Toranvor

Who is he going to deceive but himself? Can he be deceived if he's all-knowing?

I’m a web developer with ~5 years of experience, and lately I’ve been relying heavily on AI-assisted programming (mostly Claude Code). The thing is… it’s extremely good. It often writes cleaner, faster solutions than I would, and it’s significantly boosting my productivity. I catch myself delegating more and more thinking to the AI. Instead of designing the architecture myself, I ask it. Instead of debugging deeply, I paste errors. Instead of recalling knowledge, I prompt. And while the results are great in the short term, I worry I’m slowly making myself… lazy. It feels like I might be sabotaging my long-term growth. What happens if I lose access to these tools? Or if I’m in an interview? Or if I need to solve something novel without AI? Am I trading competence for convenience? At the same time, not using AI feels irrational. It clearly makes me more productive, and the industry seems to be moving in this direction. Avoiding it completely almost feels like refusing to use Google years ago. So I’m stuck between: Using AI heavily and worrying I’m weakening my skills Avoiding AI and knowingly reducing my productivity Are other developers experiencing this? How are you balancing AI usage with maintaining your own skills? Do you set rules for yourself? Or is this just the new normal and I’m overthinking it? Would really appreciate hearing from people in the same boat.

It's a matter of acceptance, you can freak out about all of this and it won't change a thing only make it worse, so I just choose to ignore and carry on

I understand yes, there is only one point of view, one experience, but the image suggests that there are multiple POVs inside 'one awareness', or am I misinterpreting? it?

So the experience of reading these words is the only thing there is in existence, and other POVs does not exist, is that right?

Why would it be impossible for God to create other minds? I’ve seen some people argue from a solipsistic perspective that God cannot truly create “others,” and can only create the illusion of others within himself. The reasoning seems to be that if God is the only absolute consciousness, then anything that exists would necessarily exist within God’s own being. If that’s the case, then other minds wouldn’t be genuinely independent, they would just be appearances in God’s consciousness. But I don’t see why this follows. If God is omnipotent, why would it be impossible for God to create genuinely distinct conscious agents? Even if they depend on God for their existence, that doesn’t seem to imply they are merely illusions within God. So my question is: what is the logical contradiction in God creating real “others”? Is the claim that it’s impossible actually justified, or is it just an assumption coming from a particular metaphysical view (like solipsism or nonduality)? Curious how people here think about this.

What is CHIM? The concept of CHIM is derived from the fantasy world presented in "The Elder Scrolls" video game series created by Bethesda Game Studios. CHIM (pronounced kɪm), is a state in which one can break free from all existing laws and corruptions in Oblivion. It is a state in which one can return to a point before the union of Anu and Padomay and shape the Aurbis as they please. CHIM is associated with Love because Love appears to be a part of it and thus links to the idea that God is "Love." However, CHIM is not merely a state in which one can achieve power and dominion over existence. At its core, CHIM represents an important epiphany. To reach CHIM, one must come to understand that the entire universe (the Aurbis) is like a dream, and that their own identity is part of that dream. This realization is extremely dangerous: if the individual fully dissolves into this understanding, they “zero-sum,” meaning they cease to exist entirely. The state in which CHIM occurs is one in which this does not take place. Instead, one is able to achieve: “I am everything” “I am still myself” At the same time. It is for this reason that CHIM is often related to Love, not in a romantic sense, but as a complete acceptance or unity. It is the capacity to understand that everything is one, yet at the same time acknowledge that one exists within that oneness. Very few beings in the Elder Scrolls universe are said to have achieved it, making it one of the most mysterious and powerful concepts within the Elder Scrolls lore.

I've been having panic attacks most of the time I'm awake for about two years now; I never have a moment of peace. The first thing I do when I wake up is vomit my guts out. I have to make a huge effort to eat something without vomiting, and I'm severely underweight because of it. Most people have some reason behind their panic attacks, but I don't. It's almost as if my "panic mode" is my normal state. I've already sought psychiatric help, I've tried several SSRIs, but nothing works. I've lost all hope. I just wanted to know if anyone else on this forum is going through this or has gone through it, and if there's any hope.

yeah but I think the problem would be that these other finite selves would be just philosophical zombies since there would be no way for them to have a conscious experience outside yours, if they had it would go against your omniscience since any genuinely independent conscious experience would introduce information you do not already possess. If your awareness is truly exhaustive and if nothing can occur or be known outside the scope of your cognition then another subject with its own first-person perspective would either (1) be fully transparent to you, collapsing its “otherness” into your own experience, or (2) contain elements inaccessible to you, which would contradict your omniscience. fuck

I think "eternal non-existence" is the cope and "eternal reality" is the painful truth imagine all the horrible lives you'll have to go through

Did you experience this?

You’re moving from ‘this experience ends’ to ‘there must be others,’ and I’m not sure that follows logically.

And why it can't be?

This reminds me of a point-and-click game I played, Critters for Sale, very interesting and cryptic.

I think I know where you are coming from, you mean that, since God is existence itself (this current experience), it cannot be divided, therefore, other experiences cannot exist?

I'm not really in denial, I just want to understand solipsism as it's taught here. Wouldn't saying that God cannot have multiple perspectives simultaneously be a limitation?

But why would it be impossible for God to create distinctions within Himself, billions of limited yet simultaneously conscious beings as in traditional non-dualistic views of other minds?

It's very random, like the most random thing you can imagine can cause me a huge trigger and I start spiralling, like seeing a cat crossing the street. And while i'm spiralling the most prevalent idea during a panic attack is that of "needing to escape from something" when there is nothing to escape from or nowhere to escape to, like, if I keep panicking I might die, and then? If I take a sleeping pill I will sleep and wake up tomorrow and go to work, and then? and then? and then? I'm trying my best to put into words my thought process during my crises, because it's very difficult to explain

Even if anything God creates must ultimately come from God and therefore cannot be completely separate from Him, it’s not clear that this rules out the possibility of distinct points of view within God. Why would it follow that everything must collapse into a single undifferentiated perspective?

You might be treating “other people’s experiences” as something real, when in fact they are just ideas within your own experience. All you ever directly encounter are people’s words, actions, and appearances in your experience. That would be my guess.

I have some virtual friends I made on online games, but none in real life.

I'm undergoing treatment for depression using Mirtazapine, which isn't an SSRI but is similar. Does anyone know if this will affect my experience with the psychedelic?