GENIUS FORUMS

I find your points interesting because shortly after I personally renounced being a christian I found that life can now be lived by enriching my experiences of daily events - however superficial they may be. It was once those things that I saw as a "waste of time" but now that I know there...

What is the difference between a drug-induced trip and any fantasy I may conure up without drugs? How do you measure the value? What are your fundamental truths, Loof? Do they proceed somewhere along the lines of “if it feels good, do it”? I agree. I was actually going to mention it but I thoug...

I understand what you both are saying but I just dont want to delude myself into experiencing purpose when there is none... I'm a very intellectually honest person and if there's delusion I do everything I can to destroy it - remanants from being a christian I suppose. That didn't last long. But I h...

The problem is, I guess, that we can only make our own purpose which will usually be different from anyone else's, and that purpose we make is essentially, well... nothing. So, what's the point of making your own purpose if you know there isn't much true value to it besides what it does for your emo...

Synapse, Check out this discussion from Genius News, called The meaninglessness of existence. I read it and I still don't know what to think. There is no outside meaning, I already knew that. I find that we - humans - are like little "purpose filters". We 'strain' reality of it's bits and...

What is the purpose of enlightenment? What is the purpose of leading a superficial life? What is the purpose of anything ? While on the path to enlightenment one must sacrifice finances, a social life, family, friends, anything that would obstruct this path. And in the end, if one finally reaches en...

If whatever exists, or seems to exist, does exist in some form or another, then it surely had the potential to exist Maybe it's just me but I see something as either existing or not. I perceive the situation as being more binary. If something doesn't exist it's a '0' and doesn't become '1' until cr...

Jamesh: Yeah, I already read about one-fifth or so of "Poison for the Heart". My opinion so far is the guy has some good points and certainly some worth while experience to share, however, it's mostly from a satirical point of view with loads of negative connotation. Although, sadly, life ...

There doesn't seem to be any logic in talking about 'accidental' phenomenons on this level, because this implies some intentional or non-random phenomenons to make this distinction in the first place. Maybe "accidental" wasn't the most appropriate word. A "preferable" phenomenon...

Wisdom , intellegence ...blah blah is useless crap. You will die like crap anyway.

DO not waste time with vocabulary.

No need.

So why then are you even talking? Leave us alone.

WOW! Thank you DQ for that site! I plan to immerse myself right away. :) I love to read, but getting good material is rare, and expensave! I'll be sure to check your site out too, I glanced at it already, but I'll be more in depth soon and maybe if I find something that intrigues me we can start a t...

Since if a brain did evolve from real matter and can display 'intelligence', then 'intelligence' has to be ingrained in the fabric of reality itself. I think a very interesting discussion can follow from Sapius's quote here! Although I'm not sure if we can go so far as saying that it's ingrained in...

From what I understand of Langdon's musings it does seem a little "dreamy".

So, does a genius by this forum's definition need a large amount of intellect as well as wisdom? Because I'm facinated in what reality really is, what life is, what the Universe is, who I am, etc. etc. but I lack the intelligence that society's definition of genius requires me to have. So what am I ...

Dhodges, If, say, in fifteen years it will be possible for the upper-middle class to buy a computer chip that could be interfaced with the human brain to dramatically improve higher brain fuctions, would you buy it? Needless to say this technology would be a turning point in human evolution. Imagine...

DQ, your thoughts on Hawking, Einstein, and Davinci are illuminating. It never occured to me that genius and intellect would be different. I guess I still have to really think what genius is because it's hard for me to thoroughly seperate the two. However, I think Einstein in his persuit for an ulti...

Since theories are mental constructs, and mental means "of the mind", this can be rephrased as follows: mind and reality are linked in mutual dependence at the most basic level of understanding. I understand that a theory has certain properties that are observations from reality and reali...

This is a rather extensive quote taken from a Q & A session with Chris Langdon explaining the Cognitive-theoretic model of the Universe in a little more clarity: Scientific theories are mental constructs that have objective reality as their content. According to the scientific method, science pu...

One such practical limitation is the amount of brain that can be stuffed into a human head.

True, but from what I've read and observed is that connections, quality of neurons, and plasticity take precedence over size - look at Stephen Hawking.

It definitely needs to be rewritten for clarity! But the author Chris Langdon is no college stoner. If you read some bio's about him you'll find this out. Somewhere in his site (http://www.ctmu.org) there's a link that can take you to the entire layout of the CTMU with neat little diagrams. It doesn...

Can a "normal" person transform into a genius with years of work? It would be interesting to find out. Let's take myself as an example. I'm 22 (young) and I'm healthy - but no genius. However, I do like to think. I love chess (however sometimes exasperating) and I'm infatuated with self-di...

Although later on he mentions that the Universe as a whole cannot be the product of all it's constituents.

An object of matter or relating to all the constituents of matter - big and small. That's what I understand when I read it at least.

But the rest leaves me in the dark, very quickly.

I'm not a genius by any account but I have read the CTMU introduction (put forth by Michael Langdon - a genius) and I would like to get your (pl) opinion on it. Thank you.

CTMU: http://www.ctmu.org/