Disorganized notes. (Revisiting this again in 2023… I remember doing a twitter thread in maybe eigen’s replies… this could be a pretty great youtube video actually)

• The scale and scope of the universe
• Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot
• Neil Tyson’s Most Astounding Fact (we are in the universe, yes, and the universe is also in us)
• The heat death of the universe. See: Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question
• We stopped dreaming
• The Overview effect
• Everything Is A Remix
• To understand is to perceive patterns
• mitochondria came from outside of us
• clocktime is a human construct (Jay Griffiths – Sideways Look At Time)
• illusion of continuity in consciousness (The User Illusion), how eyes/vision work… saccades thread
• brands occupy parts of your brain, we are receptive to suggestions (salivating when imagining eating a citrus fruit, imagining something like vomit, and we’re bombarded with them all the time
• At some point humans lived without verbal language, so our ancestors’ “inner monologues”, if they had any, must have been wordless
• the dark matter of social reality
• neutrinos outweigh us
• aquatic ape theory
• The User Illusion – consciousness lags behind the present. The illusion breaks momentarily when we do something like touch a hot stove.
• Victor Wooten, on music: when there’s a note that doesn’t work, on either side of that note, there’s a note that does work. This is true 100% of the time
• Guitar: The CAGED system