questions i am thinking about

1. what is the meaning in/of life?
2. why do people do the things they do?
3. how are certain (societally evil) acts justified by people?
4. is there good and evil? (i'm inclined to believe not)
5. is love just chemicals?
6. why is alcohol so popular? why do i drink it? why do i continue drinking it?
7. can i just troll? like can i just troll life? why do i need to tick boxes or get a girlfriend or whatever? who's keeping track.
8. how can we really treat mental health problems?
9. what will be the most important values/skills in the future?
10. why do i really dislike labels?
11. how much pain can i tolerate? (id like to take a version of the pain fabrial test from dune)
12. how do i find the people who i really want to talk to? also the people who will help me to answer the meaning of life question.
13. why have i not ever idolized anyone? why hasn't there been anyone i aspire to be like?
14. why am i so enamoured by love, intimacy?
15. what can i do now that might be the best decision in hindsight? (intrinsically unanswerable!)
16. were humans meant to work this hard?
17. if we didn't have language, would calculus exist?
18. is gossip ethical? if so, to what extent?
19. why is friendship deteriorating? why are we all so romantic?
20. do i want to be immortal?
21. can i bear to be responsible for another human being?
22. is the point of philosophy to just hone instincts? in the end, do we all just do things because we feel like it, disregarding all ideologies/philosophies/moralities?
23. what is inside a black hole?
24. is there afterlife?
25. how important is beauty?
26. if attention/memory are indicators of consciousness and we are losing both rn then are we on the path to becoming less conscious?
27. how important is memory? what if we put a chip in the brain and almost anything is instantly recallable?
    my thoughts

    I really want to understand memory, and whether it's possible to make it infinitely better: either by prosthesis of some kind for our brains or something else.

    My interest stems from something called Tools for Thought (I recommend reading: How can we develop transformative tools for thought?). Being good at a lot of the sciences sometimes just means memorising stuff in a certain pattern. I.e., being good at special relativity requires having done classical mechanics, calculus, electromagnetism basics, etc; being good at each of those things in turn requires having done other things. Hence, being good at special relativity is just having done and having memorised all these subsets of concepts.

    Also, I would like to remember beauty better and more vividly; remember my friends and their mannerisms and the moments we shared better. Like I think of my favourite book from 5 years ago, I barely remember anything about it. This saddens me.

    Neuralink is very interesting to me, I intuit that a chip in the brain and the ability to access the internet in real-time might be the key to memory. I have moments when I know what I want to say but I can't think of the right word. What if I could! This gives me goosebumps :)