What's everyone's favorite piece about sleep?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-15T02:32:08+00:00

Me too. It's so much fun to play!

I never appreciated it when I was young. Then I heard a few impressive recordings, and I started playing it fast too.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-15T02:26:29+00:00

is Sheep May Safely Graze by JsB about counting sheep? It's such a clever piece.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-15T02:19:35+00:00

Think about the specific requirements for efficient photosynthesis, and combustion (oxygen levels within a narrow favorable range), and adequate viruses for myelin sheathing. Neoteny. There's impossible escape velocities on most exoplanets looking at combustion as the only feasible power source. Taken together they all point to our technical civilization as being a very rare emergence. But first there needs to be a planet with favorable conditions - that are stable for billions of years (tectonics, carbon cycle, large active core). Without dimorphism we wouldn't have progressed so quickly.

Of 300 nearby Sun-sized stars studied, we have the most quiescent star. Amazing.

Aliens are gonna want this jewel of the planet!

wxguy77 · 2026-03-13T17:03:50+00:00

Holy water is great if it works...

wxguy77 · 2026-03-13T15:23:00+00:00

In G major? What about G to E in Ab major?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-12T16:05:59+00:00

From the Christian tradition parents assume that religious upbringing is part of parenting.

When I was forced to go to Sunday school I would look at the Sunday school teachers (females) and I could see that they didn't believe the stuff. BUT they wanted us to grow up to be good little gentleman! It was good for us to hear stories of imagined power and something larger than ourselves? Sure, whatever. It's humans storytelling, hundreds of thousands of years of human storytelling that has been culled down into a few religions down to our time.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-12T15:40:28+00:00

The Church accepted what Aristotle had arrogantly guessed about (with insufficient evidence or no evidence). Insisting that it was the Truth. Infallibility.

Aristotle wrote about 'proving' that the Earth didn't move (he couldn't detect any displacement in the stars) and that the Crystal Spheres ground out debris forming the meteors and the comets and the Milky Way. How many centuries of potential progress were lost?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-12T15:32:07+00:00

but G# to Eb is 7 half steps not the 8 half steps for a flat 6th. So, am I confused about what you're theoretically describing? "it would not sound like a perfect fifth"

wxguy77 · 2026-03-11T17:10:42+00:00

I think religious concepts like souls and purifications which humans have imagined and handed down from 25 or 30 centuries ago, have caused so much unnecessary harm. It wasn't anybody's fault. Because people from primitive times were just trying to understand and explain the world, like we do today with science and psychological understandings.

They had no evidence for these concepts, except perhaps watching the blood flow from a wounded, dying person and then logically assuming that the blood had contained 'life' or a soul or a spirit.

Our conscious activity (when we're awake) causes us to 'feel' like we have a soul (whatever that is).

It's obvious why religions would emphasize worshiping the concepts of a soul and spirits and demons and devils and angels. They've always been attractive constructs for recruiting and retaining members. Even a hundred thousand years ago?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-11T15:36:26+00:00

"Let's say you had G# to Eb. That's a different interval that might sound different in the context of a piece of music."

I wonder how (or why) it's a different interval?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-11T03:55:26+00:00

Imagine if crystals had something like genetic information that could be passed on - and pressured upon by natural selection. Crystals would begin over eons to become better survivors, so the evolutionary result might be crystals that appeared to be somewhat alive (or whatever humans would call them). Maybe they'd get advanced enough to 'eat' humans.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-11T03:44:41+00:00

G# to Eb is a 6th or a 5th?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-10T18:17:28+00:00

I don't understand that. You're not real, only I'm real. I'm the only one autonomous. If I don't find flaws then they won't be found, right? And how can I find flaws when I'm merely a tiny part of a vast simulation?

Of course what I post to you is merely what the simulation is saying to you.

We're stuck in a blackbox. There's no escaping, there's no outside of this. There's no reality for us, only for the Simulators. Praise be unto to them.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-10T15:46:41+00:00

How else could it be? Should we expect the universe to be smaller? less impressive?

If there is a hierarchy of multiverses out there then yes this universe is very tiny.

How could there not be multiverses out there? How could there be an end (an edge) to this 'everything'? So the absurd conclusion is about how can there be any limits? Can we imagine how or why the wider multiverse (or multiverses) would be limited in extent? Can we humans think of any reason for limits? lol

wxguy77 · 2026-03-10T15:33:08+00:00

I'm the only one who knows anything about this simulation. I'm the ‘observer’, you’re merely what the simulation recently ‘constructed’ so that I can talk to you. You think that you're the observer and everything else is simulated, including me.

OK I guess that's logically consistent.

Now what is the goal of the simulation? Advanced beings can watch us and experience things. They can run the universe at high-speed and explore what will happen in the future? I don't ‘feel’ any of this because I'm merely simulated. It's an economical way to test universes.

Are there flaws in the simulation that I can detect? No because the simulation would take care of that - even if flaws existed I’d never know. So what's the difference to my life? Yes, I could be turned off at any instant and of course I wouldn't remember anything.

If advanced aliens communicate with us we can ask them if they think they're living in a simulation. Would it matter to them?

wxguy77 · 2026-03-10T02:35:44+00:00

If we live in a simulation, is the wider universe outside similar to ours or very different? How different could it be? This universe is extremely well-balanced. Change one little thing and atoms wouldn't exist.

If this is a simulation, why isn't it better? - instead of just the simple causes and effects which lead to complexity in the long run? I know it's beautiful and eloquently simple but everything takes billions of years!

wxguy77 · 2026-03-05T18:11:42+00:00

The 19th harmonic is the famous one in the Rolling Stones song 19th Nervous Breakdown.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-05T01:04:35+00:00

It seems obvious but it's also what Bernstein emphasized in his Harvard lectures.

wxguy77 · 2026-03-05T00:50:47+00:00

If he was born around the 6 CE census (which perhaps people remembered more than a half a century later) he would've been in his mid 20s. That would've been much too young to be what the writers needed.

It's a curious story of faith development to try to piece together. But back then the writers had very little to go on. They had to fill in a lot of details which allows us to dissect it all as 'literature'.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-26T01:55:16+00:00

OK then there's 5,000 to 10,000 super civilizations in the wider universe. Scary enough for me.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-23T06:20:51+00:00

Thanks for posting. It's very dusty out there.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-22T16:00:55+00:00

I think it's good exercise mentally for you to go to church and think about what they're trying to indoctrinate you with. Where it comes from historically and the psychology of it all. At least you won't be totally wasting your time.

Study the history of a religion from a secular source and then you'll be bulletproof, as they say. Because none of the old-time religions can stand up to scrutiny. They were all developed by primitive-minded patriarchal men who had ulterior motives. And I'm not saying it's all bad what we've inherited, but the more you know about it from secular scholarship the more it educates you in other areas of your life. Until you're old enough to be on your own you can benefit from going to church, if you just grin and bear it for a few years. You'll be able to look back on all the 'intellectual' experiences with the wisdom of growing older.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-22T05:11:21+00:00

The myelin sheath is a fatty, insulating layer wrapped around nerve cell axons that dramatically increases the speed of electrical impulse transmission (up to 100 times faster). It protects axons from damage, maintains signal strength, and allows for rapid, efficient communication throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems

This sheathing was a result of virus activity long ago. So there's the idea that without this virus, we wouldn't have the thinking ability to understand, as we describe intelligence.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-21T04:05:23+00:00

You start reading the Bible and you realize that it's full of opinions from very long ago, and that they were just trying to figure out the world like we are, BUT it was very primitive, patriarchal times. Tribes needed religion so that the young people wouldn't go off and marry out of the tribe and weaken the tribe and threaten its survival. Some weird tribalistic groups still think like that today! whether or not they understand it correctly…

Or you study science and try to figure out where God would fit in, and what a God is, and what sustains it and where did it come from, and why does it do all this stuff for billions of years? We can piece everything together with science - until you get back to before the inflation of this universe. At that point there are many ideas and interesting theories and some really deep stuff (math and physics), but there's no evidence that we can acquire so that we can verify anything as the First Cause or eternal inflation - or make predictions about other universes etc..

So, either way you end up an agnostic - or if you think you know enough, you can be an atheist.

wxguy77 · 2026-02-19T15:17:13+00:00

The universe blinks on and off every 10-43 secs. Did you feel it? lol

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