Carl-Richard

I smell another spawn from some unnamed Discord server. If it's anywhere I live, it's rent-free in your guys' heads 😂

I knew "neurodivergent babysitting" was a perfect description of this place. (I don't mean that in a bad way; this is the best place to be 😇). That's a lot of constructs right there. Explains your relationship with words. (That was a bit snappy, I apologize 😓). I stand by my view that ADHD-beings, describable by qualities such as hyperactivity and hypoattention, are similarly a construct, similarly real, to IOB-beings, describable by qualities such as "tall, blackish but colorful with a strange darkness and alienness in aura".

I hear "IOB" and "ADHD" and hear "constructs".

Is an Integral Occult Being really real?

☺️ Nice. Remember that he one time took 10.5 grams of mushrooms and freaked the fuck out. One of the insights he took from that was (paraphrasing) "I don't think I value truth if it's not in the interest of my survival". So he closed himself to spirituality and went into politics instead That could be something to prod him on if you're feeling frisky.

@Little Aurobindo What about depression? Is that also not really real?

I really don't.

So nothing in reality shows a certain threshold of hyperactivity and hypoattention?

A definition, whether it's of consciousness or ADHD, is a construct. When reality behaves a certain way, you call it ADHD. When reality behaves another certain way, you call it consciousness. It's true that ADHD is defined in a certain arbitrary way, like having a certain score on a certain number of symptoms, but so could be said for consciousness vs. unconsciousness (or "levels" of consciousness).

Honestly that would turn into Dr. K x10.

"Consciousness" isn't really a real thing either.

If that's so, it did before it was given a voice, because the initial conceptualization of the test involved text-generation only, although you could conceive of a Turing test for voice generation as well. But also, whether it passes the test at all is debatable. At this point, I'm confident I could pick out a ChatGPT-generated string of text vs. a human string of text over 90% of the time, given a sufficiently long string. But I bet Turing didn't think of the scenario of getting familiar with the quirks of LLM responses and then picking it out based on that. If you take someone who is completely unfamilar with LLMs (and is generally not very tech-savvy or into the right academic fields), then maybe it could pass the Turing test for that person (for a while).

Why?

Joe is ironically probably the #1 podcaster who is most receptive to his ideas but also the hardest to get to.

There are neural correlates though.

He's banned for being a duplicate account.

Why can't therapy be done on your own?

Even Northern Europe?

It's because you're not a yes or a no and you're growing and everybody is on a on different path and different places on the path.

It won't be as interesting as there won't be much to bridge. What Frank Yang says is what most people say here. Jordan Peterson will be an interesting challenge. If you mean Alex O'Connor, I'll seriously echo that. The guy is super openminded and infinitely good faith. He had serious conversations with William Lane Craig four years ago when he was only 21.

Shit. Jking.

By the way, I don't doubt hyperfocus is a thing, but as a general observation, people with ADHD are more restless and less able to focus.

Lol. It's the first one.

There is variability within that as well. A friend of mine tends to play bass for 20 minutes, then does something else, then goes back to playing bass for 20 minutes, and repeats that cycle for maybe 3-5 times a day. When I play guitar, I tend to play for 1-2 hours at a time and usually only once a day. When another friend of mine plays piano, he plays for up to 6 hours at a time. Guess which one of us has generally more symptoms of ADHD.

John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series. It's 50 videos, one hour each. If you're into science and metaphysics, try Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal. I recommend the ones with Bernardo Kastrup and John Vervaeke, both together and solo.