[More from “Turd”. Incidentally, it also contains stuff in a conversation we’ve been having about my blindness.]
I do a lot with other wavelengths in infared and thermography, where you have to provide a false color scheme to contrast what is caught on camera. I can to a certain extent at say, 850nm which is invisible to the human eye see blood vessels the eye can’t see. In some sense it isn’t real, and that sense is the sense of a skeptic philosopher such as Sextus Empericus, who tried to show the unreality of the world via method and demonstration of paradoxical expectations. A example would be a oar on a canoe sticking through clear water, to a sighted person it looks like the geometry bends, but to you reaching down you must feel it exists as we expect it to, unless something turkey bizarre is happening. Our senses are streamlined for creatures of a certain size, between that of a tiny fish and a giant blue whale or brontasauros, on a planet that had plenty of oxygen and dependable rates of sunlight and night, and dependable gravity. Our competitive ecosystem on the animal side exists in this. Everything uses the senses a little different, some like Octopus vs Humans quite different at times and even then a lot evolved in parallel due to the limiting constraints of the economy of size in nature, that imposes itself on evolution. It isn’t a issue to lose a sense in a species with multiple senses as long as the individuals remain competitive and can survive, same as a society ethically degrading in losing a institution once important and central but no longer needed. But due to the interdependent nature of the mind, how our species not merely networks cognition but specializes on the level of personality, it really shows at times how we perceive the commonality of knowing. We have a commonwealth of common things we observe and manipulate that is the mediocrity of technological communion, I’m not even talking democracy, I’m talking car broke down and a stranger spots the issue and offers to fix it with a wrench level. When someone seems to have less ability to perceive not due to intelligence but sensory, people are going to instinctively back off. Your a point of confusion and challenges them over and beyond what they are used to thinking involving problem solving, or worst add troubles to exposition in explaining sufficiently how things are in a way you can understand when it is easier to just shut up and mind their own business. Notice the exact opposite is the case when you increase sensory data. I can see and detect things in ranges others can’t, and while it isn’t super human, purely technique or technological which can be bought or learned, people mistake and take it for science and insight. It can be either, but isn’t inherently, and while it can lend to greater understanding of things known or even hidden, more data usually just means more confusion. Most people don’t specialize in cognitive cycles of sensing and knowing, and much less are confused about the theory beyond the human norm, in creatures other than humans, plants and machines, and grand theories for general rules of communications. This is a central aspect to my philosophy of size. Your inability to see things doesn’t make you overridingly alien, for example, while you can’t see things, a object once presumed or otherwise aware of can be predicated, and even for a language philosopher like say, the forum member Faust, who only sees the world through a portion of the left hemisphere via the dictates of language and nothing but through that, you’ll likely process the vast majority of predicates the exact same was as a sighted person. But would your dreams follow the rules of visual hypnagogic constructs if nothing to something like in the Pythagorean Tables, ten dualities that govern the process of being and becoming in the mind visually? From what you described in your dreams yes to a extent but also no. That is challenging, and most are unaware of the challenge, and only a philosopher would be intrigued. Given ILP have currently no resident philosophers, it is no surprise nobody has taken interest in comparing your inner world and understanding to theirs. It is quite possible at points you’ve found faster and more dependable and insightful ways to think that a sighted person wouldn’t, in areas it never would of occurred to us such as elementary logic. The brain is quite adaptable. The positions and dualism that someone like Iambiguous constantly assert and fight in is of little concern, the divide between Object and Subject, originality and unique awareness and systematic thought isn’t something to debate for me but rather something compared later in ethics, in relations. Just as ethics govern the community, it governs the mind. I don’t shy away from the mind, every aspect, example take Fixed Cross and Sauwelios or even Satyr- they assert Satanism for it’s liberation of the mind in much the same way you assert Parliamentry Socerignty for it’s supreme flexibility and freedom to legislate ingeniously… but both systems are limiting in many ways… there is no protections against a tyranny of minorities or majorities in England or firm written rights, the unwritten constitution is quite malleable. Three hundred years ago it was central the truth trumped class privledge and social harmony in the courts, today it is increasingly the opposite. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is increasingly non-British ideals. Nietzscheans fear aspects of their mind like guilt, pity, weakness, shame, innocence… at least linguistically and ideologically, not sure how sincere they really are at all times. I’m not afraid to look at these and learn how they network, benefits and liabilities. Same for high vices such as torture or killing or mass murder or suicide or transgenderism etc. I know naturally much of that is not good and plenty of good reason and historical precedent to not implement it or do silly stuff like inject random drugs into my system- but I’ll go as far as rational prudence and good health allows to inquire and study- I have a infinite supply of broken and dying crackheads to question and examine for example. As a result, world is a far more open place for me than for them. I’ve seen and thought things that would make them deeply disturbed but can better handle most of it, and rarely am I shocked or belittled as they expect. They are the weaker for their efforts, as they went against time tested standards of better living humanity long established less as a iron rule and more to prevent the constant cycle of tragedies events and prone to suck them into when operating impulsively, without foresight or in ignorance. They call this “nature” and take great pride in it. They say they are most evolved and know better, then inject death into themselves and die. I am mocked as a fool for warning them against this stupidity. I get mocked and ignored for warning them that the logic and reasoning the brought them to this eventuality was fundamentally flawed. But I do grasp perhaps better than them why the human mind is so structured to allow for this. All too often men have personalities that selectively nativists the senses and mind, a unique sensation or motivation becomes increasingly generic as it is processed in the mind, a breakdown of genericness occurs, life feels wrong and isn’t able to match past experiences or expectations they feel they can have or deserve, stuff they thing they can achieve or substitute through a shortcut. Sometimes men have succeeded. All too often they do not, and they die mocking the artificiality of ethics which they say are not real, created by men and was imposed on them. They die champion liberated libertines while others who didn’t choose the idiot route of the dodo lives on. One half of those winning survivors followed ethics and morality, the other half are at least historically novel and deserve to be seen as great men and are due emulation and study. None of those damn fools on the forum remotely qualify. Most all are shipwrecks who can’t even shine as survivors of their own mistakes. Someone like a Christian or Buddhist saint who could go out into the wilderness and improve themselves and the human condition through trial and understanding. Like the Egyptian Hermès Trigementius who went out into the mesquito swamps to meditate and figure out the mind and teach others how it is mapped and mastered, something anyone can do. All I see is pools of sterile sodomy, dark ignorance and death amongst them, a occasional wail and cry of ecstasy from a drug simulating a cognitive reaction they didn’t earn or deserve from actual living and endeavoring to the tasks it evolved to express that at… and after that cry they die. I remember one of the moderators long ago died in the rain laying in the road watching his hand wiggle, drug abuser. The hypnogogic stages and pleasure pain centers of our brain were definitely not streamlined and designed for this end. A community doesn’t long proper from this mindset, it decays and falls apart. Philosophical communities cannot long last, and whatever few random gains they made for philosophy will soon be lost as they go extinct. So I hate and despise them, but I don’t ever shy away. Just they are hardly few, but everywhere, and I can find a buttfucking atheist satanist convinced of his superiority right down the street doing drugs and sacrificing squirrels while listing to Death Metal, and have talked to many before they died, and staired with silent curiosity and disbelief seeing friends gather around asking why, cursing god and the times. Why not just blame the damn idiot for this, or the mourning fools who claimed to be friends for abandoning these cadavers prematurely to the ceaseless drumbeat of death. The one thing I turn against is such a weak minded death, it is the one aspect of mind I cannot embrace. If I had to sacrifice I would for the sake of others, the ethical community seeking survival, for the young or good… but it would have to be a good deal and I would still strive to cheat death. These damn fools, they will debate you how they have it all figured out, whole silly systems of metaphysics, then a week later they are zipped up in a black bag and loaded on a ambulance. That’s what their opinions are worth, a black bag and a toe tag, behold these supermen.
If you can post that too, but that is hopefully the last. Have a good day.