Christopher Nolan

The Missing Key to Understanding Christopher Nolan (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90m6Hb6_j20)

What is the ideology of Nolan’s movies?

  • Non-chronological movies
  • Characters are engaged in deception
  • Characters cannot obtain knowledge of objective reality
  • “Reality is constructed in our mind” It is subjective
  • Our memory is a collection of notes and ideas
  • Embrace the existential meaning of our subjectivity
  • “We have to live as if some things are true” a Kierkegaardian “leap of faith”
  • Acknowledgment of beliefs allows to look inwards

How Nolan writes (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJi_78XUVg)

  • A Story that is a labyrinth
  • Cross-Cutting: Shepard Effect utilized from music, a corkscrew effect, a continuing rise (Inter-cutting Scenes)
  • Scene-Geography
  • Doesn’t use zoom-lenses, changes performances
  • Real locations (the texture of real life)

Death of a Star

  • Celebrities are nowadays more accessible, thus more human
  • The status of being a star is levelled?
  • Social Media celebrates the normal people
    People who have no skills and accidentally became famous
    Everyone could do it
  • See Colin and Samir

“I am a Brain in a Vat”

Why does the sentence have to be false?

Putnam’s Argument

  • Can we say: “Brains in a Vat”?
  • The idea causes a contradiction: We can only be brains in the vat within in the current simulation
  • Thus, the sentence does not represent reality but represents whatever is in the simulation
  • It follows that we are not brains in a vat

Note

Does from that follow that we are not exposed to another form of exposure?

Speed Cleaning

General Rule: 10-Minutes-Cleaning every day should be enough to have a clean house

Motivational Cleaning Video

Speed Cleaning Tipps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Qkg7Qm3RY

  • “Time is a non-renewable resource”
  • Clean in an S-Shape
  • Use a flashlight to check for crumbs
  • Don’t clean surfaces twice

  • Get a clean-up-basket with items
  • Spray things, let it soak, do other things, then clean
  • First tidy up, then clean
  • Clean from top to bottom
  • Set a 15 Minute Timer

  • Set a timer
  • Spray first, wipe from top to buttom

For Professional Amateurs:

Tipps

  • Get a cleaning apron
  • Get bigger sponges and bigger mops

How to Mop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YQBCkphiU

How to put on Clean Gloves (Looking for a hack)

  • I need answers for that one

Imaginary Objects (Meinong)

Meinong:

  1. Absistence – Anything you can think about (“Meinong’s Jungle”)
  2. Subsistence – things like numbers – just that in the physical world
  3. Existence – empirical world things

Universes of Discourse

  • “you’re holding your mind an incredible number of propositions that are specific to different universes and figuring out exactly what would be true if those universes were combined”

Watched Movies and Critiques

RedLetterMedia – best movie critical talk

Total Recall

Great Summary of the movie. I never realized how brutal it is.

Independence Day

  • Cheesy surprise moment: “[On the phone shocked] ‘say that again'”
  • Jeff Goldblum reminds everyone to recycle
  • Dumb chess metaphor: “positioning their pieces until their ready … “CHECKMATE”
  • Alians “use our sattelites” because they cannot talk to each other

Diary April 2022

04.01.22

Hystamin-Intolerance (Oranges) – Ein Körper, der juckt. Did I pick the wrong soul-suit? Nature producing failed corpses? Its not entirely a monday-model, but I would prefer Apple over Huawei

Ein Platz in der Welt

05.04.22

  • I broke my scheme buying high selling low.
  • Beauty beats all privileges
  • The UN is useless with its safety counsel
  • The victims of Russias crime are shocking, but the more it is that Russians in their majority don’t believe it

What is the Internet?

Motivation: It seems the answer is very simple

Wikipedia defines: the Internet as “a global system … of interconnected computer networks” carrying “a vast range of information resources and services”, we have to attribute here that it also invests in a large amount of misinformation and leads to eroding institutions, the machine exploits information, attention by its allgorythmic structure, one person inventing copy paste, the “down swipe, scrolling and the person who invented the like button”

The internet is a connection of human actions. Without humans who use the internet, the internet disappears. Disregarding its Hardware it is filled with human spirit. It is the form of a specific sort of human material.

Thesis: The Internet improves our understanding of the world

Explanation: The internet makes deeper analysis of information quickly available.

Example: Especially Youtube gives individual arguments a platform. An Analysis of John Williams Jurassic Park Theme

Counter-Argument:

  1. At the same time the internet produces more noise that needs good filtering mechanisms.
  2. A lot of analysis are just superficial, real research still does not appear.