What is Real?
By Chaz
What is Real?Jun 02, 2021
Gigi Questions Reality - WiR002
Welcome to the long awaited third episode of What is Real podcast. We’ve found another tape lodged behind the old meat refrigerator down in the basement! This damaged tape, this recording is of Gigi. Gigi was a curious creature that we lured, er uh… invited onto our podcast.
We explore the nature of reality with Gigi. Before the end, he provided very insightful dialogue to our misunderstandings with reality itself. Would you kindly listen to this podcast?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro and Opening
2:22 - Donald Hoffman - Reality as an Interface
11:45 - The Traveller (Star Trek TNG)
15:09 - Corpus Callosum
24:11 - Something from Nothing?
32:45 - Conway’s Game of Life
36:57 - Quantum Mechanics
44:43 - Information Theory vs Conscience Agent Theory
50:32 - Can machines become conscious?
55:53 - Quantum Immortality
1:00:33 - Radical Life Extension
1:07:07 - Local Reversing of Entropy
1:11:24 - Bitcoin Part
1:16:48 - The Future of Humanity
Gigi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dergigi
What is Real’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisRealPod
What is Real’s Website: https://whatisreal.monster/
What is Real’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZSLdz488JX9Np4zD2djeQ
Further Research:
Corpus Callosum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum
The Game of Life - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
Double-slit Experiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
PBS SpaceTime Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
Quantum Eraser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
It from Bit, John Archibald Wheeler - https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/02/it-from-bit-wheeler/
Ray Kurzweil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
How to Create a Brain - https://smile.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/0670025291/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Mario Gibney Demystifies Psychedelics - WiR01
Welcome to the long awaited second episode of What is Real?! We’ve located the long lost tape! We found the recording of our latest patient. It wasn’t my fault I smashed the tape to pieces! Just be happy that I was able to recover the audio at all.
In this recording we speak with Mario Gibney. We learn from his experience with psychedelics and get his insight into best practices with their usage.
Psychedelics have been used for centuries across many different cultures for various reasons. They are extremely powerful pathways to radical self discovery and change. We explore the basics of psychedelic usage and the pitfalls involved.
We invite you to do your own research. There are mental health ramifications associated with psychedelic usage. These drugs are serious business and should not be taken carelessly.
Check your local laws before taking any psychedelics. We are not going to tell you to break the law. Make your own calculations and take your own risks. We aren’t your parents though.
Links are listed below to get you started on that research rabbithole!
0:00 - Start
2:32 - Defining “Drugs”
4:54 - Legality in Canada
6:08 - Mario’s Intro to “Drugs”
10:10 - Defining Ayahuasca
13:15 - Ayahuasca Experience
16:24 - Mushroom Experience, Ego Death
18:09 - Harm Reduction Tips
22:22 - Set and Setting
23:59 - Meditation
27:29 - Mario’s Biggest Insight
28:43 - Is there a bad age to start?
30:14 - MDMA
32:45 - Ketamine in Medicine
34:40 - Drug Decriminalization
39:44 - Who weed for?
41:01 - Edibles
41:50 - Microdosing
42:56 - Caveats
43:41- The Lighting Network Tangent
46:36 - Teachers and Teaching/Learning
49:30 - Why Bitcoiner’s Bitcoin
50:54 - Future hype
Mario’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mario_Gibney
Unhashed Podcast: https://twitter.com/UnhashedPodcast
What is Real’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisRealPod
What is Real’s Website: https://whatisreal.monster/
What is Real’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZSLdz488JX9Np4zD2djeQ
Further Research:
Chasing the Scream - Mario’s Recommended Book: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Opposite-Addiction-Connection/dp/1620408910
Resource for Education on various psychoactive substances - https://www.erowid.org/
Dr. Gabor Maté, Recommended Reading - https://drgabormate.com/
Recommended Twitter - https://twitter.com/ramez
MDMA/Psychedelic Research - https://maps.org/
Patient 0 - Rockstar talking about Entropy
If you already listened to the Lightning Junkies version of this episode, you can skip to 37 minutes, 18 seconds to hear the extra audio content!
Patient 0 has been captured.
Patient 0 is Rockstardev. Rockstardev is a programmer that has worked on Bitcoin projects such as BTCPay Server and Zap.
Rockstardev is known for having a very unique philosophy and we explore this more in this episode.
We talk about:
- Rockstarism
- History
- Meaning of Life
- Reversing Expansion of Universe
- Are we already in the simulation?
- Life Finding a way Through Great Filter
- Humanity a Bootstrapper for Machine Civilization
- What's my Purpose?
- Cyborgs
- Reducing Entropy in Your Life
- Finding a Community
- Mortality/Impermanence
- Drugs and Psychedelics
- Ego Death
- Bitcoin = Drug
- Self Sufficiency
- What is BTCPay Server?
Rockstardev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/r0ckstardev
BTCPay Server's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BtcpayServer
Zap's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ln_zap
Jack Maller's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMallers
Read more about Strike: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/with-strike-zap-rethinks-its-olympus-fiat-to-bitcoin-feature
Bill Gates early coding years video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXQTrYPenQ
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Patient -1, An Intro to the 'What is Real?' podcast.
This is an introduction to the 'What is Real' podcast which is a tentative name for this podcast exploring general philosophy topics, with other topics being included such as psychedelics, psychology, transhumanism, and whatever the hell I feel like learning more about in the future.