DefinitelyNotARobot

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  1. @Razard86 Here is a neuroscientist who, through his work with brain scans, has discovered that he himself is a psychopath. He goes into detail into how psychopathy works and gives some insight into what separates him from a serial killer:
  2. @Razard86 From your perspective! I agree that killing babies is evil, but that's my human bias. It's literally wired into our bodies. Do you ever hear a baby crying in public and you feel distressed? You probably can't help yourself but to share the baby's distress in that moment. But that's you and me. Some people are wired differently. You could say that they're color blind when it comes to the feelings of others. They don't have the capacity the get a true insight into the feelings of others. The point is that you project your relative point of view onto the "evil" person. If you were them, you would not perceive yourself as such. If they were you, they would understand themselves to be evil. Don't take your ability to distinguish between good and evil for granted. It's a gift of the highest love, allowing you to perceive dimension of reality inaccessible to some. Think about what kind of lonely existence it must be to not feel anything even for a baby. That kind of existence doesn't allow for any true intimacy to occur. So meet this gift with love rather than to impose it onto others. There is nothing wrong with judging something to be evil, but we should so from a place of mindfulness and acceptance. That way we can start to approach this problem and find long term solutions. There is nothing you can do for an evil person, but there are things you can do to help the mentally unstable. Preventive measures have to be taken in order to help these people develop into functional human beings, which simultaneously benefits their potential future victims.
  3. Bias. How do YOU make ANY decisions considering that there are an infinite amount of variables at disposal at any given time? Your mind basically needs to seperate relevant information from irrelevant information to reduce the processing cost, which it does through bias.
  4. Beautifully said. Thanks.
  5. My great grandparents (who're still alive) were part of these purges. They're originally from the Ukraine, but were taken away from their homes and translocated over to Kazakhstan. Their families served the Soviet colonialization of Kazakhstan. They support Putin. You would think that people who were traumatized by the Soviets would be more skeptical of the Russian agenda, but they actually see themselves as Russian, which is mind-boggling to me. I think a big part of it has to do with Russian propaganda, but I can't solely blame the propaganda on it, because it itself is a byproduct of the Russian culture having a desire to establish itself as a power in the world. This requires blind trust of the people, which they seem to be more than willing to give. I just wonder what it would take, for Russia to be satisfied with its geopolitical situation. Does Russia merely fight to survive, or does it aim to be THE biggest nation in the world.
  6. This makes me wonder: What are the applications of the conscious leadership you've been talking about? I suppose that what makes Putin a "great" leader isn't the fact that he is a "conscious" leader, but the fact that he understand precisely what level of consciousness he has to appear at in order to serve his agenda and his nation. He understands the collective needs of his people and answers to them on a tangible level, instead of pursuing some "lofty progressive ideals" (that's would be the Russian perspective). Russians generally tend to value hard work, tangible results, analytical thinking over empathy and being a man of your word. Putin gives this culture what it needs. That makes him a "great" leader, but how could you fit in the idea of "conscious" leader ship in an environment as such? Your ability to be a conscious leader seems to intersect with the collective consciousness of your environment, in that being too highly conscious in a low consciousness environment might get you killed (I mean that's especially true on the absolute level as you couldn't even hold on to your physical level as you approached higher and higher levels, but this also seems to reflect on how the relative world works). You could distill this question down to: If being a high conscious leader bared risks relative to your environment, would it actually be wiser to let yourself down to a lower state of consciousness, or would a conscious leader not negotiate on their truth? Where is the split-off between "great" and "conscious" leader ship?
  7. Then don't. I'm not forcing you to grow as a person.
  8. If we've observed one thing from all the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, it's that AI evolves faster than we can anticipate. I remember the first image generation tools a few years back. They sucked ass. They couldn't even create a simple, coherent image of a horse. Nobody back then predicted that this technology would make the jump that it did with DALL-E and Midjourney. In just a couple of years this technology went from being completely unusable to having a commercial use. There is no telling how far it will go in the next 26 years. I'm actually 26, meaning that AI will have the entirety of my life time to evolve to the year 2050. Considering that commercial AI has been available only for like 15% of my life time (and how far it has come in that time frame), I think the chances that it will exceed our expectations are quiet big.
  9. What does it take to build that skill in your opinion?
  10. The level of irony is superb. How are you going to call out other people for suposedly gaslighting you (when they didn't) while ACTUALLY gaslighting someone else in the very next post? You've got to deal with your issues and stop protecting them onto other people dude. People who believe that everyone around is constantly trying to manipulate them are either really insecure, projecting their own manipulative personality, or both. Try to do better than that.
  11. @LSD-Rumi I was talking about Snowden.
  12. @Bobby_2021 Why would they kill Snowden? I feel like he is of no threat anymore. Assassinating him would in fact be a bad idea, because it could sour tensions with Russia even further and would be bad publicity. I think American leaders are not stupid enough to risk such things over basically nothing.
  13. You would be a radically different person if you didn't grow up where you grew up. Just one person missing from your past might cause you to conceive of life entirely different. A human is a very intricate system and minor experiences can have a major impact later on. Imagine if you woke up in 2014 with your current memories. Would you still remember all the steps you would need to take in order to get where you are right now in life? Or would your life turn out differently?
  14. Why would it?
  15. According to your definition of evil. Such people may not see themselves as evil. What if there is a Schizophrenic and they believe that they've got to kill babies in order to keep the anti-Christ from being born? Would they believe themself to be evil?
  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction
  17. @Asia P Moisture, high temperatures and exposure to light can have a negative effect on their potency and even make them go bad.
  18. Well genetically related to the chimpanzees by 96% or so, so I wouldn't be too sure about that.
  19. I understand, but it's kind of reductionistic because it doesn't tell me anything about why that process unfolds in such a way. Is it just one specific way life unfolds, or is there something deeper and more fundamental that we can learn from all of this?
  20. I don't think they're going anywhere. The most dangerous thing to podcasts is Tik Tok and the fact that it'll erode the attention span of the next few generations, making it impossible for them to sit through a 2 hour video... lol But even then podcasts will be amazing for getting rid of the silence whenever you're doing something that requires your attention. They've definitely certified themselves as a form of mainstream media. Everybody is doing it at this point.
  21. What are genes/genetics exactly? Are genes simply the way life expresses within this particular reality, or does all life depend on some kind of instructions? I'm asking because you seem to have a new found interest in genetics. But what are the deeper mechanics of how mind limits itself through this specific process? I think it's an idea worth exploring as far as understanding this reality goes, but you don't strike me as the person to be interested in something unless there is something deeper. So what exactly is the depth of your interest in this subject?
  22. It's interesting to see how even things such as liquid and electricity are trying to survive in some kind of stable state of equilibrium, just like intelligent life.
  23. I feel asleep at 8PM on Monday and slept all the way through to 10AM WEDNESDAY! That's 38 hours of sleep... The whole entire time I... well I went through fucking hell. I saw everything and nothing. I can't even give a proper report, because there is nothing for "me" to report on except for utter confusion. Imagine being trapped insight a Salvia trip for 38 FUCKING HOURS! It was absolute madness. There were no deep insights. There was no healing being done. It was just infinity. Spirals and fractals were big themes. All I can really remember is laying in bed as my whole sense of reality started moving in a spiral pattern. You could say that it was as if it was being dragged into a vortex, or some kind of black hole. It kept going faster and faster and faster. It didn't stop. The swirling became so fast that my reality couldn't hold itself together anymore. Then it was ripped into an infinite amount of confetti, each piece representing an infinite amount of realities. I BECAME speed itself! I was motion itself and felt all the speed in every reality all at once. That were the last bunch of images I can still stich together into a coherent image. Everything after that is just too vast to capture. It was such a powerful, energetic and brutal experience. Imagine experiencing the energy behind the death of every star in every reality all at once. That's how I would describe it in terms of power. I feel slight trauma. Nothing I can't handle, but I'm glad that my mind can't remember anything. The few images I still have in my head are traumatizing enough. When I woke up it felt like I hadn't slept at all. I still feel fucking tired. What a trip...
  24. I kind of agree and disagree with him saying that what we perceive now isn't absolutely true. Form doesn't disprove the formless. This right here, right now IS the absolute, so I disagree there, but it can only be realized if you stop taking this moment as absolute. You can't capture the absolute in an image, because it has no substance or form to it, so the best image is no image at all, just ride the wave as it goes. So I agree if what he's trying to say is that you should throw away your images of the now and try to look at it as if you were witnessing it for the first time.
  25. This experience actually reminded me of this drawing from a Junjiro Ito managa, but on a cosmic scale: Imagine that, but that whole structure is made from your previous reality and each spiral represents a different, infinite reality.