Highlights Log
Week 1 08 Sept, 2025
These are filaments, stands, white rabbits, hypotheses from the Garage. Here’s the upload from this week.
Kant vs. Utilitarianism
• Kant’s argument that humans are special because we are rational clashes with utilitarian logic, which may compute outcomes beyond human moral intuition.
• If Homo erectus or Denisovans were still around, the circle of moral concern would naturally expand showing how arbitrary our current human-only boundary is.
• Tied into Infinite Information Theory (IIT)*: intelligence shouldn’t be measured only against humans; animals and AI may ‘understand’ differently, possibly more effectively.
Ethics & Capitalism
• In the Ford Pinto debate, monetizing human life seems immoral, but judged only on data, the Pinto wasn’t especially unsafe, its stigma came from publicity. It was human outrage at the optics not the data.
• Capitalism itself disincentivizes dangerous products, since dead humans are bad for the bottom line. This builds in a safeguard from the onset.. no morals needed.
Plant-centric Insight
• Plants don’t see respiration as good or bad. Thanks to RuBisCO’s ‘mistakes,’ oxygen exists for us to breathe.
• Personified plant dieties and the Adonis’ Gardens (will get a standalone article here).
Spiritual/Philosophical Notes
• Hindu stories like Shiva Purana show that just hearing chants can confer blessings, while the Narayana Kavacham armor story protects even bystanders.
• These stories highlight how proximity to sacred power can be transformative.
• Focus shifts to the energy of the divine, not the idol itself.
Archaeology & Myth
• At Çatalhöyük, two female figurines were found: one with a hidden seed cavity, another shifting from
curvy to skeletal, possibly symbolizing cycles of fertility and mortality.
• Speculated on possible links between Çatalhöyük figurines and Harappan figurines, though separated by ~6,000 years.
notes from field
Cosmology/Physics/Leads to free will
“The future is faces except for random quantum events which we cannot influence” - Sabine Hossenfelder
With accurate data and a large enough computer science says that everything is a computation and that every decision we make is based on data already in the system.
Science also says that all matter was originally already part of the infinitely dense plasma ball that blooped out of the quantum vacuum before the Big Bang events happened.
it is just there is no ability to comprehend a computer with the actual size or speed to run the computation bc we know of nothing faster than light and light isn’t even fast enough to leave our galaxy. So at mere light speed Cosmic Web travel is out the question this means for the universe to connect and thus think it would have to have a means of thought we again can’t comprehend- scientist have suggested wild stuff like worm holes as means for the universe to think but that’s just fun.
Our brains our actually doing their best to run a super complex algorithm based on input data from our experience and genetic evolutionary imprint.
But science has to admit that the equations reach a singularity.. and they don’t know what happened before the Quantum Vaccum or anything before the Planck Time.
Caption/Philosophy Experiments
Free will reframed: ‘Your will is free because it is not predictable.’
• Explored the idea of adding ‘ness’ (rightness, wrongness) and left it open for readers to Advait Vedanta connections.
• ‘Better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied’ noted as a perfect T-shirt slogan.
Lifestyle & Health
• Discovered that bursts of physical activity (pushups, sprinting) combined with extra sleep improved mental clarity and lowered heart rate.
25 pushups and 5 jumps will erase the 2:00 blues (you’re already tired).
*IIT is Infinite Infomation Theory- a theory that information is the fabric of existence