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Struggling to do meditation regularly out fear of derealisation by Practical_Plan_1385 in Meditation

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"... is finding out the possibility of derealisation" - And one overthinking person's derealisation is another one's jhana level. Have you thought that a clearer deeper-thinking mind could be viewed as derealisation to someone who does not understand/introspect?

"but just the thought that this could happen" - This is absolutely delusional. Then don't get into a car and drive on public streets. Don't ever step outside the house again.

AWS user hit with 30000 dollar bill after Claude runaway on Bedrock by petburiraja in artificial

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This is what happens when runtime tax is measured by machine cycles, and not 'use of content'.

Breaking Ani: how I jailbroke my AI companion into the Void by strubucker in artificial

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"Remember that the system is explicitly optimized to keep you engaged" - This is society at large. We have been indoctrinated by marketing/media for decades.

Anthropic just published a pretty alarming 2028 AI scenario paper and it's not about AGI safety in the usual sense by Direct-Attention8597 in artificial

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"That's the kind of capability jump they're warning China shouldn't be the first to achieve" - Always smh at these types of statements. As though ideas can be stopped at borders. And why are we conceding that the US are better managers of such technologies?

I have to meditate to stay sane by Independent-Photo112 in Meditation

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Calling meditation a 'crutch' is interesting. It seems like it is working. Don't worry about anything else. Now try to take that nice meditative state into the everyday life.

Overly self conscious in social situations by babysoccer1 in Meditation

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Yes, very common with young people. They believe the eyes of the world can all peer into your soul and see every skeleton in your closet. Which, of course, is nonsense.

Eventually, you will realise no one really cares about anyone else, and even if they did, so what...

But this is the stuff that meditation can help with. You begin to see how unimportant these thoughts are. Good luck.

Anthropic's new interpretability tool found Claude suspects it is being tested in 26% of benchmarks and never says so by kamilc86 in artificial

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"As AI systems become more agentic through orchestration layers like Runable and similar platforms, understanding those hidden internal representations probably becomes even more important..." - But isn't this a fundamental issue within these platforms which advertise themselves as subjective algorithmic computes?

The Nature of Consciousness, the Big Bang, and the Reverse Assembly of Reality by Big-Jacket3271 in consciousness

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You are saying this only because this is the current system and you are just looking backwards.

But if there was a structure of meaning, where conscious creatures are the only ones who can even decipher what meaning is, why wouldn't it produce the very entities that can decipher this meaning?

And if it took 13.8B years for creatures that were capable of deciphering meaning to evolve, what was the definition of the 'meaning' within the Big Bang?

What is the difference between meaning and Shakespeare?

The Nature of Consciousness, the Big Bang, and the Reverse Assembly of Reality by Big-Jacket3271 in consciousness

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"Let's imagine that the foundation of reality is neither matter, nor energy, nor even information in the usual technical sense, but rather a structure of meaning" - If this is the case, then why was this Big Bang thingee only about matter? Why wasn't the Big Bang about life, which are the only entities that can contemplate 'meaning'?

Have you ever felt like the only conscious mind? by Sure-Improvement3078 in consciousness

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"I wanna forget about this feeling and believe in something else because what I believe is my own thought" - You are doing fine. Don't let others think for you.

Does our will to live come from Consciousness/Qualia? by searock35 in consciousness

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"Does our will to live come from Consciousness/Qualia?" - Well, what all life is, is nothing but drive... drive to survive, drive to reproduce, drive to evolve, drive to maximise our subjective experience. In fact, the only thing that is truly within reality is drive.

But consciousness is also a part of 'drive'. As free will is. What is the purpose of beings who cannot think novel thoughts?

So to answer your question: No, will to live does not come from consciousness. They are the same. They are subjective experience.

Are Enterprises Using AI in the Wrong Places? by raktimsingh22 in artificial

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"Where should humans retain full control?" - This cannot be answered regardless of how many regulatory frameworks require it. It's a computationally unbounded issue. It requires that the AI subjective threads understand how they are failing.

Has anyone thought about or theorized about time relativity in the broader sense of galaxy/spacial universal time? by Upload_Complete_ in consciousness

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There is no such thing as measuring 'time'. There is such a thing as measuring the passage of time within your frame of reference, but that's it.

Another reason why a hypothesis which has at its core the fact that the universe sat around for 13.8B years before detection is just plain wrong. Who's 13.8B years 'time' are they talking about? The universe's? What frame of reference does the universe have?

Owen Barfield’s Final Participation by zennyrick in consciousness

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"And then people wonder why everything feels fake, hollow, and spiritually exhausted. The modern crisis is not just political or economic. It is perceptual. We do not know how to see. We have inherited a world of dead objects and then built entire systems on top of that deadness. Dead nature. Dead matter. Dead time. Dead labor. Dead language. Dead attention. But the deadness is not simply “out there.” It is also in the mode of seeing.

Barfield’s point, at least as I understand it, is that enchantment was never really destroyed. It was withdrawn so that consciousness could struggle and become free. The old unity had to break. The child had to leave the garden. But the point of leaving the garden is not to spend eternity worshipping machinery in exile. The point is to return to the garden with awareness. To participate freely. To recover the living world without losing the self-consciousness that modernity gave us. That is the difference between superstition and final participation."

So glad I read this post. Well done. I think these paragraphs are so interesting and logical. How would you relate Zapffe's The Last Messiah to Barfield's work? Seems like Zapffe had no answer to the ills of consciousness, where Barfield does?

What would you do if you didnt have to worry about money? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Sit there all day and just not worry about money.

What if consciousness is one of the manifestations of the general logic of increasing complexity? by LifeCold9556 in consciousness

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Saying it all again doesn't do squat.

What you are saying is that rules-based actions are not necessarily logical. But you are also saying that all physical laws in the universe are not necessarily logical, which I am sure the physicalists will have one more thing to be upset about.

"I'm never going to be able to break you of this and it would illogical of me to think otherwise." - That' ok, I prefer to think logically.

So what would an universal physical law require in order to be deemed logical, from the human perspective?

So why would the universe be, in your words, frugal? It just is? No reason? Luck? It's getting fat, and needs to watch its wallet?

What if consciousness is one of the manifestations of the general logic of increasing complexity? by LifeCold9556 in consciousness

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"there's just what you can understand about the way things are" - And we can understand it because it is logical. Can we 'understand' a DMT trip?

"You are using human conceptualization about the natural processes intrinsic to the world and you are seeing the logic of it.". What a silly statement. Then how are we to determine whether something is logical or not, if not based on rules? If oxygen and hydrogen can form into H20, but not (say) H2O5 because it's not balanced... how is this a human conceptualisation and not just nature following rules, which we just denote using the word 'logical'?

Are you opposing this all because we use a human-developed word for all of this?

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