Carl-Richard

Great, so now that we've established that there is no room, no inside or outside: there is only what is. Done. We're pointing towards non-duality, not "there is nothing outside my room". Are the solipsists hearing this? @Solipsism

Hehehe are we talking about the body being the ontological primitive now are we? No we're obviously not. Why are you bringing this up, Razard?

This is what is going on: when people around are talking about solipsism, you start talking as if "there is nothing outside my experience, I'm solipsist, alright?". Then when pressed on that, "well hang on, don't get hung up on inside or outside, ok?". It's like you're dog whistling solipsism to get the "I'm a Leo solipsists" seal of approval but you're actually just a boring non-dualist. See, now you're doing it again. There is no rooooooom. Omg. "Room" is a construct, a concept, a fantasy, a delusion. Stop it with the delusion. If not, what is the implication there? That there is nothing outside the room, only what is inside the room? If not, then why bring up the room? There is no room. Stop with the dog whistling.

He was trolling when he asked me to clarify. There is nothing inside or outside, get it?

The only thing USA has got going for them is a higher incidence of risk-taking and sociopathy and that's about it

You have not integrated it unless you're living in it regularly, and that's not at all a non-threatening prospect. It's easy to integrate it as intellectual masturbation.

"I'm not making distinctions" -> "there is nothing outside of this room". Nice try.

To understand this, we need to view everything in life through the lens of work/stress/energy. Every breathing moment of your life is work/stress/energy (let's just call it stress). When you breathe, that's stress on your lungs. When you sit, that's stress on your skeleton and muscles. When you stand up, that's even more stress on your skeleton and muscles. When you walk, when you think, when you speak, when you digest food; everything is stress on your system. It's work your system has to do, and it can do it better or worse, more efficiently or less efficiently. A crucial distinction is chronic stress vs short-term stress. Chronic stress occurs all the time. That's the stress of everyday life. That's the stress you want to reduce the effects of, because it's constant. Working out on the other hand is short-term stress. It only makes up a small fraction of your day (1/24th if you work out 1 hour a day). It's in the larger scheme of things not very important (only if you train e.g. 12 hours a day). Now, what working out does is it makes you more capable of handling stress in general, and also chronic stress, the stress you want to reduce the effects of. When you train your ability to pump blood to the right organs, when you train the ability of your cells to perform metabolic processes, to breathe, to walk, to stand; when you train your body to respond to stress, you will adapt in such a way that you will be better able to handle stress. And because working out only induces short-term stress, which again is only a small fraction of your day, and because it reduces the effects of chronic stress, the stress of being alive as a human, working out will have a positive effect on your lifespan (as stress is virtually synonymous with reducing your lifespan; it's your life-clock). Again, there are cases where working out too much could start to tip the balance in the wrong direction, which could be the case for those who work out intensely for say 12 hours a day (which is no one); I've done the math on this and it seems to add up. But if you are 99.999% of people who work out somewhere below that, working out will positively impact your lifespan. This is also why I think you can probably never replace working out with e.g. drugs like Mike Israetel might wish could happen with things like myostatin inhibitors and the like. Working out produces a holistic response on the system, it's not something you can fix with one receptor or one chemical. It's the entire system responding to something the entire system is doing. It will probably not be reproduced by anything, or something which is indistinguishable from magic. Or anything which could reproduce it would look something like working out in a big way (taking a streak from Bernardo Kastrup's "when we'll be able to create conscious AI is when we'll be able to create life from non-life; abiogenesis", essentially deconstructing the AI vs life distinction). So maybe you could sit in a chair that makes your muscles contract spontaneously without you having to do anything, but this also means you lose things like coordination, balance, movement patterns. In reality, it seems like you have to be willing to get off your ass at some point and work out.

120 decades judging by Jordan Peterson's daily indulgence in it (maybe he stopped idk); actually, I don't buy into people being captured by politics not being spiritually advanced, I retract my joke. Any practice you do depends on how intensely you do it. That's really all that distinguishes someone who gets benefits from someone who don't, regardless if that intensity comes mostly from a furious obsession, sheer genetic talent, intelligence or know-how (it's good with a good mix). You also have to be clear on your goals. If you do Kriya Yoga as a stress reduction technique or to become more relaxed, you will probably get different benefits than if your aim is to connect with the most sacred thing in existence.

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If you're not Enlightened yet, you suck at meditation. That could be my signature.

Yes I was going to mention dopamine but I didn't have enough "dopamine" to do so 🫠 There is also self-referential thinking (thinking about yourself) which drops timestamps in your episodic memories. And not coincidentally, self-referential thinking is linked to negative mood. I have to think out a theory for all this (I can't actually remember reading anything on time perception). That's exactly what my day was today. Sometimes I thought it was going slow, and then suddenly I teleported 30 minutes forward in time (I napped; that was a joke 😆).

I've heard a story of a guy who was extremely sick lying in bed, and he saw the sun rise and set incredibly fast, like his frame rate was completely out of wack. So it seems like poor health can increase frame rate by a lot (frame rate as in how fast the movie plays). I think when in good health (and in a good mood), each moment feels "fuller", but at the same time, time also passes quickly. It's maybe not something that is easily captured by words. This is a very nuanced phenomenological territory. The problem could indeed be trying to divide the experience of time into a chronological notion and not looking at it more as a informational quality (again, "fullness"). Maybe the way to think about it is that the frame rate increases but also each frame expands. The way we define a frame (or an event) is a bit arbitrary, and actually you can keep dividing each separate event into smaller pieces indefinitely. So when you're more healthy, you capture more of each event, each event becomes more sub-events, and even though each event passes by more quickly, you have to move through more sub-events as well. What the sick person lying in bed must be doing is just removing a lot of sub-events or contracting the fullness of each frame. By the way, take what I said with a grain of salt because I'm ironically horribly sleep deprived, I'm not quite able to assess whether it makes sense (I don't even know where my frame rate is at 😂).

@integral You have to distinguish between retrospective time dilation (episodic memory) and moment-to-moment time dilation (perceptual "frame rate"). If you're in a good mood, time generally passes by quickly moment to moment. If you're doing a lot of often new things, often hard things, looking back it feels like time has passed by slowly. On the other hand, if you're just doing the same things every day, every week, every year and you're used to the routine, you'll look back and think "wow, those years just flew by". Weed and psychedelics massively decrease your perceptual frame rate (time feels like it moves slower moment to moment). And if you use weed chronically and you do the same things all the time (as one does), you increase the retrospective time dilation (looking back, time flew by). Psychedelics on the other hand tend to decrease it by a lot (because you tend to experience many new things on it). Generally, the more obstacles you face, the more things make you think, the more new things you do, the more data points you go through with elaborate processing, makes time pass slower (both retrospectively and moment to moment). The more flow, the less obstacles, the more habitual, the more data points you go through with implicit processing, the more time flows uninhibited.

Wadeva m8 my non-nativeness comes out when I'm sleep deprived. Mooot.

He should. It's a partial egoic intepretation / lashing out that sometimes happens when coming into contact with non-duality. It's delusional.

Which is why "sports will never not be unfair" or trying to make the differences as small as possible is a moot point. All that matters in the end is agreement on what differences are OK (which generally leads to a balanced outcome).

That differences are unfair on a moral level does not compute in sports. There is no play without differences. The very reason you want for winning is that you were intrinsically different from the opponents.

What is not a psychic phenomenon? I would classify it as a coincidentally (not intrinsically) extraordinary experience, something that most people have simply happened to not have experienced, not because they are necessarily unable to experience it, but because they simply haven't done the right things (i.e. be in nature and touch a tree in an elevated state). It's kinda sad that it's now a seemingly extraordinary thing to connect with nature in any fashion. I think you can experience a similar effect without sprinting if you do things like (especially in combination) fasting, nofap, technological fasting, meditation, avoiding chemicals / chemical detoxes (fluoride, heavy metals). Sprinting is just one way to perk your system.

Why does it have to be liquid? Eat some fruit.

Vitamin D deficiency literally kills your DNA.

Maybe you're an overmethylator. That could also possibly explain your sensitivity to weed. My problems above seemed to vanish by taking the multivitamin on an empty stomach before making my breakfast, and then taking the rest of the vitamins and minerals after eating the breakfast. I've also gotten my zinc bisglycinate now, but I haven't thought much about the difference it makes. I'm curious, what happens when you eat certain foods that naturally contain maybe 10x the amounts of the chemicals that you are reacting so strongly to? Here is a list compiled by ChatGPT-o3 (which, in my epistemic OCD, I used to show what is possible, not what is fact ):

Again, simply immediacy and convenience. If you like the picture and you want it and it's more convenient to pay 2 dollars than going through the effort of prompting an AI and printing out the picture, you'll buy it. Immediacy and convenience is actually arguably one of the main factors of commerce. If you wanted, you could make your own car, your own computer, grow your own vegetables, produce your own eggs, build your own house, etc., but that's usually not convenient when you can outsource that work to others with more resources and you just give them money instead. If you reframe maybe most of your expenditures as convenience-maxing (or time-saving) and also investment opportunities, you'll become much more rational about how you spend your money. With money, people tend to operate on traditional principles and heuristics like "save your money" and being frugal when the way they spend their time otherwise is directly antithetical to the goal of money. For example, many people choose walking for 30 minutes to avoid spending a few bucks on gas or renting an electric scooter. Those 30 minutes can be spent investing your time in something valueable with compounding effects or actually working. Traditional principles and heuristics are robust, but not very comprehensive or flexible. I've gained a lot by questioning how I'm used to spending my money or societal expectations around spending money. I spent 2k$ out of my own pocket on Meta ad campaigns recruiting people to my master's thesis project. "What?" you may ask, but I gained a spot on regional-national radio speaking about my project, I gained stellar data and immense sample sizes that are virtually unheard of in that setting (good for future career opportunitues and getting the work published), and I got my advisor interested in continuing working with me after the project. So that's definitely worth trying out. That was maybe a bit of a tangent, but nevertheless, never underestimate the power of going against the grain and questioning socially reinforced notions, be it selling people soda at the beach or AI images on the street (although honestly, there are probably better ways to spend your time unless you thoroughly enjoy it).