Carl-Richard

Have you had experiences with schizophrenia? Mystical experiences and psychotic experiences are not the same. Psychotic experiences may have mystical elements, and mystical experiences may have psychotic elements, but that is about it.

It's one of the first things you learn as an undergrad in psychology or psychiatry (the limitations of psychiatric diagnoses, what they're really for etc.).

It seems like you're treating psychiatry as being in the business of ontological truth claims ("I don't care about practical or usefulness, I only care about what is true"). Psychiatry is in the business of practical problem solving; diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Yes, it's true that laymen like to take a naive realist interpretation of what are intended to be pragmatic tools (they think diagnoses are real things), but psychiatrists don't do that.

Yes. Homosexuality went against the behavioral expectations of society for a long time. Society validates it by definition. You're acting like there is this objective measurement. There is no such thing. You said it's a "made-up thing by modern society" in order to dismiss it by some objective criteria, but the only thing you did was affirm its definition. Then why are you talking about psychiatry? You might want to rewatch the JP video you linked.

It's a wide definition which works for this argument. Functionality and distress are behaviors. I said "a certain expectation", so not all behaviors.

@Razard86 A lot of this boils down to, again, your style of communicating (which I've commented on before), which is to deconstruct concepts as a way to make a point, rather than keeping the concepts intact while establishing degrees of nuance. Mental illness is something society labels you with when you fall outside certain behavioral expectations. Kids who have trouble paying attention in school can get slapped with the ADHD label. People who, in your framing, have trouble overcoming fears, can get slapped with the depressive or psychotic labels. You can comment on whether these labels reflect something wrong with society (e.g. the school system), rather than the people, without abandoning mental illness as a concept. The concept exists, the diagnoses exist; the question is just about to which degree they're useful or not.

What about schizophrenia?

Do you feel like they're forcing you?

@Razard86 @Kksd74628 The disagreements around meditation vs. psychedelics is whether it leads to enlightenment or not, not whether it's beneficial.

Bahahaha

I think everybody knows about that lesson to some degree. In my experience, it's too strong to make me want to eat anything that deviates from that impulse, and I think everybody can discover that potential within themselves.

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Those are mostly New Age spirituality things. What about good old self-development? Max out all the Maslowian levels.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeHAOEQsFAA/ The graphic isn't from a scientific study. It was merely improvised based on a few sentences in a Dutch Vice article. The original thread should've been locked for being a misleading low quality post

@Opulence ???

Yeah, I forgot to add that nature hikes should ideally happen in an area you're familiar with. Don't just go into some random patch of forest unless you have experience doing that. Stick to hiking trails that are not too busy.

Your "conscious" or articulated mind is. There are also "unconscious" or inarticulated aspects of the mind, i.e. thoughts that have yet to be ("preconscious"), or structures that will never arise in the form of a conscious thought, but which nevertheless have an effect on your mind ("the Unconscious", karma etc.). If you prefer, the Unconscious can be stretched out to include all of the universe; transpersonal aspects, not just personal aspects. In that case, by some nondual poetic beauty, the Unconscious becomes synonymous with the mystical conception of "Consciousness", or "phenomenal consciousness" in philosophical terms.

It's possible to get to a place where you prefer eating healthy, not mainly because of some long-term health outcome, but because you appreciate how healthy food makes you feel on a bodily level. I call this Intrinsic Health.

Go for a hike in nature. You want to have as few restrictions on your free movement as possible. I would only trip inside if all the other people in the house are 100% in on it.

Aesthetically/poetically or analytically/intellectually? Until then, this is my entry (for both) ^

... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/ Intentionality explains why you can't read my thoughts, or feel what I'm feeling, or see what I'm seeing. These are the contents of the personal mind; perception and cognition. Under metaphysical idealism, the personal mind also occurs within the larger transpersonal mind ("Consciousness"), which is what I'm calling "phenomenal consciousness". In a more metaphorical language: the personal mind is one of the ways that God hides from itself in order to explore the limited world of form.

Do you have a theory? The good musicians I know are a mixed bag.

Haha thanks That was the intention. Somebody called it a kiwi, and I can't unsee it ? I eat kiwi almost every day and the grocery store I go to is also called Kiwi ?

Yes, but which point are you making? He described an experience which I've had hundreds of times while completely sober and perfectly functional. Am I just psychotic? ?

Again, this would be to conflate phenomenal consciousness with intentionality. Under metaphysical idealism (your framework), these two concepts are very different. Whether AI possesses inner mental states or not is a question about intentionality, not phenomenal consciousness.