/sci/ - Science & Math

Not every weirdo on /sci/ obsessed with a topic is a schizo. Many are just regular retards.

There is no cure for depression. If your "depression" can be "cured" by going to the gym or talking to a therapy scammer then it was never real depression to begin with. Depression is cancer of the soul. It only progresses in one direction, towards inevitable death.

Intelligence is a measure of success in society. Therefore, an accurate IQ test should account for dancing skills and number of tiktok followers.

"Logical positivism" is a poorly constructed strawtransperson. It's a silly caricature made up by pseuds who fail to cope with the metaphilosophical fact that most of philosophy is useless language games. Calling someone a "logical positivist" is nothing more than an intellectually empty knee-jerk reaction triggered by your own cognitive dissonance when being confronted with the intellectual, aesthetic and moral inferiority of your world view.

Orch OR is currently our best candidate for explaining consciousness, and the only theory backed up by scientific evidence. The only criticisms so far have been minor technicalities which don't affect the core of the theory.