caze
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No, first off, that's only part of what I said, the intellectual curiosity aspect is more important in what I'm talking about (for me anyway); but in regard to the other thing, they may be misled easily (repeated hallucinatory activation of neural patterns of significance, creating some where none is justified, makes it easy to have a strong but unjustified belief in something - see those recent AI 'paintings' from noise for an example of this), but I don't think they're being misled in the same manner that people get misled in everyday life, through misunderstandings or being deceived or whatever, it's a wholly different class of experience I think. Well, good for you, and I hope if you keep it up that it will continue on as such; but obviously for a lot of people this isn't the case (I have many examples of this from people I've known through the years, and I'm sure everyone else who plays around in this realm knows many similar cases). I wasn't attempting to say that everyone is going to succumb to such beliefs, or even most people (though it could be, I don't have enough info to attempt to quantify it really).
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Thank's for the Miles Okazaki tip, it's great stuff.
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It's hardly irrelevant if it's something most people don't realise, and realising it helps provide a deeper understanding of what's going on inside our heads, and failure to realise it with some people may lead them to jump to erroneous (and sometimes dangerous) conclusions about the nature of reality in response to their psychonautical adventures (though I also accept that these things may be out of our hands to some degree, take reactions to temporal lobe epileptic seizures as another example, rational thought doesn't seem to have much impact on the strange beliefs that arise because of these things - it just might not be physically possible with some people).
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My point was that all conscious perception is in a way hallucinatory. Hallucinations are just operating modes of neural activity, everyday perceptions are hallucinations directed by sensory input, a drug induced hallucination is just some aspect of that neural activity being altered biochemically, but it's fundamentally the same thing, from the point of view of our perception of it. It's absurd in the sense that it doesn't provide a top-down model explaining conscious thought, it's not absurd in the sense that it self evidently exists as a perceptual experience. I don't know if LSD makes you distinct from your experiences (in any way which would be fundamentally different from everyday experience), that was never a feeling I experienced, though maybe I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I meant that it's an illusion in the sense that our notion of a willful cartesian homunculus is an illusion, consciousness itself is merely the activity of multiple non-conscious neural modes of operation, they are the reality, the non illusory processes that create the experience of consciousness.
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there were thousands of the little guys, a lot smaller than I'd imagined. totally docile too, could get really close without freaking them out. was eating lunch on the steps at one point and one of them hops out from his little house under the stone steps beside me with a small piece of stone in his mouth. cute little fellas, there call sounds a bit like a cow mooing though.
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heh
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not much of a photographer, only ever take pics of nature and shit, here's some from a recent trek out to Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry.
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I don't know about collapsing the illusion, all of our perceptual experiences are hallucinations, whether drug induced, sober, or suffering from some malady; drug trips just play around with the knobs giving us different perceptions (turning different computational networks on or off, or turning their signal strength up or down, feeding inputs from one module to some other module, etc). The Cartesian Theater is almost certainly a real thing btw, it's just another unconscious process (or set of interacting processes), one that creates the illusion of consciousness. The thing I find silly is the notion that they somehow lift the veil and show people the true universe or some other nonsense like that.
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they spent far too much time on character development, a good writer should be able to develop his characters at the same time as advancing the plot. could probably have edited the whole thing down to like 5 episodes or something. crammed full of new agey nonsense as well, which didn't help. was interesting enough for the bits where stuff actually happened though.
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yeah, I wrote about it in this very thread: Think the season actually starts next week or something. Releasing pilots many weeks before the show starts is annoying.
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don't allow myself psychedelics any more, were great for a while, but then not so good, and then brain not work good, took a while to get back to normal. always found it amusing that some people take fundamental insights into life the universe and everything from their drug trips, I always viewed it as an entertaining side effect of making your brain malfunction and little else (aside from maybe a therapeutic effect related to emotional outflow). just finished reading Oliver Sacks' book Halucinations, which is great, the chapter on his own history of drug use is great, here it is, worth a read: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/27/altered-states-3
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i felt like it was forcing me to relate to the characters instead of just getting on with the programme. this was brilliant. it's based on the 'sword of gideon' mission which was mossad's answer to black september's 1972 munich massacre. spielberg did a full feature which is surprisingly, a kind of edited version of this made-for-tv film, which imo plays much better because it fleshes out the characters more and even gives small details which- in the film version- might seem a little convenient. the only problem is probably the cast which is not quite as seasoned, but i suppose that's more due to budget constraints and 80s cocaine. Munich is such a terrible film, especially bad is eric banna's sex-climax murder memory scene.
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I've changed my picks around again, will leave them alone for a while now, until there's some new ones to check out at least. 8 Utopia 18 With My Family 1 nocares 3 gerald Remix 12 Rough Beat Tune 12 Space Beat 8 Lush Ambulance 2 4 Ny Groove 28 organ 4 Red Calx[slo] 7 lsb [slo] 19 [slo]w early morning clissold sunrise luke vibert spiral staircase [future music competition] [afx remix] 19 Bradley Echoes 33 Synthi Rhy [q] Th1 [slo] 14 Floating? [swimming in god mix] (mature raver) Notting Hill Bus 4 Acid Organ (HAB un23)(unfinished) medievil rave Mk2 [pre plague mix] 3 slothscrape 24 Tsim 2 34 ibiza spliff 15 Autumn Travels 14 Cornish Spreek5b [st. Nectan S Glen Waterfalls Mix] 31 Lifetrak2 EqTeac 1 Pretend Analog Extmix 2b Nightmail 1
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The Turing Test dialog was clearly intended for the audience, most of whom wouldn't have a clue what it was. It would be nice to see more detailed and accurate science fiction around, but I think it would be difficult to fit it into the narrative confines of a film, TV series would be better.
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we don't know when the film is set though, do we? for all we know that kind of tech could be off-the-shelf in whatever future this is set in.
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A bookshop in Spain?
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If your definition of chill includes roaming around killing people, then yes, they were super chill.
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The Jinx - your interview eye twitches ain't doing you any favours mate.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/newspaper-apologizes-letter-obama-execution-118370.html#ixzz3bXCjTyDV
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new hacker/conspiracy thriller called Mr Robot. was expecting it to be terrible, but it wasn't bad actually. was surprised to see the only semi-accurate portrayal of sysadmin stuff and hacking I've ever come across on TV or in film, left out a lot of the detail for obvious time constraints, but there was nothing glaringly stupid involved. not sure if I'll be able to handle the protagonist's monotone voiceover for the entire series though.
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The dumb thing about this Muhammad pictures nonsense is that the proscription on representations of the prophet is only actually meant for Muslims, it doesn't apply to us kafirs. Having said that, deliberately provocative drawings are obviously going to upset even the non-looney fringe, not that an illustrative insult is grounds for physical violence of course, and people are getting upset over entirely non-insulting representations, which is just silly.
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I very very rarely don't finish watching films, even if I dislike them I'll make the effort to sit through them. I couldn't manage it with Cosmopolis though, just awful, and I'm a Cronenberg fan.
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argh, 20 is nowhere near enough votes! great work from all involved. top marks. minor quibble: change the .sidebar class so it stays in view while you scroll, and add a scroll-bar to #votetracks_wrapper also, would be nice if you could select more than the max # of tracks, but would stop you from clicking save until you've removed the extra ones, would make whittling the list down a bit easier.
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cracking film that.
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they're a crazy right wing catholic organisation.
