but to minimize risk
~ take the best kind of risk
~ aka FAITH.
— Me@2017-01-04 11:03:09 PM
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2022.10.07 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
but to minimize risk
~ take the best kind of risk
~ aka FAITH.
— Me@2017-01-04 11:03:09 PM
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2022.10.07 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
A man without hope is a man without fear.
— Daredevil: Born Again
— Frank Miller
— Me@2016-04-09 09:49:28 PM
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2022.04.19 Tuesday ACHK
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2022.02.14 Monday ACHK
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
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
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
隨行不隨心 5
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心動不如行動
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2020.12.02 Wednesday ACHK
Once you have DECIDED that you are not going to fear, you will not fear because you know that you are not going to fear.
— Me@2009.09.21
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2020.04.06 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Mental Illness, 1.2 | The least of all evils 8.2 | 眾害取其輕 8.2
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Life would be much simpler if you are willing to pay for what you want.
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2020.03.07 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
So long as a man can look into the eyes of his oppressor, he is free.
— Me and the Big Guy
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2019.05.18 Saturday ACHK
I tell you: one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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人必先心懷混亂,為的,是要創造一顆,舞動的新星。
— 尼采
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萬花出於污泥
— 林夕
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2019.02.27 Wednesday ACHK
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The point is not to eliminate a risk, which is always impossible, but to minimize it, which is always possible.
— Me@2018-12-10 02:41:14 PM
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2018.12.17 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
情緒病 2 | 不思考之道 6
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年紀漸長,我越來越覺得「(太)喜歡講道理」,或者「(太)喜歡聽道理」,是一種情緒病。
— Me@2012.02.14
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2018.11.01 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Some computer games can train you to work and perform well under pressure.
— Me@2016-01-30 09:49:11 AM
2016.02.17 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
using probability
~ ignoring the details
~ caring about only the results
— Me@2014-05-21 09:28:35 PM
2014.05.28 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
不思考之道 5
方法
~ 思考的相反
~ 機械程序
— Me@2014.04.09 19.41.31
有方法
~ 不用思考
~ 可以立刻行動
— Me@2014-05-09 11:28:08 PM
2014.05.10 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Think in English 5.3
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4. 你會發現,你用英語思考時,速度遠低過用母語。那其實是好事,因為那會令你的思考,變得冷靜和清晰。
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4.2 思考減慢的其中一個副作用是,我的失眠情況,舒緩了很多。
失眠的其中一個主要原因是,過度思考,腦子停不下來。
5. 你現在可以試一試,完全使用英文思考,會有怎樣的情況。
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— Me@2014.03.18
2014.03.18 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Think in English 5.2
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4. 你會發現,你用英語思考時,速度遠低過用母語。那其實是好事,因為那會令你的思考,變得冷靜和清晰。
平日你說話時,即使用母語,有時會不暢順,主要的原因是,你企圖在同一秒中,講超過一個字。兩個字相撞,自然會阻礙說話的流程。那反而會大大減低,你說話的速度。
同理,平日你思想時,有時會不暢順,主要的原因是,你的腦海在同一秒中,彈超過一個意念出來。眾在意念相撞,自然會令你困擾不安,思想混亂。
但是,如果你要自己用英文來思考,因為英文不是你的母語,你的思想會被迫慢下來,眾多字眼只會逐一浮現,再多意念也不會同時彈出。那樣,你的思想會形成一條思路。你的混亂思想會立刻化成,有條理的思考。
我在 2009 年時,因為企圖繼續升學,所以需要報考 IELTS。因為再上一次報考英文的公開試,已經是在再十年前的事,即是 1999 年,所以,要我再準備一次,一個英文的公開試,我覺得十分煩擾。再加上,在以往每一次的英文公開試中,我的口語部分,都是僅僅合格,所以我格外擔心,在 IELTS 的口語部分,成績會過低,導致我的升學大計告吹。
我驚恐到在考試之前一個月,不敢用中文思考。我迫自己用英文思考,做成全天候練習英文的效果。練習了三個星期後,我發覺我的英文對話流利了,而中文(廣果話)反而退化了一點。那就證明我的計劃成功。
結果,我在 IELTS 口語部分的成績,不再是「僅僅合格」,而是「差一點滿分」。
— Me@2014.03.14
2014.03.14 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Recursion 12.3 | Paradox 6 | Life as a recursion, 3
Paradox is due to the mixing of para-level (meta-level) and original level.
— Me@2012-09-29 02:22:14 PM
The mixing of levels creates a causal/reasoning loop, resulting an infinite long chain.
In short, infinite loop is due to mixing levels.
— Me@2012.10.15
If there is no progress or no terminating condition, a loop cannot stop.
With progress (change of some values of some variables), each iteration is different. In this sense, each iteration is at a different level.
Without progress, all iterations are at the same level, creating a mixing-level problem, aka “a paradox”.
— Me@2013-11-16 5:55 AM
Level 1: Life is a repetition. /* an infinite loop */
Level 2: Life is an iteration.
Level 3: Life is a recursion.
— Me@2011.12.24
— Me@2013.11.16
2013.11.16 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
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Best =/= Perfect
Best is always possible.
Perfect is always impossible.
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Pursuing perfection is a mental illness.
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– Me
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2009.09.16 Wednesday (c) ACHK
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