Trial And Error https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun21_Post.mp3 William James is an old school psychologist. Around the early 1900’s. He’s known for being a pragmatist. Up until his time, all kinds of people had all kinds of convoluted theories about the mind and how it worked. But he was heavily influenced by Darwin’s relatively new […]
Leverage The Human Condition
Free Will Illusion https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept14_Post.mp4 There’s an interesting TV show on Netflix. A popular German TV show called “Dark.” About a whole bunch of time travel loops and paradoxes. One of the underlying themes is free will. All the characters keep running into different versions of themselves. And all of them […]
Human Training
True But Unaccepted There is a theory. A very well established theory. But a well kept secret theory. About human nature. The reason it’s kept secret. Is to maintain the natural order. Most people believe. Incorrectly. Let Freedom Ring https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec21Loop.mp4 That Western Society. Is built on […]
Between Two Hallucinations
Role Model Theory A very common and useful strategy for improving your skills in any competitive game or sport is to play against somebody better. This is why having a good mentor is good, but it has to be carefully calibrated. If they are too much better than you, or they aren’t too […]
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 […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
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 […]
Myth Of Self
Who Are You? How would you answer that question? Most of us answer it by saying what we do, or what we have. By our jobs, by our accomplishments, by our families, by our connections. All of these are things outside of us. If I call myself a writer, it’s really a description of what […]