Sub rosa
Phrase meaning secrecy
Sub rosa is a Latin phrase which denotes secrecy or confidentiality. The rose has an ancient history as a symbol of secrec
AREWE EARTHLINGS LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?
AREWE EARTHLINGS LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?
WELL, NOTHING NEW IN THAT THEORY
THINK Plato
- 347 BC, Athens
- we are in a cave and it is the reflections of the sun on (computer images) which dictate our reality
- Proponents of a simulated universe theory like Musk and popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson often point to the increasingly-complex capabilities of today's computer systems as proof that reality can be emulated. In a simulated universe, which was made popular by British philosopher Nicholas Bostrom in 2003, it's very likely that some advanced future civilization developed equally-advanced computer simulations of past civilizations — past here referring to our present, obviously — in one giant virtual reality experience. Supposedly, these advanced computer models run in a fashion like today's computer games, many of which produce an interactive simulation of ancient civilizations.
sOMETIMES PEOPLESAY THINGS
SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY THINGS NOT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE
THEM BUT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEIR AUDIENCE WANTS
HEAR SUCH SOOTHING WORDS
ONE LIST ENER AVOWED 'OR GUSHED TO ME THERE WAS A PLANGENT SORT OF THERENESS TO THE SPEAKERS WORDS, DIDN'T YOU THINK SO?'
'EH NO....'
WE ARE EITHER INFALLIBLE OR INCORRIGIBLE
WE ARE EITHER INFALLIBLE (ALWAYS GUARANTEED TO BE RIGHT)
OR INCORRIGIBLE ( NO ONE ELSE HAS A RIGHT TO CORRECT US SO WE REMAIN
INVULNERABLE TO CORRECTION) WE FEEL OUR CRITICS ENGAGE
IN KIND OF INPROMPTU THEORIZING, SOMETIMES LACED WITH VITRIOL
WE TEND TO THINK WE ARE MUCH MORE IMMUNE TO ERROR THAN WE ARE
WE
TEND TO THINK WE ARE MUCH MORE IMMUNE TO ERROR THAN WE ARE
MANY ARGUE THAT WE ARE GULLIBLE THEORIZERS BECAUSE THEY FEEL THERE
IS SO MUCH TO PONTIFICATE ABOUT
SUCH COSY COPLICITY TYPE THINKING IS A TREACHEROUS INCUBATOR OF ERRORS
The insatiable perfectionist and the less gifted
For the insatiable perfectionist they should be prepared for those periodic storms of
defamation (usually from the less gifted)
After submitting your ESSAY
After bending over backwards to disarm critiques and to meet the sceptic (teachers) on her/his own
so called empirical high brow reflections....it is time to hand it over to power (REALITY)
GREATER THAN ONES SELF
how do we arrive aT certainties?
one of the cornerstones of probability is how
we arrive at certainties and we do so, in the main, through the devise of large numbers
Yet, energy exists far beyond measurable capabilities. According to quantum mechanics, this is where heavenly realms, spiritual beings and unseen dimensions exist
String theory is mathematically exposing that our vast universe, as the Bible has been explaining for millennia, consists of light energy and multiple unseen dimensions.
Humans can physically detect the spectrum of energy detectable by our physical senses. Humans can also measure energy detectable by our instruments of technology. Yet, energy exists far beyond measurable capabilities. According to quantum mechanics, evidence exposes that this is where heavenly realms, spiritual beings and unseen dimensions exist
Shakaespeare on the BRAIN
I will show in Chapter 1 The History of the Brain, views on the
brain have changed quite dramatically. And we don’t have to go too far back for
evidence, for instance, Shakespeare always refers to the use of the brain,
’braining it’ as a demonstration of stupidity.
For Shakespeare, incidentally, true also of religious iconography, the heart with it dramatic, pulsing blood
imagery was the seat of our souls, and the brain was a derided, dull
instrument.
But today the view of the
brain has changed dramatically, and so has the language that accommodates it. Today,
most people now accept that we are predisposed, ‘hardwired’ to behave in
certain ways. But beyond the acceptance that we are hardwired to act in certain
ways how is a book like Your Brain and
you going to help the individual. One
way is by understanding that our brain silently operates a great deal of our
lives without us being consciously aware.
For instance we are usually unaware of our breathing or
heartbeats yet there are parts of the brain dedicated to these functions. In an extension of this imagine
this scenario. You are sitting around a
table at your next business meeting. Now the head honcho comes into the room, and
you suddenly become renewed, alert. Our
cousins, the chimpanzee illustrates this predisposition very well. In group gatherings their attention heightens
when in the presence of the dominant male, illustrating how hardwired they are
to status.
but I thought my brain was my mind?’
Yet despite such
criticism I will argue that ‘Your Brian and You’ is a timely book in showing
that understanding how your brain works will reap real benefits for your mind. The
immediate response for many might be, ‘but I thought my brain was my mind?’ But the brain, to use an analogy, is
essentially a muscle and the mind might be regarded as the means to how that
muscle appears to yourself and others. So this book will point the reader to
the advantages of understanding how your brain works and it is this deeper understanding
which will aid your mind.
” a Frankenstein science, leading to a post-human future. So, you might well ask, is this brain science really the new Eldorado?
And
are we really ready for a one of our character flaws to be described as a
‘wiring problem’. And if you are feeling
happy would it make you irritated if someone described your state of happiness
as ‘a cascade of reward neurotransmitters’.
Or, your state of depression described as a ‘chemical imbalance’, or of
some heroic act you did that imperilled your own safety as, was no more than
your ‘special altruism-boosting, mirror neurons,’ impelling you to act. Or the moral hazards of the criminal pleading
innocent on the basis that his brain made him do it, ‘look at my brain scan’.
For many this might conjure up Orwellian “thought crime.” a Frankenstein
science, leading to a post-human future.
So, you might well ask, isc
yOUR BRAIN AND YOU
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And
are we really ready for a one of our character flaws to be described as a
‘wiring problem’. And if you are feeling
happy would it make you irritated if someone described your state of happiness
as ‘a cascade of reward neurotransmitters’.
Or, your state of depression described as a ‘chemical imbalance’, or of
some heroic act you did that imperilled your own safety as, was no more than
your ‘special altruism-boosting, mirror neurons,’ impelling you to act. Or the moral hazards of the criminal pleading
innocent on the basis that his brain made him do it, ‘look at my brain scan’.
For many this might conjure up Orwellian “thought crime.” a Frankenstein
science, leading to a post-human future.
So, you might well ask, is this brain science really the new Eldorado?
FREEDOM OF CHOICE DOES NOT EXIST....UNLESS
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE DOES NOT EXIST
UNLESS FREEDOM TO REFUSE IS ENSHRINED
IN IT
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Momenr of truth has arrived
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Moment of truth
From the moment Trump won in November 2024, it was clear that Ukraine would be the first test of the transatlantic relationship and would determine the ability of Europeans and Americans to work together in the next four years. This cBeyond the Ukrainian crisis, this approach is part of a broader desire by the United States to fundamentally rethink its commitment to European defense.
Many people feel guilt and shame about their sexual fantasies.
Many people feel guilt and shame about their sexual fantasies. But sexual fantasies are universal, normal, and harmless—even if they depict activities you'd never do in real life.
MMusk through DOGE unearthing the creepie crawlies that lie underneath the Democratic rock
the current political task in a society like the USA is to criticize the working of institutions that are apparently the most neutral and independent, to criticize these institutions and attack them in such a way that the political violence that exercises itself obscurely through them becomes manifest, so that one can fight against them.
Musk through DOGE is unearthing the creepie crawlies that lie
underneath the Democratic rock
Can CcGCan GOD be in two places at the same timeOD be in two places at the same tim
Can GOD be in two places at the same time and as the Universe has expanded - due to Inflation - for billions years resulting in trillions of planets s/he would need to be in more than two places
at the same time, s/he would need to be in more than 2 places at the same travel faster than the
speed of light
No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
― Cool MemoriesWe live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
PUTIN'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MASCULINITY IS
Search results
Search results"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
It is not waging war on your own people AND 0THERS TILL THE DEATH TOLL COMES CLOSE TO
A MILLION WITH UNSPEAKABLE LOSS FOR THE FAMILIES IN THIS MAD WAR
IT IS A MYSTERY WHY THE
RUSSIAN PEOPLE HAVE NOT RISEN UP AGAINST THIS HUGE INJUSTICE ENACTED
ON THEM
God is a synonym for Physics and Physics is a synonym for God
God is a synonym for Physics and Physics is a synonym for God
we live and are part of the multiverse (many and varied Universes
and the 'BIG BANG is just another story, or if you like another word
of God
synonmyn = a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close:
Is God a valid scientific explanation?
Is God a valid scientific explanation?
But God isn't a valid scientific explanation. The theory of the multiverse, instead, solves the mystery because it allows different universes to have different physical laws. So, it's not surprising that we should happen to see ourselves in one of the few universes that could support 'lif'e'.
Who will Trump line up at the ;'Traitors Gate' ?
There ae many that could line up = the so called from the 'Swamp' has been a fetid breeding ground for such types.
However one hopes the deadly duo of Musk/Vardy will act as restraining advisers, for there is no need for
hasty decisions that might reflect poorly on MAGA
Fear and guilt are critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize.
Fear and guilt are
critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize. They succeed, he believes,
by moral “narratives” above facts. What animates believers of this religion? McWhorter believes
that it is not chiefly “money or power, but sheer purpose, in the basic sense
of feeling like you matter and that your life has a meaningful agenda.”
Narrative abovefactd ntimidation and by
terrifying people with the threat of being tagged racist: “We have become a nation
of smart people attesting that they ‘get it’ while losing control of their
bowels
Our universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years.
. It explains the universe’s large-scale structure
Our best theory of the universe’s origin is the Big Bang. Yet it was modified in the 1980s to include another theory called inflation. In the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, the cosmos ballooned from smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit. That’s a whopping 10^78 times bigger. Inflating a red blood cell by the same amount would make it larger than the entire observable universe today.
As it was initially smaller than an atom, the infant universe would have been dominated by quantum fluctuations linked to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Inflation caused the universe to grow rapidly before these fluctuations had a chance to fade away. This concentrated energy into some areas rather than others — something astronomers believe acted as seeds around which material could gather to form the clusters of galaxies we observe now
Can something be in 2 places at the same time? Yes - in our Quantum world
Objects can be in two places at once
Wave-particle duality is an example of superposition. That is, a quantum object existing in multiple states at once. An electron, for example, is both ‘here’ and ‘there’ simultaneously. It’s only once we do an experiment to find out where it is that it settles down into one or the other.
This makes quantum physics all about probabilities. We can only say which state an object is most likely to be in once we look. These odds are encapsulated into a mathematical entity called the wave function. Making an observation is said to ‘collapse’ the wave function, destroying the superposition and forcing the object into just one of its many possible states.
This idea is behind the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. A cat in a sealed box has its fate linked to a quantum device. As the device exists in both states until a measurement is made, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead until we look.
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