Mind Dough

Basically shower thoughts :sweat: I quoted Sadhguru because I was Googling for a quote that fit my article. Saw some of his video's though, very inter...

I definitely have to read into this "Eternal return", thanks for the tips guys! Will let you know my thoughts

I share your liking of the idea, that is why I wrote this article about it. It is an idea that aligns with our values and I think we like it because i...

My appologies for the late reply. This is true, however, I do not mean this to be some kind of higher form of justice. I mean that other people experi...

Thank you for your interest, much appreciated! Karma in general is a very appealing thought I think. Maybe something we all want to believe :wink: I a...

Thanks Gnomon, seem to me that you are one of few people in the replies that actually bothered to read the article. The point is very similar to the "...

Very nice explanation. Also didn't know about the sleeping beauty problem, very nice thought. Thanks guys, I've learned a lot :)

This might be true, however the point of the argument is that other probabilities do not matter. Therefor these observations are irrelevant for the ar...

I believe you hit the nail on the head. We don't even know how to define our perspective, our consciousness. Who is to say that it is a random pick fr...

What exactly do you mean? I think even if the balls are exactly the same, the question holds. However, all viewpoints will also be the same. True. It ...

If you would not exist, you would not be asking this question. Hence the survivership bias I mentioned. But i'm not sure it's applicable.

I have a feeling that adding time is making the argument more complex than it should be. Breaking it down, the real question is something like: How bi...

I think it's an interesting point. The graph is discriminating towards humans. What about all other conscious beings that ever existed/will ever exist...

Still, the mathematical puzzle is interesting. I think it's worth the discussion. The physical facts do not apply to the puzzle itself :)

This is exactly the name I was looking for, thanks! One thing I don't understand from the quoted text though (still have to read the wiki): Why is the...

That's correct. In that case I'm afraid we have had a miscommunication and have both been talking about something else :P

Let's ignore the future for a bit. Why would it be ok to think we would had a probability of being born (as someone else) in the past (just a high one...

I like the ball example, but as I am a simple man, the ball abstraction is the only abstraction I want to make, so let's use real numbers: I read some...

Is this not the same question in essence? Only instead of asking it for all humanity (or conscious beings) over time, we are asking the question for a...

Scary thought...But even so, we can still hope to be the one in a billion lottery ticket. After all, this would also raise the chance significantly on...

Just experimenting with this chain of thought: Using that same logic, would it not also make sense to say that we are "far more likely" currently the ...

Funny that you mention this. I'm writing an article that also references the simulation hypothesis, that's actually the reason I came to ask this ques...

@"Bitter Crank" I like your insights on the subject. Thanks for sharing them! Even though this article is specifically about matter over mind, I belie...

@"Marcus de Brun" Thank you for your feedback. Actually an interesting perspective on things. Do you mean that we "narrow" our field of vision in orde...

I will put it on my reading list Stan, thanks for the tip! Thanks for the advice. These idea's can be bewildering indeed. I'm counting on reality to a...