Carl-Richard

It's possible to feel a stone as yourself.

"So guys, I defeated all these nazis in debate. Now, do you want some God in your life?" ?

Relative/absolute conflation. The concept of hallucination is fine. It's just that some people (including scientists) have a completely vacuous definition of it. For instance, there are some hallucinatory phenomena that could be completely unproblematic in a clinical context and some that could make it completely impossible. You can also distinguish it from general "trippiness".

You said it's not a gender issue but an agreeableness issue. That is not true. There are many more factors associated with gender and the pay gap. I'll answer with a question: What rights do blacks have in america in 2021 that whites do not? If they have the same rights, why are millions protesting on the street? It's just not that simple. You can't take a single factor like laws on paper or agreeableness and try to explain complex systemic issues like gender or racial equality. Now, attempts to solve these problems may involve looking at single factors, which initially works as symptomatic relief, but in doing so, it hopefully leads to systemic change in the long-term.

Agreeableness is one factor. Reality is much more complex than that. Unless you have the numbers, I doubt that agreeableness accounts for all the variance in the gender pay gap. Monofactorial explanations is basically unheard of in the study of social systems.

Still after that though, I heard him give a pretty milquetoast take on consciousness on one of his podcasts.

While that is true, I could never see him having a discussion about Tier 2 metaphysics.

Start reading about the first feminists in history and work yourself towards today's feminism and see if you can find where they supposedly went wrong. Simone de Beauvoir is a good place to start.

I'm not enlightened, because I fear it, but I can tell you that there is nothing to worry about regarding "functioning". If anything, you'll function better.

Duh. There is no you ?

This guy streams his study sessions every day. Makes me genuinely more motivated to read every time it pops up.

@Leo Gura

My philosophy professor randomly put this in a powerpoint when talking about hypothetical vs. categorical imperatives He is such a funny guy.

When "trigger hallucinations" is used in this way, it just screams 1960s stuck-up news broadcasters and drug scare stories. The ignorance ?

There are no persons. There is no you. There is only God.

Meditation alone is curative.

If you're already solid Green, study epistemology and metaphysics. People like Kuhn and Feyerabend can be considered Yellow.

People are meeting hyperintelligent interdimensional beings in DMT trips yet people don't believe aliens exist. ?

No. Soviet Union was Blue. Communism is not.

Yes, I'm a Zappa fanboy, but this one is special. This is the concert that inspired the lyrics of "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple: It has surprisingly good audio quality. You can hear "Fire!" at 1:21:05 and Zappa telling everybody to calmly exit the building.

That is one lens. Let's look at some different lenses: Cognitive: enlightenment is caused by the cessation of self-referential thoughts. Intrapsychic: enlightenment is caused by the cessation of egoic drives. Social: enlightenment is caused by the cessation of need for external validation. Existential-Humanistic: enlightenment is caused by the transcendence of the self. Behavioral: enlightenment is caused by a specific change in stimulus-response patterns. Buddhist: enlightenment is caused by the cessation of karma and thus the end of dukkha and samsara. Sometimes the idea of causality can be misleading. It's useful to first concede that these are merely descriptions (including the neurophysiological one that you mentioned, namely neurons and neurotransmitters), and that causality must then be recontextualized within this new framework.

@SolarWarden 0:55

Are you fucking serious bro? KEN WILBER

As a former doormat, no.