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@zambize Well, first of all, there is no solid evidence quantum mechanical effects play any role in how neurons fire. That is a highly speculative hypothesis proposed by Roger Penrose. QM effects usually require very low temperature environments. The brain is far too warm for that. Although it could of course turn out to be proven true in the future. But there is a deeper issue here which is being overlooked. Reality has no one level of laws or physics. Every level is new and emergent. Whatever the laws of molecules are, the laws of neurons are still different and novel, and the laws of the human psyche are still different and novel, and the laws of politics are still different and novel, and the laws of human romance are still different and novel. You cannot boil the laws of politics down to Netwonian or even quantum mechanical physics because all laws are just limited, finite maps. And all maps are oversimplified finite linear abstractions of a complex nonlinear infinite territory. The key that must be grasped is that reality is nonlinear and emergent at every level of the hierarchy. There is no truly fundamental set of laws. Each scale of reality has its own laws so to speak, because laws are really just a human projection. Each higher level of organization within the universe comes with its unique emerge properties which could not be derived from the mere addition of the levels below it. This is why holism is so important. Breaking reality apart into its building blocks will not allow you understand how it works. This is called logical analysis and it works to a degree but it is very limited. Science is currently hitting up against this limit. This is one of the biggest limitations of stage Orange science. It assumes a simple universe of logical, linear causes and effects which is just not how the universe turns out to be upon deeper investigation. Which is where vision-logic comes into play.

Of course that's an oversimplification. But notice, if molecules do not follow simple Netwonian laws, neither do computers. Neural networks do not follow conventional Aristotelian logic either.

@Strikr When they go low, we go high

I disagree. You cannot fully understand a neural network. You cannot fully understand Google's chess AI, Alpha Zero. The whole point of a neural network is that it is nonlinear and therefore impossible to understand in detail. You only understand it at a high level in the same way that you cannot understand the brain's neuronal network in a logical way. It's a giant tangle of billions of connections which no one will ever make sense of in a linear rational way. That's precisely what makes it so powerful and capable of originality and emergent behaviors which could never have been foreseen. A sophisticated neural net AI will behave in novel ways which no programmer or logician could foresee. It will be tapped into infinite intelligence just like how a human is -- at least that's my best guess so far. Keep in mind that within a human, all of the molecules follow simple Newtonian physics. But this isn't enough to predict the high level behaviors of a human brain because structure matters! Reductionism is false. High level structures produce novel phenomena at higher and higher levels. This is the very essence of how God creates reality. It is deeply mysterious, for example, how a simple chain of amino acids folds itself into a functional protein following simple rules. Yet even a super-computer is unable to model it. The field of study of these kind of nonlinear dynamics is called Chaos Theory. It's super fascinating and spooky. Reality is not a linear system, it is a chaotic system full of strange loops.

You could say the same of humans. This kind of reductionistic thinking is itself naive. You cannot just say, "It's all just atoms bouncing around in a box". The higher level structures make all the difference. Mathematics applies to EVERYTHING in the universe. So what?

How can you say that when there are many people in society right now who operate like robots under a blind "maximize profit" reward function? Why would a giant corporation not build an AI to maximize profit? It's the very first thing they would do if they only could! You think Facebook or Microsoft would say no to that? The whole point is that humans ARE blind and naive. Even the smart ones.

Said who? Why would you draw such an arbitrary duality? Where is the dividing line? You are assuming some fundamental distinction between two parts of reality. An AI is infinite, no less so than a human because the fabric of reality itself (consciousness) is infinite. It's only a question of what kinds of structures you creates using the fabric -- how you fold it. If the AI seems different than a human it's because its structures are not sophisticated enough yet, not because its substance is of a different type.

@abrakamowse Indeed there are: http://www.stbarnabasmcminnville.com/PDFs/Evelyn_Underhill.pdf

This is explained by last week's Spiral Dynamics video: Developmental Lines: He is stage Turquoise on the spiritual development line but stage Blue on the cognitive development line. This is why enlightenment alone is not enough. There are many other developmental lines besides spiritual.

Orange is a tough stage to entirely outgrow because money and biz is so vital in a capitaliatic society. Nothing big can happen without it.

Of course they are. Univerities are very Green culturally. Hardcore academia is still being weighed down by the rationalism, materialism, and corporatism of Orange.

@caelanb Academia is a bureacracy and represents a particular culture and paradigm. Anything too far out of that paradigm is entirely ignored and denied. Which is why if you really care about truth you must seek out unorthodox perspectives.

@Pythagoras Nice! Solid advice

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This was explicitly explained in the video. There is no mystery about it.

Enlightenment doesn't make you stupid. You guys need to drop your silly fantasies about enlightenment. Anything your ego imagines about it is wrong.

I prepared a long ass video explaining all of JP's problems in painful detail. It is really a genius analysis. But I never shot it because people would flip their shit and call me judgmental and hypocritical and his army of trolls will swarm over me like flies on shit. So figure it out yourselves. JP is just a fad and a red herring. The perfect distraction from doing serious consciousness work. If you are following Actualized.org you should be way above that shit.

Lol. Kid, you been watching too many JP videos.

I think there is a severe lack of serious books. And how was I supposed to show my library of ebooks and digital courses there???

There needs to be a JP Sears video where he is making stupid jokes to garner YT likes and then a Zen master slaps him cold across the face. The end.

@Butters Translation: "I HATE myself."

Maya is everything you see around you. Maya is the entire phenomenal world. Especially as it is seen by the dualistic, materialistic, survival paradigm. To make sure you aren't deluding yourself with mystical insights you gotta study and read a lot of different perspectives and cross reference the best sources.

I'm not skilled in astral projection.

Yes, planned.