I don’t mind the
I didn’t mind the unknown unknowns but I didn’t like when it was turned into unknowable unknowns because I consider that distinct.
I didn’t mind the
so, we distinguish background and foreground to limit the amount of energy we use to process incoming stuff. But if your selective attention filter / inhibitor is … broken… the amount of input can be… staggering. Processing disorders.
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ah! Why my ongoing draw to panentheism style things? Background Foreground. Construe the background as slightly larger (incorporating foreground) and background becomes the panentheistic god-zone and the foreground becomes the universe with which the layers remain distinct and yet can freely interact with rules governing their interactions.
ah! Why my ongoing
… [read full article]One’s god can be any number of concepts. it can be personal, impersonal, automatic, intervening, part of everyday things… it can be money for one person, a sky dad for another, the “awe and mystery of the universe itself”, the beauty of mathematics, etc we’ve been surrounded by monotheism culturally for a long time with a vaguely similar set of anthropomorphic personalities. but there’s many other gods. we don’t use religious words for them but they occupy the same mental spaces as gods do
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and I think the reason this matters to me is for diplomatic purposes.
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yeah. i’d say what makes sense to me is what they call “weak panentheism” that’s not to say I subscribe to it but it intuitively makes sense to me as a possible reality that doesn’t interfere with anything
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James Gray Yes what I like about David Lewis is it’s a giant spreadsheet with tabs. You can connect anything to anything within that sheet. you can copy that sheet and it can be the same or different. but in his model, you absolutely cannot cross the sheets. they can’t read or write with each other. no formulas can operate between sheets. but on one sheet, nearly anything is possible. that flexibility gives a lot of power because nearly every “what if” can be answered yes. I would say it’s superior to the physics multiverse. it’s a wonderfully flexible construct.
James Gray Yes what … [read full article]