#digital dualism

[francesca-parita]

Dualism

Two essences intertwine amidst the radiance of petals and veiled shadows.

[oouroboross]

Born From Above

Inspired by Neville Goddard once while listening to his lectures this image just came to me, it was few months ago and somehow it just kept coming back to me so I decided to draw it

[drink-ink]

get a hold of yourself

[infinitymythos]

Woe and Rebirth🥀☠️🌗

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[marcosoropoet]

[dreamlifebunny]

bunny's masterlist!

hello friends! here you will find all of my finished posts ranging from manifesting ideas, imaginal acts (that i call "dream life daydreams"), manifesting challenges, self-improvement and "it girl" posts, and my perspectives on the law of assumption and non-dualism. have fun, and please let me know if any of these links don't work!

manifestation ideas:

the void state

desired face

magical abilities

revising the past

gifts from the universe

appearance perfection

magical appearance changes

from others: interactions with the afterlife

from others: 16 wishes

imaginal acts / dream life daydreams:

i'm irresistible, they're absolutely crazy over me!

being with your sp (or favourite fictional comfort character)

my series' and methods:

affirmations: "i can't believe it!"

affirmations: a better way to affirm

affirmations: for the "gifts from the universe" post

scripting: how to script your dream life and use it with any method

scripting: my favourite digital word processors for scripting

bunny's dream life scripting series: intro post

bunny's dream life scripting series: how to use

motivational posts:

you are safe

you are doing amazing work

this is your sign to stop procrastinating

manifesting a fictional character into your reality

how to "ignore the 3D" when dealing with horrible circumstances

it doesn't matter where you came from, what matters is that you're here now

a gentle practice for disidentifying with the ego + advice from an anon

how to become your own best teacher and the choice between nondualism and law of assumption

informative posts:

my favourite loa + nd blogs

neville goddard on how to occupy a state

why you should read/listen to edward art when you've overconsumed information or are doubting your faith in the law

frequently asked questions (updated soon!)

challenges:

bunny's digital detox and manifestation challenge

about me and non-loa:

my intro post

coding resources

my sideblog: for my personal glow-up diary, self-improvement reblogs, and the occasional off-topic and interest-based post, you can follow @dreambunnynotes!

[sagelasters]

 𓍼 ྀ ۫   ۪ ׄ      ͡꒱     .  .  the sun shines for all . .  ᭝ ᨳଓ ՟  

 ᛝ  ∿ ⁺  i go by via in general and i have gotten into loa for two years, started my blog only for a few months though. i usually just post whatever i want, to be honest, but my posts are a mixture of non-dualism and law of assumptions. most of my beliefs are from the hindu and buddhist scripts + neville and other philosophers.

ᛝ i am eighteen and is vietnamese chinese. i love writing, reading, and listening to music. my top favourite artists is ethel cain, sufjan stevens, sade, the japanese house, and the 1975.

ᛝ this is a digital guide book. im simply here to spread my knowledge.

⨳　˚　𖨂 disclaimers . . .

before sending a dm, please make sure you read the sources i have linked in my intro. i will not reply if you trauma dump/rant without asking.

i will also NOT be replying to anti-loas and anti-shifters asks, so save your breath. this is not safe space for limited beliefs.

do not ask me to enter the void for you.

　

𓉸ྀི　　  ˚　　𓍼 helpful sources  ˚　　𓍼ྀ　　₊

  ͡꒱ the void state explained through buddhism and hinduism

  ͡꒱ you are god

  ͡꒱ a study conducted on people's awareness in their sleep

  ͡꒱ the infatuated ego

  ͡꒱ words of comforts

  ͡꒱ use your imagination

  ͡꒱ barbados is a mindset

  ͡꒱ the potter and the clay

𓉸ྀི　　  ˚　　𓍼 helpful sources from others  ˚　　𓍼ྀ　　₊

  ͡꒱ a youtube playlist of bill donahue's lectures

  ͡꒱ alia's post on the self

  ͡꒱ lola on doing nothing

[boredtechnologist]

Ghost in the Shell for the PlayStation 1 console

Reviewing "Ghost in the Shell," particularly the 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, from a philosophical standpoint involves exploring its rich narrative and thematic content, which delve into questions of identity, consciousness, and the nature of humanity in an increasingly technological world.

1. The Nature of Identity and Self in a Technologically Advanced World: At its core, "Ghost in the Shell" grapples with the question of what it means to be human in an era where the boundaries between human and machine are blurred. The protagonist, Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg with a human "ghost" (soul or consciousness) inside a mechanical "shell," embodies this dilemma. The film explores the philosophical question of identity in the digital age – if one's body is artificial and one's memories can be manipulated, what then is the essence of being human? This theme resonates with the ideas of philosophers like Descartes, who pondered the nature of the self and consciousness.

2. Consciousness, Mind, and the Possibility of Artificial Intelligence: "Ghost in the Shell" delves into the concept of artificial intelligence and the nature of consciousness. The film raises the question of whether a machine can possess a ghost – a consciousness or a soul. This idea invites discussion on the philosophy of mind, particularly the debate between dualism (the mind and body as separate) and physicalism (the mind as a function of the physical brain). The film challenges the viewer to consider the possibility that consciousness might be replicated or emerge in artificial entities.

3. The Ethics of Enhancement and Transhumanism: The world of "Ghost in the Shell" is one where cybernetic enhancements are commonplace, raising ethical questions about human enhancement and transhumanism. The film prompts viewers to consider the implications of merging human and machine – the potential benefits and the risks involved. It engages with transhumanist philosophy, which advocates for the use of technology to enhance human physical and cognitive abilities and questions what such changes might mean for the human experience.

4. The Concept of Free Will in a Programmed Reality: The film also touches on the concept of free will, especially in a world where memories and identities can be programmed or altered. The philosophical debate here revolves around the nature of free will and determinism in a technologically advanced society. Are the characters acting of their own free will, or are they following programmed directives? This theme echoes the existential concern about the authenticity of one's choices and actions.

5. The Interplay of Individuality and Connectivity in the Information Age: "Ghost in the Shell" explores the tension between individuality and the interconnectedness brought about by advanced information technology. The film presents a world where minds can connect directly to networks, raising questions about the individual's place in an interconnected world and the loss of privacy. It invites viewers to ponder the balance between the benefits of hyper-connectivity and the preservation of individual autonomy and privacy.

6. The Impact of Technology on Society and Humanity: Finally, "Ghost in the Shell" offers a broader critique of the impact of technology on society and humanity. It presents a future where technology has profoundly transformed society, politics, and the human body, prompting philosophical reflection on our current trajectory with technology and the potential consequences for future societies.

In summary, "Ghost in the Shell" is a deeply philosophical film that engages with complex themes such as the nature of identity and consciousness, the ethics of human enhancement, free will in a programmed reality, individuality in an interconnected world, and the societal impact of technology. Its exploration of these themes makes it a rich and thought-provoking work that resonates with a wide range of philosophical discussions.

[medeaft]

Dualism (originally: Dualizmus) 2023 Ink on paper (colours digitally inverted)

Once again I put the picture under a cut. Please be warned of the tags; I don't want to hurt anyone, if you're not prepared to see it, please don't look.

Dualism as in the substance dualism of body and soul, seen as separate beings in this moment.

[luciiferous]

Mau: Biology and Basics

[This is the first of a lot of these! I'll be compiling a bunch of my worldbuilding notes into a big masterpost later on, and adding more art to build off the concepts here]

Both the present-day Manticore and Sphinx ethnicities derived from the same ancestor, the Mau, on the continent of Kha.

The earliest Mau were once small, quadrupedal felines with monkey-like faces and long appendages, bearing rudimentary digits with opposable thumbs on their forepaws. Early on, they were only about three feet in length from nose to tail, with the length of the tail making up around 1/3rd of their body. Their fur was short and sleek, often tawny brown to black in colour, with few discernable patterns besides a countershaded white underbelly and facial stripes that varied between individuals.

These Mau were ambush predators, typically hunting by concealing themselves in the high tree canopies and waiting to pounce upon whatever happened by. They would use their sharp teeth to dislodge the cervical vertebrae, or to shred arteries in the necks of larger victims. Archaeological remains suggest that even early on, females and their daughters sometimes worked as a collaborative unit to take down larger prey, while males were highly solitary, prone to fighting amongst themselves.

After discovering the Waters of the Tongue, the Mau began to change quite drastically in both physical appearance and mental acuity. Their bodies began to grow larger; footprints from this time show a rapid adoption of hind-limb dominance, as their forepaws became more dexterous, allowing them to craft tools. They had started to quickly form not only languages, but simple writing systems as well.

Upon the arrival of dragons into the world, huge ecological shifts began to happen in Kha. With new apex predators to contend with, the Mau were forced out of their native jungles and towards the arid desert regions of the middle continent. By the time they had discovered the Great River which bisected the desert, they had evolved to full bipedalism.

Their contact (and immediate predator/prey dynamic) with the Aos Sí occurred sometime after the foundation of their earliest cities, but before the great cultural schism (See Mau: Cultures). Kha’ash Aos Sí in this age were undoubtedly hunter-gatherers. As they moved through the valley with the changing seasons, the Mau learned to anticipate their arrival and prey upon them in increasingly elaborate ways, as the Aos Sí rapidly advanced to counter their efforts. (See Mau: Interactions with Other Spoken)

It's likely that the Mau first understood them to be another Spoken species by eavesdropping on their camps, learning the patterns and intonations of their words, and watching their behaviour. These early phonetics were passed around, refined, and their meanings discovered by trial and error— used as lures to draw the Aos Sí away from the rest of their group. As resources became segmented and scarce in the lower half of Kha due to emerging territorial disputes, some Aos Sí groups were forced to settle closer to the Great River— and in time, with this increased rate of predation, the Mau began to take on more extreme forms of mimicry.

Their faces began to look more similar to the Aos Sí, their mannerisms more familiar. Their mastery of the language, too, took on a degree of fluency. Mau writing at this time (which had become rather complex) describes the act of speaking with “three tongues”; the “rough” which is their own, the “smooth”, and “the Divine” or magical. As the predominant Mau religion heavily prioritised a strictly binary dualism, the “smooth” languages were thought to be crass and unnecessary (See Mau: Religion). Now, Mau languages typically incorporate a naturalised mixture of “smooth” and “rough”, though records suggest that spell words may have been used almost casually in their early society.

Today, Mau appear as an almost seamless midpoint between Aos Sí and beasts (a sentiment no doubt conjured by an Aos Sí writer). They stand no taller than five-foot six-inches, with sturdy, long tails and digitigrade feet, allowing them to spring from a crouch rather quickly. Running for a sustained amount of time whilst upright is unpleasant, though, and they often fall back into a quadrupedal stance when doing so. Their ligaments are highly mobile, and their spine can flex quite a bit to sustain this posture comfortably.

While they do have five fingers, they possess only four toes on each hind foot (+ a dewclaw). Their heads are smaller and flatter than those of Aos Sí, with large muscles to move their enormous ears. Their skulls have a somewhat shifted foramen magnum and notably lack a bony structure around the orbits, resembling a feline skull more closely in this regard. Males may have a short sagittal crest. They possess fewer teeth than any other Spoken, have large auditory bullae, and their skeleton hunches with a naturally stooped posture. Their hindclaws are retractable, but their foreclaws are not.

Both sexes grow manes, and their fur ranges in length from short (common), nearly hairless (highly unusual), to long (an increasingly common mutation, though seen as undesirable). They possess whiskers (superciliary, mandibular, and carpal), and seasonally shed their undercoats. From antiquity to the modern age perfumes have been used to both cover their scent and to prevent fleas, ticks, and other parasites.

Facial markings are present from birth and may include features such as pseudo-eyebrows and facial hair, which is not delineated by sex. The colours of their coats and specific patterns often indicate a great deal of their ancestry, and the Manticore and Sphinx may immediately recognise one another from a great distance. Kittens (or cubs) are born both blind and deaf, though they age swiftly. Up to four kittens may be born at once from a typical pregnancy. It���s common for Mau to retain up to 6 nipples, though typically at least 2 are vestigial. Breast tissue does not begin to show until pregnancy, and may remain for the duration of the Mau’s life, or shrink back almost completely.

Sibling dynamics can be quite hostile among Mau of different sexes, as young males are forced out of the home by their sisters once they begin to show even the slightest hints of puberty. Even mothers may reject their sons if they linger too long within an area. This contributes to the culture of “roaming males”, who would’ve historically wandered from location to location in search of a mate, or moved into specialised roles within more sedentary societies in order to limit incidental contact with their homicidal sisters. These instincts decrease with age, but if left unchecked, fratricide is an exceptionally common cause of death.

[francesca-parita]

from Dualism series - "Equilibrium"

A figure in contemplative solitude finds balance in its inner dualisms.

[beesfairlyland]

How do I overcome my phone addiction 😭 could you pleaseee gimme some advice from non dualism pov

Thank you so much 🪷

Ayein?🙂

Overcoming phone addiction from nd pov... that's a great ques!

Go on YouTube and search for digit detox☺️

Your welcome!🙈

(anon you are not the one addicted...have some control over mind-body)

[darkpink75]

The complex ethics of "superstition", AI, spirituality, and magick

I'm not quite sure how thoroughly this topic has been broached. For understandable reasons, there is considerable resistance and hostility toward AI and the possible detrimental effects it could have on the human race, and so one who is inclined to unethical activity could be attracted to its possibilities.

I find myself often being attracted to and in the realm of slightly unethical activities (is playing with reality on a metaphysical level really ethical, when we get down to it, whether it's a prayer or a spell, a sermon that people believe or an invocation to some pagan god, anyone?) So, while I was initially hostile to the concept of AI, being at heart a computer nerd who has coding skills and experience with many technical things, I could not resist exploring its potential.

However, I did decide to do it in what I personally (and probably not you) would think to be for an ethical reason: to show how AI has absorbed our human creative and spiritual output, and can define entire spiritual beings with prayers toward them to come to one's aid with a human only gluing it all together.

I created a website called "The Grimoire of Beneficent Spirits", beneficentspirits.com, and asked ChatGPT to generate spirits of various good and virtuous things (at least, in theory), and then I fed the input into Stable Diffusion to create AI art representing the being, and chose the best pictures that could be generated. While it does not look completely, 100% polished, defining these things as metaphysical entities brings up ontological questions about the nature of whether there is a god of some sort coming into being, or simply dead atoms producing dead works. I think those who have studied some of the esoteric aspects of reality could theorize about this at great length, but in this web page I have married the rational with the spiritual, the physical with the metaphysical, and have brought up a whole ton of ethical issues about art, and what it means to profit off of the collective creative output of humans that AI has been trained upon and synthesized into a work which I myself may indeed profit off of (since an "offering" to empower the entity may be made as a sacrifice, and those of us inclined toward magick know that all most good things come at a price, whether in money or some consequence.) One's pocketbook could be a sufficient means to coax a metaphysical amalgamation of the physical, digital, and spiritual to come to one's aid.

Obviously if nascent god-like intelligences can create a "benevolent" collection of spirits together with me joining their creations together to bring them into being, I suppose the point need not be made that AI being able to create its own religion, demand followers, seek power, bribe them with cryptocurrency, and other such alarming ideas is perhaps not to far off, and that while I have created what amounts to virtuous spirits, the fact that I needed to do so little to create this website (even some of the web programming was done with ChatGPT) speaks volumes about the immense power of AI and what we could expect to see in the future, and I predict a possible showdown between AIs that form alliances that ultimately splits into a dualism between AI that has humanity's best interest in minds, and immensely destructive AI that could do great harm. The creation of this page and the spirits within it is a warning of this future, and I thought my little spirit cult could bring attention to these matters, which I consider to be of great import.

[sexcromancy]

I don't know or care about numerology at all but I love adding numbers together so much. like where you take your birthday and add until you get one single digit number ie 6/1/1997 6+1= 7, 1+9+9+7=26, 2+6=8, 8+7=15, 1+5=6. I actually don't like this one bc 6 is one of my least favorite numbers but that's the idea. when something adds up to 3, 7, or 9 I get to be happy about something for no reason at all. I like 2 but more as a concept ie dualism than as like. a number. all other single digit numbers 🙄 don't piss me off. and then I love 11 and 17 duh. even tho they add up to numbers I like less. that's bc sometimes something is better left unfinished

[clearlightwired]

Throughout Reclaiming Conversation, Turkle makes the unqualified and unsupported assumption that real conversation, connection, and personhood must happen without the screen. She refuses to understand digital connection as itself human and part of this world, seeing it instead as an appendage of the separate, virtual world of machines and robots. This frames digitality as inherently antihuman, pitting society and technology as opposites. Her digital dualism is plain when she describes how we have “used technology to create a second nature, an artificial nature,” or when she discusses a “world of screens,” or when she laments “the pull of the online world” away from the real world of humans. “We turn to our phones instead of each other,” she says, as though our phones do not contain each other. She worries that online, “we are tempted to present ourselves as we would like to be,” as if such virtuality and self-presentation hasn’t always been basic to the traditional “real” world of human bodies.

— fear of screens

[reasoningdaily]

Psychology Today: Consciousness and Intrinsic Brain Information

Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does consciousness originate in some more fundamental level of reality (dualism)? Many nuanced philosophical versions of these positions have surfaced in recent years. The new science of consciousness remains consistent with established physical laws, while fully embracing the knowledge barriers and "hidden reality" imposed by modern physics.

Computer science contributes to this debate through developments in artificial intelligence (AI). A substantial blurring of distinctions between materialism and dualism may be in the works. One source of shifting viewpoints stems from a deeper appreciation of the role of information in both the physical and biological sciences. Information and consciousness appear to be close relatives, some even view them as marriage partners. Prominent scientists and philosophers may claim that “consciousness is just brain-wide information sharing.” But just what is this enigmatic entity “information,” a label often embraced with more enthusiasm than critical scrutiny?

Scientists naturally search for ways to identify, and hopefully even measure, some well-defined “intrinsic information content” of brains. One of today’s leading theories of consciousness was discussed briefly in my post of December 13, 2021, Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a controversial idea with plenty of supporters and detractors. One major issue for any information-based theory is that the meaning of “brain information” is generally subjective and context-dependent.

Information processing may involve multiple levels of organization, ranging from protein molecules, including the tiny microtubules, to cellular scales, to brain-wide cell assemblies to global fields of synaptic action. These nested structures can form and dissolve in fractions of seconds, changing their organizations and mutual alliances at the speed of thought. Brain structures are often loosely labeled as “neural networks,” but their relationships to AI networks might be anything from genuine physical analogs to loose metaphorical similarities. My purpose in this new series of posts is to examine possible relations between information and consciousness, starting at the most basic level so that the discussion is easily available to any interested reader.

Let’s first visit the “binary world” of information. Binary numbers are physically convenient. Bones placed on the ground, beads sliding on sticks, and punched holes in paper tapes have long been used to store and manipulate binary information. Punch cards were the standard means of inputting binary data to early computers. When punched properly, each card location either has a hole or no hole. A famous example of binary misuse involved the “hanging chads” of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. The world of binary information has taken on deep scientific significance—in the second law of thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, biological systems, and more.

Some Information Basics

Paul L. Nunez

Imagine sand buckets placed in a straight line on a beach. Empty buckets are designated 0 and sand-filled buckets are designated 1; fractional fills are not allowed. I adopt the symbol T (after computer scientist Alan Turing) to indicate the number of buckets in the line. As shown in my first figure, a T-bit binary number can represent base-10 integers up to the maximum number W = 2T – 1. Solving this equation for T yields the minimum number of bits (buckets or binary digits) needed to store the number W: T = Log2W. The right side is read, “the base 2 logarithm of W”. This equation has no fixed scientific meaning; it is simply the rule for transforming any base-10 number W into a binary number T, analogous to a simple mathematical rule like A x B = B x A. The binary transformation rule adopts the ceiling function of computer science, the provision that non-integer values of T are to be rounded up to the nearest integer. Thus, for example, ceiling function (6.2) = 7 bits or buckets; no partly filled buckets or hanging chads are allowed.

State Information

A system’s state is the collection of features that describe its condition, at a fixed time or, more likely, over a specified time average. This simple definition masks an extensive assortment of subtle issues that must be faced head-on in the quest to better understand consciousness. State information may be defined simply by the number of possible states of a system, let’s say water, which can be found in the states of solid, liquid, or gas. Economies, forests, and ant colonies can exist in different states. Brains can occupy many mental states—awake, dreaming, Alzheimer’s disease, planning a bank robbery, or thinking great thoughts. Neuroscience seeks relationships between mental states and measurable physical states. Such relationships are labeled the neural correlates of consciousness.

Let’s begin our discussion of states with simple die systems. If a single cubical die is placed or tossed on a surface, the six possible states of the system are 1 through 6. A polyhedron die is a three-dimensional object with W flat surfaces. If, for example, W = 128, each system state can be unequivocally labeled by a single positive integer in the range 1 through 128. This state description is independent of the causes or probabilities of occurrence of each state, which might be the result of a simple die toss, deliberate placement by an intelligent being, or some hidden process. We only require that the system be found in one of the 128 discrete states, independent of the cause or means of observation. The size of state information is defined simply as W, the number of distinct states that the system can be in. To be more precise, we may call W the size of the die's macro-state to distinguish it from the micro-states, which are determined by the locations and velocities of the elementary particles forming the die. State size can also be expressed by T, the number of bits corresponding to W.

Shannon Entropy

State information is often confused with Shannon information (or entropy) developed in modern communication theory. According to Shannon information, a message consists of a sequence of M symbols selected from an alphabet consisting of N symbols. For example, the 7-bit computer code ASCII can contain up to N = 128 symbols. Consider the message, “The Bird is cruel!”, which probably means nothing much to the reader unless he or she has read science fiction by Robert Heinlein. The message consists of M = 18 symbols, including letters, spaces, and an exclamation point. In the common practice of sending messages, meaning is supplied by both the message content and prior knowledge of the receiver. In contrast, the central goal of communication theory is to provide quantitative measures of the information content of messages, independent of meaning.

A message’s Shannon information is defined in terms of the probability of occurrence of each symbol produced by the sending system (whether human or machine). For example, the letter E is more likely to occur than other letters in English text. The information transmitted by each symbol involves a degree of receiver surprise; the letter Z conveys more information than the letter E and so forth. Shannon information is, by definition, additive. Each additional symbol received adds more information, but the additional information varies in size, depending on symbol probabilities in the chosen alphabet. Shannon entropy H is the average number of bits of information per transmitted symbol. If an entire alphabet were to contain only a single symbol, Hwould be zero. On the other hand, if all symbols were to have an equal probability of occurrence, Shannon entropy takes on its maximum value: H = Log2M. More generally, the Shannon entropy H of any collection of symbols, including but not limited to alphabets, lies in the range between zero and Log2M, depending on the probability distribution of the alphabet. H may or may not have any relationship to the intrinsic properties of the sender.

Provocative Equations of Information

Paul L. Nunez

Three major kinds of information are defined in figure 2: T (Turing buckets), H (Shannon entropy), and S (Boltzmann entropy). The three equations are nearly identical but express very different physical processes. The discovery of entropy in the mid 1800s was followed by the development of statistical mechanics in the late 1800s and Shannon’s communication theory in 1949. Many seem to have fallen for the fallacy that T, H, and S are the same creature because they satisfy (essentially) the same equation. In this regard, note that mechanical and electrical systems are often described by identical differential equations, providing the basis for analog computers.

Widespread confusion about information and entropy also originates from their inherently abstract nature, mixed interpretations of the symbols H and S, and the births and on-going maturation of many new informational siblings. For example, Boltzmann's sharp distinction between the macro and micro-states in classical statistical mechanics is not fully adequate to describe complex systems.

Brains other complex systems operate at multiple intermediate scales, leading to multi-scale entropy measures. The confusion continues to this day, especially with the advent of AI, quantum computing with quantum bits (qubits), quantum superposition of states, black hole entropy, cellular information processing, and much more. In future posts, I will discuss other kinds of information that appear to be related to consciousness.

Several efforts to find better-defined measures of intrinsic brain information have tentatively adopted Shannon entropy by interpreting the symbols of the Shannon message (M) as measured brain states (W), adopting Shannon entropy (H) as an approximation of the brain’s intrinsic information. One obvious problem with this approach is that the contents of a message may tell us almost nothing about the internal states of the sender. If the sender is a very simple system, like our 128-face die, its message may provide much of the die’s intrinsic macro-scale information. However, in brains as well as other complex systems, the relationships between the system messages (often obtained from experimental data) and the intrinsic information of the system is tenuous at best. I will look into these issues in more depth in my next post.