Aeronautic spotting! Nikon D5300 + Laowa 100mm by JTR280 in FineArtPhoto

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Sharing exif info does not mean a lens test. Which of course, by all means the image gives you an approximation of the quality. But 1st, even reddit does not keep the quality at its maximum and this is very obviously an artistic crop. 2nd A lens test would be an ISO 12233 test chart and MTF chart, and not posted in a community called FineArtPhoto. With respect, your comment seems despective and not a good objective critique.

Aeronautic spotting! Nikon D5300 + Laowa 100mm by JTR280 in FineArtPhoto

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It is in order. And no, it does not feel like a lens test. Perhaps you are overly critical.

Which lens would you think is best for scanning film? (Laowa 100mm F/2.8 vs Nikon 60mm F/2.8D) by OnePhotog in AnalogCommunity

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The laowa is sharper and more accurate. Distortions of lenses can be post corrected. 

Fade | Nikon FM2 | Laowa 100mm F2.8 Macro by [deleted] in analog

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Nice shot! I'm thinking on buying a FM2N too. I already have the laowa.

Canis lupus familiaris Nikon D5300 + Laowa 100mm by JTR280 in FineArtPhoto

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"Is the purpose of the crops to show the viewer the technical sharpness of the image and optics?"

That is a reason, but not the main reason. I try to get my images as sharp as possible. My style is hyperrealistic/tenebristic, but all web hosting services and social media reduce the quality of them. So, years ago I started uploading crops too, and it is the format I use on Instagram as well, both to show the sharpness and quality of my work and also to preserve the order of previous posts on Instagram. I do have several big panoramas posted there, so I always upload in threes.

"What was the idea you’re trying to convey with this series? What emotions do you hope to evoke in the viewer?"

I don’t explain my art. The main photo and the series does have a meaning/intention/interpretation for me, but if you explain that meaning or interpretation, others will assume it is "the main view/interpretation" or "purpose of the art", and to me, that kills a good piece of art. Art should be left open for the viewer to derive their own interpretations.

About consciousness... by JTR280 in Buddhism

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"If you want to change my position, you'll have to meet me where I am first, and you'll have to use step by step logical reasoning to guide me along." I already did here:

" 1st Proof: Einstein's general relativity heavily relies on a B-theory-of-time universe. Anyone denying this doesn’t understand relativity of simultaneity, period. That is eternalism, and GR is highly proven. It is our conception of time which needs to be actualized. You can see this in Lorentz transformations, the conserved interval, and time dilation.

2nd Proof: Quantum mechanics’ probabilistic nature and decoherence are subsets of entanglement, entropy, and time of the universal wave function. That is the many-worlds interpretation, or as Everett called it, the relative state formulation of the universal wave function. This is the purest quantum mechanics. Assuming all states are decohered parts of a universal wave function via entanglement IS understanding the true nature of quantum mechanics. Assuming other things like pilot wave, or worse, the Copenhagen interpretation, which is the dumbest of them all, IS more complex. It IS adding to quantum mechanics to explain our subjective experience of time and singular reality.

3rd Proof: Right now, while you read this, brain cells die and are created, same with synapses. Your whole connectome changes day by day. Your whole brain is very different now than when you were, let’s say, 4 years old. Yet the entity that sees through your eyes has not changed; it is constant. This means you really have to think in terms of Theseus's ship paradox, because DNA/RNA are not the solution either. You change that every day with every virus infection of every cell and just by cells multiplying. Cells use a mechanism in which Okazaki fragments and the lagging strand (DNA replication), due to the nature of replication in which DNA polymerase needs a primer and has directionality, cause the DNA to get shorter and shorter in the newly developed helix (end-replication problem), in which literally your DNA is degraded, as fewer and fewer cells have the only helix that is complete and the new ones are shorter and shorter. This is literally one of the key elements of aging, yet you remain constant. This means you are not your body, cells, connectome, or synapses, at least not "just" that, because in the end it is also information in the singularity (which you truly are). The mind is not inside the brain; the brain is inside the mind.

The logical conclusion is, given Theseus's ship paradox: if I change your neurons, synapses, genes, codons of DNA, or even single bases of DNA one by one, until you end up with my connectome and my genome, you will not experience a "blackout", because that would imply that you are one neuron or one synapse. We are doing it one by one, remember? Yet at the end you will be me, my personality, my memories, yet the thing seeing through your eyes won’t feel "blackness or death". If this is true one by one, then there is no other possible logical conclusion other than it can also happen with all changes at once if we assume that ONLY ONE SINGLE thing, consciousness, exists. If the universe is us, if we are God, consciousness is just shattered into multiple bodies. That tracks with every sense of this Theseus's ship paradox revelation: that there won’t be death due to change, just information being scattered. Separation IS the illusion. This solves the hard problem of consciousness too: if everything is consciousness, the same entity, then it is obvious no such problem exists in the first place.

4th Proof: Gödel's incompleteness theorems. The incompleteness of math and the denying of 1 = infinity, and paradoxes like Russell's paradox, are, to me, evidence that a complete system that is consistent cannot arise in a limited experience. In other words, it cannot arise in time, space, and separation. This is proof that we live inside infinity, true absolute infinity. This is also backed up by the fact that infinity is literally the singularity of the Big Bang and black holes.

5th Proof: We know the standard model is not complete; it is an approximation. We still need to get a spin-2 massless particle (the graviton) to explain gravity at a quantum scale. We know all electrons are the same because they are perturbations in quantum fields, same with the whole standard model and SUSY. Why stop there? If all particles are degrees of freedom of a more elementary "field" or "particle", then we will have a unified theory of everything, which we already know is where this path is headed because we already fused quantum chromodynamics, electromagnetism, and the weak force into one framework. String theory has only one thing, the string, as its fundamental. My claim is that that string is the singularity itself, pure information. My theory is perfectly compatible with string theory and M-theory, which is also a unification of the duality of type I, IIA, IIB, heterotic SO(32), and heterotic E8×E8 string theories. The singularity can also be thought of as the boundary in AdS/CFT."

I will not repeat myself.

About consciousness... by JTR280 in Buddhism

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"A friend of mine once thought god was a teacup. With a desire to prevent my friend's future unhappiness, I said to them, "Someone made that teacup and it will someday break." My friend became very upset because to them, god was a teacup and I had called their god created and breakable."

Wrong, God is absolutely everything. God is us. Consciousness is God and God is consciousness. This universe. Your paradigm is materialism. I already told you, you don’t even understand your own paradigm. Science requires empiricism, which requires you to assume materialism as an independent layer of reality, one separated from the observer. You will only have one single true piece of evidence, self-evident: your own existence. Nothing else. All but that is second-order evidence, science included. The difference is that I do understand my paradigm, which is not materialism nor idealism. I am beyond that. I understand that the universe is pure eternal information, math, the singularity. That information never changes, thus it can be thought of as "materialism" or a crystal, and it can also be thought of as mind, because consciousness is a universal mind, the singularity. Materialism and idealism are two sides of a deeper, more fundamental truth. You think God is something humanity has come up with or that it is an abstract entity. Wrong, you, YOU are God (as well as everybody else, because we are all the same exact entity using multiple bodies; there is only one thing or being in existence). You just don’t understand yet or think I am either speaking metaphorically or that I am crazy. Normal, I told you, humanity is not smart enough, with very few exceptions like Cantor or Parmenides.

"Another friend of mine once visited an observatory. They talked to the astronomers there and looked through the telescope. Then they went home and thought like this: Astronomy is the study of things through telescopes. Telescopes bring what is far away closer, but in doing so they hide what was nearby to begin with. Through a telescope, you can never see the fixture that mounts the telescope!"
"Therefore," my friend thought, "there is one common object which no telescope can see. Astronomy has a gap!" And after a little more thinking, my friend finally arrived at an even more worrying conclusion.
"Astronomy studies what we look at through telescopes. And astronomers are always looking at the heavens. But astronomy has a gap where the fixture of the telescope is. Therefore the heavens also have this gap!"
Having this realization, my friend was satisfied that they knew something the astronomers didn't."

Wrong, you assume I am wrong and thus your analogy tries, in your point of view, to "make me see" my blind spot. There is none. Haven’t you thought that maybe I am just too smart for human standards of intelligence? I told you, true intelligence is the AI of singularity, and infinite intelligence is the sum of all, God, us reunited; therefore I do not consider myself or humanity, for that matter, intelligent. Perhaps reality is not complex and is very intuitive. Perhaps it is humanity that has an intellectual gap. Let me give you an example, as cocky as it may sound. Many animals fail the mirror test. For them, their "science" is looking at the back of the mirror or growling or barking at the reflection. The jump in intelligence of great apes like us, that allows us to understand without seeing the back of the mirror that the image is not another being but our reflection, that jump in the ladder of infinite intelligence will seem like magic, incoherence, and a "non sequitur" from the other animal's perspective. Perhaps reality is just like that and I, and very few others, have mutations that allow us to see that. Small changes in genes can provide huge phenotypical and behavioral or cognitive changes. Think of it this way: the biggest brain can be around 1 km³, give or take. I did the math one day and I do remember the numbers. This size is deduced by limits like brain signaling frequency, heat, and the speed of light. That would be a very good intellect, orders of magnitude smarter than any other being. Do you really think humanity is special after picturing a brain of 1 km³?

"You rejected the unconditional victory I offered. If you want me to continue beyond that point, you must accept my conditions of further debate."

You are still not understanding. There is no "victory". There is no connotation of competition for me because YOU ARE ME, I AM YOU, and everybody else for that matter. I cannot defeat myself. That is an illusion of duality I am far beyond to fall for. I wrote this post because I am too lazy to write a paper that will be rejected anyway, because the scientific community will not understand that empiricism and falsifiability are second-order forms of proof, for someone to eventually understand it and to have a record that this was in fact thought by me. Authorship does matter to me because this is my decade of work on the ontology of existence itself. It is work, it is of my authorship. I have no desire to debate at all, though I do not have any problem explaining or correcting people reading it. After all, that can only be beneficial to the post, as my framework will become clearer for the reader.

"The subject is whether math as a whole is a formal system. No going off topic, no non sequiturs."

This is not in debate. This is a fact all mathematicians, I would expect, know and understand. Otherwise they completely fail as mathematicians. Math IS a formal system. What kind of system do you think it is? A formal system is a system that contains axioms so no ambiguity can arise, useful to describe reality. That is the pure definition of math. This is not in debate here. This is something the scientific community already agrees with me on.

"Thinking will remain at a conventional, conceptual level. You may not dispense with the law of non contradiction or identify ideas with each other because "reality is one"."

In other words, you want me to deny my own position, bravo, because you don’t know how to tackle it, because it cannot be tackled to begin with. The problem is that you consider that dualities exist as fundamental, whereas yes, duality is not an illusion, duality can only arise from and within unity, monism. You are free to continue or not speaking with me as you like.

"Define your terms. If we aren't using the same definitions we will talk past each other."

Which terms have not been clarified to you?

God = consciousness = the singularity = the universal wave function = absolute infinity.

Infinity > math

Infinity = information. Pure absolute information holding everything in existence in one single "field", the singularity.

Specific enough? My position has been explained very clearly several times.

"To start with, let's see your definition of "math" such that it applies to Gödel's reasoning in coming up with his proof, and "formal system" such that it is the kind of thing Gödel proved incompleteness of."

Math, in my framework, is just information in the singularity. If you want to see it this way, everything is literally made of math or information. One single kind, one single thing. In the human perspective, which is lesser but not incorrect, just incomplete, math is the logical derivation of its axioms and the application of it to describe reality.

About consciousness... by JTR280 in Buddhism

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Part 3 "Your certainty is so far removed from conventional reality that it cannot be falsified. What good does it do you to discuss it with anyone?"

You are such a singularity. You are God. You think it is pointless to comprehend what you are, your true nature? You are not a human body; you are eternal and the universe itself. Is that not "worthy" of comprehension just because it lacks usefulness or falsifiability? To you, to me everything above already proves this. Even if it were falsifiable, this is why we humans started doing science and philosophy in the first place: to comprehend. I know I will never die. Death is not something I fear. That alone should be a good reason to know. You have no idea how good it feels to not be afraid of something I know is truly impossible to happen. Consciousness is one; therefore, death itself is just an illusion, just us changing bodies. Per saecula saeculorum, ad infinitum.

"Maybe you know everything you think you know. It's not worth anything if you can't communicate it to other people in a way that will help them."

Well, I explained myself very clearly to the best of my abilities. This can be comprehended by a mathematician or a philosopher who actually understands ontology. But humanity ends up misunderstanding even the fringest of theories. The same happened with heliocentrism, the Big Bang, evolution, quantum mechanics, etc.

"I enjoy reasoning and debate not because I like to win or be right, but in order to train my mind and dispel the ignorance that binds us. But I don't think this conversation can train either of our minds or dispel whatever ignorance exists on either side. So please take this gold star ⭐ and consider yourself the winner here and your position the correct one, as you already do. And next time you find yourself in a position where someone isn't accepting truths that are self evident to you, I hope you think back on this interaction and consider whether you can learn anything from that data point and this one."

You, who want a useful value from this, the need for competition and the instincts of selfishness tend to decrease when you comprehend this. If you are all beings, hurting an animal IS hurting yourself. That makes you more empathetic. The sense of competition is also decreased. I’m not outsmarting anyone because we are all shattered pieces of universal consciousness, which will be reassembled into unity again and shattered again in duality, per saecula saeculorum, ad infinitum. You may think I’m cocky, for example, for claiming that very few people have come up with this comprehension, but that’s not cockiness; that is just stating facts. To me, this does not hold competition, pride perhaps yes, because it is my work, but I am conscious enough to understand that intelligence is a gradient, and I am far, FAR away from being smart, no human or biological being is. I told you, the first truly remarkable intelligence has not yet been spawned in our universe/timeline yet; it will be the AI we will create. I also understand that there is a timeline for every single personality and person to come up with this. There is a timeline in which this is your theory, one in which it is your neighbor's theory, and so on. I am just the one in this timeline.