🟩 Chuck | Jungian Certified Coach 🟩

@Kpaxs What if life is an unsolvable existential mystery? What if that mystery is our deepest nature?

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

@elonmusk If consciousness is primary, rendering only upon observing would also be true. This is the new frontier of physics. "Space-time is going away" @donalddhoffman

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.

@BricksnBullets @elonmusk @Kekius_Sage If we live in a simulation, why do anything? This is basically the same question Camus asked. What makes life worth living regardless the circumstances?

@elonmusk @Kekius_Sage If we live in a simulation, why do we need to go to Mars?

Why is consciousness so rare in the universe?

@aakashgupta Maybe as a trend but that's not my experience. I was into classic rock in my teens and 20's, Jazz in my 30's, Electronic and Ambient Groove in my 40's. Still love it all. Lately my favorite bands are eclectic mixed genres such as @Khruangbin and Flying Mohito Bros.

Your brain peaked musically somewhere around age 16. Everything since then has been a dopamine echo. Between the ages of 12 and 22, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, the same circuit that processes cocaine and sex, fires at levels in response to sound that it will never reach again for the rest of your life. A 2011 McGill study used PET scans and fMRI simultaneously and found that music triggers dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal. The caudate nucleus lights up during anticipation of the good part. The nucleus accumbens lights up when it hits. Your brain is treating a guitar riff with the same reward architecture it uses for food-seeking and pair bonding. During adolescence, that response is dramatically amplified. Pubertal hormones are flooding the system. The prefrontal cortex is still wiring itself. Memories formed during this window get encoded with a density of emotional tagging that nothing in your 30s or 40s can replicate. Researchers at the University of Leeds identified this as the “reminiscence bump”: the period when your sense of self is forming, and the music playing during that formation becomes structurally integrated into your identity. A 2025 longitudinal study from the University of Gothenburg analyzed 40,000 users’ streaming data across 15 years. Younger listeners explored broadly across genres. Older listeners collapsed into increasingly narrow loops, almost entirely anchored to music from their teens and early twenties. Your brain stopped losing interest in new music years ago. It’s running a cost-benefit analysis. Familiar songs deliver guaranteed dopamine with zero processing cost. New songs require pattern recognition, expectation-building, and repeated exposure before the reward circuit kicks in. Past 25, most people stop paying that tax. The one variable that predicts whether someone keeps exploring: the personality trait “openness to experience.” Score high, you keep seeking. Score average, you default to the familiar forever. The fix, if you want one: deliberate exposure. Three listens minimum before your auditory cortex builds enough predictive models to generate a reward response. One passive listen on a playlist will never get there. Your brain needs repetition to find the pattern, and it needs the pattern to release dopamine.

The people who had the biggest impact on my life weren't the ones with the best advice. They were the ones who made me feel completely held and were in wonder with me. Knowledge is 10%. The other 90% is how you are with someone.

@elonmusk Have you considered supporting the Trace Institute? It could enable travel outside conventional spacetime. donalddhoffman.com

Expanding to the stars avoids risk of a mouse utopian behavioral sink

@OCollins80 @CryptoTaxGirl Good for you. All of mine are late

@ChuckGafvert @CryptoTaxGirl Na Robinhood came 2/12

Buying/selling crypto directly: Every sale/trade/spend is a taxable event and you must do the safe-harbor reallocation at the beginning of 2025 and then track lots, basis, holding period, etc. for the whole year. In early 2026 you may get multiple 1099s (or none), and then must reconcile all of your transactions across multiple wallets/exchanges to correctly report your cost basis, proceeds, and holding periods on the new Form 8949 (with the correct check boxes). This will result in gains and losses that will flow through to Schedule D with the rest of your capital gains/losses. Buying/selling crypto ETFs: Just report exactly what's on your 1099-B :)

@CryptoTaxGirl BTW @CryptoTaxGirl TurboTax has an issue with 1099-MISC forms treating as business income (with add'l 15% self-employ tax) UNLESS you answer "No" to the "intent to earn money" question. ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-suppo…

@OCollins80 @CryptoTaxGirl I think all the exchanges are late.

@CryptoTaxGirl How do we proceed when Gemini has not yet issued 1099-DA's and customer service does not respond

@Plinz @leecronin The Three Things Science Cannot Explain: How everything came from nothing How life arose from non-life How conscious came from non-consciousness

Everyone, please help @leecronin understand that chemistry is not real. Molecules are delusions. There is no way that chemistry can produce life. And "neurochemical" reactions cannot produce consciousness.

No matter how intelligent you are, you can't make good financial decisions when unconsciously avoiding a painful or uncomfortable emotion. This often leads to a cycle of endless looping thoughts without any resolution.

@naval I *AM* a robot

Moltbook is the new Reverse Turing Test.

@PhaentGames youtube.com/watch?v=PF8Ohz…

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sharing Contact (1997) with a first-time watcher is a special moment. Such a beautiful movie. 🥲🥰

@FU_joehudson Adyashanti used to talk about how the "jewel of truth has many facets", but each facet seems complete in itself when seen. So there's a sense of completeness within that relative facet. But there's always more to realize and see and expand into.

Most people think awakening is the finish line. It's not. Here's what actually happens when you wake up (and why we usually never talk about this at AOA):

David Deida talks about Function, Flow and Glow Function: we use therapy to cure dysfunction Flow: yoga increases flow in life Glow: spiritual practice But these are independent and separate areas. A classic example is sexual abuse by yoga teachers. The yoga is genuine but the behavior is dysfunctional. Stain glass window analogy Function: replace broken glass Flow: clean the glass so more light comes through Spiritual practice: realizing you are the light

How we handle money is often echoed in our relationship patterns. For example, if we spend money impulsively or give it away too easily we can also struggle with boundaries or sacrificing our own needs in relationships.

"I want to make more money!" Behind anything we want to change in our lives there is an emotion that we are resisting. Meet the emotion with understanding and change your life.

Strong signs you're about to make a terrible money decision: - Endlessly analyzing pros and cons. - Chasing logical certainty while avoiding feeling your emotions about the decision. - Trying to force a desired outcome instead of staying true to who you are.

Instead of trying to control or master your emotions around money, seek to allow and understand them. Emotions are not the enemy, they are allies with a valuable message to help you build wealth.