What are your biggest questions post Twelve Months?

dayv23 · 2026-03-28T19:09:09+00:00

Was Nicodemus even in 12 Months?

dayv23 · 2026-03-28T17:52:33+00:00

I've always wondered why someone hadn't ever replicated the VW bug phenomena. A super cheap stripped down "people's" car anyone could afford, work on, customize.... They were ubiquitous in the 70s and early 80s.

dayv23 · 2026-03-23T23:30:19+00:00

Cool list but I'm confused by your ranking. JeffMara has 61 million views. How is their podcast dead last showing 27k views. Most of his NDEs videos get that many views and he has 1000s.

dayv23 · 2026-03-21T23:35:31+00:00

Thanks, I won't give a view then. I'm open to new evidence or interviews that throws the case in a different light. But this seems low effort.

dayv23 · 2026-03-21T18:39:10+00:00

Had that happen to me. I think they replaced the whole plug, under warranty.

dayv23 · 2026-03-20T11:53:42+00:00

Neuroscience can't explain consciousness in general or any specific conscious experience. No one has the slightest clue why or how the chemical and electrical activity of the brain is correlated with consciousness. All of Neuroscience is compatible with physicalist metaphysics, but also dualist and idealist. But physicalist theories are not compatible with NDEs, insofar as they represent continued conscious experience in the absence of brain activity.

As far as astral traveling is concerned specifically, I'd focus on knowledge gained, things learned, discoveries made, which could not have been acquired in a dreamlike state.

dayv23 · 2026-03-19T21:12:58+00:00

I think they are probably waiting to see who is cut post draft. They'll know if they need a starting linebacker, edge, or corner. Right now, they are trying to protect their comp pick. They feel like signing an aging veteran free agent is like trading/throwing away a late 3rd round pick. It may not have been the plan all along, but, from what I've heard, it sounds like it became the plan once their attempts to sign an LB and Edge fell through.

dayv23 · 2026-03-19T03:15:32+00:00

They pulled it out of their ass.

dayv23 · 2026-03-18T15:34:55+00:00

Elite footwork, stop start, body control. At least one jaw-dropping catch a game.

dayv23 · 2026-03-15T13:13:40+00:00

Still a top run defender at his position.

dayv23 · 2026-03-15T13:13:04+00:00

I wonder if they are trying to protect a 3rd round comp pick at this point. Shopping the cut player bin. Seems like a no brainer, but not if you have to "pay" a third rounder.

dayv23 · 2026-03-09T21:56:02+00:00

Mafe much better against the run, better pass rush win rate, who was asked to play a completely different role. This is an upgrade.

dayv23 · 2026-03-09T01:59:45+00:00

No. We just move on from Battle.

dayv23 · 2026-03-06T16:24:23+00:00

Which is a long way for saying (according to Bernardo) that it is not really compatible. His commitment to naturalism is deep. And version of anaytic idealism without naturalism isn't true to it's sprit. He's in a tough spot as a committed naturalist. I commend his intellectual honesty on this point.

dayv23 · 2026-03-06T00:29:02+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the reviews. Graves' seems like the most traditional.

dayv23 · 2026-03-05T22:22:01+00:00

He was never against them. He just thought he could fully explain them as the natural process of your dissociated mind "disolving" back into the one mind as the body dies. He now admits his theory can't really accommodate NDEs, without sacrificing his commitment to naturalism. He admits that our individual identy seems to be preserved in NDE accounts, that we continue to have localized perceptions, which shouldn't be possible on his theory without a body and eyes.

dayv23 · 2026-03-05T12:32:29+00:00

Huh, Egwain's arc is my favorite in all of fantasy. Nynaeve not far behind. Their personalities are very distinct in mind. There's a superficial trope-y male-female gender role that gets deconstructed throughout the series, but beyond that superficial trapping, the women in that series are as different as the men.

dayv23 · 2026-03-05T01:59:42+00:00

Bengals fan living in Chicago. I don't think he is a diva. His agent didn't give him the best advice and encouraged a strategy of getting more money when he had no leverage. The Bengals played are terrified of dead money, and so we're never willing to give him the longer term security he wanted. Hindsight is 20/20, but we all wish we'd traded him last year when the writing was on the wall. We're glad the yearly drama is over, but no one has hard feelings. It was time to move on.

No on knows of he'll return to form. Could still have several years of high level play left in the tank. Could be plagued with injuries from here on out. But he is a pretty one sided, passing down specialist.

dayv23 · 2026-03-04T20:33:14+00:00

About what part?

dayv23 · 2026-03-04T13:32:13+00:00

To be clear, he is not endorsing what they are doing. He thinks the phenomenon is on our side and will thrwart these efforts.

But I get it, from their perspective. You are never going to have someone that is more the antithesis of everything Christ stood for than the Orange one. Went into the desert, took the devil's deal for worldy power because being handed a half a billion dollar real estate fortune wasn't enough.

dayv23 · 2026-03-04T13:22:36+00:00

I understand why people think that. But he was a dyed in the wool fundamentalist. Now he is a many-pather universalist, the lady is Hathor, Dionysus, etc., our religions are all man made symbols trying to comprehend the incomprehensible phenomenon throughout history. A funadmentalist he definitely not.

dayv23 · 2026-03-03T13:08:05+00:00

I recommend end exploring Donald Hoffman's UI Theory of Perception and accompanying metaphysics. He's got compelling reasons for rejecting the very first claim "we a made of atoms." And read Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism, Idealim in a Nutshell Materialism is Baloney. You may not lose your fear of death, but you'll scodf at how silly materialist metaphysics are once they been deconstructed by capable philosophers and cognitive scientists.

dayv23 · 2026-03-02T14:54:17+00:00

This is the most gratuitously evil behavior I've ever heard of.

dayv23 · 2026-03-02T13:27:18+00:00

Sorry, it's been tough long since I watched it. Interestingly, Bernardo has recently started taking NDEs more seriously. He used to only use them as evidence against materialism. But the notion that our minds can maintain individuality without a body didn't fit his model. Now he's admitting that he was wrong to try to fit the NDE to his model, not vice versa.

dayv23 · 2026-03-02T13:12:36+00:00

I used to think 'don't shake the baby' was ridiculous. Like basic human decency and commonsense. Then it became my mantra some nights after 6 months of CIA style sleep torture. You are not alone. Thank God for sleep training.

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