Borealism

“That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”

“Consciousness is the agency that collapses the wave of a quantum object, which exists in potentia, making it an immanent particle in the world of manifestation.”

"Your consciousness is then running another version of the simulation, and so on, for every conscious observer in the universe. Insofar as all of our simulations are networked together, we observe what appears to be a single, inter-subjective world we all experience together: ‘the Universe.’"

"This all seems like the product of an ADHD culture that fetishizes the accumulation of exotic and thrilling experiences"

Simulated Professor; Director of Death; Producer of a Wilderness Spy Program; Political Speech Writer; CBC Grief Reporter

"Indeed…. maybe, only if we are lucky, will our little golden record stunt to tell aliens where we are, not end with us having small alien creatures bursting out of our chests."

When it comes to consciousness and time, we have to acknowledge that we can’t know everything.

"It’s a beautifully coherent system, which — when properly updated to modern language — also happens to be in line with the majority view among modern philosophers, as well as with the available empirical evidence from cognitive science."

MarsOne Astronaut; Ethical Hacker; Alaskan Dry-Cabin Resident; Israeli Military Officer; Former Ivory Poacher; Cognitive Neuroscientist; Health Reporter

"What Jung discovered in the writings of ancient and medieval alchemists was a goldmine of psychological projections … He was mining alchemical texts for the psychological gold hidden in their strange symbols and formulas."

"I believe human beings have an intrinsic desire to explore. It goes against our basic evolution to be sedentary, live indoors and be removed from nature" 

"Perhaps the Being simulating our world is only interested in it as long as we don’t know it’s simulated. So, as soon as we do… *plug pulled.*"

"Here’s what I’ve come to realize: we may be hard to find in space and time, but we are very much an integral part of a wonderful whole."

"The sky is a brilliant dark blue above me and crisp bright blue towards the horizon. People are commuting into work in their cars doing 60mph, oblivious the man in a suit overtaking them at over 200mph from 3 miles above"

"This is an extremely dangerous place to be because if you are truly in the moment you can have the mistaken belief that you are immortal."