how my universe looks

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This thread is going to be my repository for all nuggets of wisdom I've found over the internet, basically it's 'fun and interesting' reading/viewing to me, which I've either taken in part or in whole to affect my perspective of how the universe is constructed - my world view. I'm putting it here because I suspect someone will find this stuff interesting, it's the 'best of the best' of the fruits of search results I've found by spending most of my life reading tons of BS on the internet.

Each post will be a new entry, this first one is dedicated to waiworld.com

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How memory works
this is a theory of how human memory works, currently this is what I believe as well
it also is a partial model of how other aspects of the universe work, in my mind.. namely, the stimulus-response or cause-effect deterministic nature of things

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pi and sqrt of 2 don't exist, the universe isn't smooth, and everything is a right angle

this average joe gets mugged, has brain damage, turns him into a savant that sortof sees the world at a lower framerate than the rest of us
it also shows how our brains have a lot of potential but are geared by evolution for tasks such as gathering and reproduction, rather than seeing complex geometry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHqRTtnU8Wg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvYKiNW4vQ

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breathing and it's relation to health and disease [buteyko]

many members here already know about this one
http://www.normalbreathing.com/

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you never touch anything [atom behavior]

how to put things in scientific perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZr1qmsQ0U

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peaceful attitude

I have many sources like this to put things in a peaceful perspective, most of them however rely on determinism such as "if everything is bound by fate, there is no point overly being angry or worrying", but this one will appeal to people who even believe in free will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

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trom documentary

I like the whole trom documentary because it's a noble early effort to explain things through logic, but it's full of errors and heavily opinionated, many of which I don't agree with or believe in, but there's enough good info in here to warrant it as better than total BS

trom and evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNZIE6bO ... plpp_video

trom and economics (resource based economy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJalhsNRuqI

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determinism in a nutshell

nobody really has made a good summary of why determinism makes sense and it's something you have to pick up through multiple sources of deterministic clues to truly believe in it, but this is a good primer, although highly opinionated and not a very gentle introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAXswgpVmM

sidenote:
argument against freewill, disregarding determinism

Colin McGinn's "New Mysterian" Version[11]
The argument is exceedingly familiar, and runs as follows. Either determinism is true or it is not. If it is true, then all our chosen actions are uniquely necessitated by prior states of the world, just like every other event. But then it cannot be the case that we could have acted otherwise, since this would require a possibility determinism rules out. Once the initial conditions are set and the laws fixed, causality excludes genuine freedom.
On the other hand, if indeterminism is true, then, though things could have happened otherwise, it is not the case that we could have chosen otherwise, since a merely random event is no kind of free choice. That some events occur causelessly, or are not subject to law, or only to probabilistic law, is not sufficient for those events to be free choices.
Thus one horn of the dilemma represents choices as predetermined happenings in a predictable causal sequence, while the other construes them as inexplicable lurches to which the universe is randomly prone. Neither alternative supplies what the notion of free will requires, and no other alternative suggests itself. Therefore freedom is not possible in any kind of possible world. The concept contains the seeds of its own destruction.

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electromagnetic pollution

I particularly hate hidden dangers. Things such as your workdesk is right next to a window where a group of electrical transformers are right by you, potentially causing you misery and your helpless because you don't even know the potential dangers. So here is a book on EMF pollution. Mostly for awareness and not because I think everyone should go out and buy tinfoil hats.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?r2vua99scaku4z3

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the rat brain robot, automation, and a glimpse of the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPiF4-iu6g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOiPAQ2T78

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the importance of critical thinking

critical thinking in a nutshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLPL5p0fMg&list

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Why live?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6bc_Gsp7s&list

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Why live?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6bc_Gsp7s&list

The video is not viewable in my country (due to some music in it..), do you have some other than youtube version?

Edit: found a viewable version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4rwttfIEkg

A really good video. My dad is in some sort of midlife crisis and I'm trying hard to get him out of there.. I think this video would have been so helpful if it was in my language.

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a short snippet about the difference between information (individual facts) and understanding the generalized meanings, consequences, and interrelations of facts
http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/success/sl20.htm

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an absolute treasure trove about the origin of the universe and some other topics on his homepage. the guy is a savant who will be in the history books, more prominent than any other person in any history book will ever likely be. this is the only person on the internet i've ever found that has a truly deterministic world view yet it's also positive (although he doesn't call it that) and sees things similar to how I do - he has a much more advanced understanding in physics and how the brain processes vision and some other things, he's probably my favorite person in the whole world.

http://www.epluribusunum56.com/