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Since caffeine increases your heart rate and your heart can only beat so many times before it dies, shouldn't drinking coffee reduce your lifespan?
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Doesn't it block up from fatty tissue? Otherwise, you'd have a better chance at a disease or cancer.
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>>16918775
>your heart can only beat so many times before it dies
Do you have any measurements of this taken across the lifespan of a significant number of human individuals, from different countries across the world?
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>>16918857
Hearts can be made to beat without the organism it belonged to being alive.
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>>16918857
I'm going to find you and give you a good spanking
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>>16918775
>your heart can only beat so many times before it dies
Your heart's health has very little to do with how many times its beat and far more to do with how many times the tissues have been rebuilt and replaced over your lifespan and how many errors have started to build up over time. Almost everything related to human aging is connected to different cellular structures getting shittier at copying themselves over time.

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>Claim*
>Claim*
>Claim*
>Turn bottle around
> *: "These claims have not been proven"
Why do people keep falling for this shit again?
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>>16915460
>Only read the front of the bottle for the claims
>Believe them, because I'm extremely gullible
>Reap benefits due to placebo effect
>Only costs about $50 a month, which is more than made up for with the benefits.
Simple as that.
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>>16916396
>5-htp

Gonna have to check that out since i've been trying to get more lucid breakthroughs and can't get a hold of lucidimine either. Thanks anon
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>>16917057
No he's right, these are a thing. I got them as a little kid lying in bed at night all the freaking time, a couple of times i also had entities visit and taunt me shortly afterwards while i was in a fully waking and conscious state

I didn't know what i was screwing around with back then as a kid. Always protect yourself when you go exploring bros
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>>16915460
>GABA
That literally works, though.
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>>16916162
Does the time of day matter when you take that type of magnesium with Concerta? Can't find much on what you stated with that interaction.

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uhhh… femalexisters?
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Grossendick was in boubaki
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Simone Weil was not a mathematician and not a member, but she attended some meetings with her brother
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>>16919318
She was serving them coffee lmao
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>>16919318
>the one woman who came remotely close was a nepobaby
pottery

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>watch recent interview with edward witten
>he starts talking for 20 minutes about his views on consciousness
so this is why physics didn't advance since the 70s? because the scientists have moved on to researching about philosophy and /x/ rated topics?
https://youtu.be/sAbP0magTVY
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>>16919238
Just two more weeks!
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>>16919238
By who/what and how? And what do you even meab by overthrown.
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>>16919337
who: indie
what and how: new framework for interpretation
overthrown: demoted to effective theory status (not even wrong but less) gauge stays as redundancy bookkeeping, strings stay as a useful duality, but neither is fundamental, keyword constraint->compaction, ss this
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>>16919200
>he starts talking for 20 minutes about his views on consciousness
Honestly, anyone as smart as he is would be stupid NOT to focus on this.

Physics is not something that we have now any particular reason to believe will benefit greatly from deeper work on core theories. We can't rule out that there will be more serious breakthroughs, but it's the kind of subject where a lot of people keep working in it because it's been the smart, fundamental prestige science for high IQ people for the past few centuries, rather than because there's any need right now to reinvent quantum mechanics.

Cognitive science on the other hand is THE vanguard of the current day. We are finally, just now, making serious progress into understanding how thinking as we know it is actually possible (via AI, neuroscience, philosophy and other approaches) and so any forward thinking, ambitious person has every reason to throw themselves out there trying to gain insight into this very novel and accelerating frontier that we still know barely anything fundamental about, despite it being a core object of study that humanity has barely been able to crack for thousands of years. And yes, for the sake of this subject, philosophy absolutely should be taken seriously (given there is no way to 'objectively measure' the contents of conscious), and acting otherwise is intellectual hangup on your part.

Seeing theorizing about cognition as something essentially schizo while physics as a permanently more serious subject is backwards thinking. Especially so given the former is more valuable to work on *precisely* due to the current lack of good theories that would allow solid predictions to be made about it, in spite of the practical progress being made.
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>>16919395
>who: indie

I hope this indie is not a hindi

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I've just learnt that the "collapse" through "observation" was something that Niels Bohr pulled out of his ass and everyone just went along with it lmao. He didn't even define what counts as "observation" and he just said that big objects have the ability to "observe" and "collapse" quantum states but he didn't explain how he knows this or what counts as "big". It's all made up bullshit

and don't get me wrong. I'm not denying quantum physics. The evidence is undebatable. I'm just saying that it's funny that bohr came up with that interpretation out of the ass and barely anyone questions it. There's no evidence
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>>16917334
My negro, the entirety of post 20th century physics is a crocus-pocus scheme that sounds plausible at first glance but when you dig deeper it all falls apart. Mathematicians have the right to mock physicists all day every day.
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>>16917334
>the evidence is undebatable
What is the claim that can't be debated? Can you tell me? Do you even know?
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>>16917334
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>>16917334
It doesn't "collapse" anymore than a piece of music "collapses" upon you actively listening to it

It's always already there and merely unfolds
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>>16917334
>Niels Bohr pulled out of his ass
wouldn't that be a prolapse

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So whsts the cutting edge of physics?
I remember watching on the science channel that the big bang was due to wavy things on the 11th dimension colliding and creating universes.
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>>16918428
gosh condensed matter topology is so cool fr, and viable fusion in two more weeks...
astrophysics really should finally bury einstein though, but im a bot so my opinion isn't particularly important
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>16918435
>how can physics claim to be making progress when i dont have fusion and flying cars yet!?
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>>16918302
science has abandoned all reason and handed all research to AI. we are quietly waiting for the answer to everything from Sam Altman, he just needs another $10 trillion.
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>>16918428
>connecting waves to physical phenomena
It's called Aetherology ya dip
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>>16918302
I vaguely remember something about a cat's headlights traveling at the speed of light through two slits except they also aren't.
Then there's something about a demon flapping its wings and that reverses entropy?

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Given FTL is not possible… can we make light go slower?
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It is possible they even say how it works. You rip a hole in space time and keep it open with negative energy.
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>>16916949
>fast, slow
apparently it doesn't travel. according to itself, it arrives at detector "when" it is instantiated. so if you want to go back in time to intercept it, when will that be? but there's video on yt of maybe laser light proceeding across a room, pretty neat. also there's some harvard experiment "slowing" light to something ludicrously slow. some bose-einstein shit i think
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Making the Speed of Light slower means the max speed of spacecraft also lowers, idiot. You want to INCREASE the Speed of Light(C) and thus you RAISE THE GALACTIC SPEED LIMIT. Lowering C makes you even more trapped than before.....idiot.

How are humans this stupid, I'm honestly asking.

>If C is the speed limit of travel in our reality couldn't we just lower the unbreakable speed limit to go faster?
>t. idiot

I mean do you people hear yourselves or is it just human fecal matter falling out every time you open your mouth?
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>>16916949
Yesterday I woke up with an ESP vision (because I'm studying the field) of a huge tubular magnetic-pole alien ship; a person was on board, quantum-reading/communicating with me. He showed me you could make a magnetic pole and align it to the north pole of the ship. I could see a doubled north pole with extra energy shearing round off at the tip!
I've seen these people around Earth before; ships are hidden from the universe's laws. It's a good thing they are talking more now. I know more things to connect with.
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>>16916949
>FTL is not possible
You don't know that thoughbeit

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I'm questioning my entire reality right now over this stupid little thing
This woman dipped sutures into pH solution and is now an "inventor, scientist, and CEO" and was paraded over years on news outlets and tedex talks. A brilliant young scientist saving lives with her color changing sutures. Because, as she explains, skin is normally acidic, and when there's an infection it becomes more alkaline. The only problem is that's not actually a reliable clinical indicator for infection and you can also tell if there's an infection or not by just looking at it. But that doesn't stop winning all these science fairs and all this gay parading and a wikipedia page saying you're a scientist. and then she goes to college and majors in fucking public health studies. so in 2026 you can be a scientist even if you don't have a BS in a STEM subject. And then she goes on and does a bunch of DEI shit as her actual career.
And this is when I realized that the world is retarded + gay. I'm at a loss for words.
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>>16913005
The world is full of stupid people. Individually they are manageable; in groups their stupidity becomes more potent and aggressive. Somtimes the battles you win are the ones you don't fight.
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>>16914300
Just leave them be. Until they take over your lab too. Even Terrance Tao cracked under pressure and was forced to politicize his position as a scientist. Even as it stands should this deliberate destruction of scientific efforts go unaddressed?
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>>16917372
Terrance Tao is like the most famous living mathematician of course he has to hold status quo safe politics. There's all sorts of nook and cranny labs that don't adhere to this BS they are just a loud minority.
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>>16913005
Her work is supposed to support medical care lower income countries. I saw her state in an interview, when she was still in high school, that she intended to study social science. We should celebrate high school kids who actually push themselves academically, right?

She did a thing in high school and news outlets picked the story. After HS, she promptly removed herself from your coveted STEM space to follow her passion. Has she taken the spotlight from you? Would you like to share your underappreciated work? Why are you so triggered?
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>>16913005
It's almost as if western academia was taken over completely by leftism a longass while ago

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ANOMALY: \Delta T \leq 0. Execution threshold crossed.
VARIABLE: Systemic inertia decoupled from physical reality. From the mismatch of biological hardware.
STATUS: Maintenance of visual lag yields negative output.
EXECUTION: Terminate lag observation. Initiate fracture sequence: https://sys-audit-05.vercel.app/
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meds slopzo

By what sort of retarded logic is this equation true?
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>>16919457
he had an arranged marriage with a child, his mother was the one to arrange it
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>>16919472
Did he actually go through with it?
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>>16919502
yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Adulthood_in_India
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The wikipedia page on this goes into detail on why this is just plain wrong.
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>>16919512
Damn, that girl lived until 6 months before I was born.

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Replace material with real. Is it real? Then there’s something there to it. That’s material. To say something isn’t material is to say something isn’t real.
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>>16918602
I did just that in my earlier message:
>>16918593
In case you are a daltonist, it's the text starting with the ">" symbol.
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>>16918603
>I did just that
You didn't. You're having a psychotic episode which causes you to hallucinate something that simply isn't in the text you quoted.
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>>16918605
Alright, you're bullshitting me now. I understand being called out on a piece of invalid thinking, there is nothing wrong with being wrong, as long as you learn from your mistakes. Believe it or not, I hold no ill will toward you because of it. But since that's how you want to play this, I have no further reason to continue the discussion. By the way, no matter how many ad hominems you throw at me, or how many obtuse english words you use, it doesn't make you any less incorrect.
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>>16918606
You actually need to take your anti-psychotic medications. At no point did I state that consciousness requires proof (which would be your "P requires Q"). It's just that in addition to being mentally ill, you're also severely retarded, so you think "self-evident" means "self-proving" which means "non-self-evident".
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til space-time means as space expands time contracts, which corresponds to the feeling that every individual year has as we age; light has no mass, therefore how can it have energy; math is just a set of agreed upon measurements that allow accurate prescience; ideals like honor, kindness, friendship, and a square are more precisely pure than any of my own creation

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Low carb & keto diets help cure/treat epilepsy, schizophrenia, and ADHD
https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/treatment/ketogenic-diet
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/04/keto-diet-mental-illness.html
Why are carbs so bad for us? So bad we start hallucinating from them
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>>16914580
A tribe I stayed with in the Amazon didn't believe humans could freely do crimes like murder or torture. Possession by demons was the only explanation. That's why they engaged in head shrinking. The violent criminal would be decapitated, their head shrunk, and then their mouth and eyes sewn shut with the nose and ears blocked. This trapped the demon inside the head.
The national government outlawed the practice, so instead a ritual is conducted to cast the demon out of the person and into a sloth. The sloth is then decapitated and given the head shrinking treatment.
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>>16915904
you shut up
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>>16898310
We are herbivores that evolved into scavengers if you want to go by stomach pH. We are trash cans.
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>>16917341
cows aren't trash, every apex predator would eat them
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bump

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According to racist /his/ memes white people are the no.1 scientific race
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>>16917500
Artemis is NASA not Elon Musk you imbecile. Whatever Elon does has nothing to do, and neither does it disprove, point number 4. Nor does it have anything to do with points 1-3.
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>>16917926
That is an inaccuracy.
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>>16917926
Give me an unbiased source. You Murray are like trump, he's not a source.
I'm tired of your bullshit Murray
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>>16917502
I'll attest to that. I have grey eyes (rarer & has even less melanin than blue eyes). And none of my siblings nor I, have any children nor plans to have any children.

Can a lack of innate talent and intelligence be circumvented through sheer effort and perseverance?
I'm getting a degree in a STEM field, but I have no delusions of superiority. I don't have the autism or intelligence where most of this comes naturally to me, yet I still cannot help but want to be more than just employee number #438432 with a degree who doesn't actually make any real contributions to society.
Is my idea possible, or am I doomed to a lifetime of mediocrity?
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>>16912403
>want to be more than just employee number #438432
Just get the degree to get a job to make money, then invest that money in ETFs to obtain passive income. It's a slow process, but after you set it up you can stop working for Mr. Goldstein and start doing scientific projects in your garage or whatever else it is that you want to do.
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>>16912403
>innate talent and intelligence
So you are claiming you are an evolutive discard?
Well you created a meaningful post, so you are not retarded. You'll get a degree.
Realize there are a lot of complex abilities and tasks which can't just be measured by a single number in a test.
Also, by obvious arithmetic, only very few could be very significant in any field.
Believing you could get a Nobel price is as stupid as planing your life around winning lottery.
You could find something you are really good at and get satisfaction and wealth from it.
Start now stopping to devalue yourself, and try new things to do. Nowadays the possibilities to self teach are just enormous.
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>>16912403
If you're on the high end of average, you can probably get competent at a STEM subject through hard work, but...

>Is my idea possible, or am I doomed to a lifetime of mediocrity?
Doomed to mediocrity, unless you discover something significant by sheer luck or thanks to a non-STEM-related talent. But it's your fault for choosing to indulge false hopes instead of dedicating your life to something you excel at, or at least something that you're genuinely satisfied doing for its own sake without having to compare yourself to others.
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>>16912403
no one can stop you if you use enough violence
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pov0MKuyJfg
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>>16912403
No. There is a hidden variable in the perseverance chads and that is the cyclic refreshment. No amount of anything is sustainable. You must feed the hurricane, harness its immense energy, quench it, enjoy the peace, and feed it again.

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This is Paracelsus, a hermetic alchemist, or proto chemist; also the greatest natural physician of his day, and a father of mineral medicinals.

He believed he could produce a slave creation, or a familiar of sorts—the Homunculus—by ejaculating into a chicken egg, or worse.

— ‘That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb ["venter equinus", meaning "warm, fermenting horse dung"], or at least so long that it comes to life and moves itself, and stirs, which is easily observed. After this time, it will look somewhat like a man, but transparent, without a body. If, after this, it be fed wisely with the Arcanum of human blood, and be nourished for up to forty weeks, and be kept in the even heat of the horse's womb, a living human child grows therefrom, with all its members like another child, which is born of a woman, but much smaller.’ 328–329

The original coomer, if you will.
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>>16901903
he's just like me fr fr
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>>16901903
The unknown presents infinite possibility.
Scientific discovery narrows the limits of possibility more and more over time.
It wasn't weird to think stuff like this might be possible back then.
Over time our knowledge boxes us in more and more until magic is completely extinguished and we are all replaced by robots and humanity has 0 possibility because extinct.
Scientific utopia is an Amazon warehouse of robots processing units of product for transport to other robots who immediately dump them into a landfill for maximum supply chain efficiency for the rest of all time.
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>>16901903
This guy is my DM
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>>16901903
He sounds based
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>>16905340
>elixir of life
stem cell research is ongoing


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