Carl-Richard

Is memory confined to thoughts (mental chatter or imagery), or do you extend it to other things as well (e.g. sensory experiences, feelings, emotions)?

Psychedelics are illegal because some hippies essentially tried to destroy society with it in the 60s (said in the tone of Nixon, but still has some truth to it).

Does it not feel like other people are a bit like you? Then why should you not act like they are?

This is so good that it deserves its own thread (if you know both bands/songs, you know what I mean). Just wow. Most other mashups like this that I've seen are always a bit funny or weird, but this is almost seemless (except for the very end, of course, but that too shows the beauty of Opeth and what makes them so special). Here is also a more funny mashup that most of you will probably appreciate:

Welcome back. How would you define "direct experience"?

Give up the illusory control of your life and become the universe that is actually controlling your life.

Yeah, so what? Just share your songs, god damn it ?

The neurosis you're creating around it is arguably worse than the thing itself. I think there is a difference between movies and real-life videos depicting violence (and I'm speaking in terms of how I feel when I'm watching them). The context of knowing that it's real or not, understanding the real-life repercussions, and seeing the real emotions involved, is drastically different. Of course, it also depends on how realistic the movie is (e.g. some horror movies are bound to make you feel a certain way). But certainly in a standard action movie, the fight scenes are nothing like an actual fight, and the emotional footprint is more similar to heavy weightlifting than somebody fighting in a fit of rage. For example, my brother often scrolls through Instagram, and sometimes he shows me these clips from a page called "Hood crimes" (or something like that), and it's usually either somebody getting very hurt or beaten up. I can't watch that shit. It makes me feel very bad. And I think that is exactly why it's interesting to watch for some people. They got off on that feeling. It's morbid curiosity. But then I can watch a beautifully cinematic fight scene from any modern action movie (Mission Impossible - Fallout, the bathroom fight comes to mind), and it's nothing like seeing somebody actually get beaten up.

Do you take heavy and bass in any combination?

Barbara Rogoff (2003). The cultural nature of human development (page 240). Oxford university press.

Gregory Bateson's work (which spans many different fields) generally challenges reductionistic or linear ways of thinking. For example, in communication theory, he emphasizes how communication is a circular rather than a linear process, and that the meaning of an utterance is constructed as a result of what the interpreter brings to the table (their personal dispositions) and other contextual factors (e.g. time, place, past events). So a Bateson will be predisposed to making context aware critiques of stage theory, which is a field that generally lacks context awareness (as it's an older field). Pointing to a lack of cross-cultural validation is one example of a context aware critique. Barbara Rogoff has made similar critiques.

@nuwu Does this actually make sense to you when you read it?

No, because it literally just makes shit up.

ChatGPT lies.

Of course. It's Gregory Bateson's daughter

You have to watch his conversations with John Vervaeke on TOE with Curt Jaimungal.

Yes. But what is even better than weed is being fully immersed in a movie while not having intrusive thoughts about spirituality

Fasting until you're on the brink of death, or sitting in a dark cave unmoving for days at a time while bugs are eating at your flesh, or experiencing a car crash, can all be catalysts for a spiritual awakening. They're disruptive practices: they create a contrast to your normal state which lets you become aware of unconscious patterns that keep you asleep. But when you return to your normal state and want to integrate your awakening into it, you should do things that optimize your normal state, because that is where you exist most of the time. You don't want to be dependent on disruption for awakening. You eventually want the awakening to blossom naturally from the inside, not from some outside practice.

There is such a thing as a language game. When somebody is talking about facts, I understand what they mean. When you are talking about how facts don't exist, I also understand what you mean. Words are contextual, and the more context awareness you have, the more you can concede to any particular language game without being fundamentally confused.

I've seen estimates between 48-76 depending on the source. It's anyway up there with soft drinks and sucrose.

People spend years or decades writing one book. People spend an afternoon or a week making a video. There is only so much depth that a video can give you. Even the best educational videos out there don't give you 1% of the depth that a book can give you. Channels like Veritasium give you easily digestible introductions to a subject, which can be very useful, but if you want to truly grasp a subject, you need to go to the source, and that is usually in the form of books. Watching college lectures is an intermediate thing. It gives you maybe 5% more depth, and it's usually a bit more digestible (depending on the book and the lecturer), but if you don't care about that and want to read the books, videos and lectures are really a waste of time, as you can read much faster than a lecturer can speak.

It causes a drastic short-term change in state.

What does that look like?

"Alien insanity"? LOL

Mindfulness, Self-determination theory, developmental psychology, systems thinking and holism (as a part of community psychology), trauma psychology (CPTSD, etc.).