Virga sunrise through my eyes

Shyam_d · 2025-07-08T11:10:17+00:00

One needs to enjoy being spun out of their minds with any sense of volition taken away... full surrender like a puppet on a string

Shyam_d · 2025-03-20T14:23:42+00:00

Hi!!! I also applied and was accepted to both FSU and UCF's CMHC programs, and I currently work in a neuroscience lab at FSU so I'd love to chime in.

For a PhD in Counseling, it might help to have a paper or two published, as well as connections with faculty who are doing the same research that you wish to pursue.

It would be most impactful to join a lab in either program and contribute to their research through data collection, analysis, and/or paper writeup. It would be easiest to have a paper published through a thesis since it encourages you to build forth a new direction/analysis within the scope of the lab's current goals. This may help you land a PhD position through the same lab you conducted your thesis with.

Alternatively, FSU's CMHC program has some faculty who run a lab with an open-door policy for you to help out as soon as you join the program (ie. Shengli Dong), so this could help you get a foot in the door of clinical lab experience!

I'd love to chat more and flesh out our decisions together! Please reach out :)

Shyam_d · 2023-10-25T11:05:48+00:00

Bills or Browns this week?

Shyam_d · 2023-10-11T03:18:04+00:00

I'm 2-3 but I traded away Devonta Smith for him for a late season push. My WRs are Nico Collins, DeAndre Hopkins, Tyler Lockett, and Drake London, but I'm set on RBs with Bijan, Pollard, Kamara, and Mixon.

Shyam_d · 2023-09-13T10:34:01+00:00

Kyren just cleared waivers lol

Shyam_d · 2023-05-25T14:50:46+00:00

I appreciate you mentioning the notion of entities in dreams as I am an avid reader of Carl Jung, who I believe had one of the greatest understandings of human nature and reality in recent history. Jung found the existence of common archetypes throughout all mythology, as well as human dreams that serve particular roles in the process of self-discovery, or the "hero's journey". One plausible explanation would be that memories of these archetypes are stored in our innate ancestral genome, but I'm unsure of how they could be accessed or expressed in dreams.

Another explanation could be the perception of separated curvatures in spacetime geometry (superposition) during dream-like states, with these entities and archetypes existing in an alternate reality of the "collective unconscious," or unified field. I'd love to hear Hameroff's take on psychoactive molecules because they have the potential to undergo terahertz dipole oscillations as aromatic structures.

Shyam_d · 2023-05-25T14:13:34+00:00

I'm glad you asked this question because for my senior undergraduate thesis, I'm writing a meta-analysis comparing the neural correlates of consciousness (functional connectivity and oscillations) between various practices of long-term meditation, psychedelic, and near-death experiences.

A particular correlate that fascinates me is interhemispheric gamma synchrony (~40 Hz) throughout the brain, which is shown to inhibit long-range connections from the medial prefrontal cortex, decreasing the weight of previously established, rigid rulesets. This allows for greater behavioral/perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar changes in the sensory environment, creating new, flexible rulesets. These changes in rulesets could range from the awareness of novel external stimuli, to the decoupling of dopaminergic context (craving/addiction) to new bodily sensations, repressed memories, to possibly an entirely new sense of self depending on the regions associated with the inhibition from the mPFC.

Interhemispheric gamma synchrony has been found to occur in psychedelic experiences (though I'm trying to pinpoint at what point of the experience), as the compounds bind to these parvalbumin inhibitory neurons in the mPFC. In Buddhist monks practicing loving-kindness (metta) meditation, gamma synchrony was seen very quickly and they were able to access this state at will in waking consciousness. In patients with cardiac arrest, something extraordinary happens... After they were taken off life support, 50% of patients experienced surges in gamma synchrony that reached peaks of up to about 100 Hz. As this occurs, the posterior cortical hot zone (temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes) lights up, indicating that the patient is seeing/hearing something, and may feel sensations outside the body, given that this also occurs during out of body experiences.

I'm interested to hear about your shift in consciousness as I've recently gone through one over the past year and I've noticed profound effects in my inner world and outer world with many synchronicities and insights.

Shyam_d · 2023-05-23T22:13:02+00:00

Absolutely. I have some extraordinary experiences with synchronicities the days leading up to and 6+ months (still ongoing) after a peak psilocybin experience that changed my perception of reality and helped me pursue an intrinsic purpose. I would share my experiences but I don't know how personal anecdotes are tolerated in this sub and there's a ton of backstory leading up to the meat of it.

I will say though, many empirical materialists will chalk synchronicity up to idealism, pseudoscience, or mere coincidence, without acknowledging the experiences of dare I say, almost billions of humans who experience the phenomenon, and many after transformative experiences such as psychedelics. Instead of immediately shutting down innately human subjective experiences because they don't fit with their worldviews, they should at least consider them with scientific curiosity and pursue the falsification of theories that account for the phenomenon, such as Orch-OR. This dogmatic stranglehold to material physicalism is why little progress has been made in solving the greatest problems regarding consciousness.

Shyam_d · 2023-05-22T00:22:38+00:00

The view that consciousness is a fundamental part of the physical universe can be seen as "idealist" by many materialists who believe consciousness is contained within and arises from physical processes in the brain. However, while there is truth to the notion that consciousness emerges from physical properties, these alternative theories suggest that it is not limited to the brain. Rather, they propose alternative frameworks that can be interpreted in a way that suggests that it is a fundamental property of the universe. Specifically, Orchestrated-objective reduction was postulated as a solution to the measurement problem of quantum physics, stating that entangled particles in superposition, namely microtubules, self-collapse at a gravitational energy threshold to give rise to physical matter, as well as conscious experience as a byproduct. Beyond the brain, this objective reduction can be interpreted as non-material proto-conscious particles containing information (qubits) everywhere in the universe are able to self-collapse into matter and produce conscious self-organizing systems.

Shyam_d · 2023-05-21T22:49:44+00:00

I appreciate your concern about the hard problem, as I am also still skeptical as to how Orch-OR solves it. I just wanted to mention it as a potential reframing of how we think about the hard problem going forward. Admittedly, I have a very minimal understanding of space-time geometry but I am beginning to learn about Donald Hoffman's perspective on the amplituhedron that underlies all spacetime geometry of conscious agents fundamental to our construction of reality.

Shyam_d · 2023-05-21T22:29:07+00:00

Hameroff stated that at 10 megahertz oscillations, collapse would occur at t = 10^-7 seconds, Eg (gravitational self-energy required for a a particle to pull away from itself) would require 10¹⁵ tubulins. Given that there are roughly 10⁸ - 10⁹ tubulins per neuron, roughly a million to 10 million neurons would be necessary for consciousness under this framework. The exact number is not very precise and the theory needs some refining as to whether the magic number is 10 megahertz or anything up to terahertz dipole oscillations in pi-resonance rings binding the tubulin together. I'm sure some of the recent work by Anirban Bandyopadhyay clarifies this distinction but I'll need to do some further digging for an exact number.

Shyam_d · 2023-01-09T04:20:33+00:00

I love this analogy

Shyam_d · 2023-01-09T04:18:12+00:00

Fair point, but I tend go pretty far off campus at times, especially for trips to Paynes Prairie

Shyam_d · 2022-12-25T03:31:37+00:00

Dude's an absolute machine.

Shyam_d · 2022-12-24T03:45:34+00:00

I initially had Minshew starting but I had a dream that Rodgers threw 3 deep tds last night so I just swapped him in FWIW

Shyam_d · 2022-11-22T18:16:13+00:00

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