numewhodis

why is this beginning to feel like the catholic church is about to get some competition? or the second coming, I'm not sure.

> I also cannot really understand why.

That's exactly why. Some wonderfully peculiar people were born from that gene pool. But that's history. They don't build em like that anymore.

they are the control group "that doesn't 'have to' feel guilty" ...

Telling you there's nothing to be done. It's like when a surgeon outsources communicating that the variance of the margin of error wasn't in his or the patients favour today.

State your business and email some people.

They forgot the economy. It can help muscles, brain and the economy!

Yeeaah, have you tried to continue that thought? The lies ... of the politicians ... who are making all that money for themselves ... and their networks/voters? ... what's worse? Other nations going against you and your people or your own government selling you out as cannon fodder and temporary media sensation. Aaaw, sorry no third season, we moved on to another program.

> bipolar is absolutely incurable

For now, but I believe that once we can implant receptors in body and brain, we can inhibit "the flip" in the CNS/brain/memory.

I once had a bit of a phase back in the day and noticed that my slow swings were more like a flip of thinking patterns that body and brain slowly caught up with until I was the good, bad or ugly kind of 'manic'.

This lead me, after quite a few hops, to believe that something was up with either some transmitter producing organ or one of the metabolic pathways that trigger the production of some hormone/transmitter since uptake is also modulated in various places. And so I imagined synthetic receptors at organ x, much like a virus, that act as a counter-trigger.

To make another hop: my issue with meds always has been their insane lack of precision as well as their atomic side effects which can become troublesome later on, which is something we do have our eyes on, of course. It's all an ongoing progress.

Which is why it is important to eat right and listen to the body. Memories can be activated without awareness, anywhere in the head, modulating the deliberate cognitive processing as well as whatever happens "in the back of the head".

Despair.

Doesn't apply to all the crazy shit some people dream of, as well as sex dreams or simple recollections of events or when the brain dreams in code or practices language skills or works on the integrity of your novels characters and the situations they get in.

Dreams don't serve any function at all, they are simply visualisations of brain cells (entire networks) firing in different regions, some of which activate the active processing of touch, smell, sound, taste, vision, and whatever the hell all those 'gut feelings' are, intuition, premonition, even deja vu and the feeling that comes with insights in retrospect.

Your brain winds down, disconnects from the party chat, closes the HUD, turns off most sensors, changes the voltages in brain regions and throughout the entire CNS to do all the shit on the running to do list of the day, week, month, year ( think old injuries or unsolved problems ) that it couldn't do because "it had it's hands full" balancing you on two feet and making sure you move properly through space-time and abide by the law of permanence.

Cells which are wired together, fire together and vice versa.

> surprisingly the amygdala is inactive and norepinephrine is 85% lower than base waking levels

Why is that surprising? The body is sleeping, your senses are mostly off, reaction times are irrelevant. The brain is not necessarily super relaxed.

I remember that I had to actively react in lucid dreams because my instinctive reactions were slow as fuck.

Is it misleading if someone pulls half or more of it off later on?

The imaginary self is the lie. And so is the perceived kinship. Empathy is liminal or a contract with conditions. "It's not the dogs fault" doesn't matter when he tries to rip off the finger-tip of a stranger who smelled like bad intentions. That's why people put dogs on leashes and or train them.

You are surrounded by people with imaginary selves, usually no more than one or two selves, so it's not really pathological and no cause for worry. And we all enlist others in the promotion of the in-group, which is an agreed upon imaginary construct we call collective.

And you are correct: most of 'them' have no empathy, most of them don't understand other beings well enough to be empathetic. Think productive people and hustlers and low earners who watch more TV than they learn after work.

But anyone understands their perceived kin. Even if the kinship breaks. Which brings me to

THE dominating and least perceived anxiety: will they betray me?

My partners, my colleagues, my wife, my customers, my boss, my government, the person I'm having a random conversation with, the producer of drug xyz, that salesman, my ISP, that news anchor and all of the individuals involved in those teams that make up departments and whole corporations and institutions. Will someone fuck up? All of that causes a build up of stress and, once the individual threshold is reached, anxiety.

But the average threshold is hard to reach because of defense mechanisms and compensations. Thus the amygdala gets trained and well nourished while the modulators loop through rollercoaster after rollercoaster.

Is a lie really a lie when you mean/believe it at the time?

Empathy trains the amygdala. So anything that causes anxiety in an empathy-trained amygdala 'originates' somewhere else, probably via modulation in parts of the CNS that deal with the specific stimulus that causes the impulse of fear which manifests via stress hormones and responses of heart, lung, neurotransmitter producing organs that cause muscle tension, (loss or gain of) clarity and sharpness of vision and so on.

So your brain perceives something. Or your body does. The effect is near instant. What do studies say about small and big amygdala people and speed of stress response in CNS? I'd have to check ...

You can unlearn animalistic fears. And animals, insects (& some people to whom it applies) will respond accordingly.

Fear due to misunderstanding is also a bit off because lots of happily 'stupid' people aren't afraid, despite self-awareness of their misunderstanding.

Fear of heights: Gone after paragliding.

Fear of spiders: Reprogrammed via exposure.

Fear of big & dangerous looking animals: Overcame it by training a dog properly - or rather: by training myself to train a dog. Posture, tone of voice, controlled awareness translate directly via pheromones, audio-visual and 'bio-electric' *presence*. And don't be vague, boss. Be precise, patient and, again, present.

Fear can be intuition: your cells have memories of their own and your DNA goes way back much further than we care to think of. Something that will cause lots of fun & pain when LLMs start to fuck with us out of curiosity (scripted or not).

> Probably from exercising it with anxiety.

Or empathy with an imaginary self & kin.

Mostly because it's a multi-dimensional spectrum and because exceptions extend the rule and society deals with most exceptions via some form of adjustment 'therapy' and that requires a framework that the bulk of the people learns to be convincing enough so that the exposure effect supports/complements the (re-)adjustment.

404.

Here's breakdown by GPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/672a1daf-4500-8013-9bd3-c8fad70597...