Jorge Pablo Franetovic 🎩 on Warpcast

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Oh yah, I've admitted as much. My academic background is Psych, Phil of Mind and Language, and Neuro, with a dash of Computer Science because I love debt and ivory towers and prolonged adolescence.

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That's like my sweetspot of special interests 🤣 finally returned to finish my philosophy degree recently after a couple decades of dicking around with chaos. Taking a neuroethics class this fall that I'm *really* excited about.

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Nice! My jam was the underdeveloped intersection between language, thought, and neurological concepts. Following thinkers like Daniel Dennett and Patricia Churchland; kinda pragmatic, kinda idealistic. Phil majors are dangerous fun. Glad I followed you 🍿

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I'm primarily interested in consciousness, and especially the potential for emergent machine consciousness. Still not convinced it's possible, but also, the current iterations of LLMs really call into question a whole lot of things about the human experience of consciousness. But language is another deep interest of mine, both philosophically and linguistically. I love words. Been obsessed with them since I was a toddler - my mother noticed I was reading the words before she was when reading at story time, and made picture books with polaroids and the words written on sharpie to encourage me 🤣

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okay, brass tacks, choose one: dualist monist physicalist materialist pragmatist phenomenologist which house to you pledge?

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so one undifferentiated "stuff" and no supernatural frosting?

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Yep. And that is deeply informed by the sorts of experiences one has at a ten-day silent meditation retreat where one dissolves into nothingness and realizes that we're all just the universe trying to figure out what it wants to be 🤣 It is a bit more complicated than just monism, of course, but it's all *just* the universe and any perceived substantive difference is a game the universe is playing with itself. At least as far as I can see it ;)

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whenever i find myself writing something like this: "we're all just the universe trying to figure out what it wants to be 🤣" it's the perfect indicator to harness all of awareness into the inquiry of the one that is posing that as something "out there", pertaining to "all of us" what do /you/ want to be gwynne?

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The very first question that big realization led me to was, "Well who do I want to be?" And I re-evaluate that every year, in August, the month before my birthday.

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what was the first answer to that question after you had that realization? and how has your approach to the practical materialization of the answer evolved over the years?

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I wanted to devote my life to learning. I wanted to have a cozy home to live a hermit life where I could just follow my curiosity and see where it leads, while guiding those who decided to follow me to seek their own curiosity and healing and fulfillment. I shifted my business to a donation-based model to make what I do accessible to anyone interested regardless of money barriers. I was able to buy a house for $4000 the following year - two-bedrooms with established gardens and a pond on 2.5 lots with two grow rooms in the basement - and I've been following my curiosity and sharing where it leads me ever since.

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