Natasha Tori Maru

I'm a fan I love seeing everyone's progression through post history, my dialogues with users and their experience. Ultimately outgrowing all and discarding all ground will happen. I think, anyway 😊

Gut out interpretation. I do not use psychedelics - anymore.

@Leo Gura How squirrelly of you - well played

By direct experience I mean free of interpretation. Raw sensation.

@Leo Gura Direct experience of solipsism? Does direct experience contain existential claims?

Same for me (as in, I see that for you). Bryan is putting out a good message - totally agree.

@Eskilon Oneness is behind everything - remove space and time. This is my philosophy though, separating absolute from relative. I say philosophy as it is a conceptual layer. There is experience. And then: All interpretations of what that implies are added.

Cool, neither do I. Disagree - I am sure Leo would tell you I am as pragmatic as they come. I have found God realization and deep philosophical, epistemological understanding to have greatly increased my output at work, and reduced suffering in the process. To the extend I enjoy all my time. At work, folding laundry, eating a meal, cleaning the toilet. There is no where I would rather be than in the present moment. Leo's work helped with that - as well as all of the supplementary work from other teachers.

@Leo Gura I understand metaphysical solipsism as a concept. I understand it from an Absolute. It just isn't a direct thing - not an experience - relatively.

@Thought Art It's not a hit piece (the one I linked) - I've seen all the main clips of him including the one above you linked. Like I said I am obsessed with Bryan as a sort of case study, I've researched all sides. Defence isn't needed - having a nuanced ambiguous opinion isn't a bad thing. It's generally the more intelligent and mature assessment.

You should watch the podcast about the court case relating to this I linked above.

Viewing anyone as all good or all bad is fail.

How old are you?

tl;dr relative solipsism is a concept built on assumptions - there is no direct experience or nature to it. Solipsism uniquely privileged epistemically? Ha! I'ma die on this hill. Fight me. Muah!

In my personal opinion? Which, to be clear, is free of any judgement. It appears to me the blueprint routine and rigidity is a control mechanism that mirrors the control of conditions such as Anorexia Nervosa. Restrictive eating in these types of conditions (I think EDNOS as well - if that is even a thing? The DSM changes a lot and I only loosely check it out) is usually a mechanism to feel like one is in control when other aspects of their existence are very unstable or out of control. I've known my sister, mother and grandmother to suffer from either Anorexia or restrictive eating / disordered eating at some points in each of their lives. In all three, I witnessed (and they confessed) they felt the eating disorder never really went away, just manifested in a different form until it was non-pathological (I use this term to imply the disorder was not longer inhibiting/impacting their basic functions as humans). But they each report it is always present, like and addiction - it never goes away. And this appears to mirror what many other people who have suffered from the condition report. From food restriction, to overeating, to bulimia, to exercise addiction into orthorexia like forms. I think Byran doesn't understand what death is (spiritually), and some of the above could be driven by an intense fear of death. He had a huge break from the Mormon religion, and losing an entire worldview like that can be very destabilising. Blueprint could be a rebuild of the structure of Mormonism that was cast aside. But who really knows. All I know is something doesn't feel quite right for me intuitively. The entire drive to have an entire life lived in service to an algorithm (as per Don't Die' dinners where he goes into the end game of Don't Die) makes me question his motivations and emotional health. His philosophy is very poor when questioned - as per his Youtube interview with Doctor Mike (physician Mike, not that clown Israetel). I think he could feel so internally out of control (past 7pm + binges, bad sleeping), external rigid control is acting to calm his internal world. The possibility exists he isn't addressing what is really the internal issue he has (whatever that may be, if there is one) and using blueprint to give his brain the certainty he craves. Which dovetails back to how destabilizing Mormonism was when he left the church. He seems very fragile - reporting off sleep totally bricks his system. But this is to be expected if he has thyroid issues (poor dude). He also certainly has an ego, which I don't fault him for (we all have one!). He wants to be 'remembered'. He wants to be as big and renound as the man he reads about who did great things. There is service to ego present - and because he doesn't understand spiritually what that is, he wants that ego to survive. Can you imagine the devilry of uploading the small self to AI to live on? Preserving the worst parts of ourselves He did do some fucken shady as fuck shit with his ex wife - making her disclose, in a contract, all the sexual positions she had been in with previous partners etc WEIRD. I cannot recall all of it but the claims made by Taryn Southern are worth looking into. But these are hearsay - and courts threw her case out when she tried to sue him. The sex position stuff seemed to be authentic after it came out. There is a podcast swimming around where a panel of people broke down the case (found it actually!) I found this when googling my theory earlier: https://desmolysium.com/bryan-johnson-the-worlds-most-expensive-eating-disorder/ Interesting case the author makes. Some sort of obsessive compulsive issue may be likely. None of the above detracts from some of the other good work he does. I just view all social media 'health' influencers are salespeople, ultimately. So I don't give much stock. Bryan is just fun as fuck for me to psychologically profile!

@OBEler I think he has that "uncanny valley" look to him that is a strong turnoff for many humans. There's some research out there shedding light on humans having a mild fear response to organisms that look close to human, but not quite.

@eos_nyxia I feel, similar to yourself, there is a portion of his previous Mormon upbringing being transferred faith wise into his blueprint protocol. It's actually really about letting an AI algorithm take total control of your life. You aren't allowed to deviate. Total surrender to it. He outlines this in his celebrity / elite "don't die" dinners. It is the core behind the surface advertisement of blueprint.

@integral so it's not stupidity anymore just low consciousness? A misnomer

It helps to have delved into and mastered rationality, prior to deconstructing it. Otherwise you fall into trap of unexamined contradiction, emotional preference and loose associative thinking (there are more traps it appears, these are just some obvious ones).

@integral I think stupid was defined pretty accurately above, and without baggage.

@LordFall read again, appears like your view of humanity is incoherent.

How disappointing.

https://www.enhanced.com/games Slowly nudging the transhumanism dialogue into mainstream.

I think it could be circulation problems - he has thyroid issues he takes medication for. His eyes are constantly looking very irritated which I don't quite understand. Unless he has Graves disease. Eye irritation can be linked to thyroid issues. He looks worse than be did prior to losing the weight, but he reports to feel better + better health data.

Holy fuck. I hate it. Stop doing this 🤣💀