Strong Opinions Weakly Held

The idea that we should go with what we think, with our theories, our intuitions, but change them as soon – and quickly – as we encounter evidence to the contrary.

Overcome confirmation bias.

Strong Opinions that I Hold Weakly

This is all pretty dire. Reading it over I wonder why I am not more severely depressed than I, in fact, actually am. I guess I don't hold any strong opinions about the sublime and transcendental. I have strong, intense experiences of them, but I try to not have opinions.

I take solace in the immense scale of the universe and apparent meaninglessness, though; [[This is how magic is done - by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a featherbed]]

• Addiction: [[most addicts are trauma survivors]]
• Antiauthoritarianism: [[i abhor orthodoxy like nature abhors a vacuum]]
• Climate Change: [[nuclear-power-is-the-only-rational-choice]]
• Language and Mindset: [[best is not the best word]]
• Misunderstood: [[hackers are ethical]]
• Patterns of Progress and Non-Linear Developments: [[Its sigmoids all the way up]]

Society Sucks

• Most people are wrong: [[the majority is never correct]]

Death

• Don't let me die in pain, in vain, or insane: [[death should be a decision]]
• Let me re-enter the stream ASAP: [[feed my dead body to the vultures]]

The Mystical and transcendent (also; religion)

• Religion is [[lies-to-children]]
• Anthropocentric: [[../Notes/aliens are not physical beings from other planet]]
• Relax: [[This is how magic is done - by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a featherbed]]

The Human Condition

Mostly consciousness and epistemology, and - i realise - a lot about free will, and the probable lack thereof. Also, solipsism.

• [[I think we should have Existential crises all the time, I think it's good for the soul - Brian Greene]]
• [[q.Any talent, wisdom or insight you have that you don’t share becomes pain]]

Resistance is Futile

• Beautiful Emptiness: [[There is no fundamental notion of meaning in reality – There is no fundamental meaning of purpose – There is no fundamental meaning of value]]

Recursion (also: Fre Will, hahaha)

• Never Entirely Right: [[t.everything in the brain is an abstraction]]
• Forever on the Cusp of Complete Understanding: [[t.humans are interesting because you can just barely understand them]]

Puny Minds

• Eternal Ignorance: [[I will never understand reality]]
• You Can't Even: [[no, its probably a lot weirder than you think]]
• Can't Know Thy Self: [[human consciousness might be so processed - so derivative - that we dont recognise the basic thing]]

Fre Will, hahaha (also: Recursion)

• Think Again: [[humans are automatons]]
• Think Again, Again: [[decisions are illusory]]

Neurochemical Correlates to Consciousness (again: Fre Will, hahaha)

• Think Again, Again, Again: [[every psychological event has a biological correllate]]
• Think Ag... Thinking is a Process, the Nature of Which You Are Confused About: [[subjective experience and biological chemical process are two sides of the same coin]]

Galaxy Brain, After All (Again: recursion)

• More Than Human After All: [[consciousness is not computational in nature]]

And since we actually have to live with our selves and each other, no matter the substrate upon which whatever I "is" rests:

Humaning and co-humaning

• Chill: [[life is not about perfection - but making sure every delta is positive]]
• Don't Chill Too Much: [[not doing drugs is more important than taking vitamins]]
• Seriously; Your Chill is Blocking Other People: [[keep moving and get out of the way]]

Parenting

• Just visiting co-mentors: [[My kids are not mine and they are not kids]]
• [[what i want my children to know]]

Outside Our Selves: Cosmology

• It's Not Made For Us; We Are Made Within It: [[I dont buy the fine-tuning hypothesis]]

Strong Opinions about Inconsequentialities

• You Have Scrolled This Far; You Know This by Now: [[The best digital garden retains a sense of wilderness]]

See also:: [[Aphorisms to live by]] Source:: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held — a framework for thinking | by Ameet Ranadive | Medium