"It might sound morbid, but it’s worth beginning with the end in mind. Specifically, your funeral. Simply ask yourself: “What would I feel good about someone saying in my eulogy?” Think about what you’d like a family member, a close friend, a distant relative, or a co-worker, to say at your funeral. This method helps … Continue reading The Eulogy Method is Bunk
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Ganzflicker Experience
"A visual flicker is known to induce "Ganzfeld imagery" (Allefeld et al., 2011; Sumich et al., 2018), a type of visual pseudo-hallucination. The continuous flicker facilitates visual imagery, but does not induce any permanent changes in the brain and does not elicit actual hallucinations. I am interested to learn about the association between any illusions … Continue reading Ganzflicker Experience
The Extraordinary Intruding on the Ordinary
The only thing differentiating the extraordinary from the ordinary is frequency, quantity and volume. If you were a Sherpa climbing Mt. Everest every day, helping tourists get their one minute at the pinnacle. What would the value of summiting Everest be to you? I remember reading Bernard Moitessier's "The Long Way", where he describes being … Continue reading The Extraordinary Intruding on the Ordinary
Mary’s Room
"The questions raised by ‘Mary’s Room’ – including whether anything about experience transcends physical facts – remain some of the most perennial and unsettled in philosophy, even if Jackson himself actually reversed his position, concluding that the experience of colour vision does indeed correspond to a brain state, albeit one we don’t yet fully understand."—TED-Ed, … Continue reading Mary’s Room
Changing Reality Tunnels
Open Question: How does one cultivate the skill of evaluating our world view, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, and changing it when our situation changes? "Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, … Continue reading Changing Reality Tunnels
Zenosyne: The Sense That Time Keeps Going Faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgyEmYyQF4 —Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Markovian Parallax Denigrate
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