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Rebellious Thoughts #60 - 🤘 Two Thoughts That Are Seriously Messing With My Mind Right Now
By Gus Balbontin
Edition #60
Hey Rebels!
As always, I promise to provoke you in less than 5 min once a week so that you can stay adaptable and on top of your game.
YEW!
Let’s get into the good stuff:
A bit scientific today - stay with me and think - even if it hurts a bit!
Two concepts that mess with my mind that hopefully make you think over the week…
ADAPTIVE PREFERENCES
We have all seen others do it but rarely we see ourselves doing it.
It’s basically when we down-play not achieving something we really wanted to achieve and up-play something we achieved that we didn’t think was a big deal.
It’s a shortcut to sounding wise - it’s the mental gymnastics we go on to justify the incorrect predictions or advice our idols or worshipped give us that turns out wrong.
Leon Festinger suggested the idea in the 50s - he also originated the concept of cognitive dissonance which makes total sense and coincides with the above - when cognitive dissonance is strong we try really hard to achieve cognitive consonance with adaptive preferences - we just “make it make sense”! Ha!
(Like the colour purple …. I won’t tell you why just research it!)
SPACE IS THINKING OF ITSELF
So, I was having a conversation with Poe (I mean the AI) about the universe… uff… deep… kinda hard to follow… but let me see if I can share the progression of thinking to stimulate your mind.
We think of space as the container and not as the result…
Planets, trees, clouds, insects, we DON’T exist in space… we ARE space… space is the result of our particles interacting - wait what?!!
Imagine it as a giant ever-expanding piece of 3D fabric, a network of particles all connected and clustered all interacting and entangling with each other - some of those clusters of particles are you.
And they cluster and interact with each other and other particles around for a while until they go and cluster to others.
This is what in physics scientists call “information” - not the “news” or “facts” - they call information the description of relationships particles have with each other.
Scientists discovered that information cannot be destroyed… It is kinda hard to get your head around why exactly but there are lots of reasons (mathematically and experientially and and and…).
The easiest way is to imagine a book burning, each particle that was assembled and interacting with each other and stable now is not destroyed but transformed into smoke and ashes and and and…
Then we discovered black holes and realised they are literally like particle organizers that reached maximum density. Then we discovered they disappear and Stephen Hawking was like - “What the fuck? This breaks the laws of physics! Information is destroyed!!!”
Not so fast, introducing Quantum Theory…..
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Mmmmmm
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Kinda makes no sense hahahaha
Nah, nah, ok, listen this is the best way to start understanding the basics of quantum:
You know how in quantum you hear things like a particle is in “superposition” (like in all states all at once) and when you measure it you define the state and it gets entangled with space’s other particles - famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment.
Simple way is to imagine a coin spinning on a table - the coin is neither heads nor tails - it’s both, right?
Imagine a machine ready to measure if it’s heads or tails - it’s also neither heads nor tails it’s just ready.
The machine stops the coin - it is heads, the machine reads heads - boom they are entangled (the machine can no longer be tails and the coin can’t be tails - and now all the other particles in space around it are entangled too - the table, the air, you!
Our particles are entangled with all particles that we have ever interacted with - we are space - and because we have clustered and this peculiar interaction between our particles has resulted in a brain and a bunch of sensors that observe the space around us we managed to become:
Space that thinks of itself…
C - R - A - Z - Y !!!!!!
Deep breath 😮💨
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK:
Fire up Poe or ChatGPT or else and have a chat about a topic you don’t understand well, go back and forth - improve and consolidate your knowledge.
Pro tip: if the topic gets too complex, ask the AI to “explain it so that a kid can understand it”, it works wonders!
Challenge two: come to my FREE Rebellious Thinking Session on Tuesday 19th of November at 8 am AEST. YES, THAT’S NEXT WEEK!
Let’s talk about your careers, your future, how you prioritise and spend your time - how is it that even with an understanding of the turkey analogy from last week’s newsletter… we still pay little attention to our careers?
Are you using your adaptive preferencing skills and cognitive consonance to solve the dissonance?
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Love
Gus
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