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Bravado

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Anyone who expects to create, be it as scientist or artist, scholar or writer, needs self-confidence, even bravado. How else can one dare to imagine understanding what no one else has understood, discovering what no one else has discovered? Where does this confidence come from? Fortunately, every young person is blessed with some of it. It is part of human character. What of the girl or boy who reads about Newton and Maxwell and Bohr and Einstein and says, “I want to build on what they have built; I want to add to the sum of knowledge about the most basic laws of nature”?

– Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam, p. 84

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2022.08.03 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

原來是我

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原來是你, 3

這段改編自 2010 年 10 月 14 日的對話。

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你所追求的東西，可能一直在你身邊，只是你沒有留意。

這原理不只適用於，愛情方面。它也會現身於，才能和興趣等。

例如，我小時候，在中三之始，就開始修讀物理科。但是，我要在兩年後，中五前的暑假才發現，物理是我事業中的最愛；自始以其為人生目標。

— Me@2022-02-10 08:08:53 PM

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2022.02.11 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.5

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The ultimate self-fulfilling prophecies:

1. free will or not

2. god or no god

3. afterlife or not

4. future spouse exists or not

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Why self-fulfilling?

4. you have another half or not

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If you act as if your future wife exists, you have a much higher chance of finding her, because you have actually been providing the environment for her to exist.

If you act as if your future wife exists, compared with assuming not having one, you live completely differently. You will make yourself financially stable; you will earn and save money for your future wife and children. You will make yourself healthy so that you can live long enough to finally find her; and then stay with her for decades. You will make and meet genuine friends, for you know that one of them is either your future wife or the one who introduces her to you.

If you know that your future wife exists, you will not have any romantic relationship with anyone that is certainly not your future wife, no matter how beautiful she is. Actually, you will not start any romantic relationship with anyone at all, unless she is potentially your future wife.

You will keep writing letters, sending them to the future; to your future wife. Once your future wife realizes that those letters may be actually for her, she will find you to confirm.

— Me@2021-02-19 06:32:05 AM

— Me@2021-03-02 04:39:33 PM

— Me@2022-01-07 10:00:29 AM

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If you act as if your future wife exists, you know that the goal is not to find the “best” lady, but to find your future wife.

Your wife is the key to the lock of your life. Your goal is not to find the “best” key in the world, but to find the key of your life.

It is not to find the “best” key, but to find your key.

— Me@2021-12-03 12:03 PM

— Me@2021-12-05 03:22 AM

— Me@2022-01-07 12:30 PM

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Somewhere out there
beneath the pale moonlight
Someone’s thinking of me
and loving me tonight

— James Horner, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

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2022.01.07 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.4

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The Buddha attacked all attempts to conceive of a fixed self, while stating that holding the view “I have no self” is also mistaken. This is an example of the middle way charted by the Buddha.

— Wikipedia on Philosophy of self

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The ultimate self-fulfilling prophecies:

1. free will or not

2. god or no god

3. afterlife or not

4. future spouse exists or not

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Why self-fulfilling?

3. afterlife or not

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Whether “afterlife” exists or not depends on your definitions of “self” and “afterlife”.

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At one extreme, the definition of “afterlife exists” is that, after death, the same fixed self will continue to exist; “you” will exist in exactly the same way as before. In this definition, afterlife does not exist.

Note that even before death, during your normal lifetime, there is actually no “same fixed self”, “you” keeps changing every day and every second.

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At the opposite extreme, the definition of “afterlife exists” is that, some aspects of you continue to exist in some way. In this definition, afterlife exists.

For example, if some of your writings still exist after your death, they will preserve some of your mind.

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This question is like, when your old computer is dead and has got replaced, does it still exist?

The old computer hardware does not exist anymore. However, some of the software and the data do. But just some, not all.

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Continue to exist?

All of you?

NO

Some of you?

YES

— Me@2021-12-18 07:24:32 PM

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He attributes his lifelong habit of writing every day to an incident in 1932 when a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, touched him on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” It was from then that Bradbury wanted to live forever and decided his career as an author in order to do what he was told: live forever.

— Wikipedia on Ray Bradbury

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2021.12.19 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.3

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搜神記 2

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The ultimate self-fulfilling prophecies:

1. free will or not

2. god or no god

3. afterlife or not

4. future spouse exists or not

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Why self-fulfilling?

2. god or no god

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Whether “god” exists or not depends on your definition of the word “god”.

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In some definitions, god does not exist, because of the definitions’ self-contradictory nature. For example, god is good but he wants you to suffer for no reason.

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In some definitions, god is possible to exist. For example, a god is any being that has a higher level of consciousness than a human being.

We can say that a human being’s consciousness is higher than a dog’s, in the sense that a human can understand things that a dog cannot. For example, most dogs do not understand what a computer is.

Similarly, a dog’s consciousness is higher than an ant’s. An ant’s consciousness is higher than a tree’s. A tree’s consciousness is higher than a rock’s.

In the opposite direction, it is highly possible that in this universe, there are beings that have a higher level of consciousness than human beings. It is highly unlikely that human beings are the highest beings.

Even within the human being species itself, different people can have different levels of consciousness. Even within a single person’s lifetime, one can be at different levels at different ages.

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In some definitions, god can exist. You become that god.

In those cases, whether god exists or not depends on whether YOU are willing to become that god, taking up his responsibilities.

— Me@2021-07-26 05:49:53 PM

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2021.07.27 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.2.2

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So in theory, there is no free will, because the future is already fixed, by the physical laws.

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However, even if we knew the exact physical laws, it would be still logically impossible to get all the data of the present state of the whole universe, because it is logically impossible for any observer to observe itself, with 100% details, directly. For example, no camera can take a picture of itself directly.

So “in practice”, which is actually also “in principle”, there is free will, because logically, no one can predict, with 100% accuracy, your future actions.

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In one logical sense, the future is already fixed, so there is no free will. In another logical sense, the future is fixed, but no observer can know that “fixed future” with 100% accuracy, so there is free will.

As a result, whether you label your actions are due to “free-will” or “not-free-will” has no real consequence. In other words, whether there is free will or not has no meaningful difference.

The difference that makes no difference makes no difference.

So you can actually transcend the free will problem altogether. You can just ignore it and live your life.

Or, you can somehow capitalize on this freedom of labelling your (future) life as either fixed or free, depending which label is more beneficial for you in a particular situation.

For example, when you are highly under pressure, you know that everything is fixed by the physical laws, from god’s point of view. When you are highly above pressure, you know that you are partially responsible for creating your own reality, because the future is not fixed for any one observer, for there is no “god’s point of view”.

You have the flexibility to label it in one way or another.

— Me@2021-05-07 10:27:04 PM

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2021.05.09 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.2

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For example, when you ask “how to be a polite person”, you become a polite person.

In other words, when you realize that you should be a polite person, that polite person is realized at that moment.

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The ultimate self-fulfilling prophecies:

1. free will or not

2. god or no god

3. afterlife or not

4. future spouse exists or not

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Why self-fulfilling?

1. free will or not

If we knew the exact physical laws and all the data of the present state of the universe, we would be able to predict, with 100% accuracy, the state of the universe at any future moment.

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In theory, the exact physical laws exist, whether we know them or not. Also, in theory, all the details of the present state of the universe exist, whether we know them or not.

So in theory, there is no free will, because the future is already fixed, by the physical laws.

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However, even if we knew the exact physical laws, it would be still logically impossible to get all the data of the present state of the whole universe, because it is logically impossible for any observer to observe itself directly. For example, no camera can take a picture of itself directly.

So “in practice”, which is actually “in theory”, there is free will, because logically, no one can predict, with 100% accuracy, your future actions.

— Me@2021-04-16 04:45:47 PM

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2021.04.16 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

To realize is to realize, 1.1

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realize

1. (transitive) To become aware of

2. (formal, transitive) To make real

— Wiktionary

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Sometimes, just realization itself is already a realization.

Realization has two meanings.

Sometimes, when you realize something, you realize that something at that very moment.

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察覺

~ 實現

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For example, when you ask “how to be a polite person”, you become a polite person.

In other words, when you realize that you should be a polite person, that polite person is realized at that moment.

— Me@2021-02-19 06:32:05 AM

— Me@2021-03-02 04:39:33 PM

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2021.03.03 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

I AM

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無額外論 5
 
 
“God” is your self at the farthest future.

That’s why we are all becoming gods.

— Me@2018-01-12 7:08 PM
 
 
Cooper : Did it work?

TARS : I think it might have.

Cooper : How do you know?

TARS : Because, the bulk beings are closing the tesseract.

Cooper : Don’t you get it yet, TARS? They’re not *beings*… they’re us! What I’ve been doing for Murph, they’re doing for me, for all of us.

TARS : Cooper, people couldn’t build this.

Cooper : No. No, not yet. But one day. Not you and me, but a people, a civilization that’s evolved beyond the four dimensions we know.

[the tesseract closes around him in a brilliant flash of light]

Cooper : What happens now?

[he sees the Endurance on its flight through the wormhole, touches Brand’s hand through the space-time distortion]

— Interstellar (film)
 
 
 
2018.01.14 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

千年往事

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這段改編自 2010 年 4 月 10 日的對話。

（安：我們現在以為的知識，一千年後看回來，會發覺很多也是不正確，或者是不全面的。）

那亦都很正常。但是，原則性的東西，而又不牽涉具體細節，如果我們現在的理解正確，就沒有時間性。原則不會隨時間改變，永世正確。

例如我們上次討論，二千多年前所寫的《心經》，之中提及的「色即是空，空即是色」，其實就是想講出「本體」和「現象」的關係。試想想，「本體現象」這組概念和對應的理論，是哲學家康德於一百多年發揚光大的。而二千多年前的《心經》，竟然可以連接到，那就是所謂的「英雄所見略同」。

「色」，就即是「現象」；而「空」，就即是「本體」。

— Me@2013.12.03

2013.12.03 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

權力來源 1.1

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這段改編自 2010 年 4 月 24 日的對話。

假設一位將軍有十位士兵手下。但是，每一位手下的武功都優勝過他。那樣，那位將軍為什麼仍然會有「軍權」，控制到那十個士兵？

「權力」是一個「自我實現預言」（self-fulfilling prophecy）。大家一同覺得「有」，就立刻「有」；大家一同覺得「無」，就立刻「無」。建立權力和摧毀權力的難度在於，要「大家一同」。

那十個士兵中的任何一個，都以為另外的九位同事，會聽命於那位將軍。「如果我不服從將軍，他會命令另外九人拘捕我。任我的武功再好，也敵不過九個人。」而另外的九位同事，亦都會聽命於那位將軍的原因，正正是因為有同樣的想法。

這個人性社會結構，學名為「勢」，是「權力」的來源，可以十分堅固，因為人數越多，要摧毀這個「勢」就越困難，除非發生了一些特殊的情況。

— Me@2013.11.10

2013.11.10 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK