Curt Doolittle

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  • CONSCIOUSNESS —“How far back down the complexity spectrum do you think the fun

    CONSCIOUSNESS

    —“How far back down the complexity spectrum do you think the function/structure of consciousness goes?”— A friend

    I think the variation in ‘how far back down’ is in (a) the scale of memory accessed, (b) the sample time between memory accesses.

    And I think consciousness is simply the experience of continuous change in state across the layers (old, middle, new brain).

    My experience with regaining consciousness is extensive and consistent: as each bit of recall is restored, more ‘you’ is restored, and so is the ‘time horizon’ of change in state that you experience that you and I call ‘consciousness’.

    I mean. from that perspective it’s actually pretty simple.

    I am fairly certain this reductio explanation is so close that further refinement will be in the form of precision not falsification.

    At the very deepest level, the first level of awareness, is simply responds to feelings good and bad, but that is all. I like this I don’t like this. Then layer after layer awakens and that basic feeling simply has access to richer and richer content over longer and longer periods.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-04 15:31:00 UTC

  • CURT: WHAT’S YOUR OPINION ON CANNABIS AND SHROOMS? —“I greatly enjoy reading y

    CURT: WHAT’S YOUR OPINION ON CANNABIS AND SHROOMS?

    —“I greatly enjoy reading your opinions on things and if you ever have the time I’d like to know yours on Cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms.”— A Friend

    Thanks to intolerance for MSG and other preservatives, I have a tenuous enough grip on reality at any given moment that I don’t really need artificial influences to assist me. 😉 I can have a store bought coffee cake and basically have a 3 day mental vacation.

    That said I take ‘vacations’ with scotch, with ‘happy brownies’, and have had a few ‘vacations’ on shrooms (which I enjoyed very much), and a few other joyrides.. My opinion on such things is that they are for holiday vacations not regular use – a justification which I won’t go into.

    But I’ll give you the best advice: I can achieve through through writing what most people achieve through knitting, ritual, meditation, or prayer, or the use of drugs. That is: perfect mindfulness.

    And I would prefer that we educated each other in the achievement of mindfulness by means OTHER than artificial, and that we relied upon hallucinogens for the treatment of traumas – which is their optimum use.

    The reason being that like excesses in meditation or prayer, drugs can become a method of escape from achievement rather than a means of restoring reserves in the process of achievement.

    Prevaricating further, I understand that the effort of disciplining our impulses is far harder for some than others. And that some of us may need greater ‘assistance’ in coping with modernity than others.

    So as long as it is not visible in the commons, what is necessary and sufficient but not unecessary and more than sufficient is a good thing.

    Moderation in all things.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-04 14:06:00 UTC

  • “The funny thing is, that we can all be superior in one domain or another.”— M

    —“The funny thing is, that we can all be superior in one domain or another.”— Moritz Bierling

    Well that’s the whole trick now isn’t it? Find one that others want you to be superior in, that no one else is superior in. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-04 13:21:00 UTC

  • And?

    And?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-04 03:10:42 UTC

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  • “HOLY SHIT. I just realized that the trivium was a method of teaching strict con

    —“HOLY SHIT. I just realized that the trivium was a method of teaching strict construction.”—Ryan Williams

    Yep. Now, please try to argue that the left removed it from the cirriculum for any reason other than to make their lies possible?

    You want to dumb down a population? remove it’s central method of truth telling. Grammar, logic, rhetoric.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 04:57:00 UTC

  • by Joel Davis I would add, that “defining the relative variance/convergence betw

    by Joel Davis

    I would add, that “defining the relative variance/convergence between concepts incommensurably” seems to “expand the definition of the experiential context beyond commensurable relativity between its components”.

    So, I guess I am rendering the whole correspondence vs. coherence epistemological dichotomy as mutual failure to establish commensurable context.

    All you need to do is operationalize their refutations of one another relative to the perciever, and then the conclusion that correspondence is merely coherence with experience becomes apparent. Which I guess leaves Hegelians with the dubious honour of discovering the most sophisticated articulation of coherence with non-experience 😂

    Curt Doolittle I think I have figured out what you have achieved as a philosopher on an even more profound level..

    You operationalized Kant.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 04:03:00 UTC

  • by Steve Pender I’d like to get rid of the vague, obsolete terms “left” and “rig

    by Steve Pender

    I’d like to get rid of the vague, obsolete terms “left” and “right” in time. In the short term, they’re useful for signalling potential allies. Policy disputes can ultimately be simplified to whether they expand or contract intelligent life in the universe.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 03:57:00 UTC

  • by Joel Davis I have been thinking about testimonialism a lot and I have come to

    by Joel Davis

    I have been thinking about testimonialism a lot and I have come to the conclusion that testimonialism is less about “the truth” than it is about humility (and if it isn’t, it should be).

    Testimony functions by subdividing experiential contexts into conceptual components via the commensurable definition of relative variance, and/or uniting conceptual components into experiential contexts via the commensurable definition of relative convergence, to enable and expand (in the case of testimony) the commensurable conceptualization of experiential contexts between communicators.

    Non-testimony functions by misrepresenting a concept as a component of an experiential context it did not derive from by either:

    – Defining the relative variance/convergence between concepts incommensurably. (Operational non-correspondence)

    or

    – Expanding the definition of the experiential context beyond commensurable relativity between its components. (Operational incoherence)

    I can break this down into normiespeak..

    Rather than telling me “what is”, tell me how it seems, because no matter “what is”, you can only ever perceive how it seems, as to find out that what it really “is” is different to how it seems, seems really only for it to now seem different.

    Therefore to believe that how it seems is how it is, seems rather arrogant to me.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 03:41:00 UTC

  • “Are all nationalist movements unpatriotic? Are you alleging all nationalism to

    —“Are all nationalist movements unpatriotic? Are you alleging all nationalism to be right wing?”—

    Let’s ask the question empirically.

    Patriotic can refer to nation or state. It’s an ambiguous term.

    Define left wing?

    have left wing movements been nationalistic or universalist?

    what can we learn from the motives of the left wing movements?

    what reproductive strategy does left wing movement?

    I would classify my work as left wing nationalist. (which acknowledging bothers me). I’m all for highly redistributive nationalism. I mean, that’s national socialism really.

    You can try to solve the class problem vertically (nationalism) or horizontally (universalism). but the result is that nationalism produces evolution, and universalism produces devolution. And there is no way around it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 09:37:00 UTC

  • “How do you feel about urban settings/big cities?”— I don’t care either way. I

    —“How do you feel about urban settings/big cities?”—

    I don’t care either way. I care about being around people. I suppose for me it is just noise level. I prefer medium cities with low noise levels. Tourist areas are best. Lots of trucks, busses, and trains just make me tired, whereas a lot of people chatting and walking is pleasant.

    I loved downtown L’viv becuase the roads are nearly impossible for trucks (or cars) and everyone walks, and it’s not too loud.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-01 10:32:00 UTC