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Notebook Archive
We do a lot of stuff we don't know about about. A lot of stuff happens that we don't know about.
Posted: 03-06-10
The thing about life that astounds me is that you have to learn to be human, it isn't built in. And the more you know, the more you learn that there is to know. Conversely, you can choose to know very little.
Posted: 03-02-10
I explained to my some this evening that we live on the planet Earth and it blew my mind (hopefully it blew his). Then it truly dawned on me, here is a human brain that knows nothing about living on a planet. It's not in his DNA. It's something he learns. That is amazing.
Posted: 02-28-10
Asking the question, 'what is the answer to life' is like asking, 'what is the answer to math' or 'what is the answer to a zoo'. There is none, it is a process. Ask, 'what is the meaning of life' and that is like asking, 'what is the meaning of the wind', it just is. Now the question, 'how does it all work', is a different question, this is something that can be explored although perhaps never fully answered (depending on who you talk to).
Posted: 02-22-10
There is no answer, no final destination. That being said, don't think that you've experienced everything there is to experience in life, that this is it. Not even close. In fact, there is so much more to experience, you'll forget you were ever looking for an answer.
Posted: 02-20-10
Took off in an airport into the thick fog today. It's an obvious metaphor for life, but it works none the less. When you're not paying attention in the moment, life becomes a fog where all the details blur into a thick white fuzz.
Posted: 02-19-10
Read a crush of Artificial Intelligence articles today. The consensus is that within ten years we'll have computers powerful enough to recreate the human brain. Then what? We don't even know how are own brains work.
Posted: 02-11-10
This evening my eyes got really dry and my contacts were blurry. I needed to read something small and I couldn't, and it dawned on me what it's like to be old. I would have thought it was a great feeling of loss, of all the things you couldn't do anymore. But I realized, you just get used to it, this is what your life is.
Posted: 02-09-10
One way of looking at it is that we're all little recording machines, roaming around, sucking up data onto our hard drives and bumping into each other.
Posted: 02-09-10
The hardest part about reading so many books is that the answer isn't in there, those are just tools to use in your search for the answer.
Posted: 02-07-10
The hardest thing in the world to do is imagine something you've never thought of before, that you have no reference points for. Everything we think about is in terms of something else, and we assume that we can easily think of something new in the same way. But we can't. That is why our minds get blown.
Posted: 02-07-10
What I really wonder about is are there people on Earth right now who really 'get it'. Are there pockets of intelligence that are not available to the public that know way more then everyone else. And I don't mean government secrets like what stock market is going to crash tomorrow, I mean bigger picture kind of stuff.
Posted: 02-05-10
Thinking about the question does math exist or did we create it? Which circles around to my last thought, put another way, 'how can there be answers if there are no such thing as questions.' Beyond the human mind that is.
Posted: 02-05-10
I started out with, if we stumbled upon the answers, what if we're not able to recognize them? Which led to 'what its not a matter of knowing what the answers are, but what the right questions are'. Which ultimately gave me 'The answer is that there is no question.'
Posted: 02-05-10
Being alive sometimes feel like we're all a part of this huge supercomputer, but no one really knows how to use the damn thing.
Posted: 02-05-10
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| Consciousness | 138 | |
| Philosophy | 129 | |
| Religion | 103 | |
| Lucid Dreaming | 102 | |
| Neuroscience | 98 | |
| Science | 82 | |
| Out Of Body Experiences | 73 | |
| The New York Times | 66 | |
| Technology | 59 | |