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Why can't I hallucinate? 2016-09-24 21:13:59 Post No.8368415
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So, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I've been experimenting with psychedelics and hallucinogens throughout college (shrooms, LSD, DMT, salvia, etc) and while they definitely fuck me up, I never experience auditory or visual hallucinations. Is there a reason for this?
Keep in mind I take a higher dosage than the average person due to this, so it's not like I'm not taking enough (frankly, I'd rather not push it any further) pic related, I guess.
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>>8368415
Did you smoke weed when you were tripping? I usually need to smoke if I want to truly break through. Even just smoking cigarettes on acid is enough for me to make my trip deeper. Just a thought
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>>8368415
My problem is the inverse, curiously enough. Relatively minor and ordinary compounds make me hallucinate, some of which are common foods and spices, like ginger.
Chocolate causes profound changes in my perception of relative size, depth, and scale.
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>>8368415
Because visual hallucinations are a myth. You won't see a punk elephant in the room or bugs bunny sitting next to you. Everything happens when your eyes are closed when your mind expands to infinity. The only visuals you can get are little waves when you stare at a uniform color like your ceiling.
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What are some essential non-meme graduate level textbooks every mathematician should have in their home library? Meme books include titles like Rudin's analysis books, Lang's algebra and Lee's manifolds book.
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nielsen chang quantum computing
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>>8368373
>implying Rudin and Lang are memes and not legit books to have on one's shelf
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>Lee's manifold book
Tell me good alternatives to those 3 books then. Genuine interest, no offense.
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I've been working as a chem tech for a few months now.
I want to do some cool demos for our students.
Wat do? Nothing that kills people please.
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COOK METH XDDD
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try this
clumsy but not bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhMqR2ZkCM
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Since consciousness merely exists as a meta model of our brain learned and not some supernatural force that makes every individual a special little snowflake this means that through quantum computing we'll be able to create sentient beings who are completely objectively better at life than us, correct?
If we could create a "species" IE a supercomputer better than us who could probably take us a lot farther than our collective (yet indistinguishably separate) human minds could what would be the downsides?
To have a system using all of our collective thoughts and knowledge to take us further -- should that not be our goal?
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how will we know when the computer is conscious?
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>>8368306
Consciousness is an abstract concept that doesn't exist.
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>>8368259
>quantum computing
Stopped reading there.
Quantum computing is a meme. It will never be viable. We've had trinary and quaternary logic for hundreds of years and it's not useful.
>I don't know what conciousness is, it must be quantum.
Kys now
yon park soo hee
Psychology psychiatry 2016-09-24 20:01:18 Post No.8368163
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Psychology psychiatry
yon park soo hee
2016-09-24 20:01:18
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Me'sa need hellp /b
Psychology/psychiatry
Name of European (German I believe) guy who ascended the ranks of the psychology or psychiatry department with zero qualifications in order TO emberass it.
He believed his mother was misdiagnosed and died from the meds she was given. He dedicated his life to this and he 'specialized' in pseudologia fantastica. Give me his name
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Ooops mean sci
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>>8368163
Albert Einstein
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Daily reminder that if you don't have a comprehensive understanding of Hume's ideas, you have no right to dismiss philosophy and will never cut it as a revolutionary scientist.
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Daily reminder that you will not get new insight from applying old methods.
Nobody knows how to proceed to get the next advance in physics OP.
Certainly not you.
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>Hume
literally who? And why should I care? Because I don't. And I won't search him on Google.
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>>8368172
Th-this is bait, right?
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A few minutes on google told me that having low dopamine levels can have some pretty bad side effects. What I want to know is how I can kill the reward system in my brain and still function in day to day life. Is this feasible?
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>>8368075
how you can kill?
just take anti psychotics for schizophrenics
they empty your brain of dopamine
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I was always one of those big believers in emotion being useless and stupid and I tried to suppress it as much as I could, and eventually when I'd succeeded to an extent I found my existence void of meaning and fell into an intense depression. I'm now in the process of recovering and have come to accept that humans aren't computers and we need emotion to function, so proceed if you want but you've been warned
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>>8368127
No, it only means you failed. Stoicism is a reasonable and meaningful approach to life.
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Who are the modern big names? Which modern scientists will still be famous centuries from now just like Einstein, Gauss and Neil Degrasse Tyson?
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>>8368037
Alcubierre
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Ndt
Nye
Obama
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>>8368037
Hawking
Penrose
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Is this scientifically accurate? 2016-09-24 19:06:25 Post No.8368012
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Is this scientifically accurate?
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That the solvay conference was held in 1927...because the European scientists pictured here, were jealous of the achievements of Ancient Egypt that their science wasn't as advanced
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yes
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>>8368013
damm
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I highly doubt anyone in that picture even knew what Ancient Egypt was
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Realistically how close are we to making superhumans using CRISPR? How about changing merely cosmetic features like hair color?
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My sources say no
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>>8369327
what a shame
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Ask the chinese, they the ones who are working on it right now.
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Why is everyone jumping on this autistic bandwagon of hating EE / CE just because they are some of the best majors? It's usually butthurt "pure" math fags or cucks with a severely over saturated business degree too.
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>>8367881
Sage goes in all fields.
Cancer.
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>>8367881
BSME/MSAE master race checking in
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Because that list is completely abribitrary. It lists none of the criteria by which those majors were rated, except for the autistic delusions of the more zeaolus denizens of /sci/ and resident shitposters.
In any case, I shall resume shitposting.
>engineers are gay
>women and ethnic studies are the only true suicide tier majors
t. Ag major
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>Writing a textbook
Is this how you know your career's ended?
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I prefer to call it easy money because I can release new editions annually which only have fixed typos but also a more expensive online homework access code
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>>8367873
>check out my mixtape man
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>writing textbooks for the money
oh boy
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Every function passes the vertical line test, but is everything that passes the vertical line test a definable function?
As in, no matter what I draw on a graph, there exists in C^n an equation that results in the output of that graph?
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** if it passes the VLT
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The question is how do you come up with a function that isn't defined by some equation? I mean, what other way is there to make up a function graph?
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>>8367752
A function could be described point by point. It does not have to be one equation or even a finite number of equations.
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Ok /sci/, there is one thing about nukes I was always curious about and never got a straight awnser from my teachers when I was in school and today I remembered it.
Before I start: NSA, FBI, CIA, ABIN, MI6, FSB and SVR please no bully. I am not building a nuke. Feel free to check me out and stuff.
With that out of the way it has to do with the critical mass needed to start a self-sutainable reaction powerfull enough to result in an explosion and the ammount needed and the physics of the thing. The best way I can think to explain it is with a thought experiment.
For this example lets use U-235. According to all sources to make a pure fission bomb with it you need a mass of 56 kilograms in a sphere. This has to do with the way the neutrons fly off and the spherical shape means you get maximum bang for your buck in that case since they have a bigger chance of hitting other attoms. However, in such bombs what happens is they use a "gun style detonator", meaning they fire a slab of uranium against a slot shaped like said slab in another piece of uranium at a high speed. This works as the detonator by causing the uranium to go over the critical mass and the fission to go bonkers.
That is where my question is: Acording to all I have seen and researched about nukes they alway use this high speed system to drive piece a inside piece b and pass the critical point. Could one, in theory, skip this by simply putting a piece of fissionable material inside another manualy?
Like, let me explain: Instead of one 50kg ball with a hole and a 6kg "bullet" to be shot in said hole, would simply sliding said bullet inside the ball slowly work exactly the same way? What about the safety of the storage? Could one have an expontaneous explosion if they were dumb enough to put two 50kg blocks of U-235 on top of one another?
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i dont know but this might be useful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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Ah yes, I know about that. It's part of the reason I am asking actually: If it could spark like that, could it have exploded?
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>>8367730
No.
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What are Meme Theory's axioms, lemmas, conjectures etc ?
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Do you know about Critical Meme Theory?
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>>8367402
It's a subfield of psychology, hence no axioms or lemmas.
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>>8367405
Adorno is GOAT when he's not completely wrong
Zizek actually has a robust theory for memes
Beyond them, critical theory largely IS a meme