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How to experience deep happiness easily and make other changes to the mind

I have come up with a few ideas related to therapy that can help someone alter their mind in any way they want, such as decreasing negative emotional states and negative thought patterns, cultivating deep satisfying happiness, or increasing intelligence through increasing raw thinking speed. I wanted to start a discussion about them (without advocating that they should actually be tried). Here are the strategies below: 1) If you insist that your mind does something enough times (like 10,000s of times or more), then eventually your mind will do whatever you want it to do. At some point it will give up and give in to what you want. It won’t resist your insistence forever. 2) The mind thinks that overall it should be operating in the way that it is currently. You can challenge that “should”, though, as an irrational should statement in respect to the particular way that your mind is operating. This can be done in the repeated and persistent way that CBT is customarily done. This can be ...
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The Ability of Computers to Compute Mathematical Proposition

  I think the computers are able to figure out with an algorithm the propositions accepted as true by the mathematics community. To boot, I think there are holes in Godel's incompleteness theorem and Turing's halting problem resulting from the formalism employed in these proofs and concepts that are assumed in them. One gets the impression that Godel's mathematical platonism indicated that mathematics was something that occurred in the minds of people in a way axiomatic formal systems of math did not capture. Many believe that Godel's theorem also shows that certain mathematical propositions are not able to be solved by an algorithm used by a computer. One such person is mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. I don't see from a logical point of view how his arguments lead to a conclusion that machines can't compute mathematical propositions, a position that he attempts to argue for in books like An Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this brief w...
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Doubts About Logical Implication and Cause

Thesis: “logical implication” and “causation” are terms that correspond to ideas that probably don’t describe reality. The instances in which “logical implication” does not describe reality are those in which they mirror “causation” in terms of the images of thoughts that correspond with them. I will first take a look at logical implication, and then the notion of causation based off the contentions of Hume, and then describe possible strategies to describe reality that are free of both the ideas of logical implication and cause. (the notions of logical implication and cause are not themselves subject to logical implication and cause). The bivalence functor may be argued to be talking about synonyms at times. De Morgan’s law may be an instance of logical grammar determining instances, and may be related to when multiple descriptions result in the same outcome. This may be another class. These things should be said to be what is not being described in the essay. Any abstraction using ...
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Step-by-Step Instructions for Increasing Intelligence

The following are step-by-step instructions for increasing the speed of your intelligence using an idea that shows up CBT. Specifically, the belief behind the instructions is that a person can increase their intelligence by challenge irrational should statements that normally function to limit a person’s intelligence level. Intelligence when used in the right way can help humans get what they want out of life, such as food, shelter, safety, the stuf of romance and relationships, children--if it’s a goal that’s important to you than intelligence can probably be of some use. Because of all these things it seems worthwhile to consider ways in which you can increase itm especially if you find yourself in a tight pinch in life. 1) Consider what type of intelligence you want to increase. You can increase particular types of intelligence like verbal intelligence, visual intelligence, or musical skill. 2) Tell your mind that you want it to improve in terms of that particular form of intelligen...
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Doubting Death

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”   --Wittgenstien Basic argument: Just as the word “nothing” doesn’t refer to anything observable, the word “death” also does not refer to anything observable. Because of this, it seems an accurate statement to say that “death does not actually occur” or to say that “death does not exist”. This is the essence of my argument and for clarity’s sake I am stating it here in a simple and bare way.      The term “death” in the way it is commonly understood is defined as something like “the absence of consciousness” or “a state in which consciousness doesn’t exists any longer”. The term “death” as well as those definitions I wrote above do not correspond with anything that we encounte...
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Towards A Clear Theory of Everything

(this essay needs to go through some drafts for improvement)   Basic argument: Understanding is symbols or stuff that is part of the biological constitution of humans and nothing more. If something exists located somewhere in our experience then it seems unnecessary and perhaps odd that we would need to understand it even further. What more do you need to know about that thing obviously in front of you, irrespective of the other data associated with it or surrounding it? If you see the color green, is it possible to understand it any further? I am contending in this paper that this is not so. Trying to understand what we observe by looking at the thoughts and concepts is similar to trying to understand what an alligator is by analyzing the term “alligator”. It doesn’t seem like that activity would be really helpful, not counting situations involving elements like onomatopoeia. I want to take a look at some concepts discussed in philosophy and science in light of this point. It s...
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