Carl-Richard

I've heard all of their songs way too many times

Porcupine Tree is my favorite band I love metal at the gym, but my taste has gotten mellower over time, leaning more towards rock/jazz.

Incredible explanation of how telepathy is a "visual language" in the first 15 minutes. Psychedelics increase the awareness of changes in face, body, emotions and context (visual aspects of communication) to such an extent that telepathy (communication without deliberate signalling) is possible. In other words, the increased ability to empathize (to "feel the other") melts the interpersonal boundaries into a shared experience. It's not so much an ethereal transmission of thoughts as a synchronous cognitive construction caused by the increased fidelity of stimuli/perception and similar dictionary units (hence why friends and relatives are better at telepathy than strangers -- and empathy for that matter).

In theory, technology is not simply a product of human brains. It's a product of geology, climate, flora and fauna, culture etc.

Ahh I see. I had some intuition about that but I'm a bit dense ?. So you don't get an average score by being placed in the middle of the distribution, but it nevertheless tells you about your placement in that distribution.

Acting like a normal human: not going too long without food, overeating, creating tension in the body, subpar posture, don't sit too still, keep your mind occupied at all times. The worst part about this is that I always feel resistance against fully immersing myself in a song or a movie, and feeling emotionally detached. It's not good for my health. The way I describe it is that a normal human maintains their sense of self by having a natural resistance to some things but less to others (which they're not conscious of and don't have to think about), meanwhile I have to maintain a steady baseline of resistance which is generally much weaker and has less fluctuations but which doesn't allow me to have deep, discriminate passion for particular things (which used to be music and guitar). Because what happens when I get too immersed in guitar playing, I start sliding down the path of ego death ?

Gotta say there is a great diversity of interpretations of the results ? A score of 2.1 is an average score, not "50% above average" (whatever that means).

I was given the choice during an university lecture 1.5 years ago, or rather it jumped up behind me and tried to force me into submission, but I kept holding on, really hard. I spent a full year of silently struggling to regain a sense of self, and I'm still on unstable grounds. Basically, the choice you felt you were given and had to turn down in fear, for some it's not just a choice -- it's a reality. What you said, "May I one day have the courage to give up my own will for God's. This is the ultimate act of faith.", resonates with me deeply. This is my quest.

@IAmReallyImportant Again, no idea what you're talking about

You're not average just because you fall within the green area. You have to take all the data into account to determine the average, which means it will actually be somewhere outside the green area.

*sigh* Debunk youtubers...

If you score higher than 50% of people on either metric, that means you're exactly average compared to the rest of the test takers. I have no idea what you're talking about though.

The percentage says exactly what it says. I don't see what is so hard about it ?

You're average if you score higher than 50% of people, which seems to be about 2.5. Higher than 50% of people also means lower than 50% of people

I wonder how the conservatives parse their freedumb stance on vaccines with the draft in the Selective Service: "all males between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service to be drafted if needed". We're somehow fine with putting individual lives in danger to protect the country against a military threat, but when it comes to protecting ourselves against a pathogen, it suddenly becomes so abstract and complex.

...very postmodern

It's not that surprising, because there are still many unvaccinated people. They lifted all restrictions in June, and the delta variant is still a thing.

On a second thought, he might just be a very inquisitive and agreeable Green. Nevertheless, he was very fun to talk to. What struck me as Yellow in him was his non-dogmatic feel, like he wasn't pushing a particular contracted perspective. He is in one of my psychology courses at a Norwegian university

I think I found a random Yellow person today (either that, or my mind is just starved from talking to intuitives). We talked for an hour about metaphysics, epistemology, holism, collectivist vs. individualist societies, ideological lenses, integrating different perspectives, trauma, Freud, Jung, Plato, cognitive theory, karma, personal relationships, the relativity of perspectives, Eastern vs. Western religions, theology vs. mysticism, near-death experiences, psychedelics.

You can't Neil deGrasse Tyson this shit.

Yes. It's infinitely inclusive. Why not both? It's infinitely inclusive. The end of suffering is when you realize that not suffering is not better than suffering.

If we take the "10,000 years ago" literally, that was the beginning of the agricultural revolution, which lead to the fall of sub- dunbar number tribal societies and female nature religions, and the rise of empires and male power religions. Crops and farm animals act as a lever on the food supply, effectively freeing up labor, lending it to technological advancement, territorial expansion, and tribal warfare. If there ever was a time where selflessness took a hit, it was during the transition from archaic collectivism to imperial individualism.

That's the thing with evolution and development: it's a progressive climb of trial-and-error by selfish entities. For a developed person, when looking back at his own growth in retrospect, it's natural to think "what a waste", but the benefits of a gradual process is that it produces a relatively stable product. An organism that evolved legs will predictably walk on land, and a person who's childhood development occured within a progressive society will predictably show progressive tendencies. On the other hand, if you try to give a software upgrade that is incompatible with the hardware (like giving democracy to Afghanistan or non-duality to pre-rational sheep herders), the program will either shut down or produce a corrupted file . So while our current shortcomings and stubbornness may seem like a waste of potential, they're nevertheless a necessary part of growth.