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never realised there was an American remake of Wages of Fear, must check that out.

awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlMTn_Jzok

two lone swordsmen - stay down been a while since I've given this one a listen, great album.

4th track has taken me by surprise, surprising hip hop/house feel. nice.

half-way through my first listen now, it's real nice - though nothing earth shattering. fehlmann can do no wrong in my eyes.

this is actually 4 years old, not sure if that's reassuring or disappointing...

In what manner do you think I'm discounting them? I'm discounting that they represent a window to a more fundamental level of reality is all (in fact they're far more likely to add a layer of obfuscation). And I don't agree that they're not amenable to objective observation and measurement, because I believe that everyday subjective experience and hallucinatory experience are fundamentally very similar, and I obviously believe everyday subjective experience is amenable to objective observation and measurement. Social constructs are not real in the same sense as matter and energy (or whatever it is those things really are) are real, they only exists as representations in the minds of people, encoded as patterns of matter and energy (or whatever). It's may be more useful for us to talk about the emergent properties than the complex array of deterministic causes (or even probabilistic causes, if it turns out that is a true property of reality), but only one of the two is actual at the end of the day. They may appear real to us in our day to day experience, but it's not the same category of reality as the fundamental reality that they are constructed out of (even if we never truly know what this is, we can still make judgements on theories as to whether they are more or less true with respect to it). The theory of General Relativity describes the behaviour of matter (or more accurately the curving of space by matter/energy), I don't think it's correct to say that 'Gravity' itself is limited a mere description. We don't know what gravity is really, at least until we can reconcile it with QM at a minimum, but the other forces of nature do seem to represent some fundamental nature of reality, when we figure gravity out it may be the same; or it may indicate some deeper system of which gravity and the other forces are only specific configurations. there are more than one so called reality. yours is not the only one. 'this' is not the only one. maybe the only one that 'matters' to you. nothing to do with psychedelics really. there are many different perceptions of reality, including mine and yours. there is only one fundamental reality though, neither of us knows what it is, and it may well be unknowable in principle.

I'm loving this new aztec slant to chunky's delusions.

his perception of the unreal knife was actually a real configuration of neural connectivity and electro-chemical processes, his subjective experience isn't reality, it is a projection of a more fundamental interaction in the really real world. subjectively speaking, there may be no difference between a hallucination of a knife and the visual perception of an actual knife, but objectively only one scenario includes a chunk of metal atoms bound together in space, and neither subjective experience is reality, one merely contains a more readily determined relationship to reality.

indeed it is, reality... the greatest story ever told.

it's less satisfying when you realise that show is made up of porn stars, and it's shown on a regular porn channel.

Here's some interesting waffle re psychedelics from a philosophical point of view. Don't agree with much of it, but interesting nonetheless. http://www.philosopher.eu/texts/philosophy-and-psychedelic-phenomenology/

People still talk about the Palins?

Yeah, this is true, but this leads to the conclusion that some of these reality-interpretations will be closer to objective reality than others. It turns out we have a means for testing which ones are which, the scientific method. Taking shrooms is not a good means for testing which is which, or for developing novel intuitive interpretations based on the borked empiricism of psychedelic experience. Again, I'm not saying that a critical evaluation of psychedelic experience cannot be enlightening, just that any insight is unlikely to come from ideas generated directly from psychedelic experience itself. I'm also not ruling out the possibilities for creative problem solving from psychedelic trips (or even emotional problem solving, though in many cases emotional problem causing may be more likely), much like dreams often provide our waking world with solutions to problems (I often wake up with the solution to some weird programming issue I'd been dealing with the previous day for example).

haha, works surprisingly well.

you're right it's not really fair to call that stuff reality, or at least not the type of reality that we're currently talking about (I like the definition that it's that which exists when there's nothing around to perceive it's existence). If skibby was just referring to the kind of weak social constructionism put forward by John Searle say (money, government, etc.), then we're in agreement, but if he's arguing for the stronger form the continental philosophers, marxists, feminists, etc., tend to favour then we're not.

there's no such thing as consensus reality reality is that which is, there is no other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3bZcEf2kQ

sure, why not. dolphins take note!

Watched Fury Road last night, was pretty good but not quite deserving of all the hype. It was basically one extended action sequence, which was really well executed, but could've done with a bit more of an interesting plot.

Yeah, The Congress was good. The book it's based on is incredible, by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris).

Who is this 'we' demographic to which you refer? I can't execute instructions without a specific memory address. Everyone.

some people have the good genes, though if western civilization does collapse he'll be among the first to die of starvation.

it's got nothing to do with twin peaks, starts off more like the prisoner, but once the twist is revealed it's not much like that either it's alright, got a decent cast, but they don't have an awful lot to work with