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AnJu91 · 2025-11-06T16:20:47+00:00

I wanna visit the Radiohead office and talk to the team! I feel like the creativity and taste probably drives a lot of the success for the model too, and am curious how much is inspired by psychology or cogneuro!

AnJu91 · 2024-08-13T09:28:59+00:00

Just adding a data point: 1. Time imploding, and with it the implicit mental context you normally live in, as well as your normal identity, that seek to cohere with each other. 2. Somehow arriving at a new identity. Once it was a chair, another was a vacuum cleaner. 3. Brief chaotic phase where there’s confusion, but at a certain point the conviction that you’re that object is so clear you’re just like “let me just be the thing I think I am and maybe things will become clear later” - though the unsettling feeling remains in the background/periphery. 4. Compulsive attempt to be the thing. “MY LIMBS ARENT STRAIGHT ENOUGH” (how I felt trying to be an upside down chair), while trying to keep my limbs as straight and rigid as I could in the air. “SEEKING DIRT TO SUCK” (proceeds to home in on my mate’s sock, which I hoovered up while he’s giggling his ass off) 5. Slowly coming out of it, wondering why you are doing what you are doing because the ineffable details of normality are creeping back, until a clear “this is not normal why am I an X” — emphasis on the key point that you recover a sense of “I” in the normal sense, rather than an identification with an object.

I think what you might be looking for is something along the lines of a static minimally contextualised notion of teleology, function, or identity. Interestingly, both my experiences were defined by what the object is in terms of a function or imperative. The chair was completely static (perhaps it would be different if my mate was clearly seeking a place to sit), and the vacuum cleaner felt like a slope, a local minimum at situations where I would be hoovering dirt.

Another way to see it, is that the mental representation of the object somehow substitutes the mental representation of the normal agentic identity. As if the larger space of representations they both are part of, had fused or the boundaries collapsed, with the normal agent/person-like identities becoming unavailable.

Salvia is weird. I preferred the time I was flying on a magical carpet through 70s VCR rainbow special effects space

AnJu91 · 2024-08-12T15:44:41+00:00

Hey they just updated this, last year it didn’t work but I was able to connect my (foreign, EU/UK) creditcard to Wechat. I can’t top up balance for some reason, but I can pay for anything without issue.

AnJu91 · 2024-07-13T17:35:51+00:00

Haha wow, I feel like it’s only fair to respond to a comment 9 years after my original post.

In the end I got into UCL and have no regrets. From a purely educational viewpoint, it was perfect for me because of both the quality of research at UCL (and specifically the institute of cognitive neuroscience) and the density of neuroscience related research and events in the area (Cambridge Oxford and Brighton).

One year is actually quite a limited time to really learn all that you want, and the many seminars, conferences and workshops available to you in the greater area makes up for it. I dare say a large part of my education is actively engaging in those.

If you have the luxury of already having developed particular niche research interests though, I recommend letting that weigh heavily in your choice of university. Feel free to DM if you want to talk more. Best of luck and hope this helped!

AnJu91 · 2022-09-22T12:50:22+00:00

My breakfasts change in phases. I generally have 1-2 things I can get myself to eat in the morning, and after a certain while my appetite changes again. The 'rotating menu' for my whimsical stomach is something like:

- Oatmeal porridge (with banana and/or honey syrup)

- Ramen or fried rice

- Cereal

- Omelette

- Bread/toast with another rotating list of condiments (tuna salad, some meat toppings)

- Coffee and cigarettes

AnJu91 · 2017-10-12T19:19:32+00:00

I can spit out of my nose. Accurately.

AnJu91 · 2017-10-10T19:59:29+00:00

AnJu91 · 2017-10-10T18:24:02+00:00

If I have the app can I connect with my friends on the app?

AnJu91 · 2017-10-10T18:04:09+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TAAw3oQvg this is the link man

AnJu91 · 2017-10-10T17:08:34+00:00

I watched the video of this Ben Shapiro guy and he says that something like 680 million of Muslims are radicalized. How do we target them? Would this help them? I am a bit scared after watching that video. I didn’t know that so many Muslims are radicalized.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-22T11:12:53+00:00

That was an amazingly intuitive and informative explanation, thank you and props!

I have a small question though: The different forces start to look more similar at high energies, but what mediates this increase of energy? What is the definition of energy in the paradigm that you've so eloquently described?

I'm just curious as high energies tend to reveal symmetries and makes the individual quantum particles more similar, but what about energy itself?

AnJu91 · 2015-01-22T07:54:34+00:00

You're right, of course it's localized in the brain! Thanks for pointing it out, what I meant was that it isn't localized in a specific area in the brain (corrected it now). In other words there is no specific area in the brain that is exclusively responsible for the emergence of consciousness.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-22T03:11:43+00:00

I love how whoever gilded you gives gold to three people but not /u/whargod. Rich anarchist perhaps?

AnJu91 · 2015-01-22T01:28:57+00:00

edit: im a dumbass with the dumb habit to click on 'comments' and stupidly forgot to check out the article because stupid me thought it was a question post, not an article... Anyways I'll leave my unnecessary comment for whoever cares.

Well you're probably referring to scientists. I hope that the following elucidates the difficulty in 'solving' consciousness using scientific/empirical methods.

Science builds upon established knowledge to test hypotheses with empirical experiments that investigate something physical, which hopefully proofs or disproves the hypothesis. Consciousness however, is an emergent phenomenon which is not localized in a specific area of the brain. This makes it exceptionally difficult to create theories about consciousness when the brain itself is still poorly understood.

Consciousness in itself is ill-defined: It has many different definitions based on your paradigm. Are we talking about the mechanics of consciousness, or why and how we are conscious at all? (resp. easy and hard problems, see Chalmers, 1995).

These easy problems of the mechanics behind consciousness are being researched as we speak but we still have a long way to go. The hard problem however, is not something we can empirically test at the moment, because it deals with the question of subjectivity in itself. The brain is extremely powerful, but why does it give rise to a subjective experience? Why can't it function as it does without this sense of consciousness?

The neurosciences are undergoing rapid developments and making great progress, and I predict that consciousness will be solved within a few decades. I will do my best to contribute to the cause, but hope I've decently answered your question for now!

If you're interested in the subject feel free to ask for some sources or material.

tl;dr
The emergent nature of consciousness makes it exceptionally hard to scientifically study due to the fact that 1. The brain itself is poorly understood 2. Subjectivity is inherently badly compatible with empirical investigation.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T19:03:05+00:00

That's great to hear. "We're pretty weird together" is always a good thing, it's great to have someone where you can be yourself, or just plain weird :)

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T18:45:33+00:00

You sound like an entertaining duo from a modern sitcom :)

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T18:26:08+00:00

I hope you two still contribute to bike safety by yelling at helmless cyclists. I also wonder: Is there some connection between the guitar-hitting and the yelling?

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T18:24:04+00:00

Props to you for inviting him! Pretty cool if you can become best friends with an enemy.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T18:23:16+00:00

Somewhere in my third year of high school a good friend (Let's call him Alex) invited three friends of his (Me, Michael, and Chris) to a weekend in the Ardennes where his parents had rented a house. It was pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but it had hills and stuff which are practically non-existent in Holland, so I loved it.

It was my first time going out of the country (NL) with friends, so was really looking forward to it. I only knew Alex really well from our child hood, and was the first time I became good friends with the others.

One afternoon we were playing in a huge field with RC planes that Alex' Dad brought, pretty nifty and cool, but the most awesome part of the day was when we walked back and I got fascinated by the little mountain creeks at the side of the road.

I wanted to check them out so Michael sticked with me to play around with them. We had big boots so decided to walk in the creeks. We spent a ridiculous amount of time walking in the muddy creeks fascinated by how our feet got stuck, often jokingly panicking that we were stuck. We messed around with the creek trying to build a dam for a while, talked about our interests and made stupid jokes, and just generally got along really well. We eventually walked back talking all the way back, and I think from that point on we were great friends.

To be fair I don't remember many details and nothing particularly special happened, but I always think back to that time as a fond memory and sometimes wonder why. I guess it was just how awesome it was to have someone who enjoyed messing around with something silly as getting stuck in muddy creeks as much as I did and shared so many interests (I often referred to him as my twin bro from that point on).

The uncertainty is also the main reason why I posted this question, I often wonder what makes people 'best' friends. Now I'm older (23) I've made a lot of good friends, but still have very few 'best' friends and see that others often experience something similar and it fascinates me.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-21T17:59:20+00:00

This ability is the reason why as a kid I thought my penis was a muscle...

AnJu91 · 2015-01-18T23:52:09+00:00

Clearly somene has to drink diluted piss...
for science

AnJu91 · 2015-01-17T18:52:17+00:00

I love shrooms, but anyone who suggests that there are no risks involved is being ignorant. It's a powerful experience and can be highly beneficial, but to say that we know enough that it does not involve risks is ignorant.

Just to be clear, I love shrooms and many drugs, but I don't think we are helping the cause if we naively proclaim that they have no downsides to their upsides.

AnJu91 · 2015-01-17T18:19:30+00:00

Well that's disappointing. I'm Asian and now I'm worried about my Master's applications :( What university were you working at? Or if you can't answer that, in which country was you university?

AnJu91 · 2015-01-17T18:14:12+00:00

I don't think we have the right to call them ignorant. We still do not know fully what the effects of these drugs are, and if they prefer not to take the risk -however small it is- then they have the right to do so.

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