Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 12
This is an eye-opening discussion about the cutting edge of brain-machine interfaces. Developments in this field are advancing rapidly and will yield revolutionary things.
The fundamental problem at the heart of all philosophy and science is that you are trying to use thought to grasp Being, which is utterly impossible from the default state of human consciousness. You must have enough intelligence to immediately recognize this problem before you even being to do any philosophy or science, and you must understand that no amount of philosophy nor science can ever overcome this fundamental epistemic limit. In other words, before you begin doing any philosophy or science you must begin by saying to yourself, “Okay, I’m about to engage in thinking, and it’s already patently obvious to me that thinking can never grasp all of Being. So I will do my thinking but I will always remember that this cannot ever be the final answer or way.” But this is the one thing no one in these professions understands nor takes seriously. They bumble into their work within philosophy and science like blitheful fools, assuming it will all just somehow magically work out if they work hard and long enough. No. No it won't. You can't sweep this elephant under the rug.
There is only one serious problem in philosophy: How to grasp Being? The amazing thing is that Being can be "grasped", but not through thought. This is why logicism and rationalism must fail. No amount of reasoning nor logic nor science nor proof can ever be enough to grasp Being. Being is too profound to be grasped by any quantity or quality of thinking because thought is always and merely a sub-set of Being. Asking the lesser to grasp the greater is as foolish as trying to simulate the whole Universe inside a computer. And yet, that’s the entire premise of science, exactly what scientists think they can accomplish — and it’s utterly idiotic. Science can never grasp Being simply because science is merely a sub-set of Being, not the whole of it. This should be understood by every scientist and philosopher, yet it is understood by none of them. From this one error all the other errors of science and philosophy stem.
In sum: scientists and philosophers literally lack the intelligence to see the limits of thinking. If they were truly intelligent they would sit down and shut the fuck up, but they don’t have enough intelligence to do that. And so, a thousand epistemic blunders and intellectual monstrosities are born — and God is never realized.
This correctly summarizes the error of the last 2000 years of Western philosophical and scientific effort.
It took me 20 years of work to articulate this so clearly.
Reality is simply too profound to be understood with thought. Which should be obvious if you have a lick of intelligence. All of my intellectual work is based on this one fundamental truth. Which is how I avoid the stupidity of 2000 years of Western intellectual tradition. See, all you have to do is take this limit seriously rather than acting like it's no big deal. By taking it seriously you have a proper orientation towards philosophy and science. And then you can really do serious work.
Understanding underdevelopment:
When CIA operatives were training Afghan special forces during the Afghanistan War, most of the best Afghan fighters were illiterate and could not count above 30. They had to be taught 1st grade math by the CIA. Once, the CIA took a group of Afghan special forces commandos out to look at the full moon and told them the moon was 240,000 miles away and we landed on it 50 years ago. An Afghan commando said, “That’s impossible. The moon is too small to land people on.”
All Afghan commandos had a habit of raping each other. This happened so often the CIA had to implement a policy of knocking on their barrack doors before entering to let them know to hurry and wrap up the raping because there was a new mission. No child on the streets of Afghanistan was safe because he would be snatched and raped by special forces. When a CIA operative asked an Afghan commando why he decided to join special forces and not the regular army, the commando replied, “Because I get raped less here.”
80% of Afghan special forces were high on opium. CIA operatives had to take away their opium pipes before each mission and give them back afterwards. These were the best trained forces in Afghanistan. These were the "good guys" fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Afghanistan is one of the most underdeveloped and corrupt parts of the world. Afghanistan doesn’t really exist. It’s too underdeveloped to exist as a nation. It is a mountainous field of dozens of tribes all trying to kill, rape, and enslave each other. This is how most of mankind lived until not too long ago. This is what humanity is like without education and development. And yet Americans wasted trillions trying to bring democracy, feminism, and gay rights there. This is why understanding developmental psychology matters.
Liberals and leftists fundamentally do not understand human nature. Which is why liberalism and leftism fails over and over and over again. What you have to understand, fundamentally, is that mankind is stupid and evil. Without this insight your whole worldview will be wrong. This is why I spend a lot of my time closely studying human stupidity and corruption. I read books about the raping of children, just to understand human nature accurately. This to me is real spirituality — understanding the force of survival. You have to understand the beast you're dealing with.
Source: Surprise, Vanish, Kill — Annie Jacobsen
In 1979 a Chinese newspaper published a report of an 11 year old boy named Tang Yu who had the remarkable ability to read text with his ears. It worked like this: if you wrote down a few Chinese characters on a tiny piece of paper, rolled it up into a ball, and placed it inside his ear, he could read the characters back to you. This psy ability was called Extraocular Image. The Chinese Communists recruited such children into their military intelligence programs. When the CIA found out about this by reading the newspaper they went ape-shit and doubled their efforts to develop their own psychic recruitment and training programs. The psychic wars between the US, China, and Russia were on.
Source: The CIA