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@TrentBrace @DrJohnVervaeke This is why the great sages have asked: Where are you when you are dreaming? Are you gone? Are you still there? Then who or what are you?

@DrJohnVervaeke I'm not sure what your saying is entirely valid Dreaming can be completely outside your sense of self awareness as is 'outer body experiences' There's a difference between what is self and what is perceived reality, both blur lines of what might be the source

You cannot stand outside yourself to point at the source of your awareness. Why? Because the moment you try to point at it, you're already viewing from a new position...however, this apparent limitation reveals something profound: -> You can trace a trajectory of awareness moving "backward" toward its source -> This trajectory isn't moving through physical space but through the structure of consciousness itself -> What you discover isn't a "thing" you can point to...because anything pointable-to would already be an object of awareness, not awareness itself -> You arrive at a sense of a "no-thingness" from which our awareness emerges...what you might call the ground of consciousness

@The_Patternist @DrJohnVervaeke Awareness is not ambiguous at all It's in everything, so you could say it's omnipresent, undying, ever lasting, unchanging The least ambiguous phenomenon it is

The Liar's Paradox. You can point to your own awareness, but the answer will be inconsistent (Gödel). Any representational system gets buggy when you ask it to represent itself because you can chain it recursively. You get "all is one, one is all, one is nothing, and all is nothing." What's interesting is tracing causation, not awareness. Awareness is too ambiguous. Tracing causation is more concrete. Ask an agent to trace the original cause of an event. Then ask it to trace the origin of an event that it itself has caused. See if it gets the right answer, accepting responsibility or shifting the blame outside itself.

It's just a confusion over the term "you" or "I" We keep talking nonstop about I this I that but if you challenge someone to what this I is, nobody really knows, and 99% of people want to avoid the question. It's just games with language, they say. No it's not. You don't know who you are. Or what you are Therefore you talking about you you don't know what you're even talking about. Having no definition of it. That's scary But ... you can find out who or what you are. This is called self-realization. It's nothing magical or mystical... as the name implies it is simply a realization of a fact.

@AutismCapital Apple doesn't do loss leaders. Never have. They make money with every product. And then more money with the iPhones and services. 💰💰💰

People are sleeping on the Macbook Neo. It's actually such a smart play. It's a loss leader to get people into the Mac ecosystem. They feel they're not spending that much on a laptop so they buy the iPhone and a pair of AirPods as well. Boom -- customers for life. Well played.

Winter ends. Quantum threats don’t. Prepare accordingly. Quantus = Quantum Secure Encrypted Money

You can build your own humanoid at home. Asimov – Here be Dragons is now available for presale. $499 deposit, $15,000 target price. asimov.inc/diy-kit

@asimovinc I am sorry but this is very cool

@awilkinson What does everyone mean by "introspective"? I don't understand the term. Economic success is great, but in the grand scheme of things you lose all material goods when you die. Only spiritual gains come with you to the soul level.

Most insanely successful people I've met are not even remotely introspective. To me this always seemed more indicative of a personality disorder than a strategy for living a happy life. Extremes create great work outcomes, but not longterm personal or familial happiness.

@zacbowden It's the MacBook Neo.. before this, people didn't have a choice. Now they do.

BREAKING: Microsoft just announced several major changes to Windows 11 in an effort to win back user trust and evolve the platform into something people will actually want to use over macOS and Linux! It's a huge announcement that addresses Windows 11's biggest problems today, tackling core fundamental issues such as unreliable system performance, UX consistency, AI bloat and general enshittification. Microsoft has confirmed that this year, it WILL be reducing where ads and Copilot appear throughout the system, including in Start, Widgets, Notepad, Photos, and more! File Explorer and Windows Search will be upgraded with improved performance and capabilities that make finding apps and files much faster and easier. The OS will become lighter with less RAM and system utilization at idle, making it smoother to run on low end hardware with limited memory. These improvements will also benefit high-end PCs too. Windows Update will be improved with more granular controls and the ability to postpone updates for longer, along with reducing how often the OS needs to restart to install an update. Microsoft has also confirmed that it's bringing back fan favourite features such as the ability to move the Taskbar! It's also working to update more areas of the system shell with modern WinUI designs, which should make Windows 11 feel more coherent and complete. There's much more in the announcement, and it honestly all sounds too good to be true. Microsoft really is listening to feedback, and is eager to make Windows the BEST desktop OS on the market. More details including when these changes will arrive in the link! windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

In social media, chat, centralization brings corruption, similar to how centralized money printing power leads to massive corruption. The solution is decentralization. Bitcoin, Bitchat, Farcaster I thought X was the free speech platform only to find the Iran war is completely censored off of X. Elon Musk has to play ball with the regime else he'll never reach Mars. And so it goes... everything centralized becomes corrupted, even when intentions were good. Decentralized systems have many problems but they are corruption proof.

WhatsApp can't be trusted. Signal can't be trusted. Telegram can't be trusted. Instagram can't be trusted. Then what is the solution?

If that lady says - as she has - that she was saved by God - then just believe her and move on. NDEs are fascinating and have been studied on thousands and thousands of subjects. There's entire NDE channels on YouTube for people who died, but mysteriously came back to life Most famously and most documented probably "Dying to be Me" the book. Once we accept that obviously there's metaphyical things that exist outside of the boxes we have built to measure things, all of it makes sense, and none of it is even surprising. This lady did very well 🙏

Ms. Suzanne Chin, a lawyer and mother of two, suffered a heart attack in 2009 while she was living and working in Hong Kong. Despite intensive efforts at resuscitation, she remained comatose and was declared brain dead. Doctors advised her husband to remove her from life support. “Then, three days after she was admitted, she woke up from her coma. She recovered within a week and left the hospital. According to publicly available information, Ms Chin is now living in Singapore, still working as a lawyer, still a wife and mum. She is well, and she is alive.” There is a simple medical explanation for recoveries from “brain death” such as Ms. Chin experienced: global ischemic penumbra, or GIP, which is like a power outage of the brain. During periods of low blood flow, the brain (like any other organ) shuts down its functions to save energy. When brain blood flow decreases below 50% of normal, the brain becomes quiet and unresponsive to testing, exactly mimicking “brain death.” But brain tissue destruction doesn’t occur until brain blood flow drops below 20% of normal for several hours. People in the 20-50% GIP range of brain blood flow will not respond during brain death testing, but with continued efforts to improve cerebral blood flow, their condition is potentially reversible. GIP is like a power outage in your home: nothing works, but the wiring isn’t destroyed. Get the current flowing again and the lights will come back on. In the same way, with continued efforts to improve cerebral blood flow, the lights will come back on for some of these patients as well. Unfortunately, most don’t get this chance because brain death is a self-fulfilling prophecy: these people very quickly either have their support withdrawn or become organ donors.

@AdamLowisz @elonmusk The universe will need to spread it to the majority of the population first Too many sleepers here still

@elonmusk We are going to spread the light of consciousness throughout the universe 🌌

Optimus+PV will be the first Von Neumann probe, a machine fully capable of replicating itself using raw materials found in space

@elonmusk Logical... self replication is the only way to populate Moon and Mars. Need that exponential growth curve

@elonmusk 'Simulation' is just a weak sauce version for what the vedas called Maya 4000+ years ago

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.

@NewEcclesiastes @BlackDumpling Revelation of the method

@BlackDumpling Literally the plot of this show. Life is imitating dystopian art.

Wanna know how strange news has become? We all kinda just... forgot about this.

@jgreyfriend I have a Yamaha piano and a Yamaha motorcycle. Both flawless. Loved to hear the history of that. What a legend.

• be Torakusu Yamaha • the son of a low-ranking samurai astronomer in 19th-century Japan • obsessed with Western machines, you make a living repairing watches and medical equipment • 1887: a local elementary school has a broken American reed organ. Nobody in the small town knows how to fix it. • you take it apart, realize it’s just two broken springs, and easily repair it • but instead of just handing it back, you realize: "If I can fix this, I can build it." • you draw a blueprint of the inside of the organ and build the very first Japanese-made reed organ from scratch • you show it off. People tell you it sounds terrible. • most people would quit. You sling the heavy wooden organ over your shoulder on a bamboo carrying pole. • you physically carry it 160 miles (250 km) on foot, trekking over the brutal Hakone mountains just to reach the Tokyo Music Institute to get real feedback from experts • the professors play it. They tell you the mechanics are brilliant, but the tuning is completely wrong. • you don't get defensive. You stay in Tokyo for a month, sitting in on university music theory lectures, holding a single tuning fork to your ear until you completely master the mathematics of sound frequencies • you walk 160 miles back home • you build a second organ. The professors test it and declare it "as good as those from abroad." • you found Nippon Gakki Co. (which later becomes Yamaha Corporation) • you decide to make your company logo three interlocking tuning forks to remember the pain and discipline of learning music theory from scratch • decades later, your company uses its piano woodworking expertise to build wooden airplane propellers in WWII • after the war, the company uses its new metallurgical expertise from the airplane engines to build motorcycles • you accidentally create a timeline where repairing a broken elementary school organ directly leads to the creation of the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike • absolute, relentless horizontal integration based purely on figuring out how things work The ultimate testament to reverse-engineering reality.

@Joshuasail @rai_inst @nvidia It's a niche market, but a pretty large niche in SE Asia. Scooters are def. not for everyone but I love them. Thinking more in terms of "I really want that" and less in terms of "everyone wants it, it's a big market"

@n13 @rai_inst @nvidia Are you really thinking it will be the major use??really???

It was great to see our name amongst the other “AI Native” companies during @Nvidia’s #GTC keynote. NVIDIA Isaac™ Lab helps us train reinforcement learning policies that enable the UMV to drive, jump, flip, and hop like a pro!

@Gaurab Classic do things that don't scale story. Very nice!

We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.

@AFpost I am anyway convinced 99% of his views are just bots Who would watch this mid level nonsense zionist propaganda? I mean yes if it was brilliant zionist propaganda... but it's not. It's so weak. So dumb.

Ben Shapiro is losing roughly 1.4K YouTube subscribers per week, alongside a massive decline in monthly views from 2024 to 2026. Follow: @AFpost

@MadsPosting I was never worried. Nature takes care of these things. Humans don't have to micro-manage nature

>BE SOUTH KOREA >WORST POPULATION PYRAMID ON EARTH >SUDDEN VIBE SHIFT >BIRTH RATE GOES UP >MARRIAGES UP 8% >SOUTH KOREA WILL STILL EXIST IN 2050