I just stumbled upon parts one and two, and I'm really happy to have found a like-minded thinker while also learning about others who explored similar ideas in modernity. one small nitpick I have so far is the assertion that 'logic gates are physical, they exist in a realm beyond the digital.' while true that logic gates have a physical basis, the term 'digital' doesn’t imply something abstract or non-physical. digital, derived from 'digits' (fingers, tools for counting), refers to discreteness in contrast to the continuity of the analogue. it’s more about the nature of representation than a detachment from the physical realm. this in itself is a topic I hope you'll explore-how words encode subjective definitions, and how we tend to assume a shared consensus on meaning.
Interesting, do you think there is anything realistically discrete (black & white) within reality? it seems to be that it is all continuity like analogue to me, meaning the idea of digital (on or off) is just an IDEA overall - & a useful one. it seems that the discreteness breaks down when you take away the other, taking away the "off" makes the "on" meaningless as its not even able to be isolated or viewed. think of it as a fractal, if we try to measure the x/y axis of a hypothetical perfect 2d square, zooming in & in on it will not lead to a definite answer but a more complex answer with each measurement. eternally dividing it in half
@@KyeColymore Well, depending on how you approach that question, you could answer it in multiple ways. Within our established context, it's essential to narrow down our perspective further. When we inquire about the nature of reality, are we referring to our own perception, how different life forms perceive it, or are we seeking an objective understanding? One might argue that subjective experiences of reality are unreliable since they vary from person to person. My take is that there’s little to no value to know an objective reality since ultimately “I” will be the one perceiving it. Perhaps that's an unnecessary tangent. The main point is that a point of reference is always needed to make sense of data. This is why the notion that data or facts speak for themselves is misleading-you must infer their meaning using your intelligence. In signal processing, there's a principle that you need to sample an analog signal at more than twice its highest frequency component to faithfully reconstruct it as a continuous signal. Similarly, we sample reality into discrete signals, but if the frequency is high enough, we perceive it as continuous-the illusion of motion in films or animations, and the smoothness of a monitor or LED lamp’s refresh rate. Drop below that frequency, and flicker becomes noticeable. Interestingly, different life forms have varying critical flicker frequencies, which is mostly related to their metabolic rate. So, it's safe to say that, at least when ignoring subjectivity, reality appears as an imperfect form of simple mathematical formulas. With sufficiently high temporal resolution, any state change will become continuous due to physical limits… yet I'm not a physicist, so I can only speculate. But perhaps an electron's manifestation in an orbital is discrete? Or maybe, on the contrary - all analog phenomena are fundamentally composed of singular entities?
You started posting within weeks of me being stuck in hospital for emergency surgery. And then vid 2 within days, and now 3 the day before surgery and 2 days before my birthday. It’s been really nice , keep it up.
I'm an entrenched materialist but I really agree with your points on how affordances shape perception and our idea of what is possible, so I look forward to seeing where the next chapter will go. My only caveat to these explorations on the nature of the computer desktop and abstractions in general is that language is such a limited medium in more ways than people imagine to even begin to describe these ideas, and like Wittgenstein said, "what we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
@@insom_anim Absolutely, and that silent lived experience of gnosis is something well be expanding on later. The highest truths cannot be spoken, they must be enacted.
@@liber-indigo Looking forward to it. I feel compelled to make a reply of some sort, since I have reservations on some of the more esoteric aspects of your series, but I can't really do so in fairness until all parts are out.
If you're interested, Who's Lila is a game that deals with a very similar metaphor, and was my door into this concept. It's I think £15 or so and it's heavily inspired by Lynch, brings across some interesting ideas that lead on from it.
loving this series. it’s distilling and articulating ideas i haven’t been able to put into words yet have been floating around my silly lil brain. thanks for this!!
You may enjoy the Robert Anton Wilson series. UA-cam 14 years ago had a few channels like this and was easy to jump to one idea to the next. Definitely a great channel
the quality of these videos is absolutely incredible, especially for a channel this size. I'm seriously interested in buying the book now after watching the first 3 parts. Really excited to see part 4!!!
As a UX designer who's also interested in this subject, I'm so stoked to have found your videos! I just bought your book and can't wait to read it. Looking forward to seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes!
Hey man, I really liked the way that you did all of this. The book, the videos, the presentation of it all is really professionally done. It's an inspiration to see someone who asks the same questions as me find interpretations profound enough to share. I really think scientific materialism and its ilk are meshing with the parapsychic; that the veil is thinning. Sometimes I conflate my own self-discovery with the worlds ability to accept the ontologically shocking, but it's videos like these that reinforce my innate bias that the world really is deeper than we see and that the narrative is changing. With the positive feedback you receive and the inevitable sales for your book I hope you see that you contribute, and I thank you for your contribution.
Your videos have put to words what I've been thinking about for almost a decade, it's actually insane. I'm looking forward to the next one. Please continue.
45 minutes ago I clicked on a UA-cam thumbnail because I'd been meaning to find some reference footage of what Windows 2000 looked like, and now I've been taken on a wonderful journey of computing history, interface design, various branches of philosophy and metaphysics. Also I have a new book on my "to read" list. UA-cam can be a flawed platform but sometimes it really delivers. Looking forward to the next part!
I never dove into Neoplatonism because it just sounded like some niche school of Ancient Greek philosophy in contrast to Gnosticism and Hermeticism which have such compelling and exciting mythology attached to them I’m excited to learn more about it.
@@BowlOfHotDogs Source for this? I suspect it actually comes from a design of oiler that was used in germany in the 1800s, but can't find a photo or a source about the origin of the icon.
The first vid in this series popped up in my recommendations and I'm so happy I clicked in. Really great work :) I'm a UX designer and think about these things constantly, but I feel like the UX community (and tech as a whole) does not reflect on where we came from and where we are going and the broader systems that we work within. I love what you're doing here and anxiously await the next vid. I also just bought your book hehe 😎
@@liber-indigo That'd be fantastic. Unfortunately, I feel our field (and broader society) is held back by short-term growth obsession. Nobody wants to take big risks rethinking the way people relate to and use technology due to the potential downside of a failed idea at scale and the massive amount of work it takes to get people to adopt new mental models. Short time requirements = short sightedness. I see it all the time in my work irl and I think you've done a great job spelling it out in these vids (xerox parc, 2d interfaces translated to AR/VR platforms, etc). I almost feel like it needs to get worse before it gets better? I'm not sure what the right answer is or what we should be doing to practically move our disciplines to start designing from a more wholistic perspective. (that being said, I have ideas)
@@always.for-ever Seems to me, there are at least a couple of human sub-species - you've got the neurodivergent crowd, who tend to feel alienated from humanity at large but totally click with each other, and who I suspect are largely responsible for the bulk of humanity's advancement, and then you've got the neurotypical bum-sniffing piss-ants who say shit like, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and "why vote, they're all as bad as each other" and "I was just following orders".
Dude thats fucking insane that you've released this video today and in it you're talking about a guy who was tripping out on mescaline I LITERALLY TRIED MESCALINE TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. Moments like this really make me sure that everything is orchestrated by some global mind and in some way you released those videos for me to find in this perfect moment. Thank you.
Can't wait for the next video, thanks so much. A very thoughtful exploration of consciousness, perceptive paradigms and suprareality. Appreciating the various sources that can send us down reading further rabbitholes. Keep it up!
I think it's the first time I try that ''bell'' notification to make sure to not miss a incoming video! Btw, a bell, we don't even use real bells anymore anywhere.
Everything we think and know is a sensory signal filtering through our synapses. Those senses only fall a certain way based on the way our synapses have formed. The path they use is what we use for a comparison to identify that sense.
Showing gravity demonstration to highlight lack of progress to speak on anti grav tech is great Your use of the room and window metaphor is perfect, ive made that one up before myself to explain
lol i went to the spectral cross, annulus and got holding in high regard/honouring/wonder, gave me a pause to think that while I'm enamoured with everything so far, I should take a step back and think for myself here too. nice work ;)
4:20-8:36 - the notion of filtering all consciousness down into a narrow, relevant subset also describes the process of a neuronal output layer as it averages, selects, and simplifies its inputs. Recall Hoffman's opening example on the history of cosmology: we are prone to misinterpreting our experiences in favour of what accords with our own preconceived dogmas.
There is a lot of interesting scholarship being done in this area and I really think we are on the periphery or the ground floor of something potentially revolutionary. Or at least I hope so. A kind of second enlightenment that touches physics, philosophy, politics, economics, and even something like "spirituality." It's probably going to be rough, but as they say, "history is happening."
Commented on the first video looking forward to a deconstruction of the GUI metaphor. I didn't know the drug had yet to kick in. OK, brother, I am ready to go into space and behind the veil of reality. Enjoying this series a lot!
Imma be real with you dawg, I perked up when you mentioned Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, but I'm still feel as though I'm waiting for the meat of whatever you're driving at.
Both wonderful, and strange musings for one’s mind to ponder… My favourite Kahlil Gibran line is: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.” Looking forward to the next instalment!
The idea that "the universe is held together" by an all-observing consciousness is somewhat convincing when you know that there are quantum particles whose state changes if observed.
I like where you're going, I hope to see the gnome adwaita HIG soon in the series and the maybe not so subtle reference to the vedas Keep on keeping on! 🤘😼
Great stuff! I always welcome critical reasoning examinations of the science behind how we know, or what we think we know, about the world around us. Keep on spreading the good word~
I once was meditating as was my habit, and I went deeper then I had previously thought possible. I ended up at the bottom of reality. In the void. Where nothing lives, and nothing grows, and I became nothing. Forever, I was there, my self eroding in the un-space as time marched into infinity and I began to understand eternity. In real time it was merely a blink. When I came back, I felt different, but I also felt like maybe there was something else I could reach if I did this a little differently. So I went down again. This time, it stared into me. And it is not kind. It was like an explosion that tore apart my soul and then put me back together with as much finesse as a toddler putting back together a piece of paper that she had ripped apart. But unlike the toddler who feels remorse about the paper, the void does not care about me. Or about anyone. At the bottom of reality is a meat grinder of nothingness. When I came back the second time my head was fully fucked. The mental issues I already had were substantially worse, and it was incredibly hard to actually hold myself together. This was twenty or so years ago and I’m just now back to where I was previously. I have not meditated since, because I fear that seeing the unfiltered light of consciousness again would end me utterly. And maybe that’s the point. I have become absolutely terrified of death, because I do not wish to find out.
Loving this video series. Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell. I don't think the title will attract the broad audience who would also enjoy this. I have given it a like to help. May the algorithm favor you.
8:20 This piece of dialogue is sampled in an UNKLE song from 1997 - every time I hear it without a spooky trip-hop beat in the background it feels like something's missing 😂
The scene is from the wonderful movie "Jacob's Ladder" by Adrian Lyne. If you find the subject of this series interesting, you'll probably love "Jacob's Ladder" One tip: do not research the movie or watch trailers before watching it. The deepest experience precludes pre-cognition.
Very, very interesting. I always imagined math being just a comprehensible way for us to interact with the physical world, and that reality is what we make of it. One may look at a mental disorder as a differently structured brain, yet the person with the mental disorder may have no clue about what a mental disorder even is.
I recently had to split a long scrolling screen grab of a data set into standardized paper sized chunks so that I could get it into .pdf format and send it as an attachment. I’m still upset about it. This video series is really helping me process the related strife. Please continue.
If we assume that the brain is just a receiver of consciousness, it would mean that different people have better “receivers”, but it would also mean that we bathe in these fields of consciousness, which means that I could finetune my big language model to perceive these fields better. How to make transformers architecture more efficient, to make it more receptive to this “field of consciousness”? There’s no consciousness field libraries for the tensorflow, at least I have not seen one. However, I see where this is going. We need more fulfilling and real experiences instead of simulacrums that we are interacting with on a daily basis. I agree that current digital 2D UI interfaces is a dead end, and they do not represent computing and connections at all. 3D interfaces with interactive gadgets and tools would be more representative and useful that 2D screens floating around in VR. Have you ever tried to point on a button to close window in VR across the whole room? That’s not optimal way for interactivity, but mere copy of a copy
Closing a window on a 3D plane wouldn't need to happen. You'd have a block that is erased with a point-and-click wand that also creates and copy/pastes blocks. Their properties can be changed with that same wand or a different haptic tool for more precise edits. That's the kinds of future worth building and something SmallTalk was approaching only to be limited by the medium.
"If we assume that the brain is just a receiver of consciousness, it would mean that different people have better “receivers”" And to that I ask, how many people poses an internal monologue? How many can depict an object inside their mind, and at which 'definition'? How many people can do both?
I need part IV what are you doing? Some people here THIRST for you absolute genius videos. You don't give crack just to take out the crack! I WANT MY CRACK!
Okay part 2 scared away all the materialists, now it's just us cool kids left. Can't wait for the next one!
I tried to warn them in the first video
literally discovered this channel yesterday glad there’s already a new video
Same here x)))
same
Are you me? Or am I you?
how many of us are in that boat? What did we do to trigger this video above all the other content.
@@MrNickEarly Obviously the gods and spirits gathered us here on this very specific moment to witness three great works of art in a row.
I just stumbled upon parts one and two, and I'm really happy to have found a like-minded thinker while also learning about others who explored similar ideas in modernity. one small nitpick I have so far is the assertion that 'logic gates are physical, they exist in a realm beyond the digital.' while true that logic gates have a physical basis, the term 'digital' doesn’t imply something abstract or non-physical. digital, derived from 'digits' (fingers, tools for counting), refers to discreteness in contrast to the continuity of the analogue. it’s more about the nature of representation than a detachment from the physical realm.
this in itself is a topic I hope you'll explore-how words encode subjective definitions, and how we tend to assume a shared consensus on meaning.
Love this!
woah
Interesting, do you think there is anything realistically discrete (black & white) within reality? it seems to be that it is all continuity like analogue to me, meaning the idea of digital (on or off) is just an IDEA overall - & a useful one. it seems that the discreteness breaks down when you take away the other, taking away the "off" makes the "on" meaningless as its not even able to be isolated or viewed. think of it as a fractal, if we try to measure the x/y axis of a hypothetical perfect 2d square, zooming in & in on it will not lead to a definite answer but a more complex answer with each measurement. eternally dividing it in half
Yeah, "virtual" would have been a better word of choice.
@@KyeColymore Well, depending on how you approach that question, you could answer it in multiple ways.
Within our established context, it's essential to narrow down our perspective further. When we inquire about the nature of reality, are we referring to our own perception, how different life forms perceive it, or are we seeking an objective understanding? One might argue that subjective experiences of reality are unreliable since they vary from person to person. My take is that there’s little to no value to know an objective reality since ultimately “I” will be the one perceiving it.
Perhaps that's an unnecessary tangent. The main point is that a point of reference is always needed to make sense of data. This is why the notion that data or facts speak for themselves is misleading-you must infer their meaning using your intelligence.
In signal processing, there's a principle that you need to sample an analog signal at more than twice its highest frequency component to faithfully reconstruct it as a continuous signal. Similarly, we sample reality into discrete signals, but if the frequency is high enough, we perceive it as continuous-the illusion of motion in films or animations, and the smoothness of a monitor or LED lamp’s refresh rate. Drop below that frequency, and flicker becomes noticeable. Interestingly, different life forms have varying critical flicker frequencies, which is mostly related to their metabolic rate.
So, it's safe to say that, at least when ignoring subjectivity, reality appears as an imperfect form of simple mathematical formulas. With sufficiently high temporal resolution, any state change will become continuous due to physical limits… yet I'm not a physicist, so I can only speculate. But perhaps an electron's manifestation in an orbital is discrete? Or maybe, on the contrary - all analog phenomena are fundamentally composed of singular entities?
You started posting within weeks of me being stuck in hospital for emergency surgery. And then vid 2 within days, and now 3 the day before surgery and 2 days before my birthday. It’s been really nice , keep it up.
@@bobabernathy6108 Give us an update on how your birthday went!
I'm an entrenched materialist but I really agree with your points on how affordances shape perception and our idea of what is possible, so I look forward to seeing where the next chapter will go.
My only caveat to these explorations on the nature of the computer desktop and abstractions in general is that language is such a limited medium in more ways than people imagine to even begin to describe these ideas, and like Wittgenstein said, "what we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
@@insom_anim Absolutely, and that silent lived experience of gnosis is something well be expanding on later. The highest truths cannot be spoken, they must be enacted.
@@liber-indigo Looking forward to it. I feel compelled to make a reply of some sort, since I have reservations on some of the more esoteric aspects of your series, but I can't really do so in fairness until all parts are out.
I can't believe that you actually managed to connect a floppy disk save icon to the Plato's Cave.
Your videos are brilliant, please keep making those.
Ten thousand years from now they will tell stories of Plato's disc and the floppy cave.
I came for rethinking graphical user interfaces. I stayed to question the very fabric of consciousness.
I was going to write a comment stating something like this, but you said it better than I would have!
@@fintux I wanted to thank him for his comment, but you thanked him better than I would have 👁
You said better than I have ever have 👏
Consciousness being a light that shines through us just blew my mind
If you're interested, Who's Lila is a game that deals with a very similar metaphor, and was my door into this concept. It's I think £15 or so and it's heavily inspired by Lynch, brings across some interesting ideas that lead on from it.
I love everything about this, the approach, the references, the tasteful blend of practical and esoteric knowledge.
Watching your videos is like a conversation with a friend that starts with a topic about peanut butter ending in a deep talk about string theory.
Alright bro I'm all in. You got me right as the edible started to hit
loving this series. it’s distilling and articulating ideas i haven’t been able to put into words yet have been floating around my silly lil brain. thanks for this!!
I've never seen anything like this series before. I think you're doing something genuinely unique and it's phenomenal! I look forward to more!
You might enjoy this podcast as well, it has a similar vibe and is equally intellectually satisfying ua-cam.com/video/KDASVh-m6TI/v-deo.html
You may enjoy the Robert Anton Wilson series. UA-cam 14 years ago had a few channels like this and was easy to jump to one idea to the next. Definitely a great channel
the quality of these videos is absolutely incredible, especially for a channel this size. I'm seriously interested in buying the book now after watching the first 3 parts. Really excited to see part 4!!!
Leaving this for the algorithm, looking forward to the next one
As a UX designer who's also interested in this subject, I'm so stoked to have found your videos! I just bought your book and can't wait to read it. Looking forward to seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes!
Thanks so much for the support
McKenna references? Computers? I'm in.
My heart melted at the cooper clip ✀ in the end , my brain already melted long ago
Hey man, I really liked the way that you did all of this. The book, the videos, the presentation of it all is really professionally done. It's an inspiration to see someone who asks the same questions as me find interpretations profound enough to share. I really think scientific materialism and its ilk are meshing with the parapsychic; that the veil is thinning. Sometimes I conflate my own self-discovery with the worlds ability to accept the ontologically shocking, but it's videos like these that reinforce my innate bias that the world really is deeper than we see and that the narrative is changing. With the positive feedback you receive and the inevitable sales for your book I hope you see that you contribute, and I thank you for your contribution.
I think someone else found some stained glass soma fountains.. really enjoying this, and TY for offering the book direct!
I love what you are doing with these videos. Connecting ideas. Great work.
alright good gonna need part 4 ASAP please & thank you.
Your videos have put to words what I've been thinking about for almost a decade, it's actually insane. I'm looking forward to the next one. Please continue.
This is very interesting. Can't wait for the next episode.
45 minutes ago I clicked on a UA-cam thumbnail because I'd been meaning to find some reference footage of what Windows 2000 looked like, and now I've been taken on a wonderful journey of computing history, interface design, various branches of philosophy and metaphysics. Also I have a new book on my "to read" list.
UA-cam can be a flawed platform but sometimes it really delivers. Looking forward to the next part!
The universe as an interface of affordances is intriguing
Thanks for the great download! Inspiring tingles abound. Keep it up, wonderfully summarized concepts.
great work. you are really pulling at a lot of threads.
Well, this is something refreshingly pleasant to witness.
I appreciate the idea and wish you very best of luck.
Great series, concepts are really nicely put together, can't wait for the next one
I never dove into Neoplatonism because it just sounded like some niche school of Ancient Greek philosophy in contrast to Gnosticism and Hermeticism which have such compelling and exciting mythology attached to them I’m excited to learn more about it.
Hermeticism is a descendant of Neoplatonism. And I'll definitely get to both that and Gnosticism later!
My new favourite video essayist. Thanks so much for making these.
Overthinkers of the World, UNITE. ❤
wow what a find this channel has been! excited to see the series continue
Just a joy. Thank you!
TWIN PEAKS OMFG I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE NEXT EPISODE
You’ve put into words something I’ve felt and seen the shadows of for my entire life.
Wait until people look at the Low Oil icon on automobiles. I still can't find any oil can that looks like that.
@@BowlOfHotDogs Source for this? I suspect it actually comes from a design of oiler that was used in germany in the 1800s, but can't find a photo or a source about the origin of the icon.
this is amazing, all of them. that example of changing icons for text...
Please contonue. I'm constantly waiting for a new episode. Amazing channel
This is the kind of content I enjoy the most!
You’re pulling all the right threads. Really well done. Keep going.
The first vid in this series popped up in my recommendations and I'm so happy I clicked in. Really great work :)
I'm a UX designer and think about these things constantly, but I feel like the UX community (and tech as a whole) does not reflect on where we came from and where we are going and the broader systems that we work within. I love what you're doing here and anxiously await the next vid. I also just bought your book hehe 😎
Same. Imagine if all human factors fields adopted a common practice of looking at the big picture.
@@liber-indigo That'd be fantastic. Unfortunately, I feel our field (and broader society) is held back by short-term growth obsession. Nobody wants to take big risks rethinking the way people relate to and use technology due to the potential downside of a failed idea at scale and the massive amount of work it takes to get people to adopt new mental models. Short time requirements = short sightedness. I see it all the time in my work irl and I think you've done a great job spelling it out in these vids (xerox parc, 2d interfaces translated to AR/VR platforms, etc).
I almost feel like it needs to get worse before it gets better? I'm not sure what the right answer is or what we should be doing to practically move our disciplines to start designing from a more wholistic perspective. (that being said, I have ideas)
@@always.for-ever Seems to me, there are at least a couple of human sub-species - you've got the neurodivergent crowd, who tend to feel alienated from humanity at large but totally click with each other, and who I suspect are largely responsible for the bulk of humanity's advancement, and then you've got the neurotypical bum-sniffing piss-ants who say shit like, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and "why vote, they're all as bad as each other" and "I was just following orders".
I am so freakin grateful for the experience of life.
Dude thats fucking insane that you've released this video today and in it you're talking about a guy who was tripping out on mescaline I LITERALLY TRIED MESCALINE TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE.
Moments like this really make me sure that everything is orchestrated by some global mind and in some way you released those videos for me to find in this perfect moment. Thank you.
It's the Algorithm
@@raymondkertezc364Yeah the cosmic algorithm known as synchronicity.
Can't wait for the next video, thanks so much. A very thoughtful exploration of consciousness, perceptive paradigms and suprareality. Appreciating the various sources that can send us down reading further rabbitholes. Keep it up!
These are GREAT! Keep it up I'm looking forward to the next one!
Thanks. I read Brave New World, Island, and Point Counter Point years ago. Now you've gotten my Aldus Huxley gears grinding again.
I think it's the first time I try that ''bell'' notification to make sure to not miss a incoming video!
Btw, a bell, we don't even use real bells anymore anywhere.
We use bells to condition dogs. What did UA-cam mean by this? Hehe.
Everything we think and know is a sensory signal filtering through our synapses. Those senses only fall a certain way based on the way our synapses have formed. The path they use is what we use for a comparison to identify that sense.
In love with your echoes, please never stop
The video is gnosis itself! Amazing wok.
Love these so much you’re an absolutely brilliant communicator
Showing gravity demonstration to highlight lack of progress to speak on anti grav tech is great
Your use of the room and window metaphor is perfect, ive made that one up before myself to explain
Definitely buying the book
Okay I'm caught up, eagerly awaiting the next one. Great work on this series!
Love the series!
lol i went to the spectral cross, annulus and got holding in high regard/honouring/wonder, gave me a pause to think that while I'm enamoured with everything so far, I should take a step back and think for myself here too. nice work ;)
@@finn-lilyheartwood6945 That's a fantastic interpretation, and I agree
I caught up on this way too quickly, looking forward to the next one. Well done, again. This is amazing stuff.
4:20-8:36 - the notion of filtering all consciousness down into a narrow, relevant subset also describes the process of a neuronal output layer as it averages, selects, and simplifies its inputs. Recall Hoffman's opening example on the history of cosmology: we are prone to misinterpreting our experiences in favour of what accords with our own preconceived dogmas.
didn't want to wait any longer until part 4 so I bought the book
great series btw :3
There is a lot of interesting scholarship being done in this area and I really think we are on the periphery or the ground floor of something potentially revolutionary. Or at least I hope so. A kind of second enlightenment that touches physics, philosophy, politics, economics, and even something like "spirituality." It's probably going to be rough, but as they say, "history is happening."
Commented on the first video looking forward to a deconstruction of the GUI metaphor. I didn't know the drug had yet to kick in. OK, brother, I am ready to go into space and behind the veil of reality. Enjoying this series a lot!
I'm really enjoying your series so far, thank you for you work!
I am glad I found this channel early, it's been a while since UA-cam got me thinking like this
Entered intrigued by desktop's design decisions, left with an existential crisis
Ahh, I was thinking you would mention Donald Hoffmann. Great stuff.
Good stuff, brilliant juxtaposition of philosophy and human design.
Imma be real with you dawg, I perked up when you mentioned Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, but I'm still feel as though I'm waiting for the meat of whatever you're driving at.
Both wonderful, and strange musings for one’s mind to ponder… My favourite Kahlil Gibran line is:
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
Looking forward to the next instalment!
@@MadGoose1440 He doesn't miss, that guy
sounds like a cope to be honest
Very cool videos. i always get depersonalisation and derealisation thought's thinking about these kinsa topics.
I've never felt so validated
Really loving your work so far, keep it up!
The idea that "the universe is held together" by an all-observing consciousness is somewhat convincing when you know that there are quantum particles whose state changes if observed.
I like where you're going, I hope to see the gnome adwaita HIG soon in the series and the maybe not so subtle reference to the vedas
Keep on keeping on! 🤘😼
Amazing content! Much love from West Seattle, WA!
Great stuff!
I always welcome critical reasoning examinations of the science behind how we know, or what we think we know, about the world around us.
Keep on spreading the good word~
Beautiful
great series.
Amazing series, glad the Algo recommended me this.
Existential crisis because of floppy disks, why not
outstanding.
Thank you for these videos. I am thrilled.
Very very interesting. Keep it up!
i started at GUI and now I'm here
love it
Comment for algo: Nice to learn that a song I know well had an excellent video.
Enjoying this series!
commenting to boost! loving this
I once was meditating as was my habit, and I went deeper then I had previously thought possible. I ended up at the bottom of reality. In the void. Where nothing lives, and nothing grows, and I became nothing. Forever, I was there, my self eroding in the un-space as time marched into infinity and I began to understand eternity. In real time it was merely a blink. When I came back, I felt different, but I also felt like maybe there was something else I could reach if I did this a little differently. So I went down again. This time, it stared into me. And it is not kind. It was like an explosion that tore apart my soul and then put me back together with as much finesse as a toddler putting back together a piece of paper that she had ripped apart. But unlike the toddler who feels remorse about the paper, the void does not care about me. Or about anyone. At the bottom of reality is a meat grinder of nothingness. When I came back the second time my head was fully fucked. The mental issues I already had were substantially worse, and it was incredibly hard to actually hold myself together. This was twenty or so years ago and I’m just now back to where I was previously. I have not meditated since, because I fear that seeing the unfiltered light of consciousness again would end me utterly. And maybe that’s the point. I have become absolutely terrified of death, because I do not wish to find out.
Yo, I’ve been here. A friend suggested I read Ecclesiastes. I learned I wasn’t alone. Everything is, brother. I’m praying for you
Loving this video series. Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell. I don't think the title will attract the broad audience who would also enjoy this. I have given it a like to help. May the algorithm favor you.
8:20 This piece of dialogue is sampled in an UNKLE song from 1997 - every time I hear it without a spooky trip-hop beat in the background it feels like something's missing 😂
Same! I was so into DJ Shadow back then
The scene is from the wonderful movie "Jacob's Ladder" by Adrian Lyne.
If you find the subject of this series interesting, you'll probably love "Jacob's Ladder"
One tip:
do not research the movie or watch trailers before watching it. The deepest experience precludes pre-cognition.
Very, very interesting. I always imagined math being just a comprehensible way for us to interact with the physical world, and that reality is what we make of it. One may look at a mental disorder as a differently structured brain, yet the person with the mental disorder may have no clue about what a mental disorder even is.
Got a few good watch later recommendations, thank yee
I recently had to split a long scrolling screen grab of a data set into standardized paper sized chunks so that I could get it into .pdf format and send it as an attachment. I’m still upset about it. This video series is really helping me process the related strife. Please continue.
Great channel !
I love this shit.
my thoughts exactly
If we assume that the brain is just a receiver of consciousness, it would mean that different people have better “receivers”, but it would also mean that we bathe in these fields of consciousness, which means that I could finetune my big language model to perceive these fields better. How to make transformers architecture more efficient, to make it more receptive to this “field of consciousness”? There’s no consciousness field libraries for the tensorflow, at least I have not seen one.
However, I see where this is going. We need more fulfilling and real experiences instead of simulacrums that we are interacting with on a daily basis. I agree that current digital 2D UI interfaces is a dead end, and they do not represent computing and connections at all. 3D interfaces with interactive gadgets and tools would be more representative and useful that 2D screens floating around in VR. Have you ever tried to point on a button to close window in VR across the whole room? That’s not optimal way for interactivity, but mere copy of a copy
Closing a window on a 3D plane wouldn't need to happen. You'd have a block that is erased with a point-and-click wand that also creates and copy/pastes blocks. Their properties can be changed with that same wand or a different haptic tool for more precise edits.
That's the kinds of future worth building and something SmallTalk was approaching only to be limited by the medium.
"If we assume that the brain is just a receiver of consciousness, it would mean that different people have better “receivers”"
And to that I ask, how many people poses an internal monologue? How many can depict an object inside their mind, and at which 'definition'? How many people can do both?
@@fus132 How many people can do things in their mind that nobody else has a name for, yet?
I need part IV what are you doing? Some people here THIRST for you absolute genius videos. You don't give crack just to take out the crack! I WANT MY CRACK!
Please take your time, genius can't be rushed its alright. Everything is gonna be ok, shhhh shhh...
I would love to hear your riff on why joscha Bach disagrees with donald Hoffman
fantastic keep making these i appreciate it
I'm with you so far. On beyond Baudrillard!