Thank you. Sorry I didn’t reply until now, the downvotes on this piece mean I can only post one comment a day. I guess “facts” only exist within a system, reached from its axioms. If everything is made of feelings then objective reality and facts about it actually emerge when there’s enough consensus of mass to make them so probable that they are extremely close to true at this scale. Empiricism gives us a good way to explore these sorts of things, but says nothing about the feelings that underpin reality.
Your comment actually makes me think about subsystems of “reality” that are detached from it, which I guess is what we all are, and the “feels over facts” masses are a form of locally isolated realities that have their own “truths” … I won’t lie, this makes me pretty uncomfortable, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
No but I’m gonna put this and some other writing on a GitHub-based Jeckyl blog I think. I’ve been bitten by web 2.0 a few times and lost my work. I’ve got quite a few unorthodox ideas that I’d like to build into articles, dunno how much overlap there is:
What a rotation is has been bugging me for too long. I mean, wtf is it? I’d like to go into more about that once I understand it. But might need another decade thinking about it.
Universal Metaethics needs expansion I think, and an argument for moral relativism and not judging others too harshly by your own values because everyone’s wrong, it’s just a matter of what’s best locally.
How value systems naturally align with survivorship over time. That feminism being female masculinism is a habit that kicks itself through low fertility. And a class warfare rant about the death of motherhood belongs there too.
How culture is a phenotype of the dominant ethnic group and causes systemic racism by default, what we can do about it, and the selection pressures of culture in general. We need to check our own values rather than our privilege.
The US cultural victory spreading nu skool Puritan Protestantism globally, how its virtue ethics and good/evil dichotomy has corrupted science, and a critique of cultural imperialism.
I’d also like to go into religious awe, what it is and how it can be used for good without supernatural thinking, that atheists will likely benefit from prayer. Needs more research though.
A hypothesis about the function of homosexuality in mammals, from a game theory perspective of mother vs baby and fertility damage.
How pornography’s corrupted by US advert prices, session length optimisation, circumcision, industry self-regulation, laws worldwide and activism, leading to a worst of all worlds. Why the hell isn’t it art, imitating life.
If you leave your Twitter/DM me @bitplane I’ll let you know when I write something decent. Though it’s unlikely to be for a while as this has been 2 years in the making 😂
I love your writing.
You managed an eloquent way to also say “Feelings don’t care about your facts”
I honestly did not expect to find this random link to be so readable (via your twitter)
Thank you. Sorry I didn’t reply until now, the downvotes on this piece mean I can only post one comment a day. I guess “facts” only exist within a system, reached from its axioms. If everything is made of feelings then objective reality and facts about it actually emerge when there’s enough consensus of mass to make them so probable that they are extremely close to true at this scale. Empiricism gives us a good way to explore these sorts of things, but says nothing about the feelings that underpin reality.
Your comment actually makes me think about subsystems of “reality” that are detached from it, which I guess is what we all are, and the “feels over facts” masses are a form of locally isolated realities that have their own “truths” … I won’t lie, this makes me pretty uncomfortable, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Do you have a substack? Writing (thinking) like this is hard to find.
Sorry you had to use a days worth of post to reply. I don’t mind delay, get back to me when you can.
No but I’m gonna put this and some other writing on a GitHub-based Jeckyl blog I think. I’ve been bitten by web 2.0 a few times and lost my work. I’ve got quite a few unorthodox ideas that I’d like to build into articles, dunno how much overlap there is:
What a rotation is has been bugging me for too long. I mean, wtf is it? I’d like to go into more about that once I understand it. But might need another decade thinking about it.
Universal Metaethics needs expansion I think, and an argument for moral relativism and not judging others too harshly by your own values because everyone’s wrong, it’s just a matter of what’s best locally.
How value systems naturally align with survivorship over time. That feminism being female masculinism is a habit that kicks itself through low fertility. And a class warfare rant about the death of motherhood belongs there too.
How culture is a phenotype of the dominant ethnic group and causes systemic racism by default, what we can do about it, and the selection pressures of culture in general. We need to check our own values rather than our privilege.
The US cultural victory spreading nu skool Puritan Protestantism globally, how its virtue ethics and good/evil dichotomy has corrupted science, and a critique of cultural imperialism.
I’d also like to go into religious awe, what it is and how it can be used for good without supernatural thinking, that atheists will likely benefit from prayer. Needs more research though.
A hypothesis about the function of homosexuality in mammals, from a game theory perspective of mother vs baby and fertility damage.
How pornography’s corrupted by US advert prices, session length optimisation, circumcision, industry self-regulation, laws worldwide and activism, leading to a worst of all worlds. Why the hell isn’t it art, imitating life.
If you leave your Twitter/DM me @bitplane I’ll let you know when I write something decent. Though it’s unlikely to be for a while as this has been 2 years in the making 😂