The Philosophy of Rick and Morty

June 22-00 (Berlin) https://zoom.us/j/92766849686?pwd=bjI1c042OFJUWUtock1KaDl2K251dz09 The Philosophy of Rick and Morty, Jed McKenna, and Jim O'Shaughnessy - Interintellect

Jim O’Shaughnessy – https://twitter.com/jposhaughnessy Bronwyn Williams – http://twitter.com/bronwynwilliams

[[Jed McKenna]]

Suggested Reading

• Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life Part 1
• Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life Part 2
• Jim on Jed: https://dailyposthuman.com/interview-with-jim-oshaughnessy/
• https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/daniel-jeffries-questioning-everything-ep44/

Other reading

• Rick and morty and the meaning of life
  • Reminds me of Peter Singer's new journal Journal of Controversial Ideas article Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
• Jim OShaughnessy on Twitter: "1/ As anyone who follows me, you know I'm a big fan of the philosopher/enlightenment author Jed McKenna. For people who've read him, I thought a list of movies that particularly help illustrate his ideas and encourage more thought would be fun for your lockdown list, so:" / Twitter
  • Movies that Jim relates to Jed McKenna
    • Matrix – "real" reality in the third movie is just another level of the matrix
    • The Thirteenth Floor – Simulated humans who don't know they are simulated humans
    • Vanilla sky - how to distinguish between lucid dream and real world?
    • Joe Versus the Volcano
    • Hearts of Darkness – Docu about making of Apocalypse Now
    • Harvey
      • Seems a precursor to Donnie Darko
    • Blade Runner
      • Implanted memories, the simulation need not have started aeons ago, but only a second ago
    • Harold and Maude - an oldie I always loved. "Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live life fully." Maude lives outside consensus reality.
    • Waking Life
    • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Jed McKenna is the Friedrich Nietzsche of Spirituality... | HighExistence
• [[Poison For the Heart]] – Kevin Solway

References and stuff to check

• Daniel Jeffries (author of required reading, rick morty meaning life)

Topics

• Simulation theory
• Why our perceptions and mental maps don't match reality
• Breaking bad habits
• Questioning our beliefs
• Letting go of fear
  • [[james altucher]] has sth about this with his alien on earth thing (the alien trick, [[../Notes/a.Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things - The New York Times]])
• Overcoming the ego
• Enlightenment

Thoughts pre-salon

A Scanner Darkly fits into the movies mentioned by Jim

via:: [[II – Interintellect Salon]]

Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life Part 1

I refues to answer a literal call to adventure, Morty. Let it go to voicemail

Too familiar…

There's no light without darkness

Every definition hinges on opposites. Not necessarily a "cosmic truth" that there is duality. Duality may arise in human mind. Could fields, with pos and neg values, be combined and be more than dual? trial? quadral? re [[Quantum Mechanics]]

Spiritual no-man's land

• quote the guy with meaning of life in monty pythons meaning of life… the "not enough hats" guy.
  • Also, figure out who wrote that part.
  • It is very similar to [[Bill Hicks]]' [[../_inbox/inbox-2021/inbox-2021-05/today a young man on acid]] bit

topic:: [[II – Interintellect Salon]]