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i love radiolab.

time flies

"the secret of happiness is freedom. the secret of freedom is courage."
Thucydides quote. (ancient Greek historian & author, 460-404bc)

"every human has four endowments - selfawareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. these give us the ultimate human freedom.. the power to choose, to respond, to change."
Stephen Covey

matter is simply the physical manifestation of energy. the mind is energy and has the power to change matter.

my subconscious manifests itself in dreams and i wake up in a state of "whaaaat"

i thought i saw you in a dream. but it ended up being real life and it was over before i knew it.

mind/body dichotomoy. again.

when it comes down to it, i feel like i'm two seperate entities that are cohesively living together... my mind and body.. and well they technically are two different things living/working together, but I mean in a sense that they have their own consciousness? their own thoughts, goals, and desires? I dont know.. its hard to explain. i know it's just an extension of my imagination.. but maybe it's not. Like sometimes I can feel myself looking behind my eyelids.. and when i open my eyes i see the world that i'm living in.. but i'm also living in an entire world inside of my own body! the tiny individual cells are all working along, doing what they're programmed to do to keep me running and alive.. or i think about the kidney sitting there stressing out..
or i think about the person behind these eyeballs... the nerves that are connecting them to my brain, and then even more electrical signals firing and categorizing what i'm perceiving.. and then interpreting it with a mind that has been cultured to certain ideas/morals/themes/events/situations, etc.. but then i have an overall consciousness that is trying to perceive the outside world too. its overwhelming.. too many ways to look at things.. sometimes theres this mind inside of me that is perceiving the world as i live in- in more than one different way... The most intriguing thing about the human mind is that we can project ideas about the future, and imagine and construct it. and that allows us to imagine scenarios before they happen, and we can weigh the pros and cons, and understand and envision what the outcome and possibilities will probably be. It's a strange thought to think about i think. But that's what keeps us going in some way.. because we have imaginations that have no limit, and when we think and imagine about the unknown, it only drives us to create it and to make it happen.. or that's the way i see it.

higher consciousness

This specialization [evolution of the consciousness] must be corrected by recovering once again a generalized apprehension which does not reject any experience - be it color or the sense of the self - whereby the organism lives. For the organism which begins to dismiss actual experiences because these disturb the simplicity of its explanations is headed for that ever-narrowing awareness which ends in presenting itself with a world in which it cannot live - a world not only without sanction but without meaning.

-Gerald Heard

insides are dancing

Been pre-occupied with the non-stop pondering of what I should do next.. and it's a delicate balance between making goals and a plan, but also floating along and letting yourself be taken away on this random, spontaneous ride of life. It's as though i'm on this non-stop quest to figure out life- when in reality, there's nothing to figure out. Things just keep happening, situations arise, things occur.. and the brain just doesn't stop powering this machine with non-stop thinking about everything during it all.. about what is, isn't, could be, would be, should be.. Constantly in a battle between fact and fiction. But a lot of times i can't ever catch a single thought, because I'm not actually thinking about one single particular thing.. but instead it's kind of a feeling- combined with thinking- or imagining, or marveling about things like, how intriguing the spaces between things are.. everything being shaped by time and space.. beautiful mishaps, causality, consciousness, nothing expanding into something.. it's all so incredible!
soo.. could perhaps have some truth to it, but maybe that's why so many people now have adhd.. because there's just so much happening, so complete sensory overload! humans and their brains.. adaptation.. it takes time.. and after thousands of years, we're suddenly in this technological age when we're doing 7 things at once. percieving the world through 5 senses. it's a tug of war. So as i was saying.. it's all a delicate balance. and floating.

and I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. - Einstein

the mind / body dichotomy

The question, then, is how it can be possible for conscious experiences to arise out of a lump of gray matter endowed with nothing but electrochemical properties?

how i see it

Sometimes i sit and think, and feel my actual body mass... like how i'm just made of 75 trillion cells.... cells that were products of millions of years of evolution... and every cell contains my specific information, and works alone individually on its own accord, requiring no thought. they just all work coherently together and in the end are just what composes... a human body.. slash me. and how human thought itself is no more than a pattern of electrical signals in a matrix made from carbon rather than silicon... I love being reduced to these scientific elements that compose the earth... it just makes me think so much more broadly! ... like.. how insignificant i am... Not significant at all! and some would take that in a depressing light... but i take it in the complete opposite and see so much beauty in the idea ... that there isn't that much substance matter that differentiates me and anything else that exists, so we're just these substances all fluidly living together..

I hate the idea of forever. i dont want anything forever.

It's enlightening for it to sink in that the universe is constantly in motion, and nothing stays the same, and everything is always changing... Chaos theory! The behavior of things are random, and everything is slowly moving more and more into chaos..

just keeping oneself entertained

What's the purpose in a lot of things that we do anyway? the things that i do, the things that I say, the thoughts that I have, the things that I imagine... why do I? i suppose, all to entertain myself. We all need stimulation. We all just need to have a muse..

organic robot machines

life. it's so unique and precious..
i love to think how animate and inanimate things are all in existence, but the unique position that the the living organisms have is that we're self-sufficient beings, transmitting and modifying energy.. we're living systems, composed of cells that contain their individual information, and work on their own accord, adding them all up and composing a being. and it's amazing to think about how we exist and reproduce ourselves...

so if...
machine: any device that is not a computer that transits or modifies energy.
robot: a system- which by appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own

and.. life systems = obey physical laws = controlled by coded information = self sufficient beings = organic robot machines! let's call us that.

but.. i guess the dilemma: being programmed... O_o

molding substances

i wish i could just be a philosopher. wander around in the wilderness, just going around pondering existence. hahha can one become a self-proclaimed philosopher?

I was just a piece of the machine..

an ordinary gear in the ever-expansive clock of human interaction. Sometimes it's nice to be part of a machine, it just has to be the right one.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
-Albert Einstein

a minimalist existence.

i was thinking earlier that I want to have a minimalist existence. I dont want to own a lot of stuff. things. Like I dont want to know that I own an entire set of eating utensils. What am i going to do with 5 or 6 forks and spoons? Eat with them, yeah, but when I move from one place to the next, i don't want to have to lug them around. That was just a par-example, but there's just a lot of matter and extra materials that we have to own, and I don't want to. But we need to. but I don't want to. It's a never-ending cycle. Everything in our vision pulls at our attention at least a little, so clutter is like a form of visual distraction, and if i don't have a lot of things, then less clutter, less distraction, less stress.

I want to be like this tree. it has nothing.

veins of the earth

look at yourself.. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules. Think about how it happens. There's some electrical activity in your brain. Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system. It passes along down into your muscle fibers. They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those - every part of that process is actually governed by physical law, chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on.
-waking life.

I bought a watch today so that I can have a constant reminder of time. I feel like i've lost my perception of it.
No longer restricted by time or space.

i've been stuck on radio dept.

Imagine a world..

in which all people experience themselves as an intrinsic part of all that is;
all feel fully appreciated and free to develop according to their own hearts' desires
without harming others,
all feel so fulfilled that they want to help others flourish; and
the best interests of all are safeguarded by law.

we're fated to pretend

mgmt - time to pretend, to the best moments of BBC planet earth

...i'm attempting to achieve that delicate, elusive balance among all aspects of existence.. if it's possible