The Geist
Throughout this website you will see me use the word geist alot. Geist is a German word
that can translate into three different words in English: ghost, spirit, and mind. I
always use it in place of spirit for its more flexible nature and the more abstract yet
almost mathical and mechanical ways it can be used.
Case against the mythical
I don't believe in religion, god, spirits,
baby fucking jesus, magic.. or any of that bullshit. In every way imaginable I am indeed an
atheist. Everything can be demythized. Before you go saying "I am not religous, I am spiritual"
and go running to your mommy girlfriend that someone on the internet hurt your feelings and
you need your unwashed cock sucked to feel better about yourself I have much more to say: Once
you truly begain to demythize something the things you discover are much more beautiful, artist,
and meaningful than any myth or superstitions can ever be.
Take evolution for example: there is much beauty, meaning, and a chaotic sort of inner peace
that can be found knowing the way every species comes and goes into and out of existance and
how new species come to be from a sort of process that can be slow and careful at times and
fast and rough at others. A complex process that requires thinking about really small and really
large numbers on a scale are brains are not designed to understand. Don't know about you but that
gives me a sort of sad joy to think about and makes me think very big deep thoughts. Much more
beatiful than something as bluntly dumb as god.
How the brain works
The brain looks like just a mooshy wet pink blob. I want you to really think about that
sentence. Imagine holding your own brain in your hands. What does it look like? what does it
feel like? smell? sounds it makes when you play with it? even imagine the taste if your willing
to go that far. Congrats, you just used something I call signal pathing. Your brain has
many abstract components that are associated with different functions. They dont serve
different functions and arent built for namable functions. Just assoicated with.
By pathing signals through different components each one designed for processing data in a
special type of way your brain can in the most effective way with its given resources process
many types of information thrown at it in many ways. For example the same lanauge can have a
spoken version, written version, sign lanuage version, braille.. the brain can signal path
information can whatever snese its using to read that lanauge and send it to many other parts
for processing. Things like the minds eye, internal monologue... are all just artifacts of
signal pathing.
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