Tim R

I don't know mate, I think asking for advice on mental illness on this forum is perhaps not quite coherent with the guidelines...

Not quite sure if this is the right place to ask this, but have you noticed in some of Leo's Vlog entries, e.g. in the first video or the videos where he was in hawaii, (page 29) there's several roles of toilet paper just placed on tables or other surfaces across the rooms, I was wondering, what on earth is that about? Some Self-Actualization-gimmick we don't know about?

I think Leo covered those pretty much already with his episodes on survival and fear. Pain is a signal that helps form/identity to maintain itself, e.g. when the body gets destroyed or wounded, pain is a signaling mechanism. However, pain is not equal to suffering, as one can see with masochism, where one might thoroughly enjoy pain, because one is not resisting to it. Hence suffering is the result of: pain (signal that form/identity is dissolving) + resistance to that process.

I can't quite believe that this hasn't shown up yet in this thread. This organism does not have a single neuron and yet, it re-designed the subway system of Tokyo more efficiently than it is currently designed. I'm a german biologist and it really bothers me that so many scientists still don't want to accept the fact that this slime mold is pretty damn smart, tough it has no brain. The mind does not require a brain. That's a tough swallow for them.