Carl-Richard

Why tell anyone anything at all?

Some altered states of consciousness seem to throw you out of body. There doesn't seem to be any obvious mechanism you can point to, maybe other than how self-referential processing (DMN activity) is probably decreased, essentially decoupling your experience from the personal and dipping it into the transpersonal, gradually eroding the "center" of your experience. What is curious about this is that it seems to break with the idea that you necessarily have to experience the world through your senses, because you can start seeing yourself from where your eyes aren't looking. This goes well with the idea that your personalized experience (and the apparent sensory correlates) is a kind of dissociation, and that when you undo some of it, your experience simply expands.

I wonder what the insides of an average high school classroom looks like today in my country (Norway). Like, how many people have dyed their hair? How many teachers wear those obviously queer glasses?

Has anybody tried "image streaming"? https://sourcesofinsight.com/image-streaming/ I'm curious if it has any side effects (like the ones I noticed with Quad-N-Back).

That's really interesting. I wish I was taught the Circle of Fifths using colors. It's so much more intuitive. Generally visualizing music is very effective for understanding it.

Heading the ball in soccer is known to cause brain damage. I would like to see which numbers he is referring to though.

Your story doesn't make sense.

There are side effects to nofap that you might not want. I believe once every 5-7 days is good for a guy in his mid-late twenties. You get the best of both worlds: mental clarity and a functioning ballsack (and generally a balanced physiology). Your testosterone starts decreasing after one week anyway. Your body adapts to these things. Maybe if you're aiming for something like spiritual awakening, then you maybe should aim for once a month, but if you're aiming for a healthy body (and you want good sleep, calm mood and being socially calibrated), go for once every 5-7 days.

@Jrix Is this @Reciprocality's weird uncle?

Do you see that your phone's screen is ultimately illusory, and that all the "things" you see right now are also ultimately illusory? So how can your particular illusion be all that exists? You seeing yourself typing these forum posts from your perspective is just as much an illusion as me typing my forum posts from my perspective. Neither perspective is all that is. It's all illusion. All that is is God.

Hmm... "The Effects of Sprint Interval vs. Continuous Endurance Training on Physiological And Metabolic Adaptations in Young Healthy Adults": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327385/ HMMM... the endurance runners had a 12.6% increase in in VO2 max while the sprinters had a 18.8% increase. So I guess that answers my question (yeah yeah, it's one study with limited generalizability, blah blah blah, I just wanted to bring it up ). Also, a Quora submission: https://www.quora.com/Do-sprinters-or-marathon-runners-have-stronger-hearts So I guess I was onto something with that as well Other than that, I've been sprinting for about two months now and I love it. I only do it 1.75 times a week though (I already lift weights every other day, i.e. 3.5 days a week, and I run on every second off-day, i.e. 3.5/2 = 1.75). That means I can say I work out 3.5+1.75 = 5.25 times a week, which sounds like a lot to be honest (which is on top of my 3 daily 10-minute walks after each meal). At the same time, I deliberately reduced my resting times in the gym (for most of my lifts) down to 90 seconds (down from who the fuck knows; 3-5 minutes?), mostly for time efficiency reasons, but I also think it adds a bit of cardio, which is nice (and it certainly goes more naturally with my newfound cardiovascular health).

So I tried jogging 20 minutes 3 times a week sometime last year, but I stopped because it made me feel drained and weak, and actually significantly more anxious. I figured it had to do with increased levels of cortisol, which also decreases levels of testosterone (or so they say). So I started thinking: how can I gain the benefits of cardiovascular exercise (e.g. increased blood flow to the brain) while limiting the systemic load that seems to cause elevated cortisol? Well, that is when I started doing 10-minute walks after every meal, but it's obviously not the same as vigorous cardiovascular exercise (but it has its own set of benefits), so I was a bit stuck for a while trying to find a suitable alternative. Then just recently, I stumbled across the idea of sprint training. As the video claims, sprint training is associated with a massive increase in testosterone, rather than a slight decrease with long-distance cardio (according to some studies). So I started doing that recently, and it certainly made me more mentally sharp (but I probably should've eased myself into it, because I got a migraine and a lung infection the day after my 2nd sprint session; I never get migraines anymore and I rarely ever get sick either). So there is a definitely a systemic load aspect, just by the fact that it likely weakened my immune system, but also I noticed a slight increase in anxiety. Maybe that is just how my brain is supposed to work. Maybe lifting weights without cardio puts me in a bit of a too mentally tranquil hyper-anabolic state, and that the place where my brain works the best is for some reason more prone to anxiety (and maybe it's just circumstantial and up to me to fix it, like social awkwardness). On the other hand, I did not feel weak or drained like when I did 20-minute jogs. Another fun benefit is that you don't get that annoying burning sensation in your calves and soreness the day after (or at least I don't; maybe my fast-twitch muscle fibers are adapted to that level of strain from regular weight training). I've also tried to think about why jogging for 20 minutes should lead to a higher systemic load in the first place, or the kind of systemic load that significantly elevates levels of cortisol, more so than sprint training (and weight training). I think it has something to do with rest times: Let's say you run for 20 minutes straight, which involves a constant elevated heart rate, constant strain on the muscles, and constant recruitment of the respiratory system. It's essentially telling your body "this isn't going to end, we need more resources", hence you start tapping into the stress response; start secreting cortisol, increasing blood sugar levels, increasing energy to the muscles, etc. On the other hand, if you sprint for 20 seconds and rest for 4 minutes (like suggested in the video), your respiratory system doesn't really engage before the last couple of seconds of the sprint, and then you let your muscles relax and let your heart rate drop almost back down to resting heart rate before the next set. It's similar for weight training, where you'll rest for maybe half of that time, but it's even less demanding for your respiratory system, so the stress response is even less. And why should the recruitment of particularly the respiratory system lead to that type of systemic load and stress response involving particularly cortisol? Well, because the respiratory system is arguably the main system that feeds every organ in your body. If that system gets taxed, then you would need an equivalently global response to address it, which would be hormones like cortisol that e.g. elevate the global levels of glucose that impact all bodily tissues. I'm of course not a physiology expert, so I would like to hear some of your guys' input: is my reasoning for why I prefer sprint training (and weigh training) over long-distance cardio scientifically sound? Is even the studies listed in the video scientifically sound? Was my negative reaction to the 20-minute jogs just because I wasn't adapted to it and that it's something I could've adapted to over time? What is the best option for cardiovascular health: sprints, high-intensity interval training, long-distance cardio, a combination, or something else? By the way, I highly recommend walking 10 minutes after every meal. It's relaxing and refreshing, and my immune system has never been stronger (but a possible confound could be zinc tablets; take those too ).

What do you see?

Great minds think alike

@Yimpa I feel bad joking now He just wants advice. My advice: most girls aren't like guys where one touch or one line can make you horny or DTF. You need the vibe, the style, the eye, the smile, walking with her for a mile. It's like a rap in a way: if you don't have the rhymes, the flow, the surprise — it's not rap, it's speech, which means no peach. Lol tell me if that landed or horribly bombed.

Really? 😱 I'm more interested in what OP has to say

Why touch? Seems highly inefficient. Why not just say "I want to fuck, do you?"

Sat, chit, ananda; Brahman, Shiva, Shakti; emptiness, form, energy; computation, algorithm, implementation; spacetime, structure, function. There are many ways to slice it, but all of it is God. Now, I think what you're thinking about is some almighty disembodied voice speaking to you inside your mind. Is that possible? Yes. Is it God? It's not any more God than anything else. But if it's for example a voice inspiring you to be your highest self, then you can call it God in that sense.

You are right now.

26, from Norway, balding at the speed of light

I was expecting schizotypal to be dominant, but I guess not. Compulsive, avoidant, schizoid and hypomaniac seems about right. My mom is pretty compulsive and my dad has bipolar disorder, so that makes sense

@Schizophonia 100% vouch for the antisocial 😂

The things you say are so oddly specific that it couldn't be made up, but at the same time it sounds like it could've been made up.

You basically skipped 3/5 of his criteria, but OK

A YouTube channel asked a question: "If you're told to press a button for $100,000, but the catch is that pressing it means a random person on the planet gets a one-way ticket to the afterlife, would you cash in?" As of the moment writing this topic, the answers were: While you can doubt the sincerity of these answers (especially because the channel that posted it has an audience that would be prone to make extreme statements for comedic effect), I think the numbers aren't actually too far from the norm. Now, you can also doubt the accuracy of self-report, especially because you would probably expect less people to actually go through with it than merely reporting that they would go through with it (due to seriousness of the action). Nevertheless, it think the numbers do reflect reality to some extent. Even if the numbers were highly in favor of "no", I think this topic is still worth talking about. How do we approach these people? How do we instill a sense of moral responsibility in them? Assuming they're capable of rational thought, are there any arguments that are likely to work? I posed a question to the comment section which tries to provide such an argument: Then I followed it up by a thought experiment exploring the question further were they to still answer yes: Essentially, I was trying to prove that what they interpret as self-concern actually cannot be distinguished from care for others. In a sense, their self-concern involves caring for other people, which is a natural human tendency. The question is just how far the circle of concern extends, and the thought experiment is also constructed to show that this circle of concern is arbitrary. In reality, if you care about other people (which you most likely do), there is no principled reason to care about one person over another (or at least that is the argument, which may or may not be entirely true, but at least it makes you think). The reason you would act to the contrary is merely because you act that way, not because of some principled stance (although you can feel free to prove me wrong; I actually intuit it's not fully correct, I'm just not sure how). So far, I've not gotten any signs of serious engagement, but do you think the argument sounds convincing? Are there any flaws in it? Were you yourself affected by the argument somehow? Also, feel free to share any of your own arguments if you have any.