Comments on: Ok, Bad Joke…

By: Michael Shared

Michael Shared — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:02:23 +0000

And how I may be led to your blog through an Internet mining session, finding likenesses in your story and mine, knowing nothing about you, and touching you with these words.

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:25:00 +0000

https://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/05/24/natural-pain-killing-chemical-synthesized

Natural Pain-Killing Chemical Synthesized
Making conolidine in the lab could further drug research

By: Kay

Kay — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:04:45 +0000

Nihilism at its best?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 29 May 2011 12:27:03 +0000

Sometimes I wonder when I wake up in the mornings whether my previous body died and I have shifted to a new reality or dimension. The people down there (or wherever it is) are dealing with the loss of me, but I have no awareness of it. I remember being in a car accident a few years ago. The car flipped over twice in mid air and ended up skidding down the road on its roof. The windows just blew and the thing was a right-off.I remember being upside down in the driving seat with my seatbelt on and the engine still running. I mamaged to get out through the passenger window and I just stood looking at the car on its roof. How I managed to get out of that alive is anyone’s guess. But sometimes I wonder when things like that occur if we actually die and shift to a new parallel reality but we are not aware of the transition. Interesting post, Shannon. There seems to be a lot of people talking about astral projection lately.

By: kv

kv — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:06:10 +0000

I suggest to read about a condition known as “anosognosia”. Rather interesting neurological deflict considering the unawareness on your own consciousness.

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sun, 29 May 2011 08:52:44 +0000

it gets muddy because of 100th monkey issues

you likely think in tens

fhe educated scribes of baba-bab-along thought in 60.

It wasn’t easy and part of the reason scribes went to scribe school like you went to graduate school

By: waiting4arson

waiting4arson — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:33:20 +0000

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A few thoughts from someone who wasted 20 grand on a graduate degree in Philosophy. Certainly what you’re calling sentience or consciousness does not have an extended, spatial existence. And I agree (at least, as you implied) that attempts to reduce that to synaptic physicality are probably ignoring something, some residue that you’re calling ‘illusory.’ But why call it not real? Because it doesn’t have physical extension? Where is physical extensions verified? In the data of sensory experience. What if there is another kind of experience, an ‘inner’ experience that, while not spatial, is temporal. Couldn’t the reality of sentience/consciousness be verified by adverting to the data of ‘inner’ experience unfolding, not in physical space, but in time consciousness? And wouldn’t that data be just as critically grounded as ‘exterior’ sense data, in that both are subject to Cartesian, sceptical doubts about their “reality”?

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:18:16 +0000

idea precedes actualization

By: Scared to die

Scared to die — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:51:00 +0000

That’s how I calm down after thinking about death too much in bed in the middle of the night. I think about how there’s almost certainly no continuity of consciousness so I’ve already died an infinite number of times anyway.

By: Anatta

Anatta — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:09:20 +0000

I love you art-test site, absolutely amazing. It’s good to see javascript put to artistic use.

I used to use a lot of DMT, all the while entertaining ideas about consciousness and the like. After reading the Buddha’s description of the five aggregates, I realized that I was firing in the dark.

The five aggregates are: form, feeling, perception, volitional formation, and consciousness. When the first four arise, consciousness arises. This is happening constantly. At the same time the first four a dependent upon consciousness in order to arise, this making the whole equation recursive (similar to Mandlebrot’s fractal equation). The most important thing to recognize is that each aggregate, as well as all things in life, are empty of a self–that is, all things are not me, not mine, not myself. Consciousness and that which is cognizes are impermanent, always changing. They are also unsatisfactory, and none can ever provide a permanent sense of peace or satisfaction.

Thus we are not our bodies or anything physical, not our thoughts, not our feelings, not our consciousness.