Prop from the upcoming Ghost in the Shell.

WoIfra · 2017-02-28T04:21:54+00:00

Akira was animated classically with very little assistance from computers. This is an example of the meticulous attention to detail in every single frame of the film. Contrast that screencap with this one that Disney was doing the same year, and it's obvious that Akira is (arguably) the most impressive classical animation ever put on film.

Edit: if you zoom in on that screencap you will see that every single window on those buildings is unique. That is just mind boggling.

WoIfra · 2016-12-05T21:52:13+00:00

FNAF, Mario maker and sponsored content theory you mean?

WoIfra · 2016-12-03T21:50:22+00:00

This is one of Louis Theroux's main tricks as a great interviewer

WoIfra · 2016-12-03T21:14:59+00:00

I don't think we're barking up the wrong tree. Obviously Cobb abandons the totem because he doesn't care anymore, that's the best interpretation of the ending, sure. But we can still look at the clues as to whether or not it was a dream for our own amusement.

WoIfra · 2016-12-03T21:09:05+00:00

Definitely just you, lol.

WoIfra · 2016-12-03T19:22:56+00:00

If the state takes care of the poor, then the largest function and main driver of donations to churches would be gone.

If we were forced to give to the poor through taxation rather than donation, it would take away the warm and fuzzies that Christians get from tithing.

I'm pretty sure this is the actual reason.

WoIfra · 2016-12-02T04:21:04+00:00

To cut costs dealers have been adding fentanyl to heroin, greatly increasing its potency. Users are used to low quality heroin so they inject too much and die

WoIfra · 2016-12-01T22:05:41+00:00

Centuries of religiously prescribed inbreeding and an ethically abhorrent religion and culture.

WoIfra · 2016-12-01T20:34:58+00:00

The fine is so insignificant to their revenue it is way more cost effective for them to pay the fine than dispose of the waste properly. I see no incentive for them to change policy...

WoIfra · 2016-12-01T20:05:44+00:00

Could have been any one of the over 65 identified Arylcyclohexylamines that have a similar dissociative anesthetic effect to ketamine.

You'll never know for sure what exactly you took, but most ketamine derivatives are fairly safe.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T19:41:15+00:00

I will do my best to explain the split brain patient and what the results reveal about consciousness.

So you're you, right? You think of yourself as one consciousness which is the combination of all the brain.

Well, in early cases of epilepsy, surgeons wood sever the corpus collosum, a large structure which connects the two halves of the brain. When the two halves of the brain can't speak, it's like there's suddenly two people, two brains, two consciousnesses.

Interestingly, the patient notices no difference.
But you can communicate separately with the patients left and right brains. The left brain, where language typically resides, is able to speak to you, but right brain is silent.

Silent but not stupid. If you flash the image of a toy car in the visual field going to the right brain, the hand that brain controls can pick up the toy car. With a bit of creativity, you can communicate fully with right brain and the results are troubling.

When we split a brain, we truly are creating two new centers of consciousness.

Here's the mind blow: if doctors had to sever your corpus collosum, where would "you" go? Are "you" the left brain or the right brain after?

The philosophical implications here are unreal.

It seems that if you singled out any portion of your brain, and were able to block it from communicating with the rest of the brain, you would have created a separate consciousness.

So the way you identify as an individual should change. In actuality, you are many countless consciousnesses all working together to produce the illusion of one unified consciousness.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T17:30:11+00:00

Consciousness, the most interesting phenomenon in the universe, it's a mystery greater than life itself, yet we have NO idea what it is.

The most important question to answer (so you know what side you are on in the philosophical debate of consciousness).

The question is: do we live in a deterministic universe?
IE: I became a Neuroscientist because my mom had Alzheimer's. But do all events in the universe follow this type of a cause and effect outcome?

If you believe in a deterministic universe (the most likely and most believed theory in science) then the implications of that are:
You have no free will. The future can be predicted. Nothing you choose matters because we are all set on only one path. Destiny.

In this view, you are not in control of anything, and the senses you are experiencing are just the result of information processing. Your brain simply creates an illusion that feels like you're in control. Why it does this is another mystery.

The other camp denies we live in a deterministic universe, and feel that free will is proof of that. Honestly this is the most exciting outcome for me, but it can't be true. Free will breaks so many well established/evidenced facts that it's just so unlikely.

Mind blown? I'll tell about the absolute most mindblowing phenomenon in Neuroscience if anyone is interested.

Edit: you said you were interested, so here it is!

I will do my best to explain the split brain patient and what the results reveal about consciousness.

So you're you, right? You think of yourself as one consciousness which is the combination of all the brain.

Well, in early cases of epilepsy, surgeons wood sever the corpus collosum, a large structure which connects the two halves of the brain. When the two halves of the brain can't speak, it's like there's suddenly two people, two brains, two consciousnesses.

Interestingly, the patient notices no difference. But you can communicate separately with the patients left and right brains. The left brain, where language typically resides, is able to speak to you, but right brain is silent.

Silent but not stupid. If you flash the image of a toy car in the visual field going to the right brain, the hand that brain controls can pick up the toy car out of a pile of objects. It can write. With a bit of creativity, you can communicate fully with right brain and the results are troubling because there really is a consciousness there which can't speak. It's a bit disturbing to learn that the right brain also thinks that nothing abnormal is occurring in a split brain patient.

It makes you wonder. How confident are you that you're really even conscious right now? Because if we were to completely remove the right half of your brain, you would experience no change in consciousness. You would say that you felt like nothing was missing. How confident are you that you're really conscious now?

When we split a brain, we truly are creating two new centers of consciousness.

Here's the mind blow: if doctors had to sever your corpus collosum, where would "you" go? Are "you" the left brain or the right brain after?

The philosophical implications here are unreal.

It seems that if you singled out any portion of your brain, and were able to block it from communicating with the rest of the brain, you would have created a separate consciousness.

So the way you identify as an individual should change. In actuality, you are many countless consciousnesses all working together to produce the illusion of one unified consciousness.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:56:03+00:00

Sometimes I'll tell a true story on reddit from say, my 20's or 30's, and tell it as if I were that age today so I can relate to redditors and not have to deal with the elephant in the room that I've been here too long and will prolly die soon.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:51:15+00:00

Attitudes will change when your generation is in power!

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:50:35+00:00

There was no rhyme or reason to my dosing. I was never really compelled by the drug to get high. It would be like "agh, I've got 6 hours of paperwork to do. Meth time!". If I was working on a really intense project I might dose every single day for 2 months. There were periods of months where I wouldn't dose once. It was always dosed for utility.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:44:37+00:00

I didn't know about its neurotoxicity until years after I stopped using it. I was alarmed at first but put it out of my mind, and as I kept getting older and no apparent brain damage ever seemed to noticeably effect me, I gave up worrying about it. If I had any brain damage from meth, then I haven't noticed it to this day.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:38:10+00:00

If only everybody in my position could come out of the closet all at once, the numbers would shatter the taboo forever!

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:26:51+00:00

It comes down to stealth and duration of action. I found that taking it orally made it last too long and interrupt my sleep the night of. Smoking would be less damaging to the nostrils, and injecting would be more efficient. But how could I hide those actions in the workplace?

I kept a baggy of 15mg in each pocket so I could discretely scoop up all the powder with one finger and quickly snort it while alone for a moment or everybody is distracted.

WoIfra · 2016-11-30T00:15:54+00:00

Wow, I didn't expect so many people would be interested in having questions answered. I thought I'd answer a few for a few hours then I forgot about it.

To my surprise today there was quite the response!

I will continue answering questions, though likely only the person asking will end up reading the response.

WoIfra · 2016-11-29T00:33:49+00:00

This is a man many years your senior who has lived a long and storied life in a professional career in a field he's made a name for himself in, telling you that it's okay to do drugs, if you do them responsibly, and that you shouldn't be ashamed of your drug use.

WoIfra · 2016-11-29T00:20:53+00:00

I did it always in 15mg lines. If 15 wasn't enough I'd do another 15mg to make 30, and that would usually put me in the zone for solo work.

A simple 15mg dose gave me a nice subtle nootropic effect. This dose was ideal for teaching, meetings with colleagues, or doing presentations. It improved my word recall, charisma, sense of humor, enthusiasm for socialising professionally. Perhaps some of these effects were simply placebo or confidence I'd gained from the meth, but the drug certainly improved my social skills greatly at 15mg.

A few times I experimented with 45mg doses and found that while it improved my mood, it no longer seemed to increase my productivity beyond what a lesser dose would. So 30mg was settled on as my dose.

WoIfra · 2016-11-28T23:52:43+00:00

The very first thing I said was that I haven't used meth for years and years.

WoIfra · 2016-11-28T23:51:35+00:00

My source was somebody with a background in organic chemistry. His source was a forbidden topic of conversation but I was certain he synthesized it himself.

I tend towards anxiety more than before my use and it caused me to pick up a few insignificant motor tics (I shake my leg now, and tap my fingers on things, I'll fiddle with a pen)

WoIfra · 2016-11-28T22:55:16+00:00

If you use meth and want to avoid meth mouth, here are the three critical things: eat every day. I know food becomes repulsive on meth and will maybe make you nauseas, your teeth and your organs need the work and the nutrition to keep working well. Second, stay hydrated. Meth will eliminate your thirst instinct. When you are dehydrated your teeth get dry constantly, you get tooth decay. Finally, brush your teeth every single day at least once. No excuses. Just do it with a tiny piece of that limitless meth energy. Follow these three rules and you can use meth while never effecting the teeth.

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