Casual Conversation

When I was a kid, I had this weird though process of the idea of "souls", but then like if my "soul" is made of similar "essense" as other people's "souls", then whats the diffence between "me" and other people who also have this concept of "me". Like, are we all part of this one giant entity from which all "souls" derive from? Or do our souls just spontsneously exist without any origin/source. And why am I this souls, but not the other souls?

Okay I probably make zero sense, right? Yea, I never really talked to anyone about this. Existence makes no fucking sense. Why am I experiencing existence through this body, but not another body?

Maybe The Egg is the secret to the universe that ~~we~~ I haven't realized yet.

For me it's the opposite: I'm always shocked when broadly different people end up aligning on certain similar traits along multiple axes. Like conlanging and Linux or trans girls and communism.

I can't get over the fact that due to how thoughts work in our brain, we can't even be certain that when we are looking at something that is red, we are seeing the same color. How our mind interprets the shared data we get from external stimuli isn't necessarily shared itself. And we can't really describe color in any way other than with feelings, or the hard data of physics and wavelengths and how light interacts with the eyes (again, tho, not how the mind interprets that data). There isn't even a word for what I am talking about other than "color."

The opposite extreme is also true and something I have faced, where people can even be mistaken between one another because people forget that no mindset is at 0%. It's not like DNA where nature makes sure we all have a unique said (heck handwriting and signatures aren't even like DNA, which has always been a bombshell whenever I bring it up), and there is no hard rule about how often two people coincidentally operate the same way, something that has made its way into the world of scientists.

Imagine the following: you see a room with a table and a chair in the middle. On top of the table there is a ball. A kid comes into the room, climbs the chair and tries to grab the ball that sits on the table. Did you finish imagining? I want you to answer for yourself now what was the color of the hair of the kid? What about of what he was wearing? Did you imagine these kind of details or you just imagined some concepts?

In my case I did see all the details and many more. My imagination is like a movie. I can imagine my future house with a lot of details inside. I can build it and rebuild it in my mind. Some people have problems to do that.

This line of thought always leads me towards a silly sentence: logic is a sacred cow that as nothing sacred to it.

Most people take logic as granted. It is a basic element of human minds, thoughts and how those are externally expressed. But what is logical to one individual may be completely illogical to another.

Even if expressed in rigourously defined terms and expressions, the ideas a given logical sequence tries to convey and explain may be totally and completely flawed and irrelevant to another or simply wrong.

We are able to share concepts in its widest of forms but we can never truely and correctly express what we really think and understand to another because we are, in fact, even if in the most minute of ways, unique.

So, don't sell yourself short.

It's more either or, but whether your thoughts are spoken (hearing your thoughts) or images (seeing your thoughts) is a good one. Makes for an interesting conversation to have with friends and family!

I once managed to puzzle our HR person into silence when I explained why I did something a certain way.

We're all a combination of nature and nurture. No one is totally unique and no one is exactly the same.

Recently experienced this with my wife. We both described ourselves as internally organizing information "like bullet points".

She means memorization of countless individual facts all stored/categorized at the same level.

I tend to use bullet point lists to organize things hierarchically. Least indented is the high level takeaway, indented ones below are extended info for the less indented point above. That's how I tend to organize knowledge. I've learned that apparently this is not as ubiquitous as I believed.

It illuminates some deep seated causes behind a some of the friction in our relationship, but unfortunately it doesn't do much to help me see any way around them unfortunately.

Can you give some examples?