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Bilirubin posted:James Webb has MIRI cooled to 6 Kelvin science is cool. for example, I spent most of this week trying to repair a strain gauge. I replaced it twice. I haven't been able to verify if the second replacement actually fixed the problem yet. ...come to think of it, this is less a reason why science is cool and more a reason why i'm drunk right now
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Apr 9, 2022 03:40
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Bilirubin posted:James Webb has MIRI cooled to 6 Kelvin this sounds like a pitch for an incredibly nerdy party "dude, James Webb has MIRI and he's got this rad setup that cools it down to 6 Kelvin and it's just $10 for a cup and we can drink as much as we want! We're gonna get so wasted tonight"
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Apr 9, 2022 03:41
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Azathoth posted:this sounds like a pitch for an incredibly nerdy party oddly topical, at least for me
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Apr 9, 2022 03:43
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Log082 posted:science is cool. I feel this post 
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Apr 9, 2022 03:59
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Hurry up and show us the aliens Webb, you coward.
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Apr 9, 2022 04:00
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what's cooler than cool the James Webb telescope
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Apr 9, 2022 04:03
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Bilirubin posted:I feel this post why does one strain gauge report the same signal but at about 90% amplitude of the other strain gauge placed exactly 180 degrees away from it on a cylindrical bar? it is a mystery! literally a mystery. I have more than a decade experience working with these things. my coworker has half again more than that. neither of us could figure it out. spoiler for people with experience in this field: it wasn't bending. another strain gauge pair farther down reported equal signals, as expected.
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Apr 9, 2022 04:04
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Log082 posted:why does one strain gauge report the same signal but at about 90% amplitude of the other strain gauge placed exactly 180 degrees away from it on a cylindrical bar? time to invent your own wacky theory about how this anomaly can be used to harvest infinite energy/perform cold fusion/cause gravitic effects/etc. so you can be a ufologist
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Apr 9, 2022 04:36
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Jazerus posted:time to invent your own wacky theory about how this anomaly can be used to harvest infinite energy/perform cold fusion/cause gravitic effects/etc. so you can be a ufologist Work machine elves into it somehow too
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Apr 9, 2022 04:45
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pancake rabbit posted:consciousness-based phenomena is back on the menu boys Once more, Buddhists and Hindus prove to be at the leading edge of consciousness understanding
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Apr 9, 2022 04:47
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pancake rabbit posted:consciousness-based phenomena is back on the menu boys https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433802-500-a-new-place-for-consciousness-in-our-understanding-of-the-universe/ Even New Scientist is getting in on the game quote:A new place for consciousness in our understanding of the universe
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Apr 9, 2022 06:18
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is that all of it? I get the magazine delivered so if not let me know which issue it’s in
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Apr 9, 2022 06:41
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i am harry posted:is that all of it? I get the magazine delivered so if not let me know which issue it’s in Yeah there's a paywall so i can only see that much. It says 30 March 2022. It's the current one thats in the newsagent now (in australia).
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Apr 9, 2022 06:44
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goochtit posted:Welcome! Yeah the institute is loaded? They're hiring what looks like a social media spox right now and starting salary is $120,000 which is really fantastic! Only need a Bachelors and several years experience with that field of research/inquiry. I hope no one's skipping the link, especially consciousness articles enjoyers; the studies have some serious meat on them.
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Apr 9, 2022 11:26
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the 'hard problem of consciousness' never made much sense to me, no one think its mysterious that even the simplest animals feel pain or hunger or the pleasure or pain of reinforcement and its the same basic principle
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Apr 9, 2022 14:21
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The Demilich posted:There is no wrong thread for this seems like the worst case scenario of meeting a lion guy
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Apr 9, 2022 14:28
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mistermojo posted:the 'hard problem of consciousness' never made much sense to me, no one think its mysterious that even the simplest animals feel pain or hunger or the pleasure or pain of reinforcement and its the same basic principle None of that requires conscious experience or the existence of subjectivity. That is, what accounts for the apparent necessity, or just the existence of if it isn't necessary (and we should say it isn't), of a "me"? Much less a "me" capable of asking what am I and why am I here? You can imagine that a zombie feels pain, hunger, pleasure, and so on but the zombie doesn't have an experience, it is just doing not experiencing. Why shouldn't that always be the case?
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Apr 9, 2022 14:36
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Perry Mason Jar posted:None of that requires conscious experience or the existence of subjectivity. That is, what accounts for the apparent necessity, or just the existence of if it isn't necessary (and we should say it isn't), of a "me"? Much less a "me" capable of asking what am I and why am I here? because we (animals) are complex creatures that evolved in a complex changing world and humans are very special creatures that have the biggest most beautiful brains. experiencing the world, or at least creating a model of it in our heads based on the input we get and using that for prediction, helps us navigate it which is why it's been so successful
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Apr 9, 2022 15:47
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Fausty posted:Once more, Buddhists and Hindus prove to be at the leading edge of consciousness understanding truth. also the runner-up winner for that Bigelow Institute contest was one of the coauthors of a prospective-designed study of NDEs that was published by The Lancet in 2001. Also multiple judges for that contest worked at SRI and directly for the IC (one NSA, another undisclosed but was award the National Intelligence Medal. Heh. Curious.
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Apr 9, 2022 16:27
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Fausty posted:Once more, Buddhists and Hindus prove to be at the leading edge of consciousness understanding I'd contest that. I think you had formative events that religions grew up around in a generation or so, alongside some that were always just power grabs, and both had people with near-death experiences and crazy motherfuckers capable of inconsistently accessing what's beyond, just haphazardly adding their insight before a canon could form. like, that's the thing I guess, I think access is random and anyone can, but it takes a certain kind of motherfucker to just roll with what's happening and try to convey it as-is, and yeah I'd reckon those traditions might have a few more of those people because of what their ascetics and monks end up doing in practice, but I think you still only get pieces of the whole from them. If you dig around in the esoterica of every belief system out there you can start to find more pieces of the puzzle imo i'm not a universalist as such i just think the actual thing itself is super strange and weird and fully impossible to comprehend anywhere close to completely from our usual vantage point
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Apr 9, 2022 16:36
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Bilirubin posted:https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en i genuinely tried to do loving kindness meditation for like six months and only succeeded at pissing myself off, it's incredibly frustrating. for me there's no link between the verbal activity of vocalizing or subvocalizing the script or whatever and the attitudes and emotions it's supposed to conjure. (and "loving kindness" is a real clunker of a phrase that seems to exist only as meditation jargon) in terms of the brahmavihāras i've got totally excessive amounts of karuṇā but no muditā, upekṣā, or mettā. counting breaths or just sitting works, so i can't complain too much. but people talk this poo poo up and it's utterly impenetrable, like i'm missing some psychic limbs
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Apr 9, 2022 16:51
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I used to have a pretty limited range of empathy, and tbh it has cooled off a lot in the pandemic, or rather it has a tighter leash, but if there was one thing that was a huge break thru was a level of empathy for anything and everything that could border on the ridiculous at times, but it included an ability to do it to myself, which might sound weird but normally i am massively disassociated from myself like that and the ability to understand myself as i was and then love myself was a product of that almost psychedelic empathy
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Apr 9, 2022 16:54
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did it arise spontaneously? during a time when i was acutely bothered by fascism (the neighborhood i was living in at the time had a fascist street gang), i had a vision that i understood intellectually as depicting that all conscious beings were the channels through which the azoth enters the material world, which implies that evil is the result of this bright spirit flowing through deformed anatomical channels as i tried to put this thing that happened and i don't think about very often into words, i became filled with a sense of universal empathy. maybe i should keep visualizing it thanks ufo thread
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Apr 9, 2022 17:19
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It correlated to the start of HRT for me. Pretty immediate ramp-up in january 2019 but it reached a fever pitch in 2020 and cooled off very rapidly It reached a point of like, having predictive ability. I think it's what people call empath poo poo? But I really hate that word, and I think most people sensitive to it, abuse it.
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Apr 9, 2022 17:34
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we are consciousnesses trying to be conscious about our consciousness! does an apple apple about apples???
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Apr 9, 2022 19:37
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i can easily think of most aspects of an apple. perhaps an apple can imagine most of me with no problem and I’m simply too busy enjoying its flavor to ask it
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Apr 9, 2022 19:47
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endocriminologist posted:we are consciousnesses trying to be conscious about our consciousness! does an apple apple about apples??? Is this what repels doctors?
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Apr 9, 2022 19:58
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an entire species staring at its reflection in the monitor while it fumbles about looking for the power switch
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Apr 9, 2022 20:10
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you got it backwards. you turn the monitor off, see your reflection, go "holy poo poo" and touch grass. that's the goal
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Apr 9, 2022 20:26
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blatman posted:i'm thinking positively about my ability to get my posts quoted for that sweet sweet dopamine hit
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Apr 9, 2022 20:34
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Hello friends, I'm looking for recommendations on books about "surviving death", ideally something more scientific than just recounting of various NDEs or reincarnation cases. I picked up Surviving Death by Leslie Kean and was fairly underwhelmed, because I'm interested in more of a critical (but not skeptical) perspective. I've also started reading Death by Shelly Kagan who did the Yale open courses about death, but it seems fairly basic and dismissive so far. Looking for something that's open to the idea of death survival but examines it from a critical perspective, if that makes sense.
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Apr 9, 2022 22:49
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mistermojo posted:the 'hard problem of consciousness' never made much sense to me, no one think its mysterious that even the simplest animals feel pain or hunger or the pleasure or pain of reinforcement and its the same basic principle If I want to eat something then it's moral to kill it. Any science can work backwards from this conclusion.
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Apr 10, 2022 00:11
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Getting high on concentrated bardo
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Apr 10, 2022 00:20
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typhus posted:yeah I ignored poo poo like this for the longest time until I read up on the wildly consistent accounts of DMT trips. now I'm squarely in the "who the gently caress knows but let's keep prodding" camp. I was a very credulous hard science nerd until I did 12-14g of mushrooms a number of years ago, you stop taking the preconceived boundaries of reality 100% seriously after that.
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Apr 10, 2022 01:14
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Riot Bimbo posted:I'd contest that. It is very popular with NDE and ADE, with a routine caveat that it is "the closest". However in the book about the after-life dictated by Frederic Meyers from beyond the grave to various mediums and later collated and published, Myers says explicitly that Buddhist dogmatism doesn't lead to Nirvana necessarily nor would it be worthwhile to suggest that everyone should meditate or lead a monastic life. In fact he suggests that a soul overly fixated upon this route would slow their progress. Though, he is speaking here of the soul's growth over multiple lifetimes (not all Earthly or Earthlike) rather than about how one should or shouldn't lead one particular lifetime.
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Apr 10, 2022 02:38
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Captain Jesus posted:Hello friends, I'm looking for recommendations on books about "surviving death", ideally something more scientific than just recounting of various NDEs or reincarnation cases. I picked up Surviving Death by Leslie Kean and was fairly underwhelmed, because I'm interested in more of a critical (but not skeptical) perspective. I've also started reading Death by Shelly Kagan who did the Yale open courses about death, but it seems fairly basic and dismissive so far. Looking for something that's open to the idea of death survival but examines it from a critical perspective, if that makes sense. https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php Try the 2nd place winner.
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Apr 10, 2022 03:06
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My biggest problem with reincarnation stories is that it seems unlikely that, unless there is one universe, moving through time in one direction, the concept of the "present" is meaningful in some way, and people are people and animals are animals, anyone would be reincarnated as a human with any way of meaningfully communicating or understanding who they "used to be." Are we just hearing from the statistically likely number of people who came back as human again, believe their dreams about it or whatever, and can find someone with a pen or camera to record them talking about it? Does any dream where you're an animal mean you used to be that animal? e if anyone comes back as an alien please post itt
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Apr 10, 2022 03:46
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radar radar if you dig the hat then you gotta tell me you've tried the jacket its so good
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Apr 10, 2022 03:49
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with reincarnation imo its likely that past lives "remembered" as human are just being remembered through a human lens
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Apr 10, 2022 03:50
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The Saucer Hovers posted:i dont think the thread has ever hashed out the reported prevalence of luminous phenomena on the deathbed. its fine and dandy to analyze abduction experiences through a liminal, transitory, spiritual experience lens (not unlike death). whats NOT OKAY is to call the bright orange orb that emerged from grandmas chest and illuminated the faces of those in the room with warm light a UFO. my skulls been chucked against iron to where my consciousness has all checked out and all i knew for a time (which could've been forever as far as whatever) was like nebulae, all of them, all of everything everywhere, zoomed out, i sincerely wish an experience of oneness with all/ the universe for all whilst they're around to appreciate it and wish it truly for it is something
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