{"id":10026,"date":"2026-04-20T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:30:02","slug":"charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/04\/20\/charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Charge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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40 bucks at the auto parts store. I hoofed there to grab it: synergy in the ritual. Maybe a quarter of the price compared to a perfect jump box, and it’s hooked up to the house current and the wagon here upon a Sunday’s dusk. Next, the pickup. Finally, the van. We’ll get mobile, yay.<\/p>\n

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More McGilchrist to stay awake and edutained on the night shift. Not for me but for you. I should be sleeping then.<\/p>\n

Philosopher Iain McGilchrist DEBATES neuroscientist Anil Seth on God & minds | Uncommon Ground <\/a><\/p>\n

What I’ve learned of late:<\/p>\n

The Renaissance of Idealism (in physics and philosophy) can be dated precisely to 1995, when David Chalmers coined the phrase “the hard problem of Consciousness”. <\/p>\n

Since then there have been a million variations on the theme. We have at the least, process\u2011oriented panpsychism\/panexperientialism, cosmopsychism, David Lynch’s rough untitled perspectives on transcending, dual\u2011aspect monism, neutral monism or information\u2011based syncretic views, analytic idealism via Kastrup, constitutive panpsychism, and latest but not least, the me-and-Lumo flavor with the working title of Volitional Resonance<\/strong> oh hell yeah baby.<\/p>\n

So what? Who cares?<\/p>\n

I do, but not much really, not about the correct minutiae. <\/p>\n

All I really need to know for now is that reductionist materialism is a product of the hyperCivilized mind, and that, for most purposes, it’s wrong–or at the very least, woefully incomplete. They’ll tell you themselves–‘physics’ has nothing to say about what Consciousness is; doesn’t even try to address the Hard Problem’. <\/p>\n

But I am, and I am very far from alone in that trying. <\/p>\n

“In the beginning was the Logos”?<\/p>\n

Nah. That’s not the beginning, not even close. Sorry, Bible. <\/p>\n

In the beginning was the Mythos<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Maybe God = Consciousness, or the other way around. Maybe ‘consciousness’ is that from which all mind and maybe even matter emerges. <\/p>\n

Maybe birth is an eruption of an individual shard of that Ground of Being. <\/p>\n

Maybe death is only a return to it. <\/p>\n

It goes something like that; it’s so hard to know, and having known, to remember. <\/p>\n

But yeah, it’s a good song. <\/p>\n

And I’m singing it whether I can spit out all the lyrics gracefully or not ennit. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Late breaking news (approaching sunset): The wagon is started and it took less than two hours. I’m going to take it out for a brief loop on the big road to cement the full charge, and in the meantime the new little golden box is switched over to working on the F-150’s battery. Already worth it, IMHO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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