Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and Meaning" video.

@issyjas3309 I think that many "math teachers" at the high school level and especially below that, really have no understanding of what they are teaching outside of having memorized the maths. If you ask them what practical use some equation may have, a lot of them will have no idea even though they know how to solve it. Many people have trouble being interested in, and/or learning, something that is just memorization of rules without any info on how and why it was developed and is used for.
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Tell me, "When is now?" and I'll tell you "What now is." There is no time exclusive of space, nor space divorced from time, except in the reification of an abstraction so common it goes unnoticed. No big deal? . . . I know.
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Free will? . . . humph! Wait until a quantum computer tells you what your next thought will be. Then talk to me about free will.
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Their are conscious organisms, such as lizards and birds (while they are not sleeping at least), and their are self-conscious organisms (like some humans, who at times are aware that they are conscious, like now, now that I brought it up) but there is no "consciousness" outside of the act of being conscious, anymore than their is a "runningness" while sitting and reading. Another example of misunderstanding arising from the same old propensity. And the propensity is found in the amazingly creative ability for the associative thought-centric mind to create conceptual models that do not correspond to reality. Therefore providing civilization, culture, and technology to all the little particleules like youses and meses. If you like: associate concepts about it -- but you can't get here from there. Even if for some reason you suspect that you want to, which you won't.
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49:40 that is why most find relief from: the majesty of existence, the shocking implications of the mundane, and the incomparable unlikelihood of the real -- in beliefs that muddy up the whole proposition and provide longed for reversion to automatic functioning of the associative thought-centric and quite free-will devoid "mind". If the need to entertain any story, no matter how lame, becomes feverish, we could be in a good spot, we could be in a bad spot, dependent on the pointedness of our point of view. If things get too clear we can always turn on the TV, or read a metaphysical tome, or watch a YouTube video that stimulates associations we enjoy, or worst yet most soothing of all, simply reminisce with limbic seasonings. Keeps things in homeostatic balance: that being the glacial progress, with the emphasis on stasis, that evolution favors so much on the collective level -- not that it will do us any personal good outside of antibiotics and such.
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@Scifi_Ape Lol, and let us not forget the indubitable advantage of the right head injury at the right moment in youth. With good luck, you could end up an Einstein, then you could figure out the probability of receiving such a singular blow.
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28:30 . . . 29:36 -- Because there is no nothing. Nothing is only a concept, and a foggy one at that. And we all know that fog does not qualify as nothing. I think P. Crunk said something like that.
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40:00 Some of those stories are failed explanations of the physical reality of the ignition of dormant possibilities within the nervous and limbic systems, as opposed to the versa visa. All concepts about such, are misconceptions, and can be nothing else. Or to put it simply: just because you are not talking or thinking does not mean you are awake, but if your are talking or thinking, it does mean that you aren't. At least while you are thinking or talking.
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