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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by thr_msc on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:45AM (#36428752)
Even single doses of acid are enough to change your outlook on life _substantially_. Imagine running a db migration on prod while it's live and you have no backups.

This is what consousness tinkering with drugs is like.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by audunw on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:15AM (#36428962)
That's a terrible analogy, because everything we're doing, every day of our life, is essentially like tinkering with no backup.

If you could take a backup of our brain from then it would be a common recommendation to take a backup before driving.

If you think along those lines, you could end up concluding that you shouldn't do anything fun or explorative if there's any significant risk at all.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by thr_msc on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:45AM (#36430205)
No, everyday life is like running with no backup. A 5 minute conversation with the average hippie shows you that acid is quite different.
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