{"id":9846,"date":"2026-03-24T03:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9846"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:41:53","slug":"while-were-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/03\/24\/while-were-on\/","title":{"rendered":"While We&#8217;re On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=92-02TOjntI\"> \u201cI Probably Shouldn\u2019t Have Touched Consciousness\u201d | Roger Penrose <\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 94 years of age, this guy is sort of a spiritual grandfather to the Faggin\/Kastrup scientists of consciousness. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a self-confessed Physicalist (post-physicalist?), but not stupid about it, which is a pretty rare thing in my explorations of these subjects. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday and Sunday I began bootstrapping out of the depressed haze with targeted actions and a kind of conviction.  <\/p>\n<p>On Monday I backslid even deeper into it&#8211;I essentially slept off and on for a whole day. I wasn&#8217;t tired, but I was&#8211;chilled, from the inside out. <\/p>\n<p>It is now the bleeding edge of a new Tuesday and I&#8217;m working again. By which I mean: I&#8217;m typing this, among other things. I&#8217;m listening to the Essentia stuff instead of complete filler garbage about dumb evil war or football or anything like that. I just roasted one batch of regular and one of unleaded (I mean decaf), and it&#8217;s the first home roasting I&#8217;ve completed in weeks. <\/p>\n<p>The next targets are getting back to real cooking and wiping out the April bills in one go if possible. On a trash day. While completing as much of the complex daily energy ritual as I can manage as one poor and aging individual whose heart nevertheless continues to beat strong against the odds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI Probably Shouldn\u2019t Have Touched Consciousness\u201d | Roger Penrose At 94 years of age, this guy is sort of a spiritual grandfather to the Faggin\/Kastrup scientists of consciousness. He&#8217;s a self-confessed Physicalist (post-physicalist?), but not stupid about it, which is a pretty rare thing in my explorations of these subjects. *** On Saturday and Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9847,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions\/9847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}