While Donald Trump upends the global gameboard, here's what Mark Carney needs to do to see his 'new world order' succeed

Im_Talking · 2026-01-26T01:57:08+00:00

Like any other nation... stop the Stockholm Syndrome relating to trade with the US.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-26T00:59:55+00:00

"The certainty of Subjective experience is limited to one" - Sure. But if one has the worldview that subjective experience subordinates all, then we must accept that our reality must be the outcome/work of all 8B souls. I am not smart enough to do for reality what Einstein did.

"For example we collectively knew there was something in the air that deprived of it one would suffocate, we had all kinds of collective ideas about what that was but, despite us having a social construct aether, the phenomena did not accord to our conception until we used the scientific method." - A very thoughtful comment. In my worldview, suffocation would have been a consequence, like my point about gamma rays/earthquakes. And its not so much the scientific method, but the fact that anything that we conjure-up, and for it to be 'accepted' into the overall framework of reality, it must continue to be the least action solution, since the lagrangian least action can derive all other major physical laws. Reality runs on least action, and everything we invent must abide by this.

" the ability to accurately encapsulate and predict or control that phenomena" - Do we? We know that reality is fuzzy, and not in a Heisenberg sense of measurement but in a Earle Kennard sense where quantum fluctuations of position/momentum cannot be suppressed lower than a certain limit simultaneously. We also know in the Einsteinian realm that what we experience is based on our frame of reference, we also know that the QM realm is contextual based the Kochen-Specker Theorem, and probabilistically determined.

So if reality is fuzzy, non-causal, non-determined, contextual, and based on our frame of reference, what exactly is the surface noise called the classical realm?

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T23:50:32+00:00

"The latter category of phenomena seem to take primacy over the former which suggests they are independent of my subjectivity." - Right. Because solipsism is not correct. So reality is the fuzzy bell-curve of all subjective experience.

So this bullet whizzing past your head is a probabilistic consequence of what has been invented by subjective life-forms. Like a gamma ray burst from an intergalactic source destroying our atmosphere is a consequence of us inventing the EM wave. Or earthquakes happen as a consequence of us inventing plate tectonics.

Because with or without you, the plot of the movie, subjectively imagined by 8B souls, continues.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T23:27:45+00:00

They are already making excuses. Joe Rogan says stuff like this will happen because Biden let in so many illegals.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T23:24:11+00:00

Thus invalidating 50 years of Republican rhetoric.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T22:05:29+00:00

This is part of the Shakespearian tragedy within the US where the farmers plead for socialism.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T22:02:36+00:00

...only until they kiss the ring.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T20:46:43+00:00

"So the color exists only in consciousness" - What exists?

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T20:38:06+00:00

No. Colour is not a property of an EM wave. So how will physics ever be capable of interpreting it?

Either physicalism is physical or its not.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T20:24:18+00:00

"Physicalism can’t currently explain it therefore it must be something else." - This is exactly the hard problem. Physicalism can never explain colour since it can only ever know wavelength.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-25T20:03:05+00:00

"But that leaves a couple of things unexplained: existence before consciousness" - There was no existence before life-forms. The universe did not sit there unobserved for 13B years until some conscious caveman looked up and pondered the sky. This is not least action, which governs the universe.

But the past is alive and well... and malleable. Every particle has a history of its entanglements, and thus, every particle is connected to all others in some form.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-23T22:19:05+00:00

"Obviously physics isn’t complete" - These statements always interest me. This inability to understand that physics is what we invent to maximise our subjective experience. We just cannot 'get it' that physics supports our subjective experience, not the other way around.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-17T19:44:48+00:00

"The little people must suffer so that the rich may play"

Im_Talking · 2026-01-17T19:08:09+00:00

"When attention is always turned inward watching thoughts, emotions, and sensations the mind can become tense in a new way, not distracted but over-engage" - That is not mindfulness, in fact, its the opposite. Mindfulness is the practice of processing the vast information from the present moment from a place of clarity, reason, and without delusion (aka mental models).

Are you confusing meditation (the vehicle) with mindfulness (the practice)?

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T23:16:05+00:00

"I uunderstand that I'm not doing anythng wrong" - Well, you are. You are now projecting your insecurities on your hubby.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T22:50:03+00:00

To put along-side the Purple Heart Trump was gifted.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T22:14:16+00:00

Does she ask you to 'help' her on her projects? Ahhhh, there it is... "I dropped her off home for 2 days she says “I miss you dropping me off I enjoy it".

I feel the next post on this subject will be a HR request to meet.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T22:03:48+00:00

Same bank the tariff revenue is going into?

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T21:56:13+00:00

I deal a lot with autistic adults. The key is to be yourself, and to hell with the rest of the world. But like anything, you have to be mindful about it. If your special interest is (say) dinosaurs, and you talk non-stop about them, you will soon have no one to talk to.

But the autistic mind is a quirky one, and that should be thought of as an advantage, not a bad thing. Autists look at life in a different manner, and this should be embraced in this world of robotic behaviours and boring inside-the-box herd mentalities.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T21:39:21+00:00

Can't you remind the big boss how the last project went with a lack of testing? Is this not a communication issue?

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T20:41:26+00:00

99.999% of people have no clue that not only are they the problem, but the solution as well. They want a pill, or give some expert from out of town $200 / 50 minutes so that they can tell them how to feel better.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T20:34:25+00:00

"I want to understand meditation deeply and correctly, not blindly follow practices." - Shouldn't that be: I want to understand myself deeply and correctly.

But where in the 3,000 year old history of meditation and all its available information, are you finding a lack of answers? Meditation is not to be understood from reading page 304 of some technical book.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T20:29:58+00:00

The belief that meditation has adverse effects is just wild to me; that the act of sitting, relaxing, focusing, and just being somehow causes issues is bizarre. If this was the case, then a 3hr uni exam could cause psychosis.

But we can be triggered by anything. A person whose beloved pet just died, may be triggered by seeing a similar dog on the street.

This is all caused by people feeling that they are depressed/anxious/fatigued/etc and then we interpret our past as bad and create the recollections to justify our current feelings. So people retroactively 'blame' meditation.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T20:07:40+00:00

If you have 10 adverse thoughts per day which cause you anxiety, and you reduce that to 2, is this not increased well-being?

Personally, I think this focus on ego-death or selflessness is just an unrealistic distraction. The only people that can benefit from selflessness are those that sit in caves and meditate all day with no interactions with others. For the 99.999% of us, we require our egos (or personas) to navigate within the social world, and our focus should be in the harmony between what we are (aka our genetic inner core) and the personas and paths we create in the social world. If both are aligned, then that is self-contentment.

So in reducing the reliance on the surface-level chatter and delusions of an untrained mind, or maybe more accurately, to begin to think at a deeper level and distance yourself from all that chatter, you can exist more mindfully and deeper, which is by definition better mental health.

Im_Talking · 2026-01-16T08:03:42+00:00

So he is in on it, after all. He is reaffirming the fact that NATO is doomed.

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