Carl-Richard

My relationship with the non-dual state became truly serious once I realized that I didn't want it (or that a big part of me didn't want it). Karma unfolds in very counterintuitive ways sometimes.

Bro, why is this the end of the world? People think you're nice. It's not a big deal, or it is, but it's something you should be happy about. And by the way, Jordan Peterson doesn't say you should generally make people think you're a monster. He says you should be capable of being a monster if the situation calls for it. Until then, you should be nice. 99% of people you meet for the first time should think you're a nice person. If not, you're just an asshole, and not a useful one like JP talks about.

Now I'm confused. I don't see why you're bringing this up.

Basically, when a monkey views the image on the right (a), their visual cortex lights up in a corresponding pattern (b). It shows how the visual aspects of the external world is represented topographically across neurons responsible for visual processes. It's kinda neat.

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I could understand everything he wrote. It seems like a form of psychosis. I've experienced similar things back in my weed days where things take on more meanings than one or the opposite meaning of what is discretely stated. The mind becomes so associative and fluid that normal interactions become not so normal.

The phantom limb one made me go "what?!" ??

The combination of "they're disrespecting the law" and the inability to entertain conceptual abstractions ("stop bringing up alcohol") makes this the most undeniable display of Blue. That's of course only the beginning:

I guess he just surprised me. I subbed to his channel. He is that young and was able to keep his composure perfectly even when the guy ragequit like that.

Something that doesn't look like you spilled coffee on your keyboard.

@Schizophonia Speaking of trolling, your signature doesn't look very... beautiful. Do you mind changing it?

Wh- are you living under a rock? ?

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You continue to make my point for me. Well, then let me talk from personal experience a bit: every time I've ran into the Absolute, it feels like I'm presented with a choice that I can become like that forever, but with some sadness, I decline the offer (because it's just too much for my little ego to bear); in other words, exactly what JP said. That's what I call an enlightenment experience, and that is what I think JP experienced. Sure, it might be the case that JP happened to label his experience in exactly the same way as I did mine purely by accident, but there I'll revert to what I said earlier: I think it's more likely than not that he had an enlightenment experience, based on what he said (and the other things I know about him).

Ground yourself, stop taking drugs.

I desire it. I just can't bear it. It's the moth and the flame.

Do you think people who haven't struggled at some point in their life pursue self-help and write books about it?

My dude, you're the autist here ?

But you think exactly like the YouTube Advaita people, and you presumably started thinking like that because you listened to them, hence my point that you think that enlightenment is something you find through YouTube. "But enlightenment is not a thing to be found". Duh, but you start speaking like a certain group of people when enlightenment is brought up as a topic, and that is what I'm referring to.

From an idealist perspective, the "physical world", including atoms, the body and the brain, are transpersonal mind states ("outside" the individual self) that seem to correlate with personal mind states ("inside" the individual self). For example, you can't read my thoughts right now, because they are my personal thoughts. But my thoughts seem to correlate with what is happening to my body, and other people can see my body, hence it's transpersonal. And all of it; my personal mind, your personal mind, our bodies; occur within a transpersonal "Mind". Why? Because all of it is fundamentally experiential and fundamentally one thing; one big "Mind". What materialists believe is that experiential states arise from some invisible things outside the experiential realm (matter or physical entities) that themselves are not mind. So to apply this to your chelation example: chemical toxicity is a transpersonal experiential phenomena that seems to affect your personal mind, making you think and feel a certain way, and all of it occurs within transpersonal Mind. From this perspective, "the physical world" (atoms, chemicals, etc.) is just a way to talk about some types of transpersonal mind states. I recommend watching Bernardo Kastrup's videos if you have trouble reconciling science with idealism. He certainly helped me a lot, and I see myself in you.

I think it was a seriously unfunny one

Then I can do the work: Using the computer program is generally thought to give a significant systematic advantage. We don't know how much in this case, but still, just in principle, merely using it is considered unfair by most people. Likewise, being assigned male at birth is generally thought to give a significant systematic advantage. We don't know how much in each individual case, but still, just in principle, merely being assigned male at birth (and competing in a female competition) is considered unfair by most people. Any thoughts?

How do you explain natural evolution using physics?

Imagine a chess player who gets caught using a computer program which most likely artificially inflated their Elo rating, but they never "dominated" the sport. Would that be fair?

Ironically, you rarely ever use physics to describe human behavior.