DiscoStu

Hi just wondering what yor thoughts are on guerilla gardening? Good bad ugly?

wow sounds serious hope everythings ok. really hope you come back one day but until then take care

can anyone spot what went wrong here?

speaking of assistive chemical technologies; I've found on moderately high doses of melatonin (around 60mg mark) i can fairly reliably induce a hypnogogic/visionary states when going to sleep. I've heard rumours of the relationship between melatonin and dmt, and that DMT is somehow related in the REM/dream state and I'm not sure if it's related to that or whether melatonin allows you to disassociate with your body better (which for me is key) but it's interesting that it happens so much more/easier when i've taken melatonin. anyway the other night i was subject to full blown auditory hallucinations. it was just an auditory reflection of my own consciousness which you'll find most hallucinations are really but again i don't often get the very loud very clear auditory aspect to it, it's mostly just a lucid dream/vision type thing and floaty body.

Oh and yeah i was def thinking of bush settings. Suburbia is already trash so who gives a shit

Lol i left it deliberately vague to get peoples thoughts unecumbered by by the shackles of definitions. Mostly the ethics are universal i think

uh...

As i heard paul stamets say "a theory is a hypothesis thats supported by evidence" so the answer to the question is yes

i think i'd probably rather read vasubandhu or xuentsang (warning this link is a pdf to the text)

Why? Also: is quantum foam conscious?

If i were to say to you "psychic phenomena are real" what would you say?

so what is awareness? what does it mean to be "aware" of something? given a sufficiently advance AI that's indistinguishable from humans, how can you tell whether or not it's aware of its surroundings? do you ask it? how much brain do you need before you can say "this brain has awareness? similarily with lower life forms like bacteria? are they aware? this is not a go at you or anything but i have problems when people say words like "just": or "simply" when talking about sentience.

also if humans/animals are just blind assemblies of dumb chemicals why even consciousness at all?

Consider this, the number of possible proteins 200 amino acids long is 20 raised to the 200th power or about 10 raised to the 260th power. Now, the number of particles in the known universe is about 10 to the 80th power. Suppose, on a microsecond time scale the universe were doing nothing other than producing proteins length 200. It turns out that it would take vastly many repeats of the history of the universe to create all possible proteins length 200. This means that, for entities of complexity above atoms, such as modestly complex organic molecules, proteins, let alone species, automobiles and operas, the universe is on a unique trajectory (ignoring quantum mechanics for the moment). That is, the universe at modest levels of complexity and above is vastly non-ergodic. - Stuart Kauffman i don't know if you've read any of stuart kauffman's works, but i suggest you do. he's on the same plane as ruper sheldrake but slightly more rational. also watch his various utube lectures, you need to pay attention but it's worthwhile

it's funny to think this is subversive marxist propaganda

hey team i might be able to make it im in the process of procuring a new job so im a bit up in the air about it but if i can make it i defo will

no. note the plural . not for another 1000 years or so but if you look at history and the way globalization is happening there will be no empireS in the future

In the future there will be no Empires

i'll see your berocca lizard and raise you one winky wanky woo