/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12167096

>>10441557
From a strict naturalist's point of view your post makes sense. I was a strict naturalist and I learned to be more open about these things. J. B. S. Haldane said: The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Maybe consciousness is like Higgs field and when brain moves through it it is manifesting pattern behavior. Maybe not. I don't know. The fact is that well established and respected researchers such as Griffitsh are using the term mystical experience and so dismissing this powerful subjective quality seems folly to me. Things are real and they are going to happen to you. That's why psychedelics are highly successful in treating depression, addiction and psychological side effects of dire medical prognosis in the first place. Because they are magical. If that makes me pseudowhatever label in your eyes, that's your fight brother.

>>10435024

Blah blah blah, chemicals, blah blah blah blah, biology, blah blah blah, electrochemical impulses.
If you weren't you, would you do anything differently? If not, why does it matter?

>>10396916

>>10219435
>a thread died for this
And yet you believe the experts when they talk about their own fallibility? Where'd your usual skepticism go?
Isn't it nice that scientists can even write papers criticizing themselves?
You need to go back now

>>10170846
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
What's the point in worrying about things outside of anyone's control?

>>10157116
>send something slightly flirtatious/suggestive by recommendation of someone else
top fucking kek fucking red pill NPC's.
you met her on tinder, you don't have to worry about getting friendzoned, so no need for that shit.
no one redpilled you on the red pill. "game" is a pleb strategy where you spam your pickup macro on as many girls as possible in hopes of finding an available girl dumb enough to be fooled by it.
this chick studies at MIT, interns at the fucking JPL, and most importantly has a second major in philosophy, which means she studies how to unpack the underlying meanings and motivations from words and actions. think she can't recognize silly games from a mile away? the "techniques" from red pill and "game" are painfully obvious to any girl with above-average intelligence and the really smart ones will be annoyed you tried to farm her with an NPC script.

>>10019503
wrong

>>9689400
>be genius born in Detroit
>hang out with gang bangers as teenager
>vulnerable to peer pressure and risky behavior, like all kids
>one of gang banger buddies dares you to smoke crack
>it's fucking awesome
>10 years go by, brain melted by crack addiction

Bad environments can ruin whatever gifts you were born with.

If you feel you are performing better on modafinil, you are either lying to yourself or you are not a high-performing individual. If you think your life is better on modafinil, you are just masking something else with a substance that has no free lunch. Remember that homeostasis will catch up and you will be at baseline with your modafinil dose.

Best course of action if you want to improve yourself is
Proper sleep time. This is very important. The S isomer is rather fast and has half time of 5 hours but the R isomer is the one raising some questions. After your first dose you end up with ~18mg of armodafinil in your plasma and waking up with maybe 14mg still present. After your next moring dose you'll end up with ~50mg of armodafinil left to metabolize right before your sleep time.

Proper diet. Meat, vegetables. Never combine fats with sugars, try to minimize sugars to 50g per day if you can. Have an eating window of 12 hours (if your first meal comes at 8 AM your last should be before 8 PM) and stick to it. 9 hour window is best but not attainable by most people. Remember that anything except pure water is considered a meal in this statement, even coffee.

Proper cardio. 30 minutes of eliptical machine or 7 minute HIIT is the best routine you can have to maintain a healthy cardio, you have to be honest to yourself though and keep the difficulty and intensity at maximum during the entire session.

This next paragraph should be followed only after you meet all of the above. Microdosing psilocybin and occassional heavy dose of psilocybin has significant positive effects on CNS, promotes neurogenesis, is anti-inflammatory, and is a better neurotransmitter than serotonin. Psilocybin mushrooms are very easy to grow, cheap, and very safe. Psilocybin ushrooms co-evolved side by side with our ancestor brains for millions of years and thus your biology is able to recognize and metabolize them properly without side effects, unlike modafinil. 5 days on, 2 days off, repeat.

>be TA
>grade a group project
>50%
>students complain to professor about grade
>professor asks me to regrade and "be gentler" this time around
>was TA for same class last year
>realize they have copy pasted a project from last year
>show professor
>"Ahh don't worry about it... can you still bump them a few points though? dont want to put any of them at risk of failing"

Is this some SJW shit or something? what in the fuck is going on

Why do smart people wear glasses

>>9077943
realize it's true

>>8982204
its dry water,
put it in the fridge to make dry ice

Describe the moment when you gave up on your scientific career

>>8778491
even if it is, who cares?

>>8743719

After years of making jokes about autism on the internet... I finally realized, that I was as a matter of fact autistic.

>mfw

>be me
>graduate undergrad with great grades
>no intention of grad school, so don't spend much time building an academic CV
>get great job out of college, realize I want to do research
>return to school, currently doing masters

I want to get into a good PhD program, but I think I'm kind of fucked. When I look at my resume compared to the people I will be competing against, there's no way I can compete. My resume is great for getting a job in industry, but it doesn't really translate well to academia.

My grades are great, and I have some impressive class/personal projects but I don't have any true research experience, or any of the usual resume fluff/padding. I have a very good knowledge of my field of interesting through personal study, but that's not exactly something you can put on your CV. Basically, I think I am fully qualified to do a PhD at a top 10 university, but my CV doesn't show this at all.

am I fucked?

>>8596334
These are the silliest kind of proofs you can offer.

>Implying history is not fake
>Implying gravitational theory is not fake
>Implying our thoughts are not fake

You blindly believe all kinds of things.

Also reminder that if you were just pretending to be retarded, I was also just pretending to take the bait. I was also merely pretending to think that you might've been baiting and am now pretending to think that you weren't baiting.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269

this paper was published a few days ago, any thoughts on it? is gravity an emergent phenomenon? have we been getting cucked by einstein this entire time?