Levi Türk

Humility is the state where you admit that you are not perfect: you have incomplete knowledge. Humility is a prime tool for learning and becoming a better person. Learning begins with the realization that you do not know everything. In order to learn you must be able to shut up and listen carefully. Blind you shalt not be! Pick the right people to show humility to! 1. People who know stuff, can explain stuff well and can listen = humility 2. People who pretend to know stuff, make you think like you can't possibly understand stuff and people who love to hear their own voices = discrete avoidance Conclusion: Humility is key. Choose who you show it to!

What are jokes? Jokes are a pleasant realization that something about a story is odd. When pictures of impossible or awkward scenes show up in your mind's eye, a smile or a laugh starts. People tell jokes to check if the people they are addressing are able to spot the odd thing about a situation or a story. If you can spot it, it means that you have a solid basic understanding of how that particular situation should work normally and you thereby demonstrate that you are intelligent and fit. Jokes are extremely important in human culture. We crave laughing and try to do everything to be funny. This urge comes from the need to demonstrate that we have a good feel for what is right and what is wrong. Another function of a joke is to state one's views: If you tell a racist joke, you are still just telling a joke, you are not 'actually' being racist, but by gaugeing the reaction of your audience, you can scan their attitudes towars racial exclusion. In every joke th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption I just read the first half of the article. Bang! If you still thought that people had moral standards and innate values, here is the wiki article to show that people are just relativizing machines who desperately try to increase their social status. Humans are experts in justifying why the shit they buy will make them happier even if with some minimal self-analysis, most could discover that the subconscious is just trying to improve their social standing. Ah, the social standing! By definition, it is what OTHERS think of you. Yet, it is one of the things we continuously try to improve. It is great to be nice to people, do favors to them. Both happy. But to incite envy in all the other talking monkeys by giving out money? So that you can get laid with a slightly higher probability with those who adhere to the same archaic system of value judgment? Yes. This is what we are. Our ticket to a pussy is a powerful and impractical ...

In science, most people are driven by competition. The reason they spend 12+ hours in their offices/labs is to improve their reputation within the community. They want to be the best at answering questions. They want to be the ones who the community unanimously acknowledges as the best. Healthy, caveman-derived social status improvement loop. I want to emphasize that these people do it for their ego ultimately and not for the adancement of sciences. When an expert chose the field that he became an expert in, he/she chose one that seemed morally/ethically superior. But once in the field, the ego takes over and an anxious race to the intellectual peak is begun. Full of challenges, fueled by the adrenalin boost of competitive engagement, the race to the top is on. ___but ever so silenty, the branch of human knowledge that the researcher is advancing, gets richer. The field itself is feeding on the human brainpower. As a meme occupying the minds of many able scientists, not caring ...

It is about being present. Losing all expectations and the meta. Just the pairs of eyes and the bodies. Giving a soothing caress and letting my body tell hers that she is safe and loved. Explore her skin and appreciate its texture. Maybe play with it and smile about it. Be with her, here and now, flow with her reactions and sense her desires. Honesty and care. Not talking to her unless she needs to hear that my voice is hers too. Falling in love with the touch and smell of her. Feel her desires. Let her be herself. Let her be the lone human who needs to be loved and be the one who will complete her. And love her. Let the body tell her what is loved about her. All the things. One by one, the hair, the shoulder, the soft, round belly, the smell, the smile, the goosebumps. Tell her everything, just no words, the body is the channel. Feel how her acceptance calms me and makes me feel safe. Be grateful for her trust and reward her with more honesty. Remain curious and inspired by her body b...

OKCupid. Yeah, so I wanted to expose the conundrum between trying to win the potential woman of your life and just taking it easy while also playing the 'I ignore you' value game. On the one hand we have the unstoppable enthousiasm over a new person whose profile we just checked out and thought: wow, now She is really different and so cool and still not too psycho, and I can already feel I love her! I should really send her some super cool message, like, witty yet funny, not too pushy but half-kinky, original but not too aggressive, wow so many things to consider... let's start with some lines about how I love two of the bands I know of her music list. Done. Not, wait, I should include that somehow in my next sentence where i'll talk how I've also been to Latin America and round off the sentence with some slick argentinian cursing. Wait, maybe not the rude one, otherwise she'll get frightened. Allright, this one is better. But it's so lacking juice, damn,...

new ideas to the subject: 1. Consciousness in the brain is found in the "ARAS", or Ascending Reticular Activating System. It is a set of brain areas in the ancient part of our brain (forebrain and midbrain) that regulate the sleep/wake cycle. Consciousness is the control of attention. You are attention. All else is just your brain doing its thing, sending thoughts and stimuli to your attention . It is you, who choses what to listen to and what to pay attention to. Everything else a zombie could do. Here are some pieces to the puzzle of consciousness: 4 necessary conditions for consciousness: Store info Process info Independence (choice) Integrated (unified) 5+1 properties: (from integrated information theory) it exists subjective, present, intrinsic has a structure (Integrated?) Specific Unified Axiom of exclusion ( definite ). It has borders, it is limited. my opinion about consciousness one year ago...