jakeva

Agreed. To add to the point, one can't help but consider given what we know of the evolution of the tree of life of which we are a part the particular factors that do and do not lend themselves to survival. Namely, "reckoning about the complex reality we live in at the object level" is probably not a skill needed for survival in the way that developing hunting, language, and social skills probably were- not to mention "while concurrently executing a "proper" abstract background process to do things like evaluate logical consistency and epistemic soundness of the primary object level processing"

In my own experience, had my experience in a severely altered state of consciousness persisted for more than maybe a day or two, I would have needed a lot of assistance for basic survival things. In that state I perceived the world differently, if not more objectively, but was not well equipped for survival.

So, no, I see no reason to think the mind is well equipped for that kind of reasoning when evolution might select against that kind of adaptation.

If you want to compare two explanations for the experiences of one who is hallucinating where one invokes extra "dimensions", and the other invokes "hallucinations mean you hallucinate", and you want to say one is obviously simpler than the other, from a certain perspective you might be right but from where I sit you're leaving a lot of potential discussion on the table.

As one who has hallucinated intensely, the experience is not just about what your senses create for you while certain neural structures are excited. Often times it's about what is left when your senses have gone off the deep end. For many it's a deeply spiritual experience, some experience a total ego death. Others experience lifetimes in different bodies, working jobs and having families that never existed here.

So while it's interesting to know something about what the neurons are doing, I don't think that gets us any closer to an explanation.

Maybe you can, but I think if you're acting in good faith you'll find you have to discuss the nature of consciousness and its relationship with the natural world. Now, this may still come to a simpler explanation than one involving extra dimensions but I think it's a lot more complex than "people hallucinating hallucinate" if you're being fair in your investigation.

For all you know I am a libertarian making the argument for a libertarian paradise.

What about amassing as much stuff as possible selling controlled substances and brokering crime?

If you want society completely out of your business, you're going to have a hard time.

They're saying the solution to the specific problem of being unable to rollback due to irreversible migrations is to not write irreversible migrations, which is a completely valid solution and indeed the correct one. The whole point of migrations is to track db changes so that undoing them is easy.

"And so, I stopped thinking. I did not eat, I did not sleep. I simply thought."

Did it stop thinking or did it not?

Doesn’t 4chan solve that?

Never knew how to market it