Scholar

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  1. Why does this guy sound so much like Terence Mckenna? Dave is a reactionary, meaning he reacts to the anti-science crowd that will use these types of arguments to invalidate established scientific facts. He is mostly focused on arguing against people who are scientifically illiterate, bad faith or just profoundly stupid. I don't know enough about the topic, from the video it seems like the critique he has provided of Formscape is accurate. Obviously there won't be any deeper philosophical discussions about the limitations and the nature of science, because neither Formscapes nor Dave are interested in that.
  2. Imagine using 5-MeO-DMT for recreation, lol. Kids these days.
  3. Well have fun destroying your brain I suppose.
  4. Why would you do this? We have no idea what this could do to the brain. Why wouldn't you just learn some meditative practice, if you are interested in mild effects?
  5. You are responding to chatgpt lol.
  6. Of course the topic is not to blame, it's the level of consciousness of the people on here. And consciousness of course can be degenerated. It just depends on what you mean by consciousness.
  7. I think this topic actively degenerates the consciousness of anyone on this forum who is engaging in it. There is no maturity to be found here. It's laughable how you guys interact with each other and analyse this conflict.
  8. I'm pretty sure it is related to the brain tingles I get when taking them. It just feels like it targets motivational centers, and the complete annihilation of libido that happens during the trip just continues on. It definitely feels purely like a chemical process happening in the upper part of my brain.
  9. https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/5ad8f5/no_empathy_feel_less_human_after_bad_trip/ Did some research and I found quite a few of these and similar accounts. There is this delusional idea going around as if LSD and psychedelics could not possibly be harmful to users, and that any negative effect is all psychological. People have different brains, and chemicals can have different effects on them. Not everything is some sort of psychological or spiritual phenomena. Sometimes it's just brain chemistry.
  10. Wasn't that a misunderstanding? I think they "slow down" older phones because the updates can cause a lot more battery consumption for those phones, and I think they also might slow down phones once the batteries have lost a certain percentage of capacity. The court case they lost I am pretty sure is because they have not made this clear to consumers, which really is a technicality. It's not like they slow down the phones so they can sell new phones. I am pretty sure other phones have to do this or suffer the consequences of degradation. The apple hate is a little exaggerated to me. Apple definitely has it's advantages and disadvantages.
  11. I didn't get any awakening, it's basically a microdose. And it's definitely something to do with brain chemistry, because it kills my libido as well, completely.
  12. 5g of magic truffels actually caused me the same symptoms. Felt almost identical to a small dose of LSD. Pretty annoying, it seems like serotogenic psychedelics are just causing my brain to get out of balance in some way that takes longer to recover from.
  13. How has self-help degraded so much, lol.
  14. I am not a dualistc, there is no fundamental distinction between experience and neurons because it is all simply existence, in different forms. The relationship between what we interpret as structures in motion and other types forms of existence, like redness, is fundamentally mysterious. It is one of the infinite ways reality can relate to itself, there is no mechanism beyond the relationship itself. The correlation is the relation, there is nothing more to it. Using the structures in motion (as described by a mathematical, physical system) as causation is more useful than other frameworks, because we have no physical way of interacting with something like vision. We cannot alter the structure of the brain by altering the experience. But we do have ways to interact with the physical structures of the brain, and we can alter the experience that way. Causality is fundamentally a construct. All is caused by Infinity, all relationships emerge fundamentally mysteriously. In the end, what is rational and scientific is not about what is real, but about what leads to functional understanding. Because the picture is not information, the picture is what is hallucinated by the brain to turn the information into functional understanding. The picture you see is informed fundamentally by the information from sensory organs, transformed into a different type of informational landscape using a different substance of existance (visuality). This informational landscaped then is processed via interpretation and pattern recognition. You assume I am a naive realistic or a physicalist. My framework is beyond idealism, materialism and physicalism. When I use terms that remind you of these frameworks, it is so that I can have a conversation with you. There is no causing anything, there simply is a relation. It's not a correlation. What I mean by already existing information is information already present in the brain. I could have an out of body hyperreal dream-experience that my brain can fabricate based on information that only exist within it. In fact, I have had hyperreal dreams that looked more real than reality. If I wasn't lucidly dreaming, I would have believed it was an out of body experience. My brain was capable of reconstructing the entire town I live in, in full detail. OOBE most likely are just such dreams, similar to experiences one can have during psychedelic tripping. It's not a correlation, it's a relation. If I hit you on the head, there will be a difference in your experience. That is not merely a correlation, we know there is a direct relationship. A correlation is when there is an apparent relation, but no evidence for an actual relation. But with the brain and experience, we know there is actually a direct relation. It's not a persistent correlate, it is a persistent relation. You have given no evidence for experience that fall outside of this relationship, or cannot be plausibly explained by this relationship. Therefore, positing new relationships is simply unnecessary and would require evidence to support. I had a hyperreal dream where I saw myself in the mirror of my bathroom. There is no reason to think your experience is not merely a dream. I don't have to provide evidence because I am not making claims about new relationships between experience and the world. So far all evidence suggests that the only relationship experience has to the world is the structure of the brain, and this understanding is in unity with our understanding of the physical nature of the universe, biology and so forth. We have not observed phenomena that necessarily fall outside of this understanding. You can of course make any claims about reality you want, but there is no reason to accept them given basic principles of rationality. Eventually we will develop technology that will be capable of visualizing brain activity, converting your dreams into visual information processed by a computer. When that happens, a lot of the spiritual mumbo jumbo will be put to an end, because we will see the out of body experiences. Everyone will have a gadget at home that will be able to record their visual processing, be it stimulated visual processing, imagination, hallcuination or dreams. Neural networks are capable of processing information and dynamically recreating such information using mathematically stochastic dynamics. Meaning we have an expanation for how imagination is possible (how you can see an apple in your mind, and how your mind can create a new apple that it has not see in that exact form before), as well as hyperreal dreams. You also get similar artifacts in dreams as you get in generative AI, something you can observe if you dream lucidly and pay attention to the visual experience. If you want evidence of this you can take a high dose of LSD. Other than that, there is no metaphysical or physical law that prohibits a brain from being structured in such a way that it would translate stimuli received from the eyes into sounds or other types of substances or information landscapes. Google Synesthesia. Animals have far more senses than five senses, so do humans. In the end, the amount of senses we will develop is determined by how many different types of information can be gathered from the environment. Light is prevalent in the environment, and it provides information that is useful for evolution. So do molecules for smell, energy states for temperature and so forth. If there was some sort of aspect to reality that would provide useful information for an evolutionary organism given the presence of sensory organ, it would most likely have evolved. I doubt plants have individuated consciousness, real time information processing does not provide any benefit to them. Because we have no evidence of animals behaving in ways that would suggest they have gathered information outside of the senses we know they have. Even for bird navigation we have found that they have an organ that can perceive the axis of the magnetic field of the earth. So, we did have behavior that was difficult to explain before we had found those organs, but now we no longer observe such phenomena. It is unlikely that we would miss entire spectrums of behaviors in animals that escape the current notions of sensory information processing, given that we have detected behaviors that have eluded us before we have found by what means animals could have gathered such information. Given the potential usefulness of astral projection, we should see behaviors that indicate such information processing far more frequently in nature. Even if this is not definitive evidence, it is one of the dozens of things we understand about nature that makes your hypothesis more and more unlikely. This is why you have to provide extraordinary evidence to actually show us that these phenomena are real, if you want anyone to take you seriously. Yes, what I rely on are the basic tenants of the scientific method and it's institutions. Basically hyperreal dreams. When I speak of information in this context, we are talking about sensory information. The brain can generate new information given already present information in the brain. When you astral projection, your claim is you have astral sensory organs that gather astral sensory information (you claim you see yourself outside of your own body). No, I am not gathering novel sensory information about the world as we speak, outside of my physical sensory organs.
  15. I just have no motivation to engage in autistic debates in this moment of time. I will continue to provide my assertions and people can make up their own minds. Maybe I will respond to this at some other point but honestly, we are talking past each other.
  16. Weed is way overhyped. Most people are too immature to benefit from it, aside from people with specific medical conditions.
  17. I don't know man, might be good to see a doctor. Never know what these chemicals do to your brain.
  18. It's the same with predator catching videos. It just encourages self-righteousness and witch-hunt mentalities. It degrades society.
  19. Jesus Christ these people are lost, lol.
  20. It makes you less emotionally intelligent and lowers your consciousness in general.
  21. It makes you dumber.
  22. I want to try exercise and maybe cold showers to put me in a nice frame of mind. What other kinds of tricks have you found that improves the trip experience?
  23. Because evolution exploits everything it can, that is how it works. And we are talking about something that seems to be accessible without much modification of the brain even. I would imagine there would be all types of brains and organs that would evolve that are just astral projecting and acquiring information that way.
  24. There is no need to be lucid in the dream. There is no need to escape nightmares. It's okay to be afraid when the tiger is trying to kill you. Lucidity is optional.