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This reminds me of the fact that humans used to be able to hibernate ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117993/ ) and ( https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35033907/early-hum... )
High serotonin, cold exposure, low sunlight. Almost makes you think one could hibernate. But then, to what purpose? Would likely shorten the lifespan, increase risk for cancer
Nobody seems to be mentioning the therapeutic possibilities. I'd love to be able to make a bacterial infection dormant. Or a tumor.
Tumors might be difficult, since afaik, cancer cells aren't working correctly by definition.
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And of course because we are explicitly forbidden from talking about such a problem, it never happens, right?
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While I agree with what a lot of what you said, there is a lot of survivorship bias in a single anecedote. My Grandma also has a very similar story, born in 1920s, fled from the Russians, no depression. But there is family from the same time period that committed suicide. Then for every one suicide there were 10 people that lived out of the bottle. So even though no one talked about depression it was there.
Is she still alive? I can recommend interviewing her about the past and recording it. There may come a time where you will be glad to have those recordings. Or your children/grandchildren. Also, given the right prompting, you may learn things about her that you have never seen before.
When you get caught up on the hustle of modern society and lose yourself in modern technology, it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human. For some reason knowing that other animals exist just for the sake of existing and even sleep off when life gets harder gives a new perspective. I feel that we humans use too much knowledge and complicate problems eve…
> I think that our bodies are highly intelligent and humans intrude a lot in it's natural functioning by inventing too much techniques and methods. Like I want to stay awake, drink coffee. Drink coffee, get insomnia. Insomnia leads to unhappiness. Take insomnia meds, get withdrawals. Generating more problems along the way while forgetting what the solutions were even for in the first place. If we just listened to our…
"Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast." Maybe we need this for dogs, so their lifespan isn't substantially squandered when their owners are at work.
This feels quite distopian.
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A purpose of a religious text is to control people. They do that through well-known ways. It says “blah-blah, but look at this fallacy you aren’t aware of, so believe in god”, at different zoom levels. Every one of these is trivially deconstructible cause their main target was uneducated masses which had no scrutiny. Those who had it were religiously “educated” and accounted for. Religions that didn’t do that didn’t…
Actually the purpose of that whole chapter is about not being a hypocrite, being authentic, not being greedy, and having faith. It's a quick < 5-minute read.
It’s a medieval gaslightenment and it would be great if people kept it private at least.
PS. purpose is different from meaning, the latter is just a medium for purpose and may be arbitrary.
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Actually the purpose of that whole chapter is about not being a hypocrite, being authentic, not being greedy, and having faith. It's a quick < 5-minute read.
Yeah, a bunch of dudes created a book (which costed a fortune or two before typewriter age) to tell everyone to be good just for the sake of it. As plausible as it can get. /s It’s a medieval gaslightenment and it would be great if people kept it private at least. PS. purpose is different from meaning, the latter is just a medium for purpose and may be arbitrary.