THE EXTENDED MIND

I believe that consciousness is created in the brain. A lot of things are made in the brain. The brain makes representations of the outside world, stores memories, and has an autopilot that can drive your car when you are lost in a daydream. It takes care of your breathing, heartbeats, and many other things.

I also believe that the brain can create telepathic messages and receive telepathic messages from other beings. And it can receive notifications from deep down in the collective consciousness.

Without living beings with brains, there would be no souls in this world, no spirits, no angels, and no gods.

Without living beings, there would be nothing real and tangible, no planets and stars, just endless empty space and vibrating particles that are not particles, really.

The brain is an unbelievably complicated and sophisticated organ.

JUMP OFF THE BANDWAGON

500 years ago were people terrified of witches, they hunted them down and burned them at the stake. Nowadays, most people understand that witches don't exist and that they have never existed – except in our imagination. Most people no longer believe in ghosts, trolls, angels and witches, at least not here in Europe. 

Most people no longer believe that schizophrenia and personality disorders are caused by evil spirits, or that cancer is a punishment for sins. Most people no longer believe that the sun is revolving around the earth or that the world was created 6000 years ago by a nasty and jealous God with the name Jehovah or Yahweh.

Well, many people still believe in gods and evil spirits and that cancer is a punishment. They believe that people with cancer are sinners and that rich, healthy, and good-looking people are God's favorites. They live in a fantasy world and they would rather die than leave it.

Atheism is of course also a belief. Atheists can not prove that there is no God behind it all.

There are so many different kinds of fantasy worlds, so many different gods, and so many different belief systems.

Some people believe that they are awakened, and some believe that they are useless fools.

It is possible, I believe, to leave all belief systems and fantasy worlds. You don't have to be a neoconservative, a Baptist or a Catholic, a Sunni Muslim, or a devout Hindu. You don't have to be anything but a human being. 

Nihilism

If you want meaning in your life, you have to invent it – or borrow it from someone else. Meaning is not something we discover, I believe, meaning is something we invent or create.

Meaning, values, ethics, and morals don't exist outside of human beings. Kindness, equal rights and justice are meaningless terms in modern cosmology. And supernovas, microwave background radiation and electrons are irrelevant factors in psychology and social science.

The idea that life is meaningless or meaningful is created in the human mind. All religions, philosophies, and ideas about life are mental constructions.

Nihilism, the philosophical idea that life has no meaning and that ethics and morals are delusions, is also a mental construction, a foolish and useless idea. You are a human being. You live in this human body. You are not just a bunch of molecules and atoms, you are not a snake, not a lizard or a worm. Worms, snakes and lizards don't care about meaning or morals. You are a human being and to human beings are values and morals extremely important.

We call people who don't care at all about morals and meaning psychopaths.

NON-PHYSIOLOGICAL ISSUES

Egotism, egoism, selfishness, superiority, inferiority, too high or too low self-esteem, overt and covert narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder.

Bigotry, dogmatism, chauvinism, racism, sexism, misogyny, unreliability, duplicity, two-facedness, phoniness, self-righteousness, self-pity, bullheadedness, fanatism, fundamentalism.

Gullibility, wilful blindness, superstition, alcoholism, drug abuse, food abuse.

LOST IN SPACE

You can lose a friend to alcohol or drugs, to a religious cult, or to a crazy idea. You can lose a friend to the anti-vax movement or the Qanon. You can lose a friend to career-building, to depression or schizophrenia, to marriage, or to simple misunderstandings. You can also lose yourself. 

Eventually, you will lose both yourself and all your friends to death.  

PRETENSE

Some people pretend that they are Christian because they know it is an excellent disguise. Trump, for example, secured plenty of votes in this way.

Others pretend that they have psychic abilities. As psychics, they can attract followers on Youtube and then build a profitable business.

Some people pretend that they have reached a high level of spiritual insight, that they are awakened beings. This can also be financially rewarding.

Others pretend that they care about future generations and say that we have to do something to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases. In this way, they can come across as very likable and considerate.

However, some people really are genuinely religious, some really do care about future generations and some people really have reached higher levels of spiritual insight. The problem is that you can never determine who is a bluffer and who is truthful and honest. You can never know if the Bitcoins he is selling are real or if his spirituality is a cover. (Well, eventually the truth will come out.)

So, what to do about this? It's simple. Don't trust anybody. It doesn't matter if they appear in mainstream media or social media. Watch out for tricksters and hucksters, high-browed and low-browed. 

You know that people also cheat themselves. Therefore, don't even trust yourself.

DIETS

There are many different kinds of diets. There are religious-based diets. Hindu diets, Muslim diets, and Jews have their kosher diet.

And then there are all the modern diet gurus. All of them are at odds with each other, accusing each other of quackery.

The environmentalists refuse to eat meat because producing it causes too much CO2 emissions while Joe Average sticks to his hamburgers and pizzas.

If you don't follow my diet plan you are an idiot. My guru is the best. He is the way and the truth and the life.

So, you have to stick to your group of people who have the same food preferences, you have to stick to your tribe or your team. Muslims hang out with other Muslims and Hindus hang out with other Hindus. Vegetarians prefer to hang out with vegetarians and keto people prefer to hang out with other keto people. About 690 million people are at this moment hungry and malnourished.