I tried RSS for coindesk and cointelegraph but it was just a flood of hourly crypto movements and such. I wanted something a little more “big picture” haha.

Hey, are you me?!

I came to the same conclusion. I’ve been using Reeder on MacOS. So many feeds these days do not have full content but the Reeder app can be configured to pull all of the text (minus some of the images).

Anyway, these have been my favorite feeds categorized by interest:

• The Atlantic and Wired for Culture
• Ars Technica, The Verge, VGC, IGN, Push Square for Gaming
• Torrent Freak for Piracy
• Wired for Science
• The Verge for Crypto
• The Verge, Wired for AI
• Hacker News (frontpage with 250 point minimum), The Atlantic for Technology
• 9to5Mac for Apple

You’ll notice that some sites show up multiple times but that is because I subscribe to sub-feeds for my categories of interest.

I am so surprised to see someone else who has the same kind of “pervasive” thoughts that I do!

For a few years now my brain has been trying to grapple with a very similar intricate web of ideas albeit from a slightly different perspective.

I’ve always been agnostic but all of these thoughts stem from what I would call a spiritual experience where I didn’t see, but FELT, something akin to what you’re describing.

Have you heard of Panpsychism? It’s a philosophical view that’s been around for thousands of years that posits that everything is made up of consciousness. Contrary to the popular belief that consciousness arises from seemingly nowhere, panpsychists think that literally every atom in our universe is a building block of consciousness.

Given this concept, the best way I can describe my spiritual experience is through analogy. Imagine a computer monitor where millions of pixels are changing colors at random. Given an infinite amount of time it’s not too far fetched to imagine that eventually these pixels could align in such a way that the monitor will display a perfect image of your face. Given another infinite amount of time its not too far fetched to imagine that face now smiling or frowning.

I believe that our conscious experience is that thread through infinite time which binds these moments together giving an illusion that they are happening one after the other. Since our universe is governed by laws of physics (at least at our scale) only small “realistic” fluctuations in the image are acceptable.

I have a lot more thoughts on the matter but my wife is rushing us out for breakfast! I absolutely love your post - thanks for the lovely thought experiment.