CM memes Claus Metzner

I talk about the mind as a strange 'compass', leading our way towards unexpected (and perhaps trans-personal) goals.

After reminding the materialists among my listeners on the distinction between physical reality and experience, I speculate that the physical world may be a rigid phase of consciousness that helps people minimize their anxiety.

I start talking about what goes wrong in modern science. In particular I discuss the difficulty of getting reliable data from complex systems and the problems that creates in society. I finally 'discover' traditional handcraft as a superior way of interacting with the world and of handling complexity. For a master craftsman, data gathering, model building and corrective action are unified to a single, continuous, subconscious process.

This is the first time I publish a genuine live conversation - with my old 'philosopher friend' Willi Schroll. No cuts, no edits. We talk about whether idealism is still stuck in misleading metaphors and discover our slightly different interpretations of 'existence'.

This episode is a mixed bag. After some announcements, I talk about my 'rediscovery' of room stereo, explorative habit changes, Twitter, my repeated knocking down of open doors, non-metacognitive consciousness, binaural beats and self-hypnosis.

In response to recent listener comments, I try to clarify the 'screen of perception'-metaphore and to substantiate my naive goal of short-term happiness maximization.