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Maybe that's the kind of insight people (Leo) talk about when they say it's hard or impossible to verbalize. Will listen to it tomorrow when I am fresh.

Cool, how many trips did it take you to get there?

Do you still feel fear when it comes up?

There are many very intelligent animals on earth like parrots or ravens who have a small brain and pretty dumb animals with a big brain like crocodiles or ostriches. My question is, is it possible in theory to have a very very intelligent creature with a very small size? Analogous to how old computers are often huge but have relatively very little power and nowadays devices like the smartphone have x100 that power with :100 the size. I am asking because that could be a solution for climate change. With gene manipulation we could simply make ourselves shrink a shitton so we have a lot more resources on earth.

Oh I see. But I think there is even value in contextualizing it in this absurd way otherwise the gravity and also the ethical consequences of such experienced aren't properly put on the point. So: I always interpreted time in how much you experienced. If you experienced a lot you experienced more time in your life. On the other hand if you have a very dull experience of life that still gives you unique states of consciousness. If you work at the same supermarket for 30 years it will feel very unique. A person who worked there for 20 years won't quite know how that feels like. So in that sense everything arranges itself back. Some states of consciousness are more pricy time wise. A person who spent 30 years of their adult life traveling the world, doing a different job every year, being an astronaut and having kids and whatever will have experienced the same amount of time as a person who spent 30 years of their life doing the same job and living by themself in an apartment playing video games, because the unique sense of folornness and apathy this person might experienced had a high price money wise while the other persons experiences each had a low cost money wise. Thats how I see it on a sober level. So it makes sense I think to speak of time on this level. But what if on a psychedelic state and that's what I wanna know if that's possible you actually experience the unique state of consciousness of how it actually feels like to work in a store for 30 years? Then there is no way that this arranges itself back, that person straight up experienced 30 years more.

@Leo Gura So does this add 30 years of life on his life span on an actual level?

I would think that other creatures have very different intelligence and therefore very different forms of technology than we have. So I think it's unlikely that they used genetic manipulation, as manipulation is a very human like attribute. But maybe natural evolution.

Oh okay, perhaps then. True, that's possible, it's also possible that it would have zero effect. But it does show for sure that you can have above intelligence in a tiny body.

Sure but it's an option. Can be plan z buts its an option in the toolbox. You are right actually, most birds have bigger brains then crocodiles.. Yes but also shape. The cerebral cortex is strongly folded which gives it more surface for neural connections. If you apply math here a little I think you could really get a lot out of little volume.

Are you sure? You generally become bigger when you have a good upbringing. And a good upbringing generally comes with better education. And better education produces more intelligence. She has a masters degree in English literature so she must have at least a decent iq. Thats what inspired my thought actually. She already seems functional, if we breed for that on purpose and also use genetic engineering we could really create something I think. Idk. but also the bigger the system the more surface there is to attack it. Otherwise kids would all die from every disease with their small size. I agree it's not straightforward at all though. But it could potentially work.

Exactly. Look at big cities, we already killed almost everything there that isnt human so it wouldn't be a huge step. You could probably design nets that keep bigger animals away so we can enjoy the sky. Yes it might take up more resources per cubic meters to create a safe environment but we would need way less place in terms of surface but also in terms of height. A human building that has place for 1 human could potentially have place for 100 shrunken creature if they are 1/10 of the size. This way we could just leave giant nature reserve on earth and would still have way more place on earth.

Thanks! why?

Nightgame Day09: I have a lot to do at my theatre atm so I haven't been going out lots lately. It was a great time to see how clubbing changed my character though. The first two days I was super confident and excited and I could read social cues super fast. One day I had such a charisma it seems that random people just smiled at me and I smiled back. Then after a few days I lost pretty much all my charisma. I was also sick which could have contributed but its mostly that my mindset changed because I didn't need to gain attention as much as before and I got in old patterns. I absolutely hated it and was pretty disappointed with myself. Yesterday though the girl from a night before (the night where I got like 6 numbers and was absolutely on fire) randomly asked me if I want to go to a concert with her for free because a friend of her cancelled. That was exactly what I needed. I still couldn't get in the vibe for like 10 hours, I was so back in my numb victim mindset kind of crab. After the concert she wanted to party. I was kind of afraid to party in my home town because I knew so many people there and was afraid to meet them because I didn't want anyone to see me fail. The first nightclub we went to was almost empty. Although I didn't know anybody it was a bad place to do pickup because literally everybody would see me do it and there weren't even enough girls to get warm. So we went to a second club. That club was fuller (not good full though). I became super conscious of everything on lost my chill mindset. I knew that in Berlin everything I did there would stay there so I didn't care about rejections as much. Now in my home town I was way more afraid to look like a creep. I opened just one girl. The rest of the time I just danced. Even though that didn't work out well the next day my mood self confidence skyrocketed again. Idk if it's game or just the appreciation of people in my life that elevate my self confidence so much.

I will probably expose myself to massive nightgame experience for the next 3 weeks so this thread will stay fresh. I dont want to put it in Self-Actualization journal because I want to get lots of feedback. My strategy at the moment is to go solo. I drive 2 and a half hours with the train to a big city, party there the whole night and drive back in the morning for 2 and a half hours. Nightgame Day1 My plan was to find a club in Berlin, go in there, dance a little and then spend the rest of the night at the train station until my train arrives. A step small enough for me to execute on. Well I kinda overshot that. (The first club that I found was a very weird place. It kind of had a prison theme with lots of dark corners. The music was loud hell music. Way more hellish than any heavy metal. It seemed like a very pro sex and drugs place, at least you could get flyer for drugs, condoms and even pipes to sniff for free. But the music was just way to shit so I left that place after 10min even though I spent 22€ for entrance. The next club I waited in line for seemed like a LGBTQ supporting club which I didn’t mind but after I saw that the vast majority of people were guys I talked to some people in line and it seemed it was a gay club.) So after a little break I went to a third club. I almost didn’t get in because the owner said there are too many guys in there already but because I went alone it was okay. Only 12€ entrance this time thank god. The club seemed super nice. One dance floor but super swaggy DJ, fancy sexy dancers. The people there seemed to be at least mid twenties, many in their thirties. So I was one of the youngest guys there. One guy seemed really angry at me for no particular reason. He did shadow boxing right behind me and always gave me that look. I just avoided him. I had no interest to fight. And I just started dancing as planned. It felt okay, not much anxiety tbh apart from that one aggressive guy. But then there was this hot girl which seemed interested. The body language seemed like she was interested but she never gave me even a little eye contact. I can’t work with that. I saw a lot of guys doing ballzy approaches. She probably got bored and I felt bad about myself. I just couldn’t bring myself to do a ballzy approach. But then came another girl, we just looked ourself in the eyes, I put on a natural flirting look, she came closer, I touched her shoulders then she turned around and I grabbed her waist. Seemed totally cool. I got some great eye contact game it seems. I actually got myself to approach the other girl a little later, not in a ballzy way but just facing towards her and coming closer. She avoided eye contact again and seemed uninterested and I quickly but confidently turned around which seemed to work as a hard to get game technique because it seemed she was interested again. But she didn’t give me eye contact and I didn’t make the ballzy move. Then there was another girl, she gave me the right eye contact, I pulled her pretty ackwardly to the dance floor and she rejected me. Totally cool, with experience I will become more confident and will know what to do. Then a girl on an elevated platform gave me eye contact and we kinda bonded in like 3 seconds. She hugged me and got really physical with me. But then another guy battled for her and really gave it all. It was a bit of back and forth and one moment where she made clear that she wanted to have a threesome by being touchy with both of us at the same time. I didn’t like the competition really. So I danced with another girl and we got physical super fast. I pulled her towards me, she got kind of sexual so I grapped her hip and slapped her ass and pressed my dick against her vagina. She pulled me and said that we can go to her place. But then she said that I should take her friend (the girl before as the is super horny right now). I was so in the mood that I didn’t even really care about giving away my secured sexual opportunity. I tried to get the girl in a very non ballzy way but the other guy had her secured. He earned it though. There weren’t many attractive girls at the end any more but I enjoyed dancing till the club closed. I did this all sober. I actually felt good and safe enough that I feel like I could do this on psylocibin. I felt really bad emotionally for the last days but this really brightened my mood. Being true to what you want from life really makes you happy.

Or we create another species so that the other species saves our ass. The human mind is worthy as it is probably. Especially for creatures with other types of intelligence. So we could co-exist.

Movie idea: It's the year 2300. Through abusing our environment too much climate change got enough momentum that it whipped out most of the human population on earth, except for a few thousands who barely hang on but they know humanity is doomed for good. Because they have nothing better to do they create a new intelligent small species which will be their successor. A mix of strong melancholic episodes with reflexions what humanity is and where it went wrong (maybe with film material of humanity for the new species and lots of material of the greatest scientific achievements, the biggest novels, the best philosophies...) opened with intense feelings of unconditional love in the creation process of the new species.

Food sourcing is not the only factor but a significant one. But when we shrink in size I think all other environment factor become better also. We dont use up as much energy to drive with a car for example cause we will have tiny ones that use up less energy.

We would make a new artificial environment just like we did it today. With technology we could still dominate earth no problem. You could still drive a tank with tiny fingers. Actually our potential might even increase. There are limitations to size from gravity. The speed of a train in its current size is limited but if we shrink ourselves, relatively speaking we can drive much faster. Imagine being the size of an ant and driving with a Japanese speed train. And we would be hyper efficient. Imagine how easy it is to feed everybody. We would have a tier 2 society easily. That would be such a great Disney movie idea, so much world building potential. Interesting thought. I am no biologist, perhaps that's true. There are many changes you have to do when you want to change to a mouse or even ant size, cause gravity hits different and other factors.

My assumption was that he set a standard for himself that he couldn't meet. Maybe barely getting anyone to understand his highest teachings maybe. What I think which is maybe the most important thing is that he is a role model for philosophers. Even if very few people understand what he is teaching when he inspires many people to contemplate for themselves from scratch he will light the candle for massive spiritual growth down the line.

I hope so ?

Good because that makes it more likely that other psychedelics will be allowed?

But the percentage is much higher.

Reality is made out of weirdness: Reality is made out of weirdness. A scratch, warmth, spit in your mouth, whatever sensation (although the smaller and more subtle ones are suited better for this realization) it may be, when you inspect it subtly and very closely and not give it names it becomes mysterious and weird and loses all its normalness. Everything around is simply seems to be normal, but it's actually very mysterious and weird. As if you take things out of reality when you inspect them long enough.

That might be the solution for overpopulation. Let's just all become smaller so we dont take away that many resources.

I know I know.. Restricting a restricted diet even more sounds very dangerous. It's also the diet that most ex-vegans on YouTube say they followed. But there are good and bad ways in executing this diet and given that everybody here likes to share his own unique take on diets I thought I share this very unique diet as I also have personal experience with it. What is a raw vegan diet? -Its vegan (duh) -It includes only raw food. Raw food is defined as food that isn't heated more then 42 Degrees as going above that the heat kills the living enzymes. So all that is left is fruits and salad? These foods can certainly be included but they shouldnt make up the bulk of the diet, otherwise you are just going to starve yourself to death. You can include nuts (sprouted), seeds (sprouted) and grains, pseudo-grains, lentils, peas and beans also all in sprouted form as most of them loose their toxicity when they are sprouted. Avocado and Olives have a special place in this diet. Tempeh and soy joghurt are also allowed because they have living bacteria. There is even raw vegan protein powder. You should of course supplement vitamin B12 and Omega3 at least. (98% raw vegan is still raw vegan) So it's not really about being limited in your food choices. You are rather limited in your meal choices because not being able to heat things up makes cooking really hard. Some things you can do is muesli (sprouting grains and then drying them), smoothies and smoothie bowls, crackers (dried grains and seeds) with avocado or raw nut butter, salads (with a focus on avocados or olives for calories or a raw high calorie salat dressing), raw vegan trail mix (out of dried sprouted grains, nuts, sunflower seeds..). For my personal experience. I did this diet for about a year. My diet consisted mostly of 500g sprouted buckwheat (raw mass) and 200g sprouted lentils (raw mass). Also some nuts, fruits and raw veggies. I made two giant meals out of it which was absolute madness as it killed my gut. I also trained in the gym at the time and managed to put on some muscle mass. Even though I get stomach pain just thinking about the time there were still some upsides to the diet. For one I was always very awake. When you eat cooked food you always feel a bit dizzy and tired after it. It's so normal that we don't even think about it anymore. But with the raw vegan diet I never felt tired after a meal. I could eat 2000 calories of sprouted buckwheat and I could feel my stomach working but I didn't feel tired in the slightest. I also had pretty good skin at the time. For people who can work with lots of raw fiber and plan their diet a bit smarter (smaller meals with more frequency and a bit less sprouts for nuts or avocados) this diet can certainly work.