Carl-Richard

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  1. Is that an official report or is it a bystander making assumptions? A violent breakdown on shrooms can easily be mistaken as coke rage.
  2. He is literally on mushrooms. It's the first thing that is said in the video ?
  3. Enlightenment itself is in many ways the opposite of abstract. It's just the thoughts "about" enlightenment that don't follow linear logic, i.e. it has to be intuited. Regardless, sensors and intuitives is not a straightforward dichotomy. You use both functions all the time.
  4. That's exactly why you should be hesitant about blowing away your ego at a young age. You're living in a culture that hasn't integrated psychedelic use at a young age. It's not just about neurons. It's about behavior.
  5. ISTP simply means Ti > Se > Ni > Fe. Ti - internal logical order. Se - specific and concrete perception of external world. Ni - broad & plethoric perception of internal world. Fe - external emotional data & harmony. (https://youtu.be/PQtBUvGK5C0) All MBTI personalities contain both intuitive and sensing functions. They're not all that different. They just emphasize different aspects. We're all humans with brains after all. On that note, ISTP is considered one of the most "intuitive sensors". Don't fall into the trap of assigning some teleological significance to your personality type. INTPs can be mechanics and engineers as well. It's just that some types are more likely to produce certain behaviors than others. It's a cognitive structural model, not a descriptive behaviorist model. Also, consider cross-referencing different models like Big 5 (granted, there are correlations, but no two models are equivalent). For example, you could have an ISTP who scores very high on openmindedness that would be even more likely to be express so-called intuitive behaviors. Not all ISTPs are the same.
  6. You have to factor in the context of Leo speaking to mostly laymen who have an idealized idea of scientists as arbiters of absolute truth. Most of his critique is about undoing that view. You could probably find a decent number of construct aware scientists and philosophers (after all, those are the people who Leo are citing, people like Kuhn, Feyerabend, Capra), but it's not something that is a given. You're generally not incentivized to perform deep metatheoretical investigations as a scientist. The laymen pop-science view is just an exaggerated version of this fact.
  7. Sometimes beautiful things happen. A month ago I found a pot of gold outside my school :
  8. I heard they make great coffee.
  9. Prove that you have something valueable to say.
  10. Intuitives are probably more likely to pursue enlightenment, but that doesn't mean sensors don't pursue enlightenment.
  11. Sure, if you define it that way .
  12. Not all behavior is determined by belief. You have instincts, conditioning, habits.
  13. Does a dog believe it has to bite you when you slap it?
  14. What does this mean in practice? Give an example of a reaction and a non-reaction.
  15. He is so powerful yet so refined. I just watched an entire Strapping Young Lad concert, a bit on the hevydevy side
  16. You can say that your woo-woo detox is an experiment and that you don't believe that it works before you've empirically verified it for yourself.
  17. There are things we usually refer to as non-assumptions in daily language that rely on conceptual constructs, e.g. "statements of fact" (conclusive analytical or synthetical statements). If you want to deconstruct language and concepts, then sure, it's all just assumptions. However, recognize that there are different levels of analysis, different degrees of assumption. The statement "the sun will rise tomorrow" contains a different degree of assumption than simply "the sun rose today".
  18. This is called being young. All young people have some things they're better at than others, because environments like school include all kinds of people with different personality types. When you get older and start pursuing your interests, your environments get more specialized and you start seeing more like-minded people. Then you realize that you're not really that special.