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Sleepyness is a kind of thing that can be affected by chemical processes. Truth isn't.
by hannasanarion 8y ago
Sleepyness is a kind of thing that can be affected by chemical processes. Truth isn't.
- mindslight 8y agoTruth is effected. Not whether a given statement is true or not, but whether it can be discovered (finding truth is NP-hard [0]), verified (finding a proof for a truth is NP-hard), or even hope to be noticed (heuristic of solving the previous two). [0] Forgive the informal reference to formality. To me, this is intuitively feels like how thinking goes - finding an answer is essentially inductive/indeterministic, while checking that answer is deductive/deterministic.
- coldtea 8y agoYou don't need to affect truth, just to find it. People have discovered all kinds of truths (including scientific and technical discoveries) while on drugs. And not all insights have to be truth-related. An interesting way to play music can come as an psychedelic induced insight, or a different way to look at the world, which can still be interesting and important, even if not true.