Well, generate reality for one. It's not a trivial detail, but it tends to be dismissed or taken for granted (or downvoted lol).
Someone may venture into this territory some day, and perhaps that someone will find some travelling companions to make the journey more exciting and productive....time will tell!
Generate reality? I am not crystal clear on what you're talking about. Quantum computers are still just computers, not magical replicators from Star Trek.
I'm talking about the mind's ability to generate what "is", and "is not". It is a curso no doubt, but it is also sometimes a blessing. But usually it runs unnoticed (or even: denied) in the background, duffing things up.
And when it gets noticed, sometimes really weird things happen.
This is pretty close...although some can be correct, but correctness is not necessarily justified (such as when guessing what "is probably" true, which is why the J in JTB exists, and perhaps also because people like to take the T for free, as doing otherwise "is pedantic", which almost always has consensus agreement - reality domes don't maintain themselves!!).
Right, it's obliviousness to (or ideological, indoctrinated denial of) the phenomenon of extra variables/state that enables the manipulation of consensus. (I'm looking at you, scientists.)
Also, if these higher states did not exist, I'd think the problem might be either be impossible in the first place, or impossible to detect. (Noteworthy: having flawed methodologies can also make them impossible to detect.)
> What are the "weird things"?
Hallucination is the most obvious, but I would also say: just look around!
Some bits can even be flipped in broad daylight while everyone's watching. One of the most popular ways to flip bits is by telling stories in which the bits have been flipped.
The power of stories is that you are alone in the telling of them. The survival, your own undressing, or redressing, the terrible fury of living life, constrained to the teacup of bedtime for children. The power that storytelling takes is a kind of leadership that is grudgingly respected, like a real bastard's funeral.
> The power of stories is that you are alone in the telling of them.
I don't know about you, but I've noticed a pattern where the stories people tell on social media and even in person often have an uncanny resemblance to the stories that are told the day before in mainstream media.
Heck, if everyone plays their cards right, you can often even get a nice (profitable) war going!
> It doesn't have much to do with physics.
Mostly agree (the jury is still out on the hard problem of consciousness), it's metaphysics... and we all "know" what that "means": "woo woo"...or so they say.
And, that realm often leaks into the physical realm, much to our horror/delight/confusion.
