mind or think any less of me.]What then, is belief? Knowledge? Planning? Goal-seeking? Visualisation? And

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I was wandering and wondering about the Cosmos (as one does) when a question up and bit me. So I decided to ask Professor Paul Davies, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist. The Prof has very broad interests extending from the “highly mathematical to the deeply philosophical.” He likes “…to ponder the big questions of existence: How did the universe begin? What is the destiny

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Everything That Is, has been, will be and could be (ETI) comprises all living and inanimate things and everything else, including non-material as well as material things, in this and/or any other universe or reality. And when I say "everything" I do mean "everything": Atoms and breakfasts and mountain goats and clever tactics and cabbages and kings and sealing wax and theories and vacuums and

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One of the deficiencies of the English language as she is spoke or writ is the lack of gender-neutral pronouns. As any corporate comms practitioner or PR hack will attest: "he/she", "his/hers", "him/her" and "himself/herself" are clumsy; "it" and "its" are dehumanising; and "they", "their" and "them" are ungrammatical in the singular.So let's all just agree on a new set of gender-neutral pronouns

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