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Seas of Mystery
ab initio
about me
0. The naked truth - the world as mystery and opportunity
1. Imagining reasons for an advanced civilization to create simulated worlds
Limits of the simulation view
2. Realistic interpretations
The universe that created itself
3. Interpretations in the real line
5. What do we know for sure
1. Fundamentals
1.1. I'm dumb as an individual, but my culture makes me look smart.
1.2. Distinguishing knowledge from speculations - an individual task.
1.3. Science and aesthetics - two ways of knowing
1.4. Being at odds with society - a consequence of taking aesthetics seriously.
1.5. Aesthetics and objectivity
1.6. Conclusion
1.7. Why so boring?
2. Mystery
Two ways of knowing
1. Illusions and conjectures
0.001 1st Draft of "illusions"
0.002 2nd draft of "Illusions"
1.0 - 1st Truth - Clarity (draft)
2 - Darwin's theory of evolution
2. The importance of being clear
0. Relation between clarity and truth
1.1. A wide notion of "clarity"...
1.2. Why should we care? Transparency as a requisite for conscious experience.
1.3. Clear enough to see the mysteries
1.3.1. (incomplete) The mystery of complexity
1.4. Clarity in free beings: the fruit of desire.
1.5. The importance of seeing the whole
2.1. Two kinds of desire - the role of beauty.
2.1.1. Desiring - the fruit of beauty and/or obedience
2.2. Breaking the bonds of society
2.3. A new vision of the present - importance and limits of the scientific approach
3. Being free
9. Things to do
3.1. Evolution - man and its place in nature
3.2. What can we know about the future of life?
3.2.1. Raymond Kurzweil and the idea of exponential evolutionary growth
3.2.2. the next few billion years
3.2.3. The John Lennon hypothesis
3.2.3. the next few million years
3.2.4. the next few hundred thousand years
3.2.5. Evolution in the short-run (less than a hundred thousand years)
3.2.6. The John Lennon hypothesis
3.2.7. Other topics
3.3. Being clear about the mystery of consciousness
3.3.1. The insolvable mystery
3.3.2. The current conundrum
3.3.4. Limits of contemporary language
3.3.4.1. Language limitations - things to do
3.3.4.2 - words and experiences
3.4. Love
3.5. Freedom / Spirituality
A word on religion
3.7
Speculating - The Creator and Receiver
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3. The future of life
0. Prologue
5. Fermi Paradox and the singularity
A note about evolution
A better man
A new language - brain to brain, direct communication
Communicating the world
Expanding the inner senses
Mankind - 21st century - decay into war?
rift between man and nature
technology and beauty - the role of education in cultural beings
wyz Drafts Darwinian continuity and AI
Chalmers' article on the singularity
Different assumptions
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Existence of the Soul
my Religion
Panpsychism
The big picture of the Universe
zzz Other stuff
Interesting sites
Chalmers & The Singularity
Seas of Mystery
3.3. Being clear about the mystery of consciousness
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