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一個二個都係咁講 :O

 

「怕辛苦」

忽然諗到一個好得意嘅問題：咩叫「怕辛苦」？

例如行上好多層樓梯會「辛苦」，但辛苦有咩好「怕」呢？ 唔係話要無視身體嘅狀況，而係辛苦嘅感覺只係身體對某狀況嘅反映 (eg. 會好多用體能)，可以用嚟決定某樣嘢係咪想做或應該去做，但「怕」好似從純理性角度係冇咩用，尤其係決定咗做某樣嘢之後，反正怕同唔怕都唔會改變到之後嘅感受。

自逸

20+ 年前，有次喺某親戚屋企食飯，叔公忽然同我阿媽講：師公話 [筆者我] 好叻。 然後我阿媽同我轉述咗呢樣嘢。我心諗：????  (按：呢度微言大義，其實因為大家唔熟，傳一個訊息牽涉咗四個entity...)

我不嬲唔缺乏自信嘅，不過到而家都唔知佢係讚我咩方面叻。冇記錯當時我都已經高中 (唔記得邊年)，開始嶄露頭角，不過唔通會考廿幾分呢啲嘢都值得特登提咩。

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Synchronicity event - 啱啱搭緊的士，司機忽然指住個地產代理話：「嘩，改個咁嘅名嘅！」間嘢叫「冠逸」。然後佢就講起個「逸」字意思點解⋯ 我同佢講：我尋日先查完嚟，係「失去」咁解。 orz (見 title，本身意思係自己寫返啲逸事出嚟...)

Speculations

The soul is an algorithm. This algorithm takes a subjective world as input, and outputs the next subjective world. 

The persona is a diminished idea of the world processing algorithm focused on a particular set of states. These states are transient. Therefore rationally speaking it cannot be our identity.

The conscious being involves feeding the outputs of the algorithm back as the input of the algorithm. (Time is a side effect of this phenomenon.)

It is universally said that the purpose of us in the world is to learn. This is why we are limited in our ability to arbitrarily change either the inputs/outputs or the algorithm. We know from modern machine learning techniques that learning rates must be set to a small value, otherwise the model may overshoot and diverge. Therefore, although we have the ability to change things arbitrarily (aka “free will”), the effect of the change is very limited relatively speaking.

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This is tangential, but the existence of many souls processing the same (or roughly the same) world might be some kind of optimization. World building is probably quite computationally expensive, so going massively multi-agent running different threads of consciousness on the same world might be the sane way to do it. But then, it's always a bad idea to attribute limitations to "God"'s computational resources. 

Of course

Of course that is what drawing lots are for.

Knew before I read up to that point.

Gnosticism simply makes sense.

Archetypes

 Seen on a youtube comment.

""" I'd just like to corroborate something Greg said about "who sees what deity when they pass on". I haven't had an NDE but had a profound experience when my father died back in 1985. My family is Catholic, but I've been following Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since 1983. During the Catholic funeral service, the priest was preparing the Eucharist, and suddenly my father was standing at the altar with the Mother next to him. He looked young and healthy like he did in his 30's. The priest kept walking through them as he did his preparations. I was seeing things and kept rubbing my eyes and looking again, expecting them to not be there - but they were. Mother looked over at me and winked. I heard a voice in my head saying, "You see me as the Mother, your father sees me as the Virgin Mary. People will see the Divine in a form they are familiar and comfortable with." When the service ended, they were gone. I believe that what I experienced was real and true. What she said just made so much sense to me as that's something that a God of Love would do! Love your podcast Alex. You and your guests bring a great service to humanity. Thank you. """"

Riddle

 "If two mind readers read each other's minds, whose mind are they reading?" -- seen on random fb post

Later update: of course the answer is that there is really only one mind in this situation.