Re: Where do the laws of physics come from?

Reading from news:talk.origins,
Martin Andersen <dur@xxxxxxx> posted:

Yes, then you would, by definition, have discovered something that
felt eternal.

Of course, that has nothing to do with whether or not you've found
anything that actually *is* eternal, but you know that.

Self deception must be frustrating from time to time. No?

No. I've already had enough exercise in self-deception and becoming aware
of the faults of it that what you've said hasn't shaken my understanding
of anything. The experience of self-deception is only caused by believing
something that you feel society as a whole hasn't accepted, causing your
own acceptance of it to feel misplaced and somehow wrong. I'm speaking of
immortality, specifically, not some belief that gets you a schizophrenic
label.

I got here through being skeptical of my own senses, not just falling for
every little thought that came along. But there is a way to accept
perspective-changing beliefs without negatively affecting your mental
health. First you pretend it's true just to force your brain to pull
together all the necessary connections to make that pretend belief real.
Your brain will find a way to believe it if you're patient with it and
give it a few seconds of time as you hold the thought to come up with a
way for it to be true.

The brain /can/ dream while it's awake. The things I think about, I can
feel happening on some level, as if happening in some dream I don't have
immediate and full access to as I sit in my computer chair. So the sense
of eternity I have comes from that -- it's like pulling part of that sense
of timelessness we have in dreams into waking reality and using it here.
This is something that has developed more over the past few months than
all of my life before this combined. I can literally feel the difference
in awareness I have now, versus the awareness I had even a few days ago,
and most definitely a month ago.

This doesn't result in any eccentric public behaviors. I go wherever I
want without being stared at or mocked. Some people seem to think I
probably wear my underwear on the outside or something. I don't. In
fact, I don't even wear underwear. I personally think it's better, more
comfortable, even from an evolutionary perspective, to freeball. So I go
with the male version of being braless. I just wear loose pants. Anything
else would defeat the purpose of not wearing underwear.

Damaeus

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