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I want to cautiously voice šŸ“£ that the following are not strongly held "opinions" but rather attempts to transparently put forth extremely hard questions rattling around in my head and the ensuing research towards them.

I intend to use this post/page/writing to reach others that might have similar thoughts/questions.

Please, please don't think me evil questioning/considering reality, religiousness, social norms, sexuality, etc. I do not wish to hinder my professional work through this writing and I will do everything in my power to partition these thoughts from my practiced/business work even in places where mathematical philosophy, computer science and software engineering might cross paths.

My contact information is readily available and I embrace discussion! Please feel free to join at https://discord.gg/JemYHj8 for updates, communication, voice chats, etc! Just ping me wherever! I love Discord for its marvelous capabilities of group voice chat.

background bits

As a sort of "personal mission statement", I want to strive to identify my personal biases or any potential life context that might result in a strong opinion one way or another.

To contextualize my life thus far:

  • I am a confirmed Catholic.
    • My father grew up a non-practicing Italian Catholic who found Catholicism through my mother's Irish Catholic family and through raising his own family.
    • My mother grew up a practicing Irish Catholic who was raised within the sacraments (baptism, confirmation, eucharist, matrimony, etc.)
    • Through Catholocism,
      • I have been baptised.
      • I have been confirmed.
      • I have taken the Eucharist.
      • I have confessed my sins through penance.
      • I attended "prayer school religion" once a week through 9th grade.
  • I grew up in East Cobb (Marietta/Roswell) Georgia.
  • I attended Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • I spent 3 separate periods of study and work abroad living in Barcelona, Spain
    • Summer 2014
    • Summer 2015
    • January 2016 - August 2016
  • I helped found the company Glovo with a friend I met Georgia Tech (Oscar Pierre).
    • I joined May 2015.
  • I helped found the company FIXD with friends at Georgia Tech (Julian Knight, John Gattuso, Fred Grimm, Eric Pate).
    • I joined January 2017.
  • I attended a 10 day Vipassana course at Dhamma Patāpa in August 2015.
  • I attempted to start a company from a friend's thesis paper by applying to Y Combinator for the summer 2017 term.
  • I currently live in New York city.

Other "statements"?

  • I don't presume to hide my biases.
  • I heartedly attempt to relinquish my biases.
  • I am a privileged white male.
  • I am fortunate to have no personal debt.
  • I am not currently practicing any single religion.

personal philosophic identification

A good friend of mine once referred to these "thought chains" as anti-nihilistic:

Anti-nihilists are courageous because they dare to turn the tables on nihilism. They embrace nihilism. But rather than dwell on it, rather than drown in the glass-is-half-empty ennui of it all, they decide to swim, and they keep swimming.

Itā€™s our meaninglessness within which to create my own meaning. Itā€™s our illusion to play with. We are the ones laughing at the cosmic joke instead of merely being the butt-end of it.

from https://fractalenlightenment.com/35998/life/authentic-existentialism-from-nihilism-to-anti-nihilism

Some might recoil at this label, but I think it's a wonderful example of breaking free of a formalized system by taking the converse. Anti-nihilism is different than the "opposite of nihilism".

links that provoked this "article"

people

  • just above "acquaintance" kind of folks (reachables?):
    • Yuri I. Manin
    • Joe Rogan
    • Firas Zahabi
    • Sam Harris (Wikipedia)
    • Jordan Peterson
      • changes in human rights code with relevance to his work in Ontario
    • Nick Kokonas
      • owner of Alinea restaurants
      • king of the human experience
    • Lawrence Krauss
  • Tim Ferriss
  • modern "entrepreneurs":
    • Elon Musk
    • Peter Thiel (Zero to One)
    • Bill Gates
  • historical "academics":
    • Aristotle
    • Newton
    • Descartes
    • Thomas Coon
    • Stephen Hawking
    • Einstein
    • Bertrand Russel
  • acquaintances (if you'd like your name taken down then please feel free to contact):
    • Nina Stepanov
    • Mike Zawadski
    • Hersh Patel
    • Anthony O'Sullivan
    • Aaron Harnly
    • Karl Sofinowski
    • Jack Woods
    • Aldo Beqiraj
    • Pooja Thakrar
    • Oscar Pierre
    • Adnane Oa
    • Jesse Vogel

thoughts

  • object permanence
    • baby seeing mother in selfie cam
  • physical law is through observation
  • heads or tails is through logic or history of coins?
    • coin flip into a butterfly
  • is randomness a law of nature
    • randomness is ignorance?
    • the measure of truth is opinion?
    • corrsepondence theory
  • Kante
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • "science is faith that the future will behave like the past"
  • "science is the use of measurement to understand what's around us"
  • water can resist boiling up til a number past 100 celcius
  • show you knives:
    • Aristotle says they share in one essence that makes them knives
    • sword vs knife (objective? subjective?)
    • now matter, matter is an inference of the mind
  • e = mc^2
  • a train moving at lightspeed in an arc from points B to C around a center point A where distance BC is the same as AB and AC
    • Einstein talking about a light flipping on in the train car that is on the roof of the train car
    • the light is moving slower in the car than it is moving relative to the person standing at point A
  • Occam's Razor "believe what you observe"
    • everything with a doubt you chop it
    • everything imaginary you chop
    • trascend all paradigms
      • mystics -> religion is true and science is faith
      • consciousness not the content of consciousness
      • brain is within consciousness
        • no more paradoxes
        • outside of your ego
  • materialism
    • epiphenominalism
      • consciousness is like a smoke
      • brains are dependent on consciousness
      • idealism "there is no phyiscal object outside of consciousness"
  • when someone dies is the universe still the universe?
  • triangle 180 degrees
    • can you picture a triangle without color?
  • voxel vs Euclidean geometry vs dimensional theory vs triangle meshes
  • is there a better way than friction to stop a car?
  • truth vs belief
    • electronic blanket warmth and then later see a flame
    • Descartes = science is doubtable
    • "cartesian doubt"
    • man is more and more precise but science is based on faith that future behaves like the past
    • history is truth?
    • paradigm shift Thomas Coon shades
  • teach your children the that what is popularly known as red is actually blue
  • reality is a thought experiment?
  • cogito
    • "I think; therefore, I am."
      • straw in water then it is bent (eyes lied)
      • hand in cold water it will seem warm (my bias, my instruments are not accurate enough)
      • deduction and math 1+1=2
        • philosophers disagree with math
        • 1+1=2 -> critique 1+1 is 2 there is no other information
        • helps give epiphany
        • f(x) there is a lower pattern (it's always been two things)
          • isomorphism vs tautology
        • Bertrand Russell gives the information again
        • Cante says math tells you something
      • all greatest thinkers in history all disagree
        • Liebnitz and Voltaire
        • Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson
      • we cannot use logic because we can't get to conclusion we can all agree upon
      • doubt everything (what if I'm dreaming?)
    • Imam Razelli
    • Rene Descarte
    • crisis that "it's all explanation and not proof"
    • science gets refined with more information
    • today's paradigm will be changed 100 years from now
    • at end of cartesian doubt "modern philosophy"
    • 6 chapters in 6 days
  • immutable documentation
    • this document and the commit hashes for this
    • Slack service for adding data into this privately
    • Twitter for public quotes that retain thread-ability
    • "how-doc"
    • "why-doc"
  • dogmatic vs prophetic
  • "God is the future to which we make sacrifices"
  • ignorance is evil?
    • like not knowing about a disease?
    • there is an incubation period that acts like a "zero"
    • this incubation period is a period of discovery
    • although there is no detection for some up to a while you're in the "zero period"
    • this zero period describes a lack of observable information
    • ignorance is an infection until you accept ignorance
    • that's a zero to a negative one
    • if zero is complacency and 1 is movement then we need ternary for true life detail
    • it's not heaven and hell though
    • it's the z value oscillating over an expanding universe
    • the expansion is the derivation
    • derivative = history
    • integration = future
    • -1 = past
    • 0 is current
    • 1 is future
    • so to go zero to 1 makes sense in this context
  • money is immutability as ignorance
    • such ignorance is a bandwidth reliever
    • such bandwidth relievers are like 1+1=2
    • anything that reduces space in the pipe is towards a new contextual zero
  • talking to someone and only catching up provokes travel in order to truly connect or talk to someone
    • this inherint path forward is what makes humanity want to internationalize and what breaks down barriers
    • Romeo and Juliet style
    • Rosalia flamenco and electronic
  • mice with brainlock and the "Homer Simpson" gene
    • why did humans reach the brainlock gene before all the other animals?
    • evolution is/was a race?
    • harken back to Merlin in the Once and Future king and the need for fiction as a teaching Instrument
    • humans were given one tool and they chose the tool of tools... The first evolutionary derivative
    • choice = happiness?
    • but only when observable choice comes along and serves a basis for some amount of discovery through finding a new flavor?
  • holding pole of subway and thinking someone else's hand is yours
    • same feeling as meditation mistaken identity because so external
  • the human collective
    • Lambda school has too many engineers
    • how do we have another renaissance of art and thought? When through art we strive for isomorphisms in nature or science
    • time to spare is the opposite or Times Square
  • ennui = man's ultimate enemy?
    • definition: a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement
    • synonyms: boredom, tedium, listlessness, lethargy, lassitude, languor, restlessness, weariness, sluggishness, enervation

Cognitive Networks: Brains, Internet, and Civilizations (2017)

  • there is the concept of "conscious sensory perceptions" where ā€I seeā€ means ā€I know that I seeā€ ... hmmmm
  • ok, so it was conjectured that the brain contains inside a map of itself, and that some neural information channels in the central neural system do certain things but pause here...
  • working the other day on RSA asymmetric cryptography through open idc and how one way private key signing can be verified through a public key and there's no way through parsing a public key to ever re-sign back to what once was
  • so what if our brains operated the same way? we sign our thoughts using our collective wisdom that is a discrete model only ever at delta t and every thought can only ever be parsed using a "public key" that is the collective experience everyone has ever had interpreting me
  • ha so then a "soul" can only ever exist with a public key comprised of n > 1 social entities oh ok, that's why the Bible starts with both an Adam and an Eve, cool
  • so how many of y'all ever worked with protobuf or the concept of (de)serialization? let's think of the human brain as a payload of protobuf who's containing .proto schema only ever exists inside of the payload itself the same way that AI can mutate it's "rule-set"
  • so if our schema is always a function of delta t or hell let's say time doesn't exist in our brains then we're pretty much hosed to ever figure out the brain but we can still implement a protocol based on this infrastructure - that's one hell of a mesh network though...

Vipassana meditation

  • notice what arises in consciousness
  • noticing takes so much concentration
  • feel identical to the sentence in your head
  • how could a thought define subjectivity?
  • hearing the sound of voice in appearance of consciousness
  • thinking without knowing that your thinking
  • playing a video game where not losing in the same boss fight over and over again
  • linguistic thoughts are structured as though conversation
    • like playing chess?
  • normal state of consciousness chased out of bed by thoughts is not the happy place and is not the alternative
  • the goal is not to have a mind without thoughts
    • it's about intentional thought
  • what is mindfulness?
  • infinitesimally to the smallest degree recognizing your blood boiling from anger or joy
  • is mindfulness a superpower?
  • sensory deprivation

Woo-Woo (Gremlins)

Joe Rogan and Lawrence Krauss

  • space is infinite but light is constant
  • everything we see emerged from a single point
  • what if there were more big bangs
  • all big bangs are separate splashes
  • is it another universe?
  • universe: that region of space that at one time we could have communicated but in the future we could communicate with
  • Gauge theory - Wikipedia

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