What’s the one big change you’d expect to actually happen?

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Here’s the problem I see with your Physical Reality ~ Mindscape divide: if a meteor hits Earth, the impact either occurs or it doesn’t. That’s a fact of physical reality, not just a mindscape construct. Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago whether or not any human was there to frame it.

If you say ‘truth only exists within a mindscape,’** then you’d have to accept the absurd consequence** that it wasn’t true dinosaurs went extinct until humans showed up to think about it. That collapses your divide, because the physical world already encodes truths independent of our framing. Our mindscape can only recognize those truths, never invent them. {Cc: YOU MISUNDERSTAND “MIND (SCAPE) - which is nothing more than the totally of your thoughts and emotions. Your particular awareness bubble.} Otherwise, you’re left saying reality has no truths until we arrive, which makes human minds into gods, the very hubris you criticize.

If, you say that sure. But I don’t say that !

First regarding Mind(scape), that is the totality of our thoughts, and perceptions of the physical reality around us. “Our perception” - and our particular perceptions are limited by the physical reality of our particular Being.

My reasoning is pretty straightforward. Every biological creature that has ever lived on this planet, was/is the center of its universe. And the way each of us views our world, is dependent on its body/brain. Central data processing, be it notochord or yet more primitive process, is irrelevant to the basic reality that creature creates its own awareness of the world, via it’s own body interacting with the physical world around it.

Regarding “truth, all I’m saying is truth is meaningless without a specific frame of reference.

Nothing more and nothing less.

The challenge, show me an example where that statement is incorrect.

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That’s a fact of physical reality, not just a mindscape construct.

Stop. The mind(scape") is the totality of your thoughts, for lack of a better term.

That is, how I construe that meteor.

As opposed to the meteor itself, and it’s cascading physical consequences,

If you say ‘truth only exists within a mindscape,’

I don’t say that.

I say that truth requires a frame of reference.

We create those frames of reference within our minds, …

Funny thing, you’re warning me about falling into contrarianism, but I see a streak of that in you too.

True dat. My savings grace has been turning that contrarian streak onto myself too, just as much as toward others. That and being willing to own and learn from mistakes and failures.

Also reflecting on it, it’s helped that I appear to have had an early intuitive appreciation for the physical reality ~ human mind divide, in that my thoughts and living dialogue within me always related to my body as an entity onto it’s own, with internal wisdom light years beyond my grasping. I’m sure it also helped to have an 8 year older athletic brother to highlight body awareness. And a dad with a big pot belly, that I promised myself never ever to develop.

That’s how our lives are, people enter our lives, interact, leave their imprints and so on. I’ve come to appreciate how outrageously lucky I was with the people the universe has put in front of me over the years. Still, When I hit 18 I ran from home, never looking back. Until I did. Not that it was a joy ride, or that I didn’t taste horror, but that what experiencing life is. Then, it took the birth of our daughter to pop my bubble of memory amnesia or whatever. Still, life was too crowded for dwelling on it. It really hasn’t been until these past couple decades, and specially past few years, (now that I got our human condition and who-am-I conundrum figured out), have I really focused a digging down into the memories. It’s incredibly fascinating recognizing the interwoven fickled nature of our lives, and curious way that fortune and misfortune weave that tapestry that is us -

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Oh, speaking of the wonders of Lithium Ion batteries. Now that’s an intelligent way to march into the future. But what do I know. Progress has a price, suck it up. correct?

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A massive lithium-ion battery fire inside a government data center in Daejeon, South Korea crippled nearly all government services. Hundreds of battery packs went into thermal runaway, firefighters fought through the night, and the nation’s digital backbone was left offline. In this video, I break down what happened, why these UPS rooms are being retrofitted with lithium-ion, and why that’s a dangerous trend for critical infrastructure worldwide.

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Indeed . The new sodium ion bats could absolutely dominate grid storage and completely change the power grid in massive ways.
We could have affordable grid storage facilities in the 100’s of GWh range, buying up power when cheap and holding it for days.
Cheap enough energy storage is as big of a game changer as fusion would be…

We could put 50 MWh batteries at EV charging stations and completely remove the high load on the grid and spread it out over the entire day. This could allow DCDC fast charge stations in places where the grid can’t handle directly feeding their max load..

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Absolutely, positively, not a piece of doubt in your mind. If you say so.

… Still, achieving a low-cost contender may be several years away for sodium-ion batteries and will require technological advances and favorable market conditions, according to a new study in Nature Energy.

Sodium-ion batteries are often assumed to have lower costs and more resilient supply chains compared to lithium-ion batteries. Despite much potential, sodium-ion batteries still face an uphill struggle. …

Our first episode covering sodium-ion batteries featured a cautious take on the chemistry: Back in February Adrian Yao, founder of Stanford’s STEER program, explained the challenges of reaching competitive energy density and costs, especially given the falling price of LFP. Still, sodium-ion chemistries are picking up steam, thanks largely to growing deployments in stationary storage and small-scale mobility in China.

So what’s a more bullish take on sodium-ion?

In this episode, Shayle talks to Landon Mossburg, founder and CEO of sodium-ion battery manufacturer Peak Energy. …

Okay that was an interesting introduction

Oh but in the sidebar of that webpage I found this.

Apparently there are some storm clouds, who’da thud it.