Authors and Playwrites

[Cain]

If we divide reality into biological/physical (ie mediocristan) and sociological/constructed (extremistan) it actually does make a valid point.

How much of what we do is not a function of our physical world, but instead is convention and custom?  How much could you change, ignore or replace?

[LMNO]

If we divide reality into biological/physical (ie mediocristan) and sociological/constructed (extremistan) it actually does make a valid point.

How much of what we do is not a function of our physical world, but instead is convention and custom?  How much could you change, ignore or replace?

I hear a door opening...

Dammit, I need more time to explore this!

[Jasper]

If we divide reality into biological/physical (ie mediocristan) and sociological/constructed (extremistan) it actually does make a valid point.

How much of what we do is not a function of our physical world, but instead is convention and custom?  How much could you change, ignore or replace?

In my current thinking, it's got to do with the strange loop in causality that arises when mere matter achieves consciousness.

The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.  For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics?

So it's probably a matter of how much consequential causality you want to take credit for as a semi-aware being.  Once the strange loop is aware it's a strange loop, anything can happen.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

If we divide reality into biological/physical (ie mediocristan) and sociological/constructed (extremistan) it actually does make a valid point.

How much of what we do is not a function of our physical world, but instead is convention and custom?  How much could you change, ignore or replace?

In my current thinking, it's got to do with the strange loop in causality that arises when mere matter achieves consciousness.

The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.  For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics?

So it's probably a matter of how much consequential causality you want to take credit for as a semi-aware being.  Once the strange loop is aware it's a strange loop, anything can happen.

Both GEB and The Mind's I should be required reading for all students

[Abramelin]

I find this an interesting thought

It doesn't look like solipsism for me, although it's near that. It doesn't say that everything out their is only you imagination, it says that your view is influenced and changed, the things are changed for you just because you think about them.I agree to that.

The Author... maybe it means that you're acting and not only reacting (on environment and/or your feelings) ?

That reeks of THE SECRET®.

it does, or better the other way round, SECRET smells like this.

I think especially that's the point about THE SECRET, it isn't wrong really. Totally wrong is the way of explaining in THE SECRET, and how the people behind make money out of it.

I think the one big problem (r) with that kind of stuff like THE SECRET and other things in this area and round esoterism (also mental training) is, from my point of view, that it isn't wrong. But presented and teached in way which seems to me so wrong that because of it The Whole Thing (r) became pointless bullshit or even dangerous.

[LMNO]

I will honor the 50-post suggestion, and ask that you explain yourself, and the idea that The Secret™ is based upon, comprehensively and thoroughly. 

Including a section that explains the physical mechanics of this would be helpful as well.

[Golden Applesauce]

I will honor the 50-post suggestion, and ask that you explain yourself, and the idea that The Secret™ is based upon, comprehensively and thoroughly. 

Including a section that explains the physical mechanics of this would be helpful as well.

I see where this is going...

[LMNO]

Hush, you.

[Payne]

I will honor the 50-post suggestion, and ask that you explain yourself, and the idea that The Secret™ is based upon, comprehensively and thoroughly. 

Including a section that explains the physical mechanics of this would be helpful as well.

I look forward to this essay.

~~~Payne: Knows not The Secret™

[Iason Ouabache]

I will honor the 50-post suggestion, and ask that you explain yourself, and the idea that The Secret™ is based upon, comprehensively and thoroughly. 

Including a section that explains the physical mechanics of this would be helpful as well.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I will honor the 50-post suggestion, and ask that you explain yourself, and the idea that The Secret™ is based upon, comprehensively and thoroughly. 

Including a section that explains the physical mechanics of this would be helpful as well.

I was hoping this would go somewhere... the last post could be interpreted to support the general "filters" concept, but I'm not sure.

[LMNO]

I do have a theory why The Secret™ seems to work, I just wanted to hear Abra's take on it.

[Cain]

Is that a theory of why The Secret works or why people think it works or why its such a successful sell?

Because I have ideas on all 3 of those, which I shall not repeat now.

[LMNO]

Well, it's mainly a theory why it appears to work.  But that can tie into the other points you bring up.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Well, it's mainly a theory why it appears to work.  But that can tie into the other points you bring up.

I wonder how closely our theories align...