CURRENT MISSION

To make life as simple and easy as possible while still indulging in instant gratification and gratuitous luxuries.

ABOUT ME

I'm subtly argumentative. I have a tendency to question all beliefs, which makes some people defensive, which sparks arguments. I will never say anyone is wrong or right, including myself, but that's mostly because I don't actually believe in anything.
I'm a pseudo-Taoist, meta-thinker, if that means anything at all. I think that each organism will do what it feels or thinks is best given its beliefs and conditions. I also think that the more I understand, the less I can explain. The more I explain, the less I can understand.
I play sports, I play video games, I read, I write, I teach, I learn, I do lots of things.

PHILOSOPHY

I cannot prove I.
Is there no I that is me?
I might not be me.

The only proof that I can offer to myself must come from one of my senses, whether it is a chemical/mathematical/physical study, which I read with my eyes, a test of concreteness, which I feel/taste/smell/hear, etc. Each of these tests is interpreted by the same brain, the same mind, that I am initially trying to prove exists. That is, to begin with an I without an initial proof, I must first assume that there is an I to be proven, and each of my senses is a sense stemming from that assumed I (i.e. that "I see", "I hear", etc...). With this single assumption, I must then try to prove that the I exists. But because all sensory data is simply the I's interpretation of itself, I can only prove I by proving that I am proving I, and I can only prove that I am proving I by proving that I am proving I, etc... The only proof for the argument that "I see" is "I see that I see", then "I see that I see that I see". The argument is stuck in an infinite, recursive loop. The initial I trying to prove itself to itself remains merely an assumption that there is an I to prove, and the proof remains an infinite distance away. Thus, the I that I assume is me may not actually be me.

But if I'm not me,
Then who am I? Am I you?
Existence is strange.

If I am not me, then I could be anything or anyone. I could be you. But then we have the same problem, that is, that there is no proof for this either. You may try to prove to me that you are you by arguing that "you see that you see", but it is the same loop, and even more so, because I can only assume that it is you that is arguing that "you see that you see", for "I hear that I hear that you see that you see". We each are stuck in our own loops, while becoming entwined in eachother's, while both loops could possibly not exist at all. Existence might very well be the proof for nonexistence.

Somehow it matters
That nothing really matters.
But does it, really?

I believe that I think that nothing, ultimately, matters because there is no real proof that anything actually exists. At the same time, I challenge others' beliefs about what matters to them, as though what matters to me, i.e. that nothing matters, somehow matters. Yet I realize that whether or not people meet my challenge of thinking about their beliefs does not matter in the slightest, for even these people could simply be the figment of an imagination which doesn't exist, and thus doesn't matter.

I'm the same as you.
Infinitely different,
Exactly the same.

In order to participate in the world that seems to be around me, I must assume that I exist, and that there is a world that exists around me. We each must make this assumption, as there is, again, no real proof, thus we all are simply the same basic assumption, i.e. an "I" which assumes it exists in an "otherness". Yet through this assumption, each "I", that is, you and I, exists in a different assumed space-time, and so every detail of the initial assumption is completely different, built from the ground up from the wildly different conditions of the assumed space-time. But if our initial assumption of existing in space-time is true, then we all are a part of the same space-time complex, that is, we are each simply self-aware space-time. Thus, either we are all empty assumptions, and thus exactly the same nothingness, or we are all assumed pieces of a meta-whole, and thus exactly the same something-ness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted a few times. I've gone to a few of the parties. I'll probably continue to host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All the surfers I've met have been just awesome, so nothing but great experiences so far.

Interests

Physics, philosophy, writing, reading, systems, recursion from macro to micro, language, human nature, consciousness, self-consciousness, judgments, gods, Tao, spirit, the universe, the concepts of everything and nothing, science, and other stuff.

• writing
• partying
• video games
• reading
• sports
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Dead Prez, The Beatles, The Coup, Barenaked Ladies, Dispatch, Sabac, Guster, Cake, Tupac.
Books: Anything by Terry Pratchett, The Ancestor's Tale, Godel Escher Bach, The House on Pooh Corner, I Ching, Science of Logic, Seymour: An Introduction, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Kockroach, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Stranger, Tao of Physics, Genealogy of Morals, Fear and Trembling, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, Tao Te Ching, The Art of War, The Tao of Pooh, The Fall, The Catcher in the Rye, The Te of Piglet, Franny and Zooey, The Book of Five Rings, Beyond Good and Evil, The Ethics of Ambiguity, Winnie-The-Pooh, Phenomenology of Spirit, The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime, Alice in Wonderland, Why I am Not a Christian, Pride and Prejudice, The Mind's I, Flatland, Freakonomics, The Dark Tower Series, Critique of Pure Reason, Beyond Civilization, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Nine Stories, Waiting for Godot, Ishmael, American Psycho, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Story of B, House of Leaves.
Movies: Kung Fu Panda, Diary of the Dead, Instinct, Bulworth, Whatever Works, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Mist, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Land of the Dead, Tales From the Hood, Fight Club, American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, The Dark Knight, Dawn of the Dead, Religulous, Idiocracy.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Thailand, United States