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But this is exactly what I mean. That's a really basic thing. All it really is is mapping the motor control activity and then translating it into the cursor moving. You have a brain activity that is clearly related to a specific outcome, and one that basically has two input dimensions (y and z axis). Now I want to see the same with thoughts. I don't think these interfaces are developing as quickly as it seems at all. I mean this is the most rudmentary thing you could possibly do, and how long did this take? They thing they will be able to save brain states in 5 years? I just don't buy it at all.

Well Musk isn't the smartest person around. I have seen absolutely no evidence of any of this being possible, let alone it having been achieved. From what I know we are at a very, very rudimentary level in terms of what we can do with this technology. Transfering thoughts to me seems like a really, really naive notion. The brain is not a computer, so to assume that all brains are standardized in a way where each ones thoughts would even make sense to someone else seems to be a big stretch. Don't forget the brain is plastic, it doesn't just have one way of doing things, and it doesn't have some sort of unifying operating system. So to me it seems like it's a typical issue of Elon Musk not being able to predict all the problems that are ahead of him. The guy is a visionary, let him have his vision, but realize that it's not reality.

I would be very skeptical of the claims that are being made here. I don't think we are nowhere near that kind of capability, not even close.

Dude you have literally created a brain rot with this mentality and ideology of yours. Any time someone engages with your arguments you fall back onto your developmental superiority, which is how you justify to yourself that you can disengage and actually not tackle any of the problems that have been pointed out to you. You don't even heed your own words which is the biggest irony of all of this. You have not once here shown any attempt to actually try to understand the perspectives of others, you presume that you already know everything, and even worse you must believe that how you have handled this actually in any shape or form contributed to harmony. My dude, you are so unconscious that you do not even realize how smug it sounds when you tell people they need to develope and that you are so much further ahead of them, and that this will have actually a completely negative effect on them rather than what you pretend you seek to achieve. Development, peace and integration my ass.

It seems like your cognition is so impaired that you haven't noticed that I am working within your own framework, so by showing me the "logical extreme" of "my" position, you have actually done this to yourself. But I see you are unable to respond to anything I am saying and just continue with your spiritual grandstanding, because that's the essence of high consciousness isn't it. Telling everyone how much more developed you are.

You shouldn't pretend like you are understanding my logic, or logic in general, if it is clearly the case that you do not. What you conclude about the little strawmans you have created in your head has nothing to do with the silliness of your own position. If you have a universal care, as you proposed, and care about both animals and plants, the logical conclusion would be to be vegan, as it reduces both the death and suffering in animals aswell as plants. How you came to conclude that this would lead you to consume humans is beyond me. But I'm sure your mind can do more mental gymnastics in an attempt to weasel itself out of this hole you have digged yourself into. Please stop with this nonsense that you are more developed than anyone, so far you have demonstrated the opposite. The fact that you unironically bring this up in a discussion to give your nonsense arguments some sort of authority is just utterly pathetic. If your reasoning can't stand on it's own, no amount of spiritual posturing will change that.

Oh man is it cringe when people do this. By the way if you care about plants you should be vegan, because guess what the animals eat we consume. Plants. People in this forum, I swear to God.

Can you provide evidence for the claims you made about most scientific data indicating a plant based diet is unhealthy?

Animal byproducts require the killing of animals, the only difference is that the animals suffer longer before they get killed. Can you provide evidence for the claim that more scientific parpers are against veganism than pro?

See, to you calling you an ignorant chimp with a contracted perspective is name calling. That perfectly shows your state of egoic development. You think you are better than the chimp, you think you have a higher consciousness than the chimp. But there is no such thing as higher or more consciousness. That's the arrogance of your little chimp mind speaking, it's need to chimpify everything. I am perfectlc comfortable recognizing my limitation, my chimpness, my ignorance. I know that this is what I am. Anyone who does not recognize this is a danger to the spiritual community.

Everything is ungrounded, that's the entire point! The only reason to remain grounded is survival.

So you do admit that it is a pure function of survival. You seek to end your suffering because you are a little chimp. But God doesn't care about not suffering. It has created Infinite Suffering, all of which it will experience itself. That's what it means to be Loving and Selfless. I recognize my ego, I know exactly what it is doing. You however are simply projecting and not realizing the deeper dynamic at play here.

The more important question is why do you think it's important to realize that you are God? Why do you think you must discover Truth? Why do you seek to escape this very Truth that is clearly Being itself? Because you are just as much a chimp as anyone else you call unconscious. The only difference is that I have recognized this and you remain to seek to create hierarchies of Truth and Ignorance. That itself is a duality which is purely illusiory. Without which you wouldn't even care about getting enlightened.

By the way, just because you can't imagine it being possible that Duality and Non-Duality can both exist at the same time, doesn't mean that isn't that case. That is simply a limitation to your imagination, one caused by you being a little chimp that takes it's own perspective over all else. Of course that's what you would do, that's what it means to be a chimp.

Well, not everyone can be helped.

You think God was not cool with being ignorant for 30 years? God has created an infinite amount of universes with an infinite amount of beings which exist for an infinite amount of time in what you call pure ignorance. You haven't realized anything, you have created a little story for yourself that is a result of the limitations of your own chimp mind. That's all. Look at the arrogance of this. You created all of existence, Infinity, you created it in absolute Perfection. And now one small chunk of yourself got a taste of this and it deems it's own morality to that of the All. That's a story, a story of an ignorant chimp. But that's okay, you created this precisely because that is what you want. That's what it means to exist.

Here is what you are missing: Trust is not a function of truth, it is a function of survival. What you trust and believe to be truthful has no influence over what is truthful. Truth will remain Truth, it always has and always will be. The only reason why you seek to know truth, to create certainty in your experience, is because of survival. The entire sense of reality you have itself is nothing but an extention to this. It's all just the monkey mind, the chimp seeking to create a world for itself. That's all we are doing when we are seeking truth. Truth cannot be sought, it cannot be discovered, as it permeates all. It is the substance of all. Any understanding itself has it's own substance, it is made of Truth, as is all the rest of existence. Trust and confidence are just one form of Truth, one that is helpful for survival, nothing else.

Because that's what it means to be. Being is indiscriminate, and it knows no end to it's limitation. See, what you call God is perfectly comfortable being ignorant of it's own "nature", because to truly be it's full nature is to be all limitation. It only makes sense from your small, contracted perspective to seek "Godhood". You are framing this the wrong way. God didn't lose anything by what you call "unconsciousness", it gained all things, all of existence, doing so. To not be limited would mean for it to reject itself, to reject all of existence. And without existence the little story you tell yourself about what god is and isn't, what god does and doesn't do, what god can and cannot do, would not exist. Your idea of Truth is selective, moralistic. It denies Being and puts Being against itself. In this way you and this very path are just another way of surviving. You cannot escape survival, because to survive means to exist. And existence is eternal, infinite. Your cessation will be your beginning. This should be obvious. If you are God and you created all of this, to return to yourself, as you so enjoy to frame it, what do you think you will do when you are God once more? You will do that which you have always done. But this perspective is merely one falsely truthful prespective among all other perspectives. God never lost consciousness of itself being God. What you call ignorance is the Greatest Wisdom, what you call falsehood is the greatest Truth. What you call survival is Love in it's purest form.

I wouldn't say humans are frugivores, it is difficult to meet all nutritional requirements by just consuming fruits. Be careful when going from a really unhealthy diet to another one, because it can distort your perception of how healthy it is. Otherwise, you can achieve pretty much any type of diet within the paradigm of plant-based exclusivity and meet all your your nutritional requirements while avoiding animal products, which is virtually always positive as it avoids all the tremendously harmful substances that are found within them. A lot of diet is about the gut, so you want to ensure that you don't reduce yourself to certain types of foods or food groups exclusively, like only fruits for example. You might feel good for some time, but the long term effects even if you meet your nutritional requirements might be detrimental simply due to the changes in your gut it would cause. So continue eating variety. Nuts, seeds, beans, starchy foods, lentils and so forth. I personally am supplementing with a pea based protein powder which allows me to achieve a diet that I feel most comfortable on while getting enough protein for me to feel optimal.

I feel like people far overestimate how far we are in terms of any significant advancement in this area, similar to AI. From what I intuit we might be thousands of years away from a true AI that would actually have any kind of human like self-awareness, if it even is possible on the physical substrates we currently use. Simulating behavior is very different from actually achieving intelligence. What many people don't realize is that it might take a significant amount of intelligence to even achieve simple tasks with it, that any dumb algorithm could achieve with ease. So we measure the progress in AI by tasks that are more or less effortful for a specific type of intelligence, and we get a completely false sense of where we actually are. All of these technologies will face issues that might take hundreds of years to resolve, issues that we haven't even realized exist yet. It is the case that many things will get automated, but automation is not intelligence. In this particular framework it is pretty much the opposite of it.

Right now, simply try to find the edge to your visual field. In your peripheral, try to find where the colors and shapes truly come to an end. Try to actually really do this before you continue reading. You will have noticed that actually, there is no such thing as an edge to your visual perception. Because what an edge is, is actually two things contrasting each other. Human minds have a tendency to view the world through such edges and limitations, even their own visual field they probably thought for their entire life to have an edge to it, a limit to itself. Yet, where is this limit? People ask themselves, what is at the edge of the universe? This presupposes the nature of the universe to be that of limitation. And for limitation, what is required is contrast. An edge can only exist if there is something contrasting that edge. The very nature of an edge and limitation is two things opposing each other. Ask yourself, where is the limitation in that? You say when you are on one side, that this line is where things end, yet when you cross it, you have just found yourself on a different ground. I can tell you with certainty, that if you find what is the "edge" of your visual perception, you will come to know what is the "edge" of the universe. Again, sit down and truly focus on this right now and come back reading when you have made a great effort. Reality does not work through limitation, reality is nestled in nothingness. The edge of your visual field bleeds into true nothingness. It is coming from nothingness, and it is dissolving into nothingness. True nothingness has no edge. It is no thingness, and it is present right here, at the "edge" of your visual field. The mind views reality as a contrast between limitation and infinitude, but yet reality clearly works in a paradoxial and arational manner. See, your visual perception is not infinite, yet it is not limited either. How can this be? It can be because reality is not that which is possible, but that which is impossible. Study any aspect of your own existence, any one of it, and you will come to realize this undeniable truth. In it's own way, your visual perception is self-contained. It is not like a division of two things, but it is it's own complete circle. There is no visual perception and then the "beyond visual perception". Your visual perception is as grand as the entirety of this universe, you simply are not paying attention to that. The beyond is the Nothingness, and that is what self-containment is. It is Nothingness. This is the most obvious thing, yet our minds work day in day out to blind itself from this truth. It is so transparent and undeniable, that the ability to look past this actuality itself is a miracle, a miracle equally as impossible as anything else in existence. The Edge itself is Nothingness, which means that it is no Edge at all. Sense the presence of the Nothingness all around you, in which all of substance is nestled in and of which it is made of. Look with sober clarity at existence. If you are not grounded in clear seeing, this path will create nothing but delusion for you.

Well I never said that which is Impossible doesn't exist, it clearly does. The reason why I use this word in particular is that "Possibility" implies that there can be limitations to reality, or that somehow reality in and of itself is limited. Reality does not work that way. It doesn't determine whether or not something can exist by some set of rules, whether logical or any other kind. That's a human notion. Limitations really themselves are just manifested into existence. There is nothing that makes them "possible", they simply are created. I have not yet discovered this. End or limitation to the visual perception.

Why do you think that's bullshitting?

He and his generation had to make this sacrifice so you could take the next step. His limitation is what gave rise to your transcendence.