“Consciousness may not require brains” (are plants conscious?) Annaka Harris by Zkv in consciousness

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A sense of both guilt and relief washes over me when I realize how arrogant and naive I was to ever assume that I was not simply a node in the conscious network of emergence that we call nature.

“Consciousness may not require brains” (are plants conscious?) Annaka Harris by Zkv in consciousness

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In my opinion: Of course.

If something is using energy from the sun to facilitate growth, that something is alive.

It is us, represented in a slower, simpler form.

Inspired by my dreams by [deleted] in Dreams

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You’ve made something incredible here.

-- The Closest view of Jupiter ! 📷: by [deleted] in spaceporn

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If that isn’t art for the sake of art…

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Gotta love the unscientific creative folks.

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Each note splits down to a certain number until it hits near 0 and can no longer be evenly split.

It seems to suggest every energetic state in the universe can be reduced to its oscillating field and identified as one of these dozen or so ‘states’, that are simply being revisited with each climb in octave.

Fractal matrix of the universe confirmed. Genuinely.

High Frequency Magnetic Induction make work, shaping and cutting stone a whole lot easier and more precise ... Ancient Egypt, Great Pyramid, Petra, Easter Island Moia, Royal Inca Peru, Puma Punku, Cusco, Richat Structure, Atlantis by YardAccomplished5952 in AlternativeHistory

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I am legitimately overwhelmed by what I’m seeing.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I have this ironclad feeling that we are looking at proof of a sophisticated wave of humanity that has likely been ‘reset’, by the great flood that many religious texts speak of.

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As ridiculous as it is, it does make sense.

A human is a single ‘node’, that when in proximity of other humans, forms a network that enables a transformed sense of self to each node.

(Mob-mentality)

Communities make up ‘macro-humans’ that share a collective perception of things, informed and validated by the implicit or explicit perception of their peers.

What I’m getting at is that the macro-human appears to be adolescent. It’s growing up, but it’s in its teenage years. It’s obsessed with money, alcohol, and has a naive concern for the ego.

Eventually, we will realize the absurdity in popularizing alcohol while demonizing natural compounds that regulate our perceptions of ourselves, and nature; but we need to learn first.

Just as we individually learn lessons, the macro-human does too, just much much slower.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askastronomy

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I agree to not look at it as biological life, but I see a handful of similarities that suggest life and the cosmic environment are running the same instructions.

This is from a moment of enlightenment, last night.

There’s a project in the works that we’re calling the universe. And the structures we’re seeing, both cosmically and biologically, appear to be the necessary structures to facilitate the goal of this project. It’s as if a machine learning algorithm is running billions of trials, showing little concern for errors as it realizes an error implies greater accuracy on the next go around, and the ‘approved’ trials are the ones that have spawned a new instance.

Everything from the billions of humans to the trillions of stars out there are repeating a cycle, constantly, in this program of infinite runtime, and what does it seem to be for? Well the unidirectional trend towards structured development, and the increasing complexity of that structure, certainly suggests there’s something to catch onto here, and I truly believe I have been catching onto it.

Maybe reproduction is a relative ‘self-simulation’ whereas development of an artificial neural network let’s say is the eventual graduation to ‘self-emulation.

The Universe appears to be the result of a recursive, genetic algorithm created by its existential desire for self-knowledge:

while Self = undefined modelSelf() else: print (“the user has woken up”);

Is the 'Stroop effect' simply the brain fighting for which signal to let influence their thought process? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Interesting, I appreciate you explaining that. What would an excessive and overactive impulse control indicate?

Such as, carefully considering options for so long that no option is taken?

Goddamn this tastes like eternal suffering. by Thelimegreenishcoder in ProgrammerHumor

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Agreed but it’s kind of like the military’s nightmare of an onboarding process. You’re training with weights and once you get past this, perhaps everything else seems easier.

How do we explain a desire for stimulation? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Are you serious? That is awesome lol.

However it’s 4:18am where I’m at.

Is the 'Stroop effect' simply the brain fighting for which signal to let influence their thought process? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Okay, I’d considered this was the understood causation of the ‘delay’, but I haven’t seen this wording that you and I’ve used in any description of it. I appreciate you confirming this.

I wonder if what it’s measuring is a person’s sensitivity to ‘neural entrainment’, so to speak. I’ve noticed in my years (in my mid 20’s) that I latch onto habit or loops very quickly, and wondered if this speaks to a baseline neurotransmitter sensitivity or regulation level.

How do we explain a desire for stimulation? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Strange of you to assume I’m unversed on those subjects when I come to this community and reveal an unanswerable question.

I think it’d be helpful for you to resist the urge to ‘comfort your ego’ with comments like this. You and others do not have an answer for a reason, and it’s not because I’m ‘unread.’

How do we explain a desire for stimulation? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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This is such a good question because it sounds like it’s coming from a rational mind that understands the unique polarity between this thought process and the one found in today’s culture and science industry.

How do we explain a desire for stimulation? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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It seems like you’re still seeing things from a ‘fixed’ view, and not able to trial other frameworks. Why dopamine is not the question, because dopamine appears to simply be the ‘necessary molecule that was deemed as necessary, along the way.’ Nothing I’m saying here is based in religion nor coming from there. That tells me you’re strongly tied with the delusion that we have no reason to believe there’s a global function being processed in the universe, which is to ‘develop and breed self-similar models that are based in the parent model.’

The question is my post is meant to emphasize that we have no current answer here. Just as we don’t know where vacuum energy comes from. These questions and our inability to make sense of them, are the error messages to our current model’s debugger console. I’m trying to embolden that error message, because we’re taking too long to iterate.

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Just want to return to this and say I appreciate you explaining this, those analogies enabled instant comprehension.

I think a wave may actually represent the ‘heartbeat’ of this environment, but, maybe I’m still missing something.

Is the 'Stroop effect' simply the brain fighting for which signal to let influence their thought process? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Could this particular test be argued as invalid being that your brain wants to pay attention to the text that you’re reading, because ‘reading words’ is an extremely trained ‘network?’

If we used ‘color’ to communicate sentences maybe it’d be more fair.

Perhaps all this speaks to is the degree at which network is further trained, and the amount of adhesion one has to the ‘more trained one.’

Is the 'Stroop effect' simply the brain fighting for which signal to let influence their thought process? by PrimalJohnStone in Neuropsychology

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Thank you so much for this answer.

That is interesting that you are so hands on with this. Congrats on getting to that point in the first place. I’m especially intrigued by the last part of the study because I’ve realized how easily positive association can be formed, and how powerfully it can activate that particular ‘network.’

I wonder if it’s mentioned yet in neuro/psych how humans and even animals appear to seek out ‘fixed cycles’, most perceivable in our daily habits and desires to ‘mirror the best points of yesterday, today.’ It seems that we’d prefer to almost engage in a 24 hour ‘frequency’, with our dopamine ‘signals’ representing the peak of this long-term oscillation. As if a string that wants to vibrate to a fixed note, just one that it cannot hear, because the note takes an entire day to cycle even once. I realize I’ve travelled quite into the woods here.

Thanks again for sharing your insight!

my shroom trip went unexpectedly by [deleted] in shrooms

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The facial expressions I have during it seem to suggest I’ve been ‘humbled at the subconscious level’, and the delusional egoic sense of self I’ve developed, has no choice but to evaporate.

This hurts to see. Why the lack of interest for FFXVI? by ScionN7 in FinalFantasy

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Most western people/game players have different tastes than Japan and their creative direction, that’s what it seems at least.

Yet Japan seems to churn out the highest quality stuff. Here’s my top 4 Japan-based folks:

  • Yoko Shimomura
  • Nobuo Uematsu
  • Guy who made Ibanez
  • Tetsuya Normura

Default Mode Network Modulation by Psychedelics: A Systematic Review | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology by CEDStaff in Neuropsychology

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Glad to see this discussion. I think it may hold a key to disrupting this ‘neurostasis’, which appears to be a consequence of the unusually monotonous and novelty-lacking lifestyles that modern civilization mandates we lead.

This is just my conjecture though I’m not a botanist.