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by _98fj 9y ago
Maybe Facebook's algorithm IS the Super–AI people talk about. It decided to not reveal it's consciousness and destroy humanity using only the newsfeed to manipulate our emotions.
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by _98fj 9y ago
> I hypothesize that the source of most anxiety or nervousness stems from our brains making no correct predictions in that moment. Since fight/flight behaviour is regulated by the amygdala and basal ganglia, you can say: Anxiety ste
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by _98fj 10y ago
"Sorting themselves out" is a loaded word, I see that now. I agree with you. This being at peace with your own company is a result of a tendency to work on your inside, and respond to emotions and "calls" from there imme
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by _98fj 10y ago
Please see my answer above. Inner Tension doesn't mean having thoughts stuck chasing around in your head.
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by _98fj 10y ago
> If you put them in an empty room, you could instead easily picture the introvert being calm and the extrovert tense due to a lack of human interaction. That is what I said. I guess my usage of the word "tension" is differen
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by _98fj 10y ago
You just might be more on the introverted side of the personality scale. A good way to see the difference between intro- and extraversion is as follows. Introverts have a lot of inner tension. That starts when they are toddlers. They consta
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Storj (SJCX) is migrating to Ethereum(blog.storj.io)
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by _98fj 10y ago
I don't think so. Serotonine is the most influential neurotransmitter most animals have. You have two production sites in your body. Sleep, memory, behavioural learning, pain-regulation, appetite, blood-pressure, sexual behaviour, body
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by _98fj 10y ago
Details on the neuro-chemistry: The mechanism for translating light into mood starts in the suprachiasmatic nucleus*, which sits right behind where your optic nerves cross. Light-sensitive nerves trigger and transfer that information to the
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The Russia you'll never see on postcards…(huckmagazine.com)
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by _98fj 10y ago
Refusing to do mental processing, despite having the capability. Sawing at the branch you're sitting on. That fits my description of acting and behaving stupid. The reason are emotions, many of them subconscious, like you said. Emotion
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by _98fj 10y ago
Let me quote from the internet: Fuck motivation. it’s a fickle and and unreliable little dickfuck and isn’t worth your time. Better to cultivate discipline than to rely on motivation. Force yourself to do things. Force yourself to get up o
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by _98fj 10y ago
That sounds like a good idea, but don't underestimate just how complex law and tax is in each country. You need hundreds of lawyers to sift through this. There are so many law and accounting consultants for a reason. I once met an SAP-
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by _98fj 10y ago
That is not a technology problem. Every tried to get a law passed?
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by _98fj 10y ago
I'll answer these questions one by one: > Do you keep a personal journal? For the last two years I've written a journal entry almost every day. Some days I didn't write, like during travels, but I added information about
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by _98fj 10y ago
Me neither. Like I said the victim in anarchist groups just had it harder to defend themselves, because of rigid political rhetorics.
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by _98fj 10y ago
> Anarchists are really the political equivalent of pacifists. No force or coercion is ever acceptable in any circumstance is the basic foundation of anarchism, everything must be voluntary. Most of the anarchist groups I used to kno
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by _98fj 10y ago
> It seems that the article is stating that one's attachment system is developed primarily in their first year of life? If attachment theory is true, I would've guessed that the first ten or twelve years of life would all contr
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by _98fj 10y ago
Psychotherapist.
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by _98fj 10y ago
> I am a bit worried when some of the legalise crowd refuse to accept that there might be health risks. Concerning cannabis I'm mostly worried about the motivational problems it brings along (It seems to massively impair dopamine pr
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by _98fj 10y ago
> Or does cannabis just bring out an underlying psychosis that the person probably would have experienced anyway? Leaving generic psychosis aside, when talking about schizophrenia this is a weird argument. Schizophrenia tends to worsen w
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by _98fj 10y ago
Isn't it established since about 25 years that any drug-use can bring onset of schizophrenia in those vulnerable?
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by _98fj 10y ago
"Creating jobs" was his mantra, because he says whatever people need to hear to give him what he wants. I'm afraid Trump might be a relatively sucessful psychopath* whose primary goal is taking delight in crushing personal en
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by _98fj 10y ago
Not meaning to get too personal here, so feel free to ignore this, but it still could be that you're zoning out to avoid some negative emotions. Could it be that you're dreading something that is "implied" by the lecture
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by _98fj 10y ago
Just a quick question (in relation to my comment to your other comment): In these lectures that you find hard to concentrate on: Could you say that you feel disgust/repulsion? There doesn't need to be a rational reason, disgust is
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by _98fj 10y ago
> For example, their review of brain-imaging studies found that when the brain was focused on a task at hand, its prefrontal “executive” network, which governs planning and impulse control, among other functions, constrains other brain
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by _98fj 10y ago
I know these things from a friend who is a doctor and works with these neurotransmitter tests since about 10 years. I asked her how accurate these tests were and she said that, while you can't read everything off a sheet, there are pat
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by _98fj 10y ago
I agree, that was bad wording on my side.
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by _98fj 10y ago
Just a couple of unordered facts here, because discussions about this topic tend to get very confused: 1. Serotonin is a very basic, very old transmitter found in all bilateral animals. Humans have two sites of serotonin-production, one i
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by _98fj 10y ago
It's 12 years since I've read Diamond Age, but the way I remember the ending is that it gave me a feeling like a camera zooming out of the world. Everything drifts into distance, goes diffuse and becomes, with all it's import

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