Carl-Richard

The best.

I'm not denying that weed can be used spiritually, am I? I'm saying that in practice, it rarely is.

The reality is that there are much better substances for "spiritual"/shamanic once-in-a-blue-moon use. They're called serotonergic psychedelics. Maybe weed can throw some tricks that serotonergics can't, but serotonergics can certainly throw tricks that weed can't (assuming you're not shooting yourself in the dome with K2 spice or something).

Turning the movie to 4k UHD when the movie is self-deception, self-bias, of course that happens. You gotta turn off the movie and stare at the blank screen, and even then, the after-image of the movie is still burned into your retina.

I'm not a solipsist.

I know exactly what kind of things is said in the video. It's in principle a good idea but in practicality a cope for people who use weed more than they would celebrate, to strive for something better (while continuing using it regularly as a hedonic tool).

Nobody uses weed that way though.

People think solipsism is such a hard pill to swallow (I'm not a solipsist btw), but I think people underestimate the harrowing reality of pure non-doership. But people never talk about that because it's harder to fake.

This forum is going through a phase now 😂

We had a TV show called "Mesternes Mester" (The Master of Masters) where old national athletes from different disciplines and genders competed against each other in different challenges. In some of the challenges, the men were given a handicap (e.g. something to do with weight) because they were men. I did not like this concept when I was 14 and I'm not sure if I like it now. Once you make the rules too tailored to the specific context (overfitting), it loses the feeling of competition. The competition assumes that the stated rules are the same for all, or else it's an exercise.

Great. Then you also agree that to call a culture of wokeness "paradigm lock" is a bastardization of the concept. Wokeness is not a way of doing science that needs to be upheaved by a revolution which leads to vast changes in the field and unlocks new discoveries that were previously not possible in principle. It's indeed just a culture or sociology that impacts "normal science".

None of it had anything had to do with Kuhn, more than anything scientific having anything to do with Kuhn. You can apply a meta-lens to everything all the time but it lacks substance. The video I linked was two scientists fighting over whether the current state of physics is good or whether things are getting stale and a revolution is in hand and that some are preventing this from happening and the history behind things becoming stale, etc. That's Kuhnian "substance".

I think you name-dropped Kuhn because you view everything through that lens because it's easy to dismiss perspectives not based on substance / specific points but "lowness of perspective".

So normal science? Not very revolutionary, tooth and claw (maybe that was Feyerabend not Kuhn)? Don't see the Kuhnian relevance. Just comments on left-rightism, scientific literacy, fallacious argumentation.

I watched the entire video and nothing made me think of Kuhn. This video made me think of Kuhn:

@SwiftQuill What specific claims in the video do you have problems with?

@Rigel Yes. It sort of assumes you have the basics. Just like you can't practice writing an essay for an exam if you can't write.

What does Kuhn have to do with this?

That's actually a brilliant point. Wouldn't at least some dream characters be like ChatGPT saying "I'm just a large language model coded to emulate human interactions and responses; I do not have private emotions, feelings or experiences"? 😂

Power of hindsight and context clues like "police cam" and "this man was shot". Instinct is instinct. Instinct is when you're going purely by feels in the situation, which is what the people in the situation did, and may I say successfully so. You're talking about thinking rationally. That's something entirely different. By the way, I'm not saying you should trust your instincts and not think rationally in that situation. But people saying they had "zero survival instincts" in that situation are just wrong. The instincts were on point.

Hey solipsists, if you're there and I'm not just imagining you: I will extend an olive branch and say I've actually had the "solipsism experience" that so many are talking about where it feels like you are all alone and when you look at other people, they do feel actually quite "hollow". But first thing to realize is that while I deconstructed "other people", I also deconstructed myself. Myself was just as unreal as others. Other people seemed hollow because they're outside of me and they're readily apparent that way (and maybe also because I was struck by the realization for the first time and it filled my attention), but in retrospect, I felt just as hollow inside (an experience I was already familiar with). It was balanced, inside and outside. Also, what I realized is that just because I can have this experience, that doesn't mean I have deconstructed the illusion "for them", for exactly the same reason that I had not done so before my experience. Before my experience, I didn't feel alone, people didn't feel hollow, I didn't feel hollow. I was stuck in an illusion of thinking I was real and other people were real. Similarly, other people can be stuck in that illusion despite "me" experiencing the opposite.

They saw him whacking tables and walking past a person shoulder to shoulder without hurting him. Their instincts told them he wasn't an immediate threat to them, just the tables. Had they instead seen him running towards them with a wild-eyed stare and also seen him running after other people, they would have ran the hell out.

Idk. Bernardo Kastrup also talks about being "possessed" by a daemon. Maybe it's just something you start believing when you consume too much philosophy 😂

Heh maybe 🫠 This is the last picture I took (two days ago): I have been consistent at it (25 mins in-game time every other day), but I probably haven't been progressing as much this year, but I think I'll start progressing again now (I had to extend my thesis delivery date lol; let's just say doing 70 pre-post fNIRS measurements on my own is a bit much, and that's only the beginning of the story 😂). I want to hit over 80% on 7-Back so I can get registered on the hiscores for 7-Back (and then I would be pretty highly ranked at least on Brainscale.net; rank 82 on all-time highscores, rank 2 weekly, as of today). I also want to see if replacing half of my sprint days with 4 x 4 intervals ("the Norwegian method", ironic name 🤪) could be beneficial. I tried some when I hurt my toe last week (literally thought I broke it and went for an x-ray, but I'm made of steel), and I could see it having some beneficial effects on cognition that sprints don't give. It's also probably slightly less fatigue-inducing and also healthier long-term (VO2 max, resting heart rate, etc.). I was about to make a topic on how Sadhguru and Bryan Johnson have converged on low heart rate being a panacea measurement for health and longevity.