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This is about a man drugging himself and reporting on it. This article takes his 'discoveries' far too seriously.

realce 3y ago
They are not "discoveries" they are "ideas." People get to discuss ideas without taking them seriously. The battle between the ECCO faction and the SSE faction is a representation of our own, individual, biological drives and conflicts. We will certainly evolve some kind of super-powerful system and it will be an extension of biological characteristics we currently posses. The point of the idea is to realize both possibilities exist within us at this very moment and to understand our choices can influence the thing that is created that will out-pace us. It's just about which genes will be expressed into the super-system, which is the same old story since genetics begat itself.
- BongJustice 3y ago
  Those are not just ideas, man, have you ever even floated? I have done mad edibles in a float tank and I got to tell you, the Solid State Entity is real. Open your mind brother.
  - realce 3y ago
    Your bad program incited you to derail this discussion!
- throwawa14223 3y ago
  Why would you trust the ideas of a person who willingly incapacitated himself?
  - sibeliuss 3y ago
    Oh my. Brilliant scientist takes drugs to explore the nature of consciousness, and square reader squirms: "Incapacitation! Invalid!"
labrador 3y ago
I'm happy for you that your undrugged mind is so full of logical clarity to the benefit of mankind and any type of drug would disturb this pristine well of wisdom
- throwawa14223 3y ago
  That's just the default human condition.
  - labrador 3y ago
    > human condition You apparently know nothing about the typical human condition so I'm guessing you're young, had rich parents and grew up surrounded by adults who catered to your every need and smoothed out every issue that caused you negative thoughts. I suggest you read Herman Hesse's Siddhartha as an introduction to Buddhism and how The Buddha, who grew up in similar circumstances, discovered that life is suffering and how to manage this fact. Drugs, both legal and illegal, can be a tool in exploring the roots of this suffering within one's own mind.
vixen99 3y ago
So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception (In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953) Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?
- buildsjets 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy Recommended Huxley reading for the committed Materialists of HN.
- throwawa14223 3y ago
  Yes, garbage in garbage out.
- talentedcoin 3y ago
  He sure did. This was a man so vain he refused to wear glasses even though he needed them.

They are not "discoveries" they are "ideas." People get to discuss ideas without taking them seriously. The battle between the ECCO faction and the SSE faction is a representation of our own, individual, biological drives and conflicts. We will certainly evolve some kind of super-powerful system and it will be an extension of biological characteristics we currently posses. The point of the idea is to realize both possibilities exist within us at this very moment and to understand our choices can influence the thing that is created that will out-pace us. It's just about which genes will be expressed into the super-system, which is the same old story since genetics begat itself.

BongJustice 3y ago
Those are not just ideas, man, have you ever even floated? I have done mad edibles in a float tank and I got to tell you, the Solid State Entity is real. Open your mind brother.
- realce 3y ago
  Your bad program incited you to derail this discussion!
throwawa14223 3y ago
Why would you trust the ideas of a person who willingly incapacitated himself?
- sibeliuss 3y ago
  Oh my. Brilliant scientist takes drugs to explore the nature of consciousness, and square reader squirms: "Incapacitation! Invalid!"

labrador 3y ago

I'm happy for you that your undrugged mind is so full of logical clarity to the benefit of mankind and any type of drug would disturb this pristine well of wisdom

throwawa14223 3y ago
That's just the default human condition.
- labrador 3y ago
  > human condition You apparently know nothing about the typical human condition so I'm guessing you're young, had rich parents and grew up surrounded by adults who catered to your every need and smoothed out every issue that caused you negative thoughts. I suggest you read Herman Hesse's Siddhartha as an introduction to Buddhism and how The Buddha, who grew up in similar circumstances, discovered that life is suffering and how to manage this fact. Drugs, both legal and illegal, can be a tool in exploring the roots of this suffering within one's own mind.

vixen99 3y ago

So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception (In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953) Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?

buildsjets 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy Recommended Huxley reading for the committed Materialists of HN.
throwawa14223 3y ago
Yes, garbage in garbage out.
talentedcoin 3y ago
He sure did. This was a man so vain he refused to wear glasses even though he needed them.