great framing, neatly addresses the false paradox that's always annoyed me: "would I still be me if I was born to different parents"; ofc not! it's an ill-posed question. the "you" hyperobject is generated from the ensemble of possible futures, requiring a common origin
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Genetics aren’t luck. You didn’t get lucky, you received a gift carefully crafted and prepared for you by your ancestors.
https://twitter.com/ClickingSeason/status/1447152413736148996
w/o a set of worldlines casually bottlenecked by a single coherent region of space (your body), what meaning can there be to the question? it is an outgrowth of a dualistic mindset, requiring something like a soul to be possible, a reification of the self
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ultimately, the only cosmological distinction which matters is Cartesian Dualism. either you believe there is "something special" about humans (a soul, some psychic…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1377726118824964098
the self hyperobject plays the same narrative role as a soul, being a coordination point for your various selves; it is a soul rebased to work in a materialist metaphysics, having the same ontological status as any other convenient abstraction; not "real"
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posit the existence of a higher self outside of linear time, to which there's little diff. btwn ur past & future; when you do smth so that you don't "regret it late…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398346559109091329
this self-concept is useful in explaining why we can seem to act against our own self-interest for long periods of time, while being aware that it's not "what we want"; what is doing the wanting here, exactly? clearly your instantaneous self wants it!
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akrasia is a hell of a failure mode, a self-made pit of suffering w/ no one else to blame but your lack of agency in your own life; I've fallen prey to it more often th…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1438690646173290498
this state of temporary divergence from our higher selves' goals can last for weeks, months, in bad cases even years; but at some point it ends. we wake up, become aware of the pattern, and are able to wrest control of our lives from the daily driver
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when the system is a hyperobject, this entails a sort of agentic recursion; the overlay system emerges from the substrate's collective behavior, but to protect itself in…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396932850096689159
in these moments we channel our self-egregore, becoming avatars of a higher power than our mundane selves; we attain glimpses of a higher plane. we see our lives from a higher dimension, looking down from above, understanding how the parts fit together.
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sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same cours…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379600906128343041
man's drive to explain the world around him, to seek patterns, simplification, & causality, to create & share these ideas w/ each other, generates entities more powerful than any individual; this is how an egregore acquires agency, a narrative given life
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this is how an egregore is born, emerging from many minds holding the same polarizing belief; this meme directs their actions, & these many small vectors, now aligne…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1354227317392990218
it may feel tempting to posit the existence of an eternal soul existing prior to your mortal life, entering your body upon birth (or the moment of conception, depending)
while this perspective has psychological utility, we must remember that it is but a convenient fiction
I say incoherent here not as an insult but a statement of fact; Godel tells us that if you choose completeness, you must give up consistency, & something which is inconsistent can't be coherent. neither is the more correct approach as it depends on goals.
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the interesting bit is that this isn't wrong; PM follows directly from Gödelian incompleteness
his theorem states that a given logical system can't be both complet…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389730159503228930
classical dualism is high modernist, positing a totalizing monotheistic God & a universe entirely defined by His will; contemporary dualism is instead postmodern. the single God has collapsed into many minor ones, myriad ideological vanishing points.
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the interesting bit is that this isn't wrong; PM follows directly from Gödelian incompleteness
his theorem states that a given logical system can't be both complete & …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389730159503228930
wrong link, should be this one instead
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ultimately, the only cosmological distinction which matters is Cartesian Dualism. either you believe there is "something special" about humans (a soul, some psychic access to a platonic realm, quantum effects), or you must admit that sapience/agency can be artificially replicated https://twitter.com/deontologistics/status/1377708551909601283
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1377726118824964098
dualism is an incoherent metaphysics, taking the Godelian tradeoff of completeness over consistency, claiming to handle both objectivity & subjectivity, but w/o providing a unification mechanism. this cognitive schism then permeates all theories generated from this grounding.