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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Now imagine you have 0 knowledge or understanding of anything.

    You don’t understand there is a thing called vision. You don’t know about dimensions. You don’t understand that objects exist. That things have shapes, colors perhaps. That there are materials.

    You don’t even have eyes per se, or any other sensor. You can’t see.

    You don’t understand what thoughts are. What concepts are, nevertheless any concepts themselves.

    If I showed you a side-plane picture of a car, directly plugged into your brain, do you think you’d recognize “cars” if we suddenly also gave you eyes and legs and told you walk around downtown?

    From the moment you are born you are “trained”. From the moment the first strains of organic molecules closed themselves off from their environment, they’ve been “trained”.










  • We need to define consciousness here…

    To me everything you describe is related to the mind. Not consciousness.

    To me consciousness is the observer of the mind, not the mind.

    Like, what is “sensing” your thoughts? What is “behind” the mind’s eyes?

    That’s consciousness.

    And it IS universal. It’s indivisible and eternal (doesn’t change).

    Your observer is always neutrally observing. All judgments and shifts happen in the mind. Which the consciousness just observes.








  • It’s not. It’s about the real implications it might have, such as for eugenics and genetically enhanced soldiers. But it also does talk a lot about the real good it does and can do. But the main points are about those two topics. That like with every technology, the issue is the social and political structures around their use. And also how eugenics never really went away. In many ways it’s using CRISPR to start a conversation about eugenics tbh.