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So, are we/am I conscious, or is the world an illusionary set of hi-karate cosmic dominoes?

Something I haven’t thought about for a while, and the flame has been sparked again. I wish could say I have a definite answer for this one, but I don’t. It seems like it’s obvious.

“Of course you’re conscious. What a silly statement! If you wanted a beer right now, you could walk over to seven eleven and buy one, or watch TV, or do any number of things. All because YOU want to.”

That seems reasonable enough but… Where did consciousness come from? This ball of dirt gets almost all of it’s energy from the sun. All the flashing lights, wind blowing, cats meYOOOOWing, flower growing, from the suns energy.

Is the sun conscious? Were those little single celled dudes conscious? Were dinosaurs conscious? Are the other primates conscious? Are we conscious?

For the time being I’ll assume that I am, but you (I) can’t help but wonder if we’re just observing a master setup (to the 10000000000000th power) of dominoes unfold. It may seem like “I” crave a beer, but how could I crave beer unless someone introduced it to me (that’s one cosmic domino click), and what encouraged them to introduce it to me (watch the dominoes fall)?

Take a step into that ocean and watch nature’s domino mastery. The dominoes look at little clearer there. If I had a par of SexySpecs (glasses that let you see subtle energies and thought travel) I bet I could watch the dominoes fall all around me.

Well, that’s what’s been on my ming as of late. I’m SOOOOOO glad this month is (almost) over. I shall never enter the world of full-time work again. FULL-TIME WORK IS THE DEBIL!!! No time for eating right, no time for working out the way I want to, no time for studying the five arts, no time for nothing. Call me a slacker if you like, but I wasn’t built to work like that. 3-5 hours a day is more than enough, and I hope to drastically reduce that as time goes by.

I have a lot of projects coming up so there’ll be some new news soon. Working on old websites, buying some new domains and will be setting up my first eShopping Cart thing. I’ll post about that stuff when the time comes.

If anyone wanted to take the time to figure out “my” cosmic domino theory it could prove to be very useful.

“Sorry honey. The Cosmic Domino law FORCED me to sleep with that hooker.”

until the cosmic bones bring me back to the blog

miltownkid

Oh, something funny one of the afternoon kids wrote in their workbook:

Real life is stranger than fiction. So I’m almost done with that book and he’s talking about ten spacial dimensions and eleven spacetime dimensions. We’re somehow stuck in the 3rd dimension and they (you know, evil geniuses and stuff) are currently doing work to detect one of the other spacial dimensions.

On top of that there’s another theory about the big bang that says our universe and some other parallel universe colliding with each other every trillion years or so causes “the bang” and then the whole thing loops again in another trillion years or so.

It’s kind of strange thinking about all these different dimensions dancing wit each other somehow creating what we see. While my shower just now I was thinking a person in a four dimension should be able to think “faster” than a three dimensional person (assuming the dimensions work like that and would allow for a being to exist in a 4th or higher dimension). I mean, looking at a 2D world, things looking childishly simple. I assume a 4D person would feel the same way about a 3D world. So maybe Einsteinian (wow, that’s a word. Something new everyday.) equations and such would be like first grade material for a 4D dude.

I don’t think I’ll think about these things too much (yet). It looks like he’s going to address these issues in the next chapter.

Well, thought I’d ramble some before I slumbered. I didn’t need to go to sleep thinking about what sausage tastes like in the seventh spacetime dimension and what kind of porn they watch in the 4th dimension.

now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

m1L70\/\/KiD

Lecturer censored in Spanish University (UPV) for defending P2P networks

I saw this on slashdot.

This guy wants to spread the message, so I thought I’d do my small part by posting it here. Basically, he lost his job because he dicussed the legal uses of Peer-to-Peer networks (like Bitorrent, Kazaa, etc.)

Things must by really different in Spain (or maybe, worse, they’re not).

This is Van

He is The Man

He Draws Frogmobiles like no one can

You may or may not remember Vincent from the I didn’t teach him that post some months back. Vincent (as usual) has been drawing all kinds of stuff. I liked the frogmobiles and thought they should be shared.

For some reason I’ve given all the boys in my class nicknames. It all happened one day when I called Eric “Rico Suave”, then they’re all going “Me too! Me too!”. Vincent got Van the Man as in Vincent Van “The Man” Gogh.

I was reminded of these frogmobiles because another artistically inclined student in one of the classes I’m subbing for drew this (the Chinese there says I’m bald, of the shaved head variety):

Anyone who’s seen me would know that’s a pretty good representation. Those afternoon classes are going good. I like all the kids, it’s just been draining since I still want to do all the computing I normally do when I’m only working 3 hours a day (now it’s up to 9+ around 2 hours travel time ).

While looking for the Daoist (Taoist) section of PageOne (a bookstore like Barnes and Nobles) I saw this little beauty:

I’ve thought of a lot of comments I could make about it, but I’ll just leave that up to the reader. I will say that throwing Jesus’ name on that series of book seemed kind of strange (but maybe it’s just me).

I’ve been doing the Jujitsu with Andy for about two weeks now and really like it. I can feel my flexibility coming back.

One more week to go and I’m back to my usual schedule (so my posts will be more regular).

miltownkid in a jar with the lid
on top, breakdancing with that nigga called Sid.

(bandwidth stolen from http://www.ffinsider.net)

There’s no denying it now. If there was ever a doubt in my mind, it’s been washed away today.

While walking to Game Club today and reading the book my mom dropped off for me while she was here (The Fabric of the Cosmos) something hit me. “I’m going to study math!” Then I was excited about the idea of walking over to the NTU bookstore and finding a good calculus book and brushing up on my math. After the excitement died down I thought to myself “What kind of person studies calculus and physics for fun?”

A nerd, that’s what kind. Nothing wrongs with nerds. Nerds are actually cool to me. I always liked to think of myself as one, but I always seemed too into sports or something to be able walk around with my chest proudly sunk in and my pocket protector nerd badge strapped to my chest.

I don’t think it’s very strange wanting to study physics and quantum mechanics. (I actually bought a quantum mechanics text books once a long time ago thinking it’d be fun and cool to read… It wasn’t.) Seems like it’d be just like studying Chinese (which I also find fun), or mastering a cool juggle in Tekken, or doing Capoeira.

Well anyway, any questions of my nerd status have been thoroughly answered today.

My name is miltownkid. I, am a nerd.
(I’m sure my recent interest in Linux hasn’t helped either, if I hadn’t practiced Jujitsu today, I would have felt giga-nerd).

miltown-nerd