Full Moon Party One popular reason people go to Thailand is they have these wild full moon parties. It’s mostly for tourists, and they have it on this long stretch of beach. Basically a lot of alcohol, drugs and plenty of uninhibited sex. Humans vs. Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov12Loop.mp4 The relationship between humans and […]
Planting Mind Seeds
Genetic Modification Ever since the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago, humans have been slowly applying genetic modification to our environment. Up until very recently, this was done by selective breeding. By carefully replanting the plumpest fruits from an orchard, which, over the centuries, creates plumper and plumper fruit. This is why […]
Eventual Fight Against Evil
Hero’s Journey Origins The hero’s journey is a very common structure that has been found in mythological stories around the world. It’s believed that the hero’s journey structure was a precursor to modern religions. Modern religions can be seen as metaphysical or mythical guidelines or moral codes on how to live an thrive […]
The Butter War Demon
Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
Sevens Sixes and Brains
Pope Gregory Right now the entire world uses the same calendar. The one that counts up the years from year zero. This used to be called BC and AD, but they changed it to take out the reference to Jesus. Before BC meant before Christ, and AD meant Anno Domini, which is […]
Time Travel Intuition
Chimps and Humans The timeline between chimps and humans is six or eight million years. Humans became humans only a couple hundred thousand years ago. But chimps and likely proto-humans can communicate well without using spoken words. Non Verbal Communication https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08Loop.mp4 It’s estimated that up to 93 percent of human communication is […]
Whose Thoughts Do You Think?
Hot Neighbor I have this really hot but kind of messed up neighbor. She’s not what you would call an intellectual type, but she’s friendly, perhaps overly so. Kind of naive, in that she let’s herself get taken advantage of. She just got dumped in a pretty horrible way and it kind […]
Slow Motion Brain Wreck
Iced Tea Commercial I watched this really cool video recently About how they made an ice T commercial. First they showed the commercial. A close up of a tall glass with ice cubes one stream of ice T came in from one side, and a stream of milk came in from the […]
Limits Of Free Will
Impossible Physics I was watching a very interesting set of videos the other night called “Impossible Physics.” They were using fiction and fictional science as a starting point to understand why those fictional science ideas would be impossible according to the real laws of physics. They were doing this to try to make movies […]
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