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Coming from one of Leo's latest blog posts, I wanted to give a little insight about "big picture comprehension". Because since I was a child I always wondered about the larger picture of a system. Thats usually where my fascination for any topic would lie in. I guess thats why Leo's content felt incredibly fascinating to me. So this is just my normal modus operandi so to say. However when I got a temporary ADHD treatment with Methyphenidate I strongly noticed how my mind shifted from "open and large" to very "focused and hung up on details so on". Which wasn't pleasant, but it activated a specific mental state in me, that would make great for a great scientist: orderly, "strict", focused and accurate and so on. So in a sense that period allowed me to udnerstand the neurological mode that "strong-anti-ADHD" people have. And in that period my sense for metaphysical big picturing, deep contamplation, open minded discussions was basically nuked out to zero. So maybe my offer is that, scientist - people who get paid for this specific mental state - are genetically not ideal or fit to naturally dive deep and open in bigger picture contemplations. Again, I was struck how miserable I was at even "small" big picturing with another neurology. Stuff that just comes natural to me right now. Of course psychedelics are rip that limitation apart. But that seems too scary for most scientiest I believe. Just my open thoughts on this..

Additional loose thoughts: ADHD is fundamentally your brain not giving you enough rewards for "ordinary" activities, ideas, impressions and so on. Which is why ADHD people rarely do "ordinary" jobs or have "ordinary" hobbies, ordinary friends and so on. And you know what is also not ordinary? TRUTH. (Sounding like Leo now, mmh..) So in a sense an ADHD brain is innately more wired towards exploring whackier things as it lives on. So you go around exploring all these things to their reward climax, till they get stale. Ideas, friends, hobbies, jobs . all get replaced in a ADHD persons mind sooner or later. The trial and error phases of such a person are way faster and harder on reality than others. But the thing that stays is Truth. A true thing stays true no matter how excited your brain is about it. I think this mechanic helped me a lot with truth seeking and is the same thing that might make it harder for more scientistic minds to get to larger truths.

Of course going towards the roots of any thing is part of the bigger picture. So in a way some part of your is very much interested in grasping a thing holistically (big picture). Maybe I would have phrased it differently. The scientistic people I got to know just were so occupied with neither the roots nor the sky. They just got lost mentally in some minute details that didn't matter really in the grand scheme. -> which is what I noticed in myself with another neurology. Maybe thats a better way to say it.

Btw. I'm not saying that "orderly, "strict", focused and accurate" are antithetical to big picture thinking. I just think that big picture thinkers are bad at the current job of being a scientist. Which promotes and rewards a speicific kind of neurology over other types of neurology.

His latest X post mmh..

The podcast was great.

Truth seeking, sure. But the love part is pretty unusual to say for someone like him. Where did he get that from?

Too much sodium (literally everyone has too much) blocks the uptake of potassium, which we tend to have too little of. There is even a thing called potassium-salt, which tastes like normal salt and can solve this unbalance. Didn't try it for myself though.

Regarding proof of death: French physicians conducted a test setup where they would ask a person right after they lost their heads to the guillotine if they could hear them / see them. And since their rolling heads did not answer accordingly they concluded that death is real. mmh.. what has happened in that niche of science since?

Its also the only article you can get on the site at the moment.

Toilet paper. For real, if you ever adapted to the water meta, you never going back to that cave man shit.

Or just buy it online, even easier. In general there is literally no chemical that can’t be bought online if you got some crypto balance. You don’t even need dark web browsers and that stuff.

Well, I always found people from UK have a strong sense of everday humor, which you might miss in Germany. In general the "free good human stuff" like hugs, kisses, jokes, public songs, love ect. is definitely dilapidated. While the "expensive good human stuff" like education, social security, healthcare ect. is probably among the best worldwide. Thats my main distinction of Germany with other, especially non-european nations.

I wouldn't say you can't make jokes about WW2 in germany. There are a lot of casual jokes. - Jokes about the Holocaust are definitely a no-go though. I think the police just doesn't want to be seen as easily jokable.

From where? and how long? your questions depend a lot on how different your home culture is to german culture.

I think the word nature should be conserved for living stuff. Which a desert has little of. But the landscape in Nevada is def cool. When I camped there it even snowed and little rabbits came by. Anyhow, I can’t stand dry weather, no matter the temp.

I remember learning about europes medieval, christian cities banning all sorts of financial businesses like banks and credits ect. for all christians. Which enabled the jews to conquer this niche from the start of the financial sector. And them creating money out of thin air (which it is not) must have always seem bad in the eyes of a good christian. So you could say that christianity created the bad rep of jews for themselves in that regard.

don't. it will taste like dog shit.

for freebase as well? my local pharmacy only offers freebase.

I don't know bro. I've had a lot of psychedelics and anesthetics in my blood throughout my life, and both resulting states couldn't be farther away from each other experientially.

??? in no world does this make any sense. whats your definition of sleep then. Its pretty much the deepest opposite of being asleep possible. cite your source.

Of course because they increase connectivity and activity among virtually all neural networks. The real mystery is why consciousness likes itself to be correlated to neural activity.

After about all my life coping with adhd in all sorts of half-functional ways, I’m now in the process of medicating it professionally with a doctor and Ritalin. Still two months till it starts. But I wonder if my personality might shift to much in all sorts of ways. For example I fear that I would settle in life for some boring dry version of my life purpose just because there is more dopamine in my system. Eventually regretting the therapy after I might end it sometime. I’m curious who on here has done medicated adhd therapy, and how your psyche changed along that.

why..? speaking from personal exp?

So I'm thinking a lot of about the pros and cons about social media. And while it definitely can be used in a healthy and inspiring way, I still wonder if we hit the end of social media invention and development. There is just a finite amount of things you can do on a smartphone and internet. Yet, I wonder what kind of and even IF social media has a right to exist for high developed humans. Because every form of "digital stuff" usually distracts and dampens the spirit of life. Makes us less sensible. We rarely think back and say "Wow, that day where I just scrolled 6 hours through X was such an amazing experience, I'll never forget." Usually we can't even remember anything we saw and did on media. So what could be features / ideas / approaches / ect. of media that would meaningfully align with a higher forms of consciousness? For example I envision a way to spread and show deep and meaningful content over brain-rotted slop (99% of all media). Which is not popular, but high consciousness is not popular in general. Can we ever breach the barrier that online connections will never feel as meaningful as real life encounters? How can we deal with sex, free speech and controversy in a more conscious way? I hope for discussion here.