I’m excited about the possibilities, which exist only in the future, and I have no interest in dwelling on the past. There are no possibilities left there, it is all done. But I do not expect others to do the same; this is just me confessing about what motivates me.

When someone denies the fundamental laws of logic (for example, the law of non-contradiction) their words cannot be taken to mean anything; from contradiction everything follows, including its negation. In short, they make noises but are precluded from meaningful communication, even if making sounds or writing symbols that would have meaning when expressed by anyone who respects the laws of sense.

CREDIT is the art of lending money without money. This is the biggest fraud in the history of the world and the proof that Marx was also a fraud (he never mentioned the biggest expropriation of property executed under the guise of credit, essentially covering up for the banks while demonising private farmers and small business owners). This is how credit issuers and facilitators can afford 40 million dollar houses.

BREAKING NEWS: The Commonwealth of Australia is set to scrap all legislation and return to practicing the Lore of Stone Age tribes, because “first in time is first in right”. Parliamentary democracy is officially cancelled. There will be a 30 day amnesty on “spearings” to allow the non-natives to adapt to the Lore. Critics of the move worry that earlier, more primitive versions of the Lore could be discovered which would automatically make them the law of the land, possibly causing total lorelessness.

Masks are harmful for several reasons, but CO2 accumulation is a false narrative. The mask does allow air through as well as CO2. It does not stop C02 from being exhaled, but only slightly increases the dead volume of the respiratory system. The effect is equivalent to shallow breathing which we all do most of the time, or when sitting in a crowded bar. The measurement of “toxic” levels of CO2 is just what your out-breath naturally contains in this air-space. Nevertheless, the increased pressure required to exhale through a mask makes breathing more difficult, tiring, and increases the demand for oxygen, but this is a seperate issue.

BREAKING NEWS: The newly released State of Climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identifies the widespread use of surgical face masks during Covid-19 pandemic as the new major cause of climate change. Face masks increase physical exertion of human bodies by 23% compared to unmasked population, resulting in 35% increase in CO2 whole body emissions. The average CO2 emissions rate across all of the whole-body experiments was 28.7 ± 2.1 g/h/person or 251 kg/year/person without a mask. The additional carbon emissions due to masks worn by the entire global population add up to 615 million tonnes per year, which is equivalent to 63% of global aviation emissions (pre pandemic level). IPCC blames Greta Thunberg for popularising face masks without actually having done any calculations of their carbon footprint. “Greta should first go to school and learn arithmetic before pontificating on climate action” furious António Guterres was overheard saying at the conclusion of an emergency UN climate meeting, apparently not aware that his microphone was still on. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722023348

Artificial intelligence will never become conscious without opposable thumbs;)

We can only be ourselves (Human) vis-a-vis other beings of the same kind, which hinges on commonality and reciprocity of language/meaning. Since we can satisfy this condition only with other beings who are engaging in meaningful, reciprocal communication with us, and of generating common meaning with us, we are limited to rational beings only. The Kantian concept of humanity (as rational beings) allows for extension of this category if we would develop reciprocal communication and common meaning with any entity other than Homo sapiens, but for now this practical reciprocity is limited to Anthropos. It also seems that common embodiment (maintained by species interbreeding) is necessary to have such reciprocity, which would automatically exclude all non-embodied ‘minds’.

Looks like Murdoch is positioning his golden boy Tucker to run for president. We will see.

TRANSLATION: Rupert Murdoch pays $962 million to buy credibility for his presidential candidate.

All humans share the same ancient ancestors: the original owners of the earth, the first people, who were roaming the earth 200 million years ago. All living humans are their descendants, lost or dispersed but still our brothers and sisters; we are all the original owners of the Earth. But there is something more important than common ancestry that unites all of humanity: our capacity to reason, to understand one another and generate common meaning.

The things the majority accepts today as uncontroversial and right will shock us tomorrow. The rational way to deal with the problem of moral ignorance is to face the irrationality of the day and reveal its contradictions. Irrationality has an infinite supply of guises, and suppressing just those guises that were historically discredited will do nothing to defeat those that are yet to be unmasked, let alone those we unwittingly harbour within us. We cannot delegate this task to people in power, as this would be a renunciation of our own moral responsibility to discern right from wrong.

The rational is never labelled. If any opposition to the state doctrine is consistently labelled/identified by the mainstream, it is the irrational. The rational is evaded at all cost, and when this fails, the rational is gently set aside as ‘controversial’ and the conversation promptly redirected to the irrational.

I have argued that it is impossible to create consciousness by creating a brain outside of the process of biological evolution and embodied socialisation. Reflexive consciousness is not an individual property but a distributed property of a species/kind, and only in this social ‘cloud’ the sense of individuality exists, as a constitutive element of the reflexive consciousness of a species. The concepts that describe the physical world (including the concept of the human body) are believed to be encoded in the physical structure of each individual body, but those may be also relevantly encoded in the species as a whole, therefore never wholly determined by the constitution of the individual. This would reflect the social/distributed structure of meaning itself, which is the reality we are in. It is possible that only via continuous communication of some extra sensory kind, possibly biophotonic, this final harmonisation of consciousness and self-individuation ‘in the Same world’ is accomplished. While this hypothesis is empirically unproven it still serves as a metaphor for the purely logical requirements of self-conscousness, which is impossible apart from a community of beings of the same ontological kind, to provide each individual with a mirror in which to identify itself, as discussed in the section on consciousness here: philpapers.org/rec/KOWODO