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Misreporting and Confirmation Bias in Psychedelic Research https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/misreporting-and-confirmation-bias-in-psychedelic-research/

It seems as consciousness cannot be reduced down to the physical brain or matter, no matter how advanced our science and technology becomes or how advanced the explanations become. "You need 70-80 billion neurons firing at this rate and at this Hz to create consciousness" Really? But I can't see it in the neurons. It's not a satisfactory answer. It is satisfactory to take the Hindu answer that the 70-80 billion neurons at a specific Hz connects with the primary world, consciousness. The neurons are inside of consciousness, because the brain is connected with consciousness, consciousness isn't inside the neurons because consciousness is primary, not neurons, but maybe the neurons create the connection. The world is consciousness and we here utilize it by connecting to it.

Consciousness?

http://nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf p. 22-23.

There's no mechanism in the brain in which abiding DMN deactivation would make you stupid, in fact it will probably increase performance as you're able to concentrate better while removing bandwidth eating self-thoughts. It appears though in studies conducted by Jeffrey Martin on enlightened people that it does appear to impact memory by some factor.

Definition of solipsism: The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. The theory or view that the self is the only reality. So there is only the self, and that it is god and that everyone else, which is the other from the two-faced snake's perspective: Is the self and god. There seems to be a good program in place that says, you, the self, is not god, that's egoic, hence solipsism would be seen as the most egoic thing ever.

It's fun talking with myself, Nahm. Nice to meet myself. We're unique but we're one and the same self.

Doesn't identification imply identifying with what you aren't. I identify as a X, doesn't mean I am X, that's just my identity. I am that which identifies with something, I am not who I am. Can I ask you, what's wrong with identifying as the Self, God, whatever? Am I an other person to you or am I a perception?

It's a pretty basic observation I'd presume everyone who takes philosophy 101 would know, if I speculate like crazy. I think I was full solipsism when I grew up and it went away due to programming.

Would you classify the rupert spira video above here as that? Did you understand what he said?

Because it is true. Elaborate further. Do you mean as in the ego is all that exists and that there is no other egos...? But if the self is defined as more as mere contents of consciousness..? Me as spiritual teacher: You are god, your mind is all that exists. Of course anyone you thought were other before you knew this is you too.

Truth is known and I want to know.

I did literally not understand what he was saying.

@Mighty Mouse So what do you think about solipsism then, it makes sense right? I think it is what Ramana Maharshi was talking about all along when he speaks of the self with a capital S. Only by the manufacturing of an other is there anything but the self. What if there is no duality to self.

If you think there's somebody else then that is not solipsism, since the self is all there is according to it. In fact I think solipsism is nonduality. Multiple humans, animals, etc, one self.