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An Instance of Decision
This prospection would occur at any moment, and the bar for suffering may differ across them.
- Is the actual threshold for suffering invariant?
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Discomfort
- Define discomfort
- Define it as the inverse of comfort
- Enumerate relevant examples
- Constructed vs unconstructed
- Nibbana is the highest comfort
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Death
Research the mechanics of death for pure and powerful rebirths.
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Measuring Karma
If the brain is sensitive to the mind, then one’s karma may be measurable to some degree via the brain, which is accessible to physical technology.
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- Calculate minimum and maximum possible values to determine likelihood of a deliberate encoding of the speed of light.
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Persisting Mental Paradigms Throughout Existences
As one accumulates various views and strategies for dealing with existence, it is important to ensure that these developments are not lost at death. How will these things which a being might gain be persisted indefinitely?
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- Research the mechanics of desire
If:
- C(n) = C(m)
- J(n) = J(m)
Does D(n) = D(m) ?
In other words, does the application of judgment on consciousness always yeild consistent results irrespective of its location along time?
If yes, then desire is independent of time and potentially independent of objects outside one’s consciousness.
Content/Authors/Shashank Rajesh/Hell is Real.md
Literally or figuratively, hell is real.
- Compile a long list of all the horrific things human beings are forced to endure on this very planet
Lots and lots of unbelievably horrific content is available online, even just on YouTube.
This content can serve as a very potent reminder not to be heedless
If it can get that bad even just here, imagine what the actual hell realms are like?
Some very poignant similes are given in the suttas
Collect Buddha analogies about the relative rarity of fortunate existence
- Dirt under a fingernail compared to all the soil on Earth
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Felt and Generated Feeling
Three kinds of feeling: pleasant, painful, and neutral, may be felt by the mind. They are of two kinds depending on their source. todo *
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- Semantic AI Search for Dhamma
Properly tag every sutta so that it can be effectively searched using a hybrid of semantic search with fine grained AI search on results.
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- Indexing of justification
Index, analyze, systematize, and categorize ways of epistemic justification.
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- We want knowledge
Epistemic certainty pertaining to the goal.
Major areas of research
Human psychology
relating to dissatisfaction in this life
Non-human psychology
Pertaining to animals and especially non-human intelligent beings
Death and the afterlife
relating to dissatisfaction in the other lives
Existential metaphysics
Pertaining to dissatisfaction itself, and its potential irreversable cessation.
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- Survey all known models
Conduct a comprehensive study of all known models of satisfaction.
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Potential existing solutions
- An overview of paths
- Afterlife
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- Empirically prove the superior satisfaction of monkhood
Disclaimer: The early Buddhist text excerpts in this source block may contain mistakes. They were transposed by AI and have not been independently verified for hallucinations introduced during transfer.
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Desire
What is the cause of desire and its particular instances? What are the internal causes? What are the external causes? Can it be permanantly stilled?
Contemplating the attractive, crushed by thoughts and pierced by passion, increases the bond of craving. [@TanhavaggaBhikkhuAnandajoti]
Epistemology
Can these mechanics truly be known? Will their application always remain valid, an ever flawless prediction?
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Causality
Is there an internal, fully controllable cause of craving? Is qualia fully caused by the induvidual? Or are external circumstances also at play?
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Concerns
- Will there ever be a time when these observed mechanics are invalid?
- Are these mecahnics universal to all conscious instances?
Other papers
- Existing proposed solutions
- The afterlife
- Epistemic verification
- Research of novel solutions
- Plan of action for arrival at epistemic certainty
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Unwinding the net of conditional happiness
Many things are mutually exclusive, and this tension creates issues to contentment. Map out all of these contradticions to see which elements could be let go so that things become more harmonious.
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- Effectiveness
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- Specify the permutations of the two factors
- Categorize them
- Give familiar examples to each
with ai visualization
- Break down the factors
- Feasibility by analysis of claims, current knowledge, etc.
- Research plan
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- Artistic tributes to the superior
Create and collect art of various kinds which may grant a glimpse or taste of that which is superior — devas, the heavens, brahmas, and beyond.
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The Hard Problems
In this chasm of ignorance, there is much that is still in doubt. Here are a selection of hard problems which are to be solved in pursuit of correct volition:
- Unpredictability of craving
- Unpredictability of obtaining pleasant objects
- Unpredictability of avoiding unpleasant objects
- Death and the afterlife
- Stability of discontentment and its mechanism
- Opportunity for volition
- Persistence of knowledge
- External causality independent of volition
- Epistemic certainty of knowledge
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- Find the sutta discussing the uselessness of a mendicant filled with desire; both useless as a renunciant as well as a householder (or something along those lines)
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Corroborating Paranormal Phenomena
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- Create a formal model of the Framework
- Prove the existence of devas and similar entities
- Requires corroboration and empirical data
- Find and test arahants
- Design comprehensive examinations that verify the the destruction of taints
- Beware: physical correlates may provide false positives from reflexive processes.
Content/Wiki/Buddhism/Paranimmitavasavatti Devas.md
There is comparatively little detail about the paranimmita vasavatti devas in the early suttas, but we do have much information about mara. Research:
- Is Mara explicitely said to well in the paranimmita vasavatti realm?
- Tell me everything that is said and can be inferred about the type of existence beings in that realm experience. Include direct references.
Content/Wiki/Tulpas.md
Research accounts of people creating and interacting with “tulpas” (https://www.tulpa.info/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa, https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/) and create a detailed report on the key aspects of the experience that mirror the experience of a seemingly real and independent entity. Also provide data on the prevalence of such accounts and the likelyhood of them being genuine. The goal is to determine to what extent it is possible for a person to create and interact with such a phenomenon in a way that appears real and independent to the individual.
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The questions serve the project’s goals and call for suitable research methods. Research leads collect possible starting points, including the proposed Rohitassa interpretation.