Daily Page: 2025-12-24

“Follow me.”

“Spacetime has no meaning beyond Planck scale, 10^-33 centimeters and 10^-43 seconds. No meaning, no operational meaning at all.”

“How do you think outside of spacetime? What do you do?”

— Donald Hoffman

“[T]o come on to other reasons for thinking that consciousness is not derived from matter, I think that here, we might agree, is that despite this being debated for hundreds of years, nobody has come up even remotely plausible explanation of how you can have any amounts of matter you like connected in any way you like. If it has nothing to do with consciousness, you will never get consciousness out of it. So consciousness must be there from the start. And I think that is a view that a lot of contemporary scientists, physicists, and philosophers take. It also has the advantage of being a position held in many of the wisdom traditions around the world, that consciousness is an ontological primitive.”

— Iain McGilchrist

“So in this sense, I think matter is a phase of consciousness in the same way that ice and water vapor, phases of what we normally think of as just water.

— Iain McGilchrist

“So I do think that the non-speakers are really taking us into the future; and that’s really what wrote the book, is that those learnings about that relationship, as well as my own discovery and remembrance of my own disclosure of my own experience being in a gifted students class.” — Julia Mossbridge