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[Belinda]

I'm afraid, Cathal, your reply is incoherent. Would you like to edit it?

You could identify more with your peripheral vision more than your central vision when it comes to free won’t in actively looking away rather than looking towards:
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This artist likes to create a mess (NY motion blurs)

Modern art might seem vague but could also appear like dark humour. I once went to a modern art museum in Qatar 2015 where there were multiple rolls of blank papyrus or wheat layered in different directions in dozens of portraits. Years in retrospect it’s possible it was a critique of rural people basking too long in scenery!

That's your interpretation! It is good that you did interpret it all all , as some people would attribute the papyrus designs to the artist exerting an elaborate leg pull.
Contrary to your interpretation, my interpretation may have been how a culture was founded on papyrus and wheat technology.

[Cathal]

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Moon reflection - Ballyalla Lake Ennis

Is our skull behind the stars as Lehar once inquired. The night sky can be brighter than the darkness behind our eyelids. So even if the stars aren’t immediately apparent the way parts of the night sky can have a very faint dark blue colour can resemble a blue-shift of starlight suddenly coming into your awareness. The furthest galaxies are redshifting away from us but the closest stars at night can symbolically get closer to remind us that we’re not God! Or perhaps I could take all the credit for genetically designing my own skeleton and cellular muscle tissue!

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Ghostly dark blue night sky:
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Scooby & Shaggy Go Trick-Or-Treating | Scoob! | Max Family

[Belinda]

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Moon reflection - Ballyalla Lake Ennis

Is our skull behind the stars as Lehar once inquired. The night sky can be brighter than the darkness behind our eyelids. So even if the stars aren’t immediately apparent the way parts of the night sky can have a very faint dark blue colour can resemble a blue-shift of starlight suddenly coming into your awareness. The furthest galaxies are redshifting away from us but the closest stars at night can symbolically get closer to remind us that we’re not God! Or perhaps I could take all the credit for genetically designing my own skeleton and cellular muscle tissue!

F3BF0A3F-5611-4F7C-AA6F-32F21E84B6B2.jpeg

Ghostly dark blue night sky:
https://m. youtube. com/watch?v=p97ohcv_X5A&pp=ygUbU2hhZ2d5IHRyaWNrIG9yIHRyZWF0IHNjb29i
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Scooby & Shaggy Go Trick-Or-Treating | Scoob! | Max Family

Many of us share the feeling of awe when we look at the night sky.

[Cathal]

Many of us share the feeling of awe when we look at the night sky.

Likewise one way to think of twilight is if the Sun were accelerating past us on the opposite side of the horizon then any vestigial light might appear blue-shifted.

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(Helicopter flying past my house after sunset)

One way to interpret extromission eye-beam theory is if the sensory neurons appear to be firing in the opposite direction towards the brain then taking super-determinism to the limit it’s possible to reverse the direction retrocausally were the brain time-symmetric. This might resemble a wheel that moves backwards on a forward tyre in a few sports cars. Another way to interpret extromission theory is in terms of efferent motor signals from the brain towards the eye’s ciliary muscle controlling the lens being an active process in maintaining muscle tone even when staring at the same object.

“This illusion is known as the ‘wagon wheel effect’ and it all comes down to the function of the human eye and the way in which our brain manages to interpret and process the images it is presented with.”
https://www. carthrottle .com/news/why-do-wheels-look-they-rotate-backwards-certain-speed?
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“To put it in simple terms, the wheels spin faster than our eyes can see. We see at a certain number of frames per second, and wheels spin too fast for us to see every single moment of the spin.
When they appear to be rotating backwards, they're spinning at such a rate that each frame or snapshot our eyes see happens to be when the wheel is at a slightly earlier position than the frame we saw before--even though the wheel has actually made a full, or multiple full, rotations.” Quora

[Belinda]

Many of us share the feeling of awe when we look at the night sky.

Likewise one way to think of twilight is if the Sun were accelerating past us on the opposite side of the horizon then any vestigial light might appear blue-shifted.
1F205C00-4267-4914-B3ED-CD32BE38C9DC.jpeg
(Helicopter flying past my house after sunset)

One way to interpret extromission eye-beam theory is if the sensory neurons appear to be firing in the opposite direction towards the brain then taking super-determinism to the limit it’s possible to reverse the direction retrocausally were the brain time-symmetric. This might resemble a wheel that moves backwards on a forward tyre in a few sports cars. Another way to interpret extromission theory is in terms of efferent motor signals from the brain towards the eye’s ciliary muscle controlling the lens being an active process in maintaining muscle tone even when staring at the same object.

“This illusion is known as the ‘wagon wheel effect’ and it all comes down to the function of the human eye and the way in which our brain manages to interpret and process the images it is presented with.”
https://www. carthrottle .com/news/why-do-wheels-look-they-rotate-backwards-certain-speed?
(remove two spaces in link above)

“To put it in simple terms, the wheels spin faster than our eyes can see. We see at a certain number of frames per second, and wheels spin too fast for us to see every single moment of the spin.
When they appear to be rotating backwards, they're spinning at such a rate that each frame or snapshot our eyes see happens to be when the wheel is at a slightly earlier position than the frame we saw before--even though the wheel has actually made a full, or multiple full, rotations.” Quora

You wrote "Likewise".But you utterly failed to follow with anything likewise to what I wrote !

[Cathal]

You wrote "Likewise".But you utterly failed to follow with anything likewise to what I wrote !

One reason I was baffled after getting tinnitus after a knife screech a few months ago is because of dualism where I couldn't fully understand why my brain was forced to consciously comprehend an audial stimulus rather than just ignore it. Yet this was a very idealistic frame of mind. I notice with the tinnitus that my nasal breathing can sound louder if I hyperfocus on it. Likewise when I mouthbreathe I feel as if I can hear my jaw joints crack louder than before if I open my mouth too wide. I could guess that my jaw joints were part of the shield against the knife screech at the time. Even more far-fetched I could think the way my tinnitus can shift around my right ear through dualism resembles a puncture in my meninges layer in my skull in a symbolically materialistic frame of mind. Sometimes I can be speculative by closing one eye and trying to correlate the white noise pitchof tinnitus with incoming and outgoing hand signals to analyse a tentative connection with visual depth perception and parallax. Other times I could try to be self-deprecating by trying to combine tinnitus with erotic or musical stimuli to see if I was merely too macho about an audial frequency. One far-out way to fathom tinnitus in terms of misophonia is to interpret tinnitus as being retrocausal. So the way we initiate breathing can be audial as if we can stabilise a radio frequency by focusing harder the external sound of our breaths per minute in our ear rather than just trying to initiate a muscular rib or diaphragm contraction or a neurological thought initiation.

"Misophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues. These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses that are not seen in most other people."

When I had breathless anxiety in 2016 for 6 weeks in a psychiatric ward I could interpret the episode in terms of compatibilism where much like the kinetic chain in our spine for serving so too is the way we breathe subject to reprioritisation. So when we nose breathe we can focus only on expanding and contracting the width of our nostrils while breathing. Or else we can focus on relegating rib breathing and prioritising abdominal breathing and vice versa in a holistic way depending on our athletic intentions. In other words the relevance of each breathing mechanism depends on leverage. Who knows if the alternating panic symptoms like chest pain might have resembled weightlifting in the gym, hyperventilation resembling long distance running, breathlessness resembling sprinting and plain fear resembling academic study. So each factor was competing against the other much like why sports jocks and nerds don't intertwine other than in times of warfare much like studious fighter jet pilots! In other words you can't be the best at everything. So I couldn't afford to forget my teenage memories of school to run faster because I was still confused in 2016 on whether I needed to explore philosophical topics much like my blog itself. So one reason I can't sprint faster is simply that I lack a spiritual faith system of running faster since I can't capitalise on muscle strength without training seeing as there are always opportunity costs in other life goals both mentally and physically.

Likewise lucid dreaming can resemble a spiritual faith system gone awry. For example a few weeks ago I made a short youtube video about how the bootstrap paradox of crashing into objects in the past could be resolved if the physical world arises randomly rather than being created by God or in a deterministic version of the Big Bang. A few nights later I'd a vivid dream in which a truck capsized in an accident and heard the driver say sorry to two other injured passengers. The way the truck came out of nowhere in the dream appeared to parody my idea of the bootstrap paradox. Whether this was intended to make me more resilient in defending the idea or to make me surrender as punishment is up to my subconscious spiritual faith system. For example I've to weigh up the probabilities for and against relative to all of my other beliefs and memories. Perhaps you can believe anything you want in creating your own personal faith system much like a religion but materialism and other minds can limit or reject the idea too. In another youtube video about maths in pop music I mentioned how a Bruce Springsteen concert I attended felt hellish in a sarcastic way as if pop instruments like the keyboard can viscerally violate classical instruments like the piano. Then in a dream a few weeks afterwards I'd a vague dream in which a few members of the concert were trying to attack Bruce Springsteen because he was playing the violin wildly without any practice where every other band member was overcompensating with more fierce beats to try and conceal it. That way everyone would be secretly accused of evil by implying they were all somehow more serious than a violin itself! So a personal faith system can be very subjective and uncertain(!):

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Kicking Bishop Brennan up the **** (FATHER TED)

[Cathal]

The idea that tinnitus almost resembles a dog whistle with frequencies beyond normal hearing is pretty much as self-deprecating as I could be about my unconscious mind! Perhaps one explanation of tinnitus is circularity where I can capitalise on the tinnitus to explore the ethics of tinnitus seeing as the tinnitus didn't bother me too much in the minutes after the incident but mostly when I got angry that evening. So I comment sometimes on court sentences in online forums where the incident was a prime example in the debate between accidence and negligence. So the way my "dinner friend" scraped the knife very loudly might appear intentional if he was physically incapable of scraping it louder if he tried without him immediately acknowledging how strange the maximum intensity could've been. It'd be as if the more serious i can be in rebelling against him or forgiving him could ironically make me more serious in withstanding the frequency itself! So if I don't know how to react to a few other slightly quieter customers in restaurants over the last few months it might be because the deviation in frequency between each gentle screech could display intentionality.

[Cathal]

I remember during my later teens I momentarily thought of a version of rebellion against my parents with a name change to my middle name Cathal only to come to my senses and stick to Michael! Anyway one way to think of lucid dreaming as being an encryption is much like an emotional faith system is to view the neurons themselves as cryptographic keys with the brain being a vault of memories. Whatever the mind of a bat is would never agree to be the mind of a penguin such that there might never be unanimous support for any theory of mind. Yet much like how different species of animals have contrasting strengths and weaknesses so too might abiding by a theory of mind confer indirect physical or sensory strength advantages over many years. Many top athletes aren't necessarily philosophers but often abide by a specific virtue system nonetheless.

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The neurons might function like levers to a vault like the one in the picture above which is the second vault shown in the scene below:

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Harry's first time in Gringotts

[Belinda]

Is it agreed that dreamers may use their dreams as if certain themes always referred to an aspect of the dreamers waking life?

For instance when one dreams of being either inside or outside of a building it's s an overview of one's life as if feels to the dreamer. A metaphor , actually, that can be helpful for providing insight into one's feelings about one's waking life
I hold that there are other dreamed metaphors such as wild or tame animals, built or wild environment, wild or managed ocean, and so forth.

[Cathal]

Is it agreed that dreamers may use their dreams as if certain themes always referred to an aspect of the dreamers waking life?

For instance when one dreams of being either inside or outside of a building it's s an overview of one's life as if feels to the dreamer. A metaphor , actually, that can be helpful for providing insight into one's feelings about one's waking life
I hold that there are other dreamed metaphors such as wild or tame animals, built or wild environment, wild or managed ocean, and so forth.

One way to think of animal minds is in terms of Occam’s razor where the material world might not actually obey Occam’s razor if materialism can be open-ended and as complicated as crystals. As such Occam’s razor might be more about humility in our own ideas when we’re not consistent enough to form more elaborate ideas even if more elaborate Shakespearean ideas can be a potential solution too. So instead of thinking of the brain as the most complicated machine ever we could also invert this in the context of futurism to imply that the brain might be the simplest machine ever were we to fully understand consciousness. In other words our brain would somehow be a simpler and more compressed version of a TV’s internal circuitry. For example when we visualise purple in our mind’s eye we might not directly see purple and instead are mixing red and blue together in our brain to match our digital retina in our eye. Yet I’m not a genius at colour formation so somehow my unconscious mind during a dream is able to use a working backwards mechanism to either filter out green or to combine red and blue in a temporal rather than physical way when the quantity of red versus blue is mysterious depending on the shade.

[Cathal]

A literary version of an open timelike curve might be that you witness a scene back in time and interpret it. Yet how would this create free will if it’s just like watching a movie? Perhaps it’s because if you can time travel then you can time travel to the same event in the past again and again much like the same nightmare that haunts you repeatedly. That way you can erase all former interpretations of a time travelling scene and only remember the final interpretation. As such with all drafts forgotten you’d feel as if you were embodying the final interpretation in a spontaneous way.

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Harry Potter goes 50 years back via Tom Riddle Diary - Chamber of Secrets

[Cathal]

Listening to songs and reading poetry can feel more superficial than scrutinising history and economics books. For example when we listen to a song for the first time we might fail to notice many beats or phrases hidden in the background. So one way to view the likes of a Shakespearean play or a song as being encrypted is that not only might you have to reread or relisten to it immediately afterwards but also to do so months or years later to help pierce through the complexity. This way you can use your wiser reflexes from life events inbetween to pick up on more subplots and subdued tones.

[Cathal]

When I meditated briefly on the binaural beat of the tinnitus yesterday I noticed I could try to cancel out the higher and slightly less high frequencies and tried to rhyme it with foot and wrist motion. So this is a metaphorical version of destructive wave interference that might mimic the anarchic brain waves of REM sleep as a version of free won’t in reducing muscle tone to stop a body movement. That way slow wave sleep might resemble constructive wave interference as a version of free will in increasing muscle to enact a manoeuvre.

[Cathal]

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I went to sleep yesterday with a scented Halloween pumpkin candle to help me differentiate real life from dreaming whenever I awoke. One way to think of the hyperfocus of dreaming is in terms of temporary disability during paralysis. So we can have more vivid visual thoughts while deaf and vice versa of thinking faster in an auditory way while blind. Then when we roll around in bed during the partial paralysis of slow wave sleep we can simulate exaggerated motions during dreaming. For example the way the brain often works in a contralateral way during the day might make it easier for the brain to visualise in an ipsilateral same-body side during sleep.

[Cathal]

Sometimes when I subvocalise it can feel as if my thoughts are simply in my frontal cortex behind my eyes. Yet it’s also possible that our subvocalisations are heard not only by our brain but also be our ears. This could be in a subliminal way like feeling the vibrations in your jaw if you sing with your mouth closed. Hence tinnitus could emphasise the sound of our inner voice as being material in our ear or slightly immaterial in our brain.