J Sherlock Blog

Death 10/13/11:

Obviously these are just thoughts, and I cannot have true knowledge of death, but I do think that my proposal is likely true.

I am the universe; I cannot die. My personality (formed behavioral patterns) most likely cannot survive the death of my brain.

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Single cellular vs multicellular organisms-

Multicelled creatures are just a group of single-celled creatures who stay together and interact in a community called an organism. Community is one of the oldest ideas in the the history of life. They didn't decide, weighing t...

Who am I?

Ego - I should not identify myself with my history. I am not my failures or successes. I do not change, only my brain does.

Descartes' "I think therefore I am" shows that there is a being who exists and who is conscious of this experience called life. ...

I believe that humans have gone from a stage of ignorant fear, to unfounded security, and again to fear, but this time it is due to our confrontation of ignorance; the second two were coupled with an underlying sense of insignificance. Today we are moving past this, slowly into a sense of equivalence.

6/28/11 - Afterlife:

The body receives signals from the "physical world" and turns them into conscious experience, a very non-physical thing. Physical vs non-physical existence is a terrible way at categorizing reality. The only access to these non-physical things is through our minds, and the input ...

meaning of life:
6/14/11

Valuable things - good and bad things are experienced at varying levels

Meaning in individual life:

• Our own goals
• Biological (procreation)

Goal to life as a whole - unclear
Is real question: What is the reason for...

god

12/19/10 (footnotes from 5/21/11 placed in brackets[])

reasons god is real:

• consciousness behind miraculous/structured world seems likely [the miraculous is based on human emotion - the world is truly neutral & could life exist in a non-structured world?]
• change ...

Slacker:

This film is one of my favorites.  If you have time, definitely check it out:

http/www.hulu.com/watch/38316/slacker

The main reason I love this movie is that its subject matter fits so tightly with wha...

Today we are becoming more and more aware of the inevitable stabilization of the human species.  Overpopulation is gaining notice, and it seems certain that we cannot keep it up much longer.  Controlling population growth can either be done through lowering the b...