This is very much in line with my conclusions so far. To me this is the real mind of a Hacker. Someone who experiments with everything on equal terms through metacognition and embodied experimentation instead of falling into either yuppie capitalist materialism or becoming a soul suckingly boring taxonomy specialist slave. (yes I'm partially talking to myself here)
To me this quote pretty much sums it all up:
"Rituals are programs written in the symbolic language of the unconscious mind. Religions are program libraries that share critical subroutines. And the Gods represent subystems in the wetware being programmed. All humans have potential access to pretty much the same major gods because our wetware design is 99% shared.
Only...that cold and mechanistic a way of thinking about the Gods simply will not work when you want to evoke one. For full understanding, the Apollonian/scientific mode is essential; for direct experience, the Dionysian/ecstatic mode is the only way to go."
I personally believe we live within a historiographical paradigm that blindspots large fundamental parts of intellectual history because it has been deemed to be too "philosophical" or "religious" unfortunately therefore ignoring the undercurrents or foundations of math and science which are very much "alchemical", "esoteric", "spiritual" or straight up weird.
Today's list based interfacing with the internet, the nature of bite sized information surfing, the resulting fuzzy attention, and the property-based worldview makes it very difficult to transcend this paradigm of mechanical / single-threaded cognition without crossing some pretty deep and frightening oceans so to speak.
Most importantly _every one_ of the great forefathers of thought were entangled in philosophical and mystical thinking which were not _only_ "silly magical endeavours" only worthy of X century but actually central to their worldview and absolutely central to the development of "how the western world is" today.
Also most of them were polymaths, and so much more intelligent and broad scoped than what we give them credit for. That we see pop cultural icons like Neil Degrasse Tyson tweet that Philosophy is not a real science and is basically "stupid" is telling and a monumental crime against the history of "thought" in my eyes.
Anyway I highly recommend the very scientific and very well made podcast the "Secret History Of Western Esotericism" for a deep dive into the genealogy of all of western thought that shakes things up a bit while giving a nice broad overview of philosophy from before the greeks until today : https://shwep.net
As a huge history/philosophy/math buff myself I think the world is in serious need of new historical paradigm that acknowledges that the borders between what we call Math/Philosophy/Science/Religion/Language is way more fluid than what we currently have written in our history books, and that such a reconnection to the historical roots of philosophy would be like reattaching humanity's umbilical cord after trying to separate our selfs too early from both nature and history somewhere after the enlightenment.
I have struggled a bit with what I would call "coding brain" which makes it harder for me to appreciate abstract poetry or the improvisational character of social relations after a whole day of deep coding or deep math. Think Julian Jaynes crazy theories, something to do with brainwaves or left and right halves. I really have no idea why you get as locked in as you do, it's probably an evolutionary mechanism so you don't go crazy, something that shamans, philosophers and mathematicians have in common.
If you force yourself (which almost no one does) to read through great poetry for a whole day, your reality tunnel begins to change from box-like to more fluid synchronistic, associative etc.
Then take it one step further and begin to read "difficult" philosophy like Heidegger, Deleuze, or Kant, - really contemplate what they are saying while you read slowly (even less people do this) - and I promise you a whole new world will open up. Also try to develop visual / spatial thinking like Euclid to Einstein also employed.
New modes of thinking get unlocked to use a modern methaphor.
Sounds a bit crazy, but anyway that's where philosophy, math, poetry and thinking in general get real interesting!
I have a major in History actually so I know that both cultish fatalism, religious determinism and apocalyptic paranoia has run through all of history.
None of them backed up by science like today.
Don't you believe in climate science? You say those of us who don't believe. Are you on some kind of 3% fringe the doesn't believe in the reports of the last year? I certainly hope you are right but my good friends in the natural sciences are all very serious about this at the moment - why should 95% of climate scientists be wrong?
It's a huge joke because climate scientists for years have said it was to conservative, and each report is "censored" because of industry pressure from within certain countries.
It's a Joke because it's a complete freaking fantasy. All models in it are built on the basis of deus ex machine like tech fixes and singularity like tech events that are going to happen within 10 years - none of which exists in reality.
Seriously who wouldn't call a companies future forecast report a complete joke if it built on the fact the said company would magically invent the most revolutionary technology ever built and capitalising on it?
This results in reports that give of the impression that "yeah it's not good, but we will probably manage", while climate science consensus for years, and increasingly is way, way more dark, and now bordering on the outright dystopic.
This in turn is now leading us to a scenario where extinction is on the horizon.
Listen, we are facing an extinction event, we could face it very soon, collapse is right around the corner. There is absolutely no time left. IPCC is greenwashing, it's hopium, it's berucratic circus while we are slowly sinking.
There is no time for compromise and political theatre. Everything is going in the wrong direction pollution wise, and everything is happening faster than expected.
As a side note I would have slapped myself and called me a doomer freak If I read this 6 months ago.
I never believed the doomers deep down but the seemingly exponential rate of dystopic meta analysis this year is making me legitimately worried.
And not worried about our grand kids more like worried about actual tangible societal collapse that will affect everyone, also "rich" people like myself in western societies.
For me it started with a curiosity this summer ending in the realisation that the official IPCC report is literally a tech fantasy while being pretty much greenwashed by various state players because of industry pressure.
Then reading about all the multiplying factors not even taken into account, which much to my dismay are all slowly beginning to be proven one by one these months.
The albedo effect, methane clathrate guns, permafrost thaws, reversal of ocean currents, the list of factors that aren't even modeled in the ever more dark forecasts just goes on and on.
I honestly don't know what to say or do anymore. It's like this knowledge has washed away all of my dreams, entrepreneurial spirit and will to play the capitalist game - I still "ride the tiger" though so relax your downvotes. Also I try to help where I can, but it's freaking bleak.
It's pretty much over in 5-10 years as I see it now. When a critical mass in the economic intelligentsia realize that the debt bubble won't get postponed because growth will be stunted much earlier than "anyone foresaw".
I urge anyone that doubt these claims to read up on the reports of the last year - then realize how much of joke the IPCC is.
EDIT: and to the people downvoting, please do explain why I am melodramatic idiot and not a realist. I really rally hope I am wrong but it's hard after actually reading this years reports ;(
This is very much in line with my conclusions so far. To me this is the real mind of a Hacker. Someone who experiments with everything on equal terms through metacognition and embodied experimentation instead of falling into either yuppie capitalist materialism or becoming a soul suckingly boring taxonomy specialist slave. (yes I'm partially talking to myself here)
To me this quote pretty much sums it all up:
"Rituals are programs written in the symbolic language of the unconscious mind. Religions are program libraries that share critical subroutines. And the Gods represent subystems in the wetware being programmed. All humans have potential access to pretty much the same major gods because our wetware design is 99% shared.
Only...that cold and mechanistic a way of thinking about the Gods simply will not work when you want to evoke one. For full understanding, the Apollonian/scientific mode is essential; for direct experience, the Dionysian/ecstatic mode is the only way to go."