How to Think Impossibly

02 Jun 2026 - 02 Jun 2026

I have trouble with all this nonsense. Orientation and tribalism. The MIT mind searches for material, non-fantastical explanations. This is searching for the opposite, the inexplicable. I'd like to think of myself as laboring to transcend this tired dualistic tribalism, but not sure I have the intellectual energy. It's not so hard to imagine a world where both types of thinking have some validity, but it is exhausting trying to keep these two very different value systems from hating each other.

Do not like the emphasis on special humans. Say what you will of MIT-mind, at least it is against that. People work the same way.

there is no fundamental distinction between subjective and objective states, between consciousness and cosmos (p8)

This is very compatible with MIT-materialism, although the viewpoint is different. This is what gives me hope that I can make sense of it all.

The social ego does not want to hear it. It actually cannot hear it, since this huan subject is precisely what is splitting reality into a mental and material dimension, neurologically creating the arrow of temporality, and suppressing or denying the deeper unity of everything and everyone. p9

Cites Donald Hoffman's The Case Against Reality (which I also happen to have from the library) as compatible with his view but coming from different direction. OK. Also Phillip Ball on quantum wook

This is a book about why the humanities must stop ceding reality to the sciences. (p16)