Carl-Richard

I believe genetics often dictate whether you do the right things intuitively, like deconstruction. Meanwhile some need a prompt to do the right things and suddenly they get many benefits. Then some maybe struggle doing the right things. Genetics is also a crude way of looking at it. You might actually have spent decades meditating in a past life and you pick up where you left off. Somebody posted pictures of a child prodigy painter in another thread. The things they drew when they were four-five years old makes you think they definitely had some past life experience. Another painter Jan Esmann said he was a painter in at least one of his past lives, and he is of course a master. He was also on the spiritual path for many lifetimes, which also would explain his insane experiences.

But then you of course have to subtract something. I don't think subtraction of fructose would be a good idea. What fruits can you eat?

Damn. A literal construction metaphor for explaining deconstruction 😆 Very sound.

I just thought that to choose between fluoride toothpaste and hydroxyapatite toothpaste is like choosing between a lambo for your teeth and lambo for your brain. You can drive a good ol' Hyundai or Volvo and get good mileage with that, you just don't get a supercar. So do you want lambo teeth and volvo brain or lambo brain and volvo teeth? And if you think having lambo teeth is mandatory, what about fuking Jumbo jet teeth with strontium chloride toothpaste, hmm?? That's a real thing.

I just learned that the word "health" stems from the word "whole". Health is holism. That's amazing.

I'm primarily a psychology guy but with specialization in neuroscience. My masters now is an RCT and an fNIRS study on a kind of music+mindfulness practice. I did an interview about it here (it's in Norwegian but there are English subtitles):

You think I will give that shit away for free? 🤣 I'm in the same boat, soon. Do you have any ideas yourself? 😂

Sense of self is unhappiness. But if you deconstruct your sense of self and you live in a sewer or a public toilet from a horror movie, it won't be too fun, but you'll not be too unhappy about it.

Generally the more often you use it, the less mystical and more degenerate you become.

That's a new one. Yup. Quitting weed is not just quitting a bad habit. It's quitting a lifestyle. It's altering your personality. Even if you only smoke once a week or once a month, that shit stays in your system for at least a week and passively works on your brain.

I bought some of Dr. Collins Biomin Restore without fluoride as recommended by Bryan Johnson. I was hesistant in buying it, considering hydroxyapatite nanoparticles sounds spooky. But I figured it's probably better than fluoride (for your brain, maybe not for your teeth). Then I realized one ingredient, titanium dioxide, is now banned in the EU since 2022 from foods and supplements, including toothpastes. It ironically also comes in the form of nanoparticles, and that's what is thought to be some of the reason why it is cytotoxic in vitro and labelled as a carcinogen. Funnily, my brother read the tube once and he blurted out "titanium dioxide?!" with a chuckle, probably because he works with titanium, but the implication was also "that surely can't be good for you...". And that was my feeling too. So I looked it up, and here we are. So does anybody have any alternative fluoride-free hydroxyapatite toothpastes they use without titanium dioxide? 😊 Or do you guys in the US not care about EU regulations? 😆

I just had a realization with ChatGPT: If you ever use ChatGPT to troubleshoot softwares that you enter code in like MATLAB but where you also tend to use GUIs, just ask it to literally solve your problem. Don't ask it (unless that is your main problem) if you need to e.g. update your software or how to make the software find the correct file or library or how to get a program that isn't running to run so that you can do the thing yourself the proper way. Just "I have this problem and I need this to happen instead. Plz fix". And it will just hack the program for you. All I needed was essentially a color to change on some visual model because the GUI had some bug that didn't let me change the color, and I tried to go through so many hoops together with GPT to fix that bug, but when I simply said "I want this color to be this", it just gave me a few lines of code and boom. (It was a little more complicated than that; through some trial and error, I found out I had to change the very bottom of a color spectrum to another color. But still, this was after presenting my problem directly).

It's actually ridiculous how prevalent "it's all in your head" is as a heuristic for people. Even my mother who is a doctor, when I say I feel different after taking a multivitamin (and many other things), she has this knee-jerk response of "yeah, the placebo effect is real". And I'll have to say like "ok, if you're deficient in vitamin D, will you not feel that?". Also, even if something is "all in your head", it doesn't actually matter. If something has an effect you can notice, then that is incredible and should be celebrated. Secondly, literally everything is "in your head"; the placebo effect is constant. Even if you take a drug like heroin, you don't know how much of it is in your head and how much of it is "real". Certainly with drugs or vitamins, the correct assumption is that it has a real effect and a placebo effect, but you just don't know how much of which. Besides, SSRIs are only 2% better than placebo, so so much for "real" effects. So "it's placebo" is not really a good reason for doing anything, maybe unless you're a cancer patient who needs brain surgery and not apple juice.

Are you taking any medication?

People who don't smoke and get offered a joint are notoriously bad at getting high. It's mainly a mechanical skill problem of inhaling it. That's why I didn't think I got high the first time I tried it. There is also pharmacological sensitization that occurs after repeated use (your body becomes more efficient at responding to it), but I don't think matters a lot if you just inhale enough. I've gone from smoking weed multiple times a day without getting any "effect" from it (but I was of course perpetually high but adapted to it), and then I've also gone straight into ego death from it. It depends very much on your life situation, psychological and physical health, regularity of use, other psychedelic use, meditation ability, etc.