Carl-Richard

I'm just trying to balance out this complete psychosis of language that is going on But yes, we should stay on topic. Working memory and IQ is just one of those things that you're born with. The things you can work on other than meditation that maximizes your cognitive potential is just to optimize all forms of health: physical exercise, diet, sleep etc.

I don't care lol

I'm basing it on psychonautwiki which is based off of probably hundreds of trip reports.

Math skews towards the "drier" aspects of the intellect: logical capacity & conceptual knowledge > creativity & intuition, while e.g. psychology skews towards the more moist side. Basically left-brain vs. right-brain. As for "good employee", IQ (decent measurement for intellect) is the best predictor for occupational success alongside conscientiousness, so again you're off.

You have to think of the working memory as the main stage of the mind. The mind is a memory machine: it takes in, sorts through and stores impressions. Conceptual thinking is done in the working memory, long-term memory recall is done in the working memory, visualizing things is done in the working memory, counting, rehearsing, and talking to yourself is done in the working memory. Because smart people can act unwise, and so-called dumb people can act wise. Wisdom displays itself in every situation, in every aspect of your life, and the complexity of that cannot be captured by linear lines of logical reasoning. Overcoming life challenges, not just intellectual challenges. One can pretend to intellectually understand the problem in hindsight, but it takes the collective wisdom of history and trial-and-error for that understanding to be revealed. Also, if you experience the fall of communism first-hand, by being inside of it and living your life under communism every day, you'll be much wiser about the reason for why it fell than somebody who came to a similar conclusion intellectually. The intellect is very fallible and can jump to unwise conclusions. Just look at how many differing opinions exist between different intellectuals. You're melting my brain.

@KH2 I spotted 5 spelling errors in that short post.

That is long-term memory. It's like you're maximally wrong The concept of "wisdom" is often reserved to that which is not possible to be articulated by the intellect and which increases through life experience, and without long-term memory, you can't learn from experience, and thus you can't become wise. "Intellect" is conceptual thinking: logical capacity + conceptual knowledge (+ creativity + intuition), and that also requires decent long-term memory, or else you can't retain conceptual knowledge. Intellect is also not the same as "intelligence", which goes beyond conceptual thinking, e.g. things like social, emotional and kinesthetic intelligence.

I heard it was the other way around. He wanted to experience it to see if his theory holds up.

In many ways, working memory is intellect. While working memory isn't necessarily limited to logical operations, working memory decides how computationally dense your logic is (e.g. 2+2=4 vs. a+xy(bc^2)=4). When short-term memory changed name to working memory, it went from being thought of as a storage space to a working space. When you say "memory", you're thinking about long-term memory.

Meditation improves executive functioning, a part of working memory. Heavy weight training decreases age-related deterioation of IQ.

I'm not much better lol. Did a 20 minute run for the first time in years some days ago, and it was rough, but I already felt different the day after. My breath was much smoother while lifting weights the following days. I might incorporate running 3 days a week ontop of my regular workouts.

Yeah, the moment I felt like I had to come up with defenses for why it's not deadly, it felt very wrong. I got the idea from some random youtube comment many years ago, and it sounded reasonable, but it became different once I started considering the actual health implications of it.

@Someone here I don't think I can ethically recommend doing potentially health threatening things. I can't take back the information I gave you, but I'll delete the comments.

Destiny is entertaining, good faith and capable of nuance. I don't watch Vaush. He thinks conservatives are evil demons and that we should delete them from the face of the earth. Fuentes is an anti-democratic, Christian white nationalist, Schrödinger's Nazi. I'm a New Age social democrat. Those things do not mix.

TJ Reeves, Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, cancelling, conspiracies, etc.

I sense a general pattern of identifying with the underdog. It might be interesting to introspect on if or why you have any predispositions in that vein.

DO SOMETHING. Find something that can replace it. Create specific coping strategies for when the cravings are at their worst. Go for a run, take a bath, eat something. Passivity and boredom is the biggest enemy. Do you know how beneficial physical exercise is for your well-being? It's literally like injecting your brain with drugs.

Most lysergamides are long-lasting, but I found one at 4-6 hours: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MiPLA

7-10 hours vs. 8-12 hours. Not a big difference.

I think of the final letting go as entering a black hole: You can't imagine what is actually on the other side. Whoever enters it, no information can be transferred to the outside. When you approach it, space and time starts collapsing.

He is trying to communicate a feeling that when he looks at other people, the feeling of them having a "personhood" is weakening, which is a direct result of his own feeling of personhood also weakening. "Other" is always constructed together with a "self", and saying that "other people are imaginary" or "I'm imaginary" are just different ways of communicating the same thing: that the duality of self & other is collapsing.

"You" aren't real.

Egocentrism places ego above other. Not the same as saying there is no other.

Accept what you fear.

Listened to them a lot for a while.