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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago

unfinished draft of material woo:concepts we're just learning about now in "rational" ways have millenarian traditions behind them, with the fruits of centuries of (although ontologically imperfect) practice and experimentation. They can be mined !https://t.co/cuFibvkg31

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 5 years ago

God: Agapic lovePagan gods: distributed archetypesSoul: UnconsciousConsciousness: self-attentionChakras: embodied emotionsSpirits: semi-autonomous thought processesDemons: distributed processes that undermine GodMagic: subtle information transfer

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @exgenesis

how did I get into this and how to split signal from noise?1. Used to have a Rational streak a la Descartes and implicitly believed all truth could (only) be known propositionally

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @exgenesis

2. Learned how NNs work and realized you can hold knowledge fuzzily -> unlocked intuition as a legitimate part of cognition for me

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @exgenesis

3. Mushroom trip: unlocked species memory and archetypes as legitimate concepts, I literally saw the Dao too

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Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)@nosilverv• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @exgenesis

@ExGenesis please explain ser

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @nosilverv

@nosilverv Before, I ignored knowledge that wasn't empirical or propositional. Neural networks learn via neither, just look at examples of things until they kinda converge. Yet they work and are mathematical obejcts! This gave me the formal grounding I needed to break out

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origenal@manichaeistic• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @exgenesis

@ExGenesis good shit. ja olhaste para o livro the perennial philosophy ou o the golden bough?

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❤️‍🔥 xiq@exgenesis• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @manichaeistic

@manichaeistic saquei os 2

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