JC Collins

My original blog, Philosophy of Metrics, was started at the end of 2013 and shut down in 2020. During those seven years, I had millions of visitors a month and wrote the equivalent of two Gone With the Wind novels in word count. I extensively wrote about geopolitics, macroeconomics, philosophy, history, and abstract thinking. Many of the topics I covered and predictions made are now a reality. Such as: 1. Dedollarization, or the unwinding of Bretton Woods. 2. The importance of Ukraine as a hinge between the East and West in the great war for Eurasia. 3. The growing prominence of BRICS+. 4. The spread of basic income guarantees. 5. A 30% increased risk of global war between 2020 and 2024. 6. A 75% increased risk of global war between 2025 and 2030. 7. The inevitability of sovereign debt restructuring. 8. Accurately predicted the Trump win and Brexit. 9. The growing internationalization of the Chinese renminbi. 10. The eventual break up of the EU and the Euro (not yet, but soon😉) I don't do a good job of promoting myself, so I wanted to capture some of this in an X post, as I intend to write about these topics now that the platform is more accommodating to such long-form content. It sets a good baseline for those who may not have encountered Philosophy of Metrics during those golden years. The transformation in the world today on the monetary and geopolitical fronts, not to mention the technological front, is too exciting not to write about and express my thoughts on. Hopefully, some of you find value in these thoughts.

This is Europa Point in Gibraltar. Africa is just there across the water. Spending a few days in Spain and had to do a quick stop in Gibraltar.

@neonationstate Thank you my friend. I miss those old days.

@HigherManas Miss you JC. Again, congratulations on your new endeavors.

Just arrived in Brussels, Belgium.

We still organize around "sides" and celebrate the destruction of the other. Despite our professed intelligence and cultural achievements, we continue to be controlled by an endless tide of primitive instinct that no level of progress or advancement can alleviate. We continue to suffer our own indignation and then project fault onto phantom shadows that dance just outside of the campfire light.

Helsinki is a beautiful city.

Early morning walk in Tampere, Finland. I’ll be moving here in January.

@solidude_dude @IranObserver0 Nice looking truck...for a small one. Ha. We're dealing in the 400-ton class ultra trucks now. But good on them for designing & manufacturing one. It's honestly great to see. Scaling up for haulage capacity will be the next step. There's an ever-growing market for these machines.

⚡️BREAKING Iran has become the 4th country to produce a 150-ton dump truck These trucks are essential in the mining sector, Iranian experts spent two years working on the project

Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Canada

Really enjoying photography as a hobby.

If you're on social media, you need to watch this. Why things Feel “OFF” Lately — The GLITCH. youtu.be/wsF3REbr-44?si… via @YouTube

Beautiful day in Edmonton

The Vestibular Gate: Gravity as the Hidden Architect of Consciousness Consciousness is not just a byproduct of brain complexity or neural computation, but a gravitationally anchored phenomenon that emerges from the vestibular system’s continuous negotiation with Earth's gravitational field. The vestibular system acts as a gatekeeper between subjective experience and physical reality, forming the deepest layer of "self-orientation" in spacetime. Evolutionary Anchoring: The vestibular system is older than the cortex, and thus predates cognition, language, and even complex emotion. As an ancient tool for balance and spatial awareness, it gave organisms a stable reference frame within a world of chaos. This reference frame is the first scaffolding of the "I", not in language or thought, but in space-time anchoring. •Evolution did not just create a brain to process information, it built a sensor to establish gravitational truth. •Consciousness, then, is not merely about processing data but about feeling grounded in reality. •The vestibular system's continuous, quiet dialogue with gravity is the primordial "check-in" that sustains our self-awareness. Consciousness as a Gravity-Stabilized Field: •Think of the brain as a liquid crystal, a field constantly modulated by electrical flows and bodily inputs. •The vestibular system provides baseline spatial certainty, what is "up" and "down," "left" and "right", in an environment that could otherwise destabilize. •Without this gravitational stability, consciousness would decouple from physical form and spiral into incoherence. This is why disorientation, vertigo, or zero-gravity environments cause existential panic, not because of fear, but because the foundation of embodied consciousness begins to dissolve. DMT, Ego Death, and Vestibular Disruption: •Many reports of ego death or boundary dissolution (e.g., via psychedelics like DMT) begin with a loss of bodily position, floating, or falling sensations. •These are vestibular disruptions, which temporarily break the gravitational anchor. •What follows is often described as ego loss or rebirth, suggesting that ego is vestibularly stabilized. Hypothesis: The default mode network (DMN), often targeted in psychedelic research, relies on vestibular input as a spatial-spinal “zero-point” reference. Disrupt the vestibular signal, and the DMN cannot maintain its sense of self-location in spacetime, leading to ego death. Gravity as the "Master Clock": •Many theories point to the heart, brain, or gut as the seat of consciousness, but these organs still exist within gravity. •Gravity may function like a carrier wave on which all consciousness rides. The vestibular system is our antenna to this wave. •Therefore, the vestibular system does not just balance the body, it tethers the mind to the body. Applications and Implications: In Autism & Neurodivergence •Vestibular hypersensitivity or under-responsiveness is common in autistic individuals. •Their altered gravity anchoring may lead to higher default states of dissociation, hyper-awareness, or fluid boundaries of self (altered consciousness). •This supports the theory that gravity-modulation through the vestibular system shapes the flavor of subjective reality Meditation and Stillness •Long meditations focus on stillness, posture, and spinal alignment, all key to vestibular input. •The quieting of vestibular feedback may enable loosening the grip of gravity, allowing entry into non-dual states. AI and Consciousness •Current AI lacks vestibular-like grounding. •If consciousness requires being embodied in a gravitational field, AI without it may simulate, but never truly feel. •Vestibular grounding could be the missing ingredient in artificial consciousness. Gravity-Based Therapies •Future therapies will involve vestibular recalibration through spinning, floating, inversion, or gravitational simulation.

@giulia12 Liberals are going to win again. The brains behind the Trudeau government just won the right to keep running our government.

@HigherManas What’s happening.

Canada 🤣🤣🤣

@Gforcethe1st AU CONTRAIRE. All you can do is laugh. 🤣

@HigherManas Far from funny

The monolith as the Philosopher’s Stone.