Carl-Richard

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  1. I've stopped watching spiritual teachers in general because of the strong transmission effect, so I don't even dare to glance at that one
  2. Mountains in general.
  3. It's a joke. They're actually good supplements
  4. The "Bach" in "Gödel, Escher, Bach":
  5. I think the argument is that 1st person experience (personalized bubbles of consciousness) merely arose at one stage of natural evolution, not as a product of information processing, but either as a product of selection or just sheer happenstance. It's another way of saying that we only know about lifeforms such as ours that have a subjective experience. Even if the computer evolved through natural selection, it's not necessarily a given that it too would have internal experience (because again, the possibility of happenstance).
  6. The question is really how different that would look from biology (if we're indeed aiming for an organism with metabolism, as experience seems to be tied to metabolism). For example, phospholipid membranes and water are perfect for the transfer and catalyzing of chemical reactions of organic compounds. The idea that a synthetic organism ("machine") has to be electronic and consist of cold, dead, metallic parts is a bit juvenile.
  7. You could argue that the computer in that case would literally create life. There are many traits you can use to create the category of life, but arguably the most central one is metabolism.
  8. Bernardo Kastrup says we can simulate intelligence (behavior), but not understanding (1st person experience of intelligence), at least with current technology. Experience seems to be intrinsically tied to biology. 2:26:35 - 2:30:00 "Life/metabolism is what dissociative processes look like."
  9. A biological neuron is more complex than an electronic neuron.
  10. Humans tend to identify with the content of their self-referential thoughts (narratives derived from their autobiographical memory) to produce a self-identity that shapes one's perception of the world. When the frequency and repetitive nature of one's self-referential of thoughts is lessened, and when such thoughts are perceived for the fleeting phenomena that they are, rather than for being the base of one's reality, one can start to unveil this contracted perceptual overlay, a.k.a. the illusion of self.
  11. Have you integrated all the lessons in the previous videos?
  12. What is your opinion on Yellow thinking?
  13. Whatever she is holding in her hands looks very much like Psilocybe semilanceata
  14. Yeah. I think Brittany Simons in her interview with Destiny described it pretty well: Mr.Girl has a very strong desire to be authentic and ends up overstepping by trying too hard, coming off as overly edgy and infact inauthentic. Another factor is his high clinical score in naivety which can be misinterpreted as devaluing social cohesion, because he simply expects too much from people.
  15. @Scholar That's the one I watched as well. She came off as a bit preachy by bringing it up the way she did, which may have prompted the somewhat dismissive response. 1:05:40 Here he conceded that he doesn't deny the potential benefits of it, but again, the way that meditation was brought up in the discussion was somewhat of a distraction from the main topic, and he tried to steer it back: "you have to know what you don't know."
  16. @Kksd74628 Just some advice: I don't know if other people feel this way, but the rainbow layout makes me not want to read what you're writing (it's hard on the eyes).
  17. I'm similar in the way that the true ramifications of spiritual practice really took me by surprise, but I didn't have quite the same reaction as you, which sucks to hear. This is a general danger with the internet and fragmented, open-source information. You can easily get in over your head with almost anything. It's not much else you can do than to apply the precautionary principle to whatever you find.
  18. That would be to put the cart before the horse.
  19. There also exists various empirically supported techniques for establishing habits and goal-commitment that health psychologists use to help patients with chronic illnesses with compliance to treatment, like implementation intentions and mental contrasting.
  20. Read up on each stage and see how many aspects of it that you clearly understand and have no questions about. Maybe sit down and write a mini-essay about each stage and see which one is the most detailed.