“Just like in a film, life is experienced as a temporal progression in which the present moment seems objectively distinguished as if a spotlight is shone upon it.” Michael David Silberstein explores the deep implications of Einstein’s block universe.
About 50% of politics is obnoxious inasmuch as it poisons utterly incompetent mind of the masses.We are on our guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.~CG Jung, CW18
The world's richest regions, such as North America and Europe, are not only increasing their forest area.
They have more forests than they did prior to industrialization.
1/ Depression is the psychic equivalent of fever. Fever is a non-specific response to an enormous range of underlying physiological conditions, from the common cold to ebola. Depression is likewise a *non-specific* response to an enormous range of underlying conditions. It is
Depression is overdiagnosed in the US, but for some people it really is a brain chemistry issue.
But zombifying people with SSRIs for sure happens way too much. From what I’ve seen with friends, ketamine taken occasionally is a better option.
[Ego is dissolved] when an archetypal situation becomes overwhelming. When an archetype is constellated, there is always the danger of an assimilation into the archetype. We see this most clearly in people in panic or in a mass of people moved by common idea or emotion.~CG Jung
“A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure.”
Fascinating read on the science of relationship rupture and the limbic system – how abandonment and separation affect us physically
"Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness—an act of trust in the unknown."
-- Alan Watts
“I won’t overstate it, but this whole ‘permission’ thing, I think it’s bunk. I don’t think one really gets permission to do things. You do them because you have to do them, and nothing else will do.” —Frank Bidart
Antarctica is often referred to as the last great wilderness, a continent where the near absence of humans elevates it to a sacred status.
So, what is it like actually living there?
Can we use large language models to reach currently unthinkable thoughts?These systems have taken in a vast amount of human knowledge and compressed it into a feature space, where multidimensional vectors represent a continuum of information. Any idea or piece of language is…Show more