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@Cred @Joshe What should a ND person do? What they want to do? Ok. What if they want to listen to Leo Gura? What if they feel it resonates? Then you come with your "neurodivergent-neurotypical" framework and try to thread it over their head, just like a good neurotypical would with their externally derived social standards. To truly honor the individual means to honor the individual, not necessarily put them in a box (although they can put themselves in that box if they want to, but then remember that it's just a box and that they are an individual). I'm not just throwing out a "it's more complicated than that, labels are just labels" as a platitude. It has real implications for how you act. Take someone like myself. I've jokingly referred to myself as "neurodivergent" (in my own mind) because I am a bit "out there" in some ways but I can also go well with people, I can play with external social standards. And I can look back and remember specific changes I made or insights I had about how socialization works in an "intellectual way", that made me alter my behavior outside what was merely spontaneous and impulsive. But that's about growing up, about seeing yourself from a different perspective, of putting attention outside yourself, of developing self-awareness, of not just merely acting on your impulses but what you think is "right" morally, ethically. Criminals, psychopaths, children, act in a more unrestrained way, they have less cognitive control. They can be less insightful, empathic, caring, more self-focused. Growing up tends to make you more attuned to others, and you will also have the cognitive faculties to use your intellectual mind to assist in this. There is nothing necessarily "special" about this. Yes, some have an intense tendency towards intellectualization, systematization, it's the way they interact with the world primarily, they have less intuitive cognitive functions, less ability to just tune in and vibe. Then address that in the way you see fit: pick the activities you enjoy, or try to grow your weaknesses, it's up to you how much of either you want to do. I think Leo Gura is quite aware of his "neuro-non-typicalness". He says it all the time: "I suck at working with other people, I'm not a team player" is a recent quote (paraphrasing). He says constantly "nobody cares about truth, they only care about what is socially expedient" (paraphrashing again). He also likes to hammer in the point on "it's genetic", which is a direct nod to the neurodivergent "it's ingrained" philosophy (I believe there will be a video on that soon; the role of genetics). Could he be more accommodating to the fact that people are different and that they should go by what is suitable for them? I mean, really? His main "product" is his life purpose course which is about finding out "your" life purpose, not what somebody else has told you is good or valuable. What you think. Maybe for some people they don't have to even think about what their life purpose should be because it's so obvious what is valueable for them. But some don't, and they can still feel like piranhas in the normal world. Maybe the particular culture around "neurodivergent-neurotypical" terminology has valueable insights, maybe you can share those here. But it's a hard sell that you are bringing something essentially new; maybe a different way of putting things and maybe some original insights here and there, but nothing categorically groundbreaking.

Can ChatGPT go fuck itself? Thank you.

ND and NT are just funny words for being different or similar to other people, which applies to everybody and in different ways. It's a spectrum. Masking is what everybody does, it's essentially about aligning yourself with an outside social standard. Some are just worse at picking up the required standards, some just feel like they have to mask more or are just less comfortable with it than others. They will maybe identify with a label like ND or autistic. But it can be a trap to identify yourself too much with such labels or use them to think you somehow are not fit or don't belong in society.

@Davino "Sanctified crack" is obviously hyperbole, but the point is that we're talking about dopaminergic drugs. Calling it "nootropics" or "narcotics" is only a question of how you want to tweak the parameters; dose, frequency, modality, duration. If you mega-dose modafinil every single hour or microdose crack (or let's introduce oral slow-release cocaine pills; or let's remove the hyperbole completely: Adderall slow-release pills), truly not much difference (unless you want to show me right now that individual cocaine/Adderall molecules selectively kill off receptors any more than modafinil molecules and it's not a dose-response relationship). Maybe modafinil is a more "posh" Adderall, a bit less powerful pound per pound and maybe slightly less annoying side effects, but that's about it. The argument is not necessarily "jump on Adderall, it's the same", but it's more like "you're already in the same game; nootropics = narcotics".

The second video has to be a troll, there is no way, no way.

Apparently yes. And Terrence McKenna.

I was uncertain on the exact measurements (and still am). So if the math adds up, 3 - 4 days is 80-100% fruit and 3 - 4 days it's greens, veggies, nuts, seeds (and maybe some fruit)?

Besides, mind is counterintuitive. I'm the first person to say bio-psycho-social - it's all connected, but they are also not the same. Maybe more juice doesn't equal more gains for the mind. In fact, testosterone is good for mental functioning in the right doses, but too much impedes it. @Davino In fact, you might actually question whether you should try "optimizing" (super-dose) testosterone as well if you're under the conception that more dopaminergic transmission is better (as testosterone is also dopaminergic), unless you care about being fertile I guess.

One of my criteria for quitting weed was it impeded my spiritual practice. Listening to teachers talk about presence when you're stoned: "yuuuuus preach bro" Not stoned: "why the fuck am I out of food, why the fuck am I not hungry, why the fuck can I not sleep, fuck" The crux of the meditative effect of weed is the way it dissociates you from your normal thought patterns, from your memories, their usual connections and their emotional weight. It's like your mind is a circle and you draw a smaller circle within it and that's your new mind for a while. The circle can move across the same larger circle, but only capture parts of it at any moment. And it affects meaning-making and how you draw connections (when you strip the usual web of connections, even if the web you spin now is in a sense smaller, it can be different such that new connections can be made). So creativity can be enhanced, new connections can be seen. And the dissociation is not just connective/semantic but also temporal (because of course, it will easily forget where it was 20-30 seconds earlier; the classic short-term memory reduction). And sometimes that can be freeing if your mind in the sober state is too threatening that you actually try to dissociate yourself from it even while sober, such that your mind shrinks then too, maybe even more than in the weeded out state. Weed for me felt like an expansion the first times I tried it, then now in later years, the times I've been exposed to it, it seems constricting. But it's also expansive in again other ways, in the realm of presence, beyond thinking patterns.

Fasting and calorie restriction definitely does something. Purely plant based has done things too in the past. If you care about function and nothing else, listen to what your body wants.

I feel good sometimes while fasted. The question is, on average or in total, how much of your diet is fruit and how much is not? I'm trying to gauge what kind of diet is a sustainable "middle".

Crack and armodafinil both have dopamine reuptake inhibition. Ketamine and pyrozalam do not have such similarities. Crack and armodafinil is comparing a small apple vs a big apple (with some glaze; norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibition). Ketamine and pyrazolam is like comparing a carrot and a cauliflower (except you shouldn't eat them together as then you can easily "become" a vegetable; i.e., have a vegetable overdose).

I think solipsism as it's usually conceived falls under the concept of crypto-materialism. Earlier I've presented it as an epistemic phenomena of clinging on to the epistemic norms and empirical frameworks of materialism ("materialist science", leading to largely discarding psychic phenomena, telepathy, spirits, etc.). Solipsism as it's usually conceived is more of an ontological phenomena. You want to propose that "there is only you", "there is no self", "there is no objective reality, only a dream", but then you cling on to the ontological norms of physical creatures, physical constraints like time and space, perceptual contents, while making firm statements about these things (their limitations, their extension, their locality, closesness, visibility, immediateness). In reality, non-duality makes no claim about reality other than its oneness. Any elaboration in any direction is an overreach.

If it doesn't change you much, you wouldn't do it.

I bet every stoner has thought about quitting.

Ketamine = think Steve-O Rise and Demise. Pyrazolam = think xannies and driving off the road and not knowing where you have been the last two hours. That's just not true. (Ar)modafinil is sanctified crack. A drug dealer I knew used to be on them.

@Ramasta9 Like what is one meal you would eat?

What do you eat in a day?

Non-dual understanding is One. No two ways about it. When I sat in class and had an experience of time stopping, was that me awakening onto time being an illusion? Was that me having an Absolute Time awakening? Or is it the fact that the non-dual experience of course has no time because time is a duality between past and present, between moment to moment, and non-duality is just one moment. All of my awakenings have had timelessness to them. It's just in some of them I get fixed on the timeless aspect, because again, that's how our attention and conceptual mind works. It's limited, piecemeal.

Mhm. That makes sense. Breh they are in distinct pharmacological classes. In what way are you comparing them?

That's basically impossible today if you don't have at least some scientific credentials. This is maybe the closest thing we've come to a debate around the materialist limitations of science on an academic platform: Rupert Sheldrake (the materialist critic wildcard) has a PhD and publishes science actively.

I'm sorry if we're only on visual aesthetics, but this song plays at my gym sometimes, and it's probably one of the worst song I've ever heard. It's beyond Rebecca Black levels of amateur. Point out one aspect and I will tell you how it's aesthetically bad.

Thanks to Rali for showing me this song ❤️