“Life” is way fuller of meaningless tedious detail and waiting than we are conscious of. It’s like that one graph in that Kurt Vonnegut essay.
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You know how in physics you learn at some point that “solid” matter is mostly empty space unless you’re talking neutron stars? Subjective time is mostly empty meaningless time. The meaningful bits of the stream of consciousness are very sparse.
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Memories compress all this away. You don’t remember the empty time. Unless it’s charged with emotion in which case it’s not really empty.
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this is pynchon; you've made pynchon
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I enjoy Pynchon. I don't think VGR is stopping there.https://blankhorizons.com/2019/07/01/a-very-preliminary-theory-of-consciousness-and-time-part-ii/amp/?__twitter_impression=true …
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out - Alfred Hitchcock
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I wonder if there are any books written from a different perspective of information relevance - sort of like stream of consciousness but stream of phenomenology instead. Finnegans Wake for people who find smells as relevant as social stories
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Or what passes for literature.
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Or what passes for living.
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