theobromananda

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by theobromananda 3y ago
That breakthrough would not be possible without ubiquity of personal computing at home and in your pocket, though, which seems like the bigger change in the last two decades.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
I wasn't even aware that it could do right click. The magic mouses I had seen didn't want to do that.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
So the participants were culturally exposed to something called "year wheels" and "If the year is a circle (...)" was part of the question. Of course they ended up with circles!
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by theobromananda 3y ago
"Life itsef", a "semi-monastic co-living hub" which is supposed to be "a place for experimentation, exploration, and learning, where people can engage in self-work, creative work, and spiritual practices" yet h
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Not parent commenter, but I believe everything social should be kept to real life. The dynamics of online social media have almost nothing to do with real human interactions. It is a waste of time and a harmful superstimulus substitute, lik
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by theobromananda 3y ago
I am stumped: how does visualizing a scene in your minds eye and describing it lead to seeing it on the back of your eyelids as the article linked in the title of this comment section claims? And why call that "image streaming" in
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by theobromananda 3y ago
The sense of knowing where a character is in a space in fiction is the same sense that is used to visualize anything else. It is the same phenomenon. If you can "know" where a fictional character is in a fictional space, you can a
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by theobromananda 3y ago
As someone who has used a larger number of psychedelics, MDMA, ayahuasca and so on - yes, alcohol at 16 for a few years was absolutely life changing for many of the same reasons: increased sociability and being able to talk to people uninhi
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by theobromananda 3y ago
I agree, culture has been colonised and turned into capital. It is bleak. I often miss the times before everything was connected.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
As someone who has practiced qigong and neigong over many years, feelings are absolutely localized - you can even match them with specific organs. Is is surprising that the adrenals are associated with feelings of panic for example? The aut
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Not an answer to your question but a comment toward the quote: In Traditional Chinese Medicine terms, the spleen has always been described as the cause of chronic inflammatory disease. "Spleen deficiency" the core feature of ulcer
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by theobromananda 3y ago
I took a lot and identify with a lot. But I was wondering how much of this is the effect of the internet on cognition? Specifically in the "ADHD bingo", there are things like "having 50 tabs open" or "forgetting why
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by theobromananda 3y ago
That is sadly common perception (IMHE). Just look at the use of the "cave man" as an illustration of dumbness.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
I do not get the ego angle, but I am also skeptic of aphantasia. My own experience could be described by either 1 ("no image") or 5 ("perfectly vivid") in any questionaire concerning it - when I imagine anything, there i
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Do you actually hear the music in the fan noise or do you hear/imagine it in your mind? The first one is to consider carefully as it happens on LSD and in psychosis - maybe also strong synaesthesia or HPPD - , the second one is normal.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Is your comment the reverse of the great philosophical statement "If you're so clever why aren't you rich?".
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by theobromananda 3y ago
You are experiencing exactly the phenomenon the previous poster was describing. Because you did not have the experiences that produced theses cliched phrases, they seem mundane and not wise to you. Once you do have these experiences, you wi
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Is a little bit of umami taste really a significant part of your quality of life? When other parts go or die (health, friends, meaning), one can easily realize how little that actually matters for one's happiness.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
All three of these are horrible, and running Stable Diffusion locally produces incredibly better results as seen in this comment section.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Federated sites like lemmy and mastodon.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
The human-mouse equivalent dose ratio/interspecies allometric scaling is a foundational topic in exploratory pharmacological studies. You can find information f.e. in "A simple practice guide for dose conversion between animals an
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Thank you dgerard, you are doing (acausal robot) god's work.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
They are saying that there is no need to figure out how to recreate "the "glitch" of today that will be the nostalgic style of tomorrow" as the "old"/current models are all available on GitHub and huggingf
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by theobromananda 3y ago
One almost paranormal ability some seasoned spiritual teachers have is pointing at things that are happening in your experience, i.e. something is described and that phenomenon is experienced directly. I have experienced this so-called tran
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Human-mouse conversion ratio is 1:12.3, so about 6g a day. I easily eat a gram if I drink a ton of coffee.
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by theobromananda 3y ago
You can assume that any comment on internet culture is from an American point of view. As a European, I only find a percent of a percent that resonates with my offline world - although the dominance of American internet companies still enfo
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by theobromananda 3y ago
Yes, I have some minimal knowledge about this cult - please disregard the first link. This was just lazy phone googling for some reference. The second link however is solid. The stance of large parts of the EA/rationalist/Bay Area
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by theobromananda 3y ago
They have also succeeded in replicating campus rape: https://web.archive.org/web/20230308071256/https://everythin... https://www.clearlysafe.co/rape-and-race
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by theobromananda 4y ago
Sorry, you are part of the 90% confusing the hard and soft problem without understanding what is hard about the hard problem. In fact, merely realizing the hard problem of consciousness is one of the first stages that is reached in modern v
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by theobromananda 4y ago
Psychedelics, meditation and mental illness show you or change the contents of the house - but you can never leave the house of the existence of consciousness. The closest thing we have to that would be death, and even then you only know if

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