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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by ethanbond on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:36AM (#36164866)
“Understood the meaning of life” != solved everyone’s problems

Did you actually feel that you had solved all major conflicts, or are you 1) parodying your own ambition of insight or 2) making the separate claim that “if the primary agents in the conflict could have the experience that I’m having, they maybe would not be so conflicted?”

(2) for example is a much, much more believable claim than “I solved all the problems” despite their superficial similarity.

Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by robbiep on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:26AM (#36183097)
You didn’t give a numerical option for having personally solved all the world’s problems, but I’ll call it 0), and I felt 0) but am also claiming 1). Others have made 2) but that wasn’t part of my comment.

I’m not really interested in what you believe, it’s clear you haven’t had psychedelic experiences, which is fine, but it’s a bit rich for you to be claiming what I could have experienced if you’ve never had your wetwear run that particular program. Psychedelic experiences are unbelievable by their very nature. At their worst (as was repeated elsewhere in the thread, and actually in the article as well) you are literally entering the state of a schizophrenic. It isn’t very nice.

And at its best you can think that you have deep insight into major world problems, the cause of conflicts and how to solve them.

In a more personal middle ground it can also be a highly fertile environment for self reflection and introspection with lasting benefits