Information is NOT Knowledge Part 2

The Economics of Information

As a general rule of thumb, the more plentiful a resource, the less valuable it will be. This isn't a "correlation doesn't equal causation" moment that arm chair YouTube philosophers think makes them witty. No. By FACT, the more information there is, the larger the portion of that information is going to be low quality, half true, or straight up incorrect. 

How do we know this? 

There are two reasons: 

1. The barrier to entry is non-existent in 2020. Anybody with an internet connection can make the most pleasant looking website and propaganda tool in seconds, for very cheap or even free. I work with clients that are engineers in both software and manufacturing, and I'm always told how many sites and scam companies they have to filter through to avoid money laundering, etc. People on the civilian level do not realize how crazy the internet actually is outside of Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube. 

2. Loaded Shaman's Social Axiom #1: People will demand a gimmick. What's a gimmick? "Shakes, wraps, and pills (and courses), oh my!".  People will do anything except use raw information and act on it. Because people love to avoid straightforward no bullshit answers to problems, and will instead concoct entire websites, forums, groups, and followings based entirely on ideas rooted in irrational philosophical assumptions, most importantly on the epistemological end.

The final part in this series will expand upon the above two points in uncomfortably-rational detail.

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

Consciousness is ABILITY

I have a few straight forward questions for you:

Who's deciding the nature of their thinking?

Who's deciding what to do or not to do?

Who's deciding?

The answer is YOU (SELF) ARE. Not only "are you", but YOU ARE, and YOU ARE - ABSOLUTELY.

Consciousness and existence are corollaries. To be conscious is to exist. To exist is to be conscious. There is no separation. There can't be.

The ABILITY of consciousness/existence to consciousness/exist is first and foremost.

YOU ARE conscious/exist because YOU ARE ABLE TO BE!

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

The Identical Twin Metaphysics of Theology and Scientific Determinism

The only difference is the terminology (wrapping paper) used.

Theology = Infinite Causal Absolute (God's creation).

Physics (Mathematics, Natural Law) = Infinite Causal Absolute (Big Bang).

That which is a logical extension of an absolute, is that absolute.

It can't be otherwise. If you can explain this without contradicting either the definitions of the words you're using, or the logic you're using, I'm all ears. I've yet to hear a rational argument that doesn't involve either of those two things. This is why I feel this stuff is so, so important.

The contradiction should be obvious, but it isn't because of hundreds of years of Platonic "reasoning" being accepted as "rational thinking". You cannot have an infinite absolute that creates or causes anything outside or beyond itself by definition. This is a perfect example of people using incorrect language to seal themselves off from already-challenging mental work. You are either free to choose or you are an extension of whatever caused you. There is no in between. It is absolute because you're an extension of what you're logically claiming to argue from. It works in funny ways because either you have to admit that you are god, by extension, or that you're nothing, by extension. The logic will always, always double back no matter how you try to dodge it, like water naturally seeking its level.

My argument is uncomfortably rational. My Philosophical Chain of command has no contradictions, and thus must in fact actually be a compass toward what's true, whatever that means and whatever it is. This is because it doesn't contradict. Whatever is left after contradiction is dealt with, no matter how "unlikely", must be more accurate than what was previously assumed. This is called building a true progressively rational paradigm of observable reality. There will be an entire article series on this. For now, I leave you with the following thought exercise:


Two Questions For You, The Reader

1. Who created God? 

2. What was before the Big Bang?

BONUS question: WHERE AND WHEN was time BEFORE the Big Bang?

Can you answer those questions rationally in the comments below, or are you mentally blindsided into accepting contradiction, mystery, and "paradox" as explanations for what we as human beings observe?

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

New Decade, New SELF; So Stop "Parsing" "It" (YourSELF)

You can say subconscious, higher self, lower self, chakras, mind, body, spirit, etc.

You're completely free to model your reality this way, using those labels. But realize in the process all you're doing is adding more moving parts in your own consciousness, rather than just letting it be one thing/what it actually is. What that is, IS is. I know that sounds and reads funny but that's the accurate description. It's all of those things when you focus on them individually, but it can never reach its true potential by being approached from a raw, reductionist frame of reference, because that misappropriates, and thus dilutes, the actual efficacy of IS as a rational metaphysical primary. This then causes a whole host of cascading fallacies that carry over and infect all the other points in the Philosophical Chain of Command.

That's kind of the thing. Your entire "reality" is this frame of reference. You're existentially anchored. You're anchored as SELF amongst an infinite variety of finite manifestations of other existentially anchored SELF. That's not a grammatical error. Singular. Not "SELVES". There is no group metaphysic. All of "your" memories, thoughts, fears, and emotional reactions are only ever from the constant unmovable frame of reference that is YOU. YOU ARE YOU, and that's all you can BE(ing). Everything you know is relative to this. You absolutely exist (and you exist absolutely), or you wouldn't be able to formulate an (insanely inane) argument that you don't exist (the ultimate epistemological fallacy).

What "it" is, is IS. The IS-ness of "reality" stems from YOU - the SELF. You IS because you're ABLE to IS. Consciousness/Existence is ABLE to consciousness/existence. Again not a grammatical error. Only after Consciousness/Existence is ABLE, does it IS (notice I didn't say "becomes", "evolves" or "is created into"). I know this sounds like the absolute bat-shit crazy self-referential ramblings of some sort of Ozzy Osbourne tautology (What the fuck is this fucking fuck fucking with?!), but I assure you great care has been taken to make sure people don't think deeply on this shit.

The only "thing" which can be "actually" quantified as "real" is YOU. Everything else is a concept of your consciousness, not the other way around. Everything else is a concept from within your conscious awareness, because that's the function of consciousness; self-awareness as the constant, unmoving, existential anchoring of everything you know and think you know. That's it. To add additional and unnecessary layers of abstraction on top of this existential anchoring - such as subconscious, higher self, lower self, etc. - is to completely destroy your true connection TO yourSELF as it actually exists an experiences "reality".

"Reality" is entirely dependent on you first and foremost. Many love to argue "death is just like before you were born; you didn't exist". This is mostly justified by the lack of memory of experience, etc. Sounds logical. The only thing is the premise is irrational. "You" have always existed because that's all there is. You. SELF. There are also an infinite number of finite copies of this SELF manifesting simultaneously.

"Ego" is just a much a part of this manifestation of consciousness as anything else. To attempt to parse ego away as some sort of lower priority on the totem pole is to fall for the same trap outlined at the start of this article.

All Your Quantification Are Belong to Arbitrary (Because You Say So)

First and foremost, how are you quantifying those concepts?

Notice who's required for those concepts to have any meaning, relevance, or usefulness in daily life in the first place?

YOU.

SELF.

Without SELF CONSCIOUSLY EXISTING (consciousness and existence are the same thing, they are the only true COROLLARY)...are you just creating labels for yourself as a mental bookmark, so you don't have to think a little deeper about how to "touch yourself up" a bit, so to speak? Most of the time when we think of "spirit", it can be inspirational but the word itself can get you hung up on unrealistic and detached concepts that are actually having a negative effect on your reality instead of a positive one. You can't see them as negative effects because you're operating from a contradiction somewhere in your Philosophical Chain of Command.

Everyone IS unique, but not in the way social programming will have you "thinking" (there is no actual thought involved).

There is an "other", but not in the way traditional theologists postulate (and attempt to argue morality from).

The universe is indeed infinite, but not at all in the ways physics proclaims.

Shit is way, way weirder - despite being completely rational.

Appealing to Contradiction is Not The Way Forward in 2020

That's the amazing part. Reality IS weird as hell. We've been programmed with a plethora of lies and distortions that create a sterilized interpretation of "reality", mostly for the convenience of whatever authority figure's plan at that "point in time" (don't get me started with "time is real and is a dimension" bullshit) is.

I drink my coffee black and I eat my oatmeal with no sugar, cinnamon, or sweetener whatsoever. There's never a good argument for just listening to someone, but I assure you I'm probably the last person to allow a bias on an integral level. I shall remain as conscious and vigiliant against my own biases heading into the new decade, and I hope you'll do the same as well. We're far from perfect, but we as humans leave a lot on the table in regards to thinking clearly and rationally. Let's change that heading into 2020.

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman