My Mindsight Exercise One

Burnt-out
Incomplete
Untapped Potential
Unfinished
Wasting
Aimless
Directionless
Unsure

You know how you drop a sock behind your washer and dryer? Then you wonder if it’s worth fishing out.

I feel like that sock represents my hopes, dreams, and drive for upward mobility. Do I fish for that sock, or just give up on it?

I mean . . . it’s just a sock. Why bother?

In other ways, I feel trapped– like the sock behind the washer and dryer. How do I find my way out to where I belong?

Back to the Mindsight Index

November 22, 2022

My Mindsight Answer Index

Mindsight is a deck of introspection cards designed by Ryan A. Bush.

Ryan A. Bush is the author of Designing the Mind. He also started an online community called Mindform and offers self-mastery tools under this brand. Often, the name of the book is shortened to DTM.

I haven’t finished reading DTM. But I read enough to know I want to follow the DTM newsletter and keep abreast on current projects by Bush.

And so, I learned about Bush’s Mindsight introspection card deck.

After reading the description, I bought a box.

This page will index my journal responses to the cards in the deck. While I still write my answers in a hardcopy journal, I will also post them here digitally as a backup. This can also serve as part of my Zettelkasten.

I will not reproduce the contents of the cards. I will only display my answers. I want to respect the author’s workmanship. The visual design of the deck is handsome. And I expect the guidance from the cards is worth even more than the aesthetic value. And the aesthetic value is high in my view.

All that to say– You should consider buying a deck from DTM if this has piqued your curiosity. So far I think Bush is doing good work and he deserves fair compensation for what he has produced.

And no, I’m not a paid promoter with affiliate links or ad revenue. I’m only giving context if someone stumbles upon this page. At this time, this page is a personal reference in some obscure corner of the Internet.

I’ll update this index as I work my way through the deck. The deck has 81 cards.

My Mindsight Index:

Mindsight Exercise 10

Mindsight Exercise 11

Mindsight Exercise 12

Mindsight Exercise 13

Mindsight Exercise 14

Mindsight Exercise 15

Mindsight Exercise 16

Mindsight Exercise 17

Mindsight Exercise 18

Mindsight Exercise 19

November 22, 2022 projects

Zettel 202110010238 : If Entropy is God, then honor God by cherishing time

A clock is a flow meter for entropy.

Gerard Milburn, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Queensland

Entropy and irreversible change drive the arrow of time.

We must cherish our time and use it with wisdom. This is the best way to honor our own existence. This is the best way to honor Entropy and the Arrow of Time.

[Zettel 202109062200] : What is Time?, Where I reflect on an article from Quanta Magazine about clocks, entropy, and thermodynamics. This article made me see the relationship between entropy and time. I also link Sean Carroll’s discussion The Arrow of Time in this Zettel. His discussion caused me to realize the influence of entropy in our universe. The quote from Gerard Milburn comes from the article The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Time

[Zettel 202109241251] : Is Entropy God?, When I muse on whether entropy is the one immutable force in existence. Does that quality make entropy God in a sense?

October 1, 2021

Zettel 202109282326 : Brownian Motion and the Big Bang

Ben Orlin describes nondifferential motion in his chapter Do the Dusty Dance. This chapter is from his book Change is the Only Constant.

I don’t understand what he’s talking about.

But I’m left with the image that particles change directions instantaneously. Orlin says this instantaneous movement is nondifferential or Brownian motion. No measurement exists for capturing the speed of this motion. This motion isn’t like tossing a ball into the air. A ball leaves the hand at a certain speed. Then it slows until it hangs motionless for an infinitesimal moment. Then it descends towards the ground. You can calculate the ball’s change in speed and direction during the journey from the hand to the ground.

But not so with particles. Particles change position with speed-less motion. The bombardment of other particles causes them to leap to their next position. Math equations can’t capture the changes in speed and direction.

Reding that made me ask: Was the Big Bang a speed-less release of energy?

UPDATE

After writing this, I stumpled across this on 01/Oct/2021:

What happened before the Big Bang? A NASA astrophysicist explains, by Dr. Michelle Thaller.

Here, Dr. Thaller describes how the edge of the observable universe is hot energy. The light from that energy is finally getting to us. This light dates back to around 4,000 years after the Big Bang. We’re actually seeing backward in time. So now we know what the universe looked like 4,000 years after the Big Bang. She talks about how a space smaller than an atom contained all the energy of the universe in a singularity. But she also says that our singularity wasn’t alone. A collision from another singularity might have sparked the Big Bang of our universe. And then a Big Bang for that one.

Again, that makes me think of Brownian motion.

The link is from Big Think. You can watch the video or read the transcript.

September 28, 2021 unlinked cosmology mathmatics calculus

Zettel 202109241251 : Is Entropy God?

Sometimes scientists use the word God to describe the fundamental essence of reality. To them, God is the unifying theory that answers all questions. God is that force that never fades or changes. God is that thing that allowed everything else to be.

A few weeks ago, I wondered if entropy is God.

And today, I stumbled a across the book titled Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin. And I found this quote before the main text:

There was a period of silence. After a while, he said, “How did you get your ideas about God?”

“I was looking for God,” I said. “I wasn’t looking for mysticism or magic. I didn’t know whether there was a god to find, but I wanted to know. God would have to be a power that could not be defiled by anyone or anything.”

“Change?”

“Change, yes.”

“But it’s not a god. It’s not a person or an intelligence or even a thing. It’s just….I don’t know. An idea.”

I smiled. Was that such a terrible criticism?

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Entropy is the creator of time Zettel 202109062200 and the engine of change. To me, change and entropy are inseparable.

Sounds like somebody else thinks change (or enropy) is God, too.

September 24, 2021 entropy time god change resources

Here’s a formula about information. I was interested in this. I started reading and watching videos about Information Therory. I feel a zettel coming . . .

H = n log s

H = log $s^n$

Where n is the number of symbols from the syntax or language we’re using. Where s is the number of different symbols available for selection

The number of possible symbol sequences.

Information is the logrithm of the message space.

September 23, 2021 projects resources

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