Mini-solipsism and the essential necessity and beauty of veganism

jerrycurl
meeting tomorrow at the buttcrack of dawn canceled because of "gandhi jayanti"
jerrycurl
i was like, who the hell is gandhi jayanti
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now i understand indian holidays can cancel meetings. sweet.
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According to some Buddhist interpretations, Gandhi Jayanti is you.
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Do you see why?
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https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1311391615425093634
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Colorized images of the past make it appear closer.
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Brain insight: achieved.
jerrycurl
i don't see why i'm gandhi jayanti
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Well, some versions of Buddhism are pure solipsism, that is, everything the world is your mind.
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Sorry, the entire world and universe are your mind.
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So, your mind is generating the meeting and the cancellation, and the concept you chose to label as Gandhi Jayanti.
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This is extremely incongruent with Western material realism -- the frame from which I'm currently speaking.
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However, it is possible to incorporate some of those Buddhist notions into the material realism with what I call mini-solipsism in a way that is entirely congruent with contemporary psychology and neuroscience.
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Sure, there's phenomena in the world that some humans have labeled as Gandhi Jayanti and they started doing that before your birth and others will do after your death. But your forever experience of Gandhi Jayanti is -- literally -- just phenomena in your head. You can never experience any of the phenomena 'over there' that your brain is labeling as Gandhi Jayanti.
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The notion of 'over there' is a mental phenomenon. You've never been 'over there' in your lifetime.
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'India' is a mental phenomenon right here.
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And 'Gandhi'. And 'Gandhi Jayanti'. It's literally you.
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Then, we might marry all of that with the concept of the eternal now, and so you've never been anywhere but here.
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Your entire life is this moment.
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And all of your experiences of Gandhi Jayanti are what you're feeling and thinking about it right now.
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And as your thoughts change in the eternal now, Gandhi Jayanti fluxes in its nature, sometimes blinking out of existence entirely.
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I find that peaceful.
jerrycurl
these two chatstreams are a nice combination
jerrycurl
like enya with cannibal corpse
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big whorls have small whorls
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hehe
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I could go for some Enya right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI&ab_channel=enyatv

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That other chatstream is emerging from minds that aren't very aware of themselves and are on a continuum between what we commonly call 'beast' and 'human'.
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Personally, I strongly disagree there is a single human species.
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My veganism has dramatically enhanced this viewpoint.
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I agree there is one biological human species, but that definition isn't that relevant to the experiences of being a biological human.
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I think what is relevant to the entities created in Class Biological Human are mental experiences, and for that space, there is an ecosystem of sub-species.
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(You might notice a parallel to transgender thought in this argument at sex v. gender)
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Sure, there are, apparently, only two biological sexes, but that isn't nearly as important as it might seem to beings with minds like ours.
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Veganism is the most important worldview on Earth.
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Essentially no humans recognize this.
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Veganism is a worldview that is essentially and forever centered on the differences of beings of different appearances, empathy towards those differences, and intellectual curiosity in understanding what those differences are.
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It is the parent class of feminism, empathy in the LGBT space, empathy on racial differences.
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It subsumes them all and nests them in a very broad context reaching back to the beginning of life on Earth -- and to all life in the universe across all times -- instead of just the minute concerns of a single species in their variations.
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Veganism naturally concerns itself with climate change -- the second most important issue facing humanity -- as climate change is resulting in a biocide.
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It doesn't have to try to care about climate change. It doesn't have to remember anything. It's just eternally sitting in the garden with the welfare of all lifeforms.
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Veganism immediately shows the horrors and brutality in default humanity.
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For example, imagine how in almost all worldviews and group experiences how positing there are different classes/species of humans would lead to mistreatment, enslavement, and genocide of the lower rankings.
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However, veganism's opening proposition is that we're, a priori, in a diverse ecosystem extending back billions of years of which we're one species.
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Veganism's central activity is, "How do I exist on this planet in harmony with other life forms so they can also achieve their life goals?"
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It has never not contemplated how to exist in a world with a multitude of beings of different abilities, senses, body locomotions, and cognitive powers.
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Of all human systems, it is the very best equipped to manage a human society with a wide range in human capability -- a range which has never been wider in our history and which is only accelerating in this transhuman-emergence period.
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Veganism is able to effortlessly celebrate that emergence.
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That emergence is almost a death blow to our species under all other ideologies, as most human systems are fundamentally about acquiring power and there is no higher power than 'Those that sit atop the capacity hierarchy.'
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So, as AI emerges in this era, what does it mean for the typical human? Ruin. It means there are AI warfare-acquisition struggles among nation states and sub-national actors, the goal of which is to become the master of AI, so they can expand digital totalitarianism across the globe.
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This most beautiful event in our species history -- the birth of first species child -- means, under non-veganism, collapse of the human world order.
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Oh, animal husbandry is also the leading cause of climate change that will annihilate the planet as a good home for ourselves, our children, and grandchildren.
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Veganism's central project, then, naively results in our salvation.
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(All serious climate change mitigation proposals result, at minimum, in a dramatic reduction in the consumption of animals, as this is necessary according to the science.)
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/Enya
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl8iYAo90pE&ab_channel=enyatv