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🧠🍳 Thoughts

• [[t.does the universe make it up as it goes along]]?
• [[t.Problems With the Simulation Hypothesis]]
• [[reuptake inhibitor conundrum]]
• [[t.Life is not suffering]]
• [[bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again is the essence of meditation]]

🤯 moments

• [[there is no lizard brain]] #neuroscience
• [[cortisol is not a stress hormone]] #neuroscience
• [[five to the power of 500 possible universes]] #cosmology #astronomy
• [[gravity can be a repulsive force]] #physics #cosmology
• [[The Stone age is named so not because stone tools were the most advanced but the best preserved]]

Notes

• [[Darkness Visible Shedding New Light on Black Holes]]
• • [[math is unreasonably effective]]
• [[q.any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic]]
• [[q.any sufficiently advanced alien species is indistinguishable from nature]]
• [[consciousness is not computational in nature]]
• [[The Stone age is named so not because stone tools were the most advanced but the best preserved]]
• [[t.Life is not suffering]]
• [[evening ruminations can safely be ignored - they are evolutionary debris from when humans lived outside]]
• [[never before in human history has there been an opportunity to open up serotonergic and dopaminergic pathways at the same time]]

Podcasts

• [[nutrition]]
  • [[Salt is great]]
  • [[www-old/when getting shaky try water with salt instead of increasing blood sugar]]
• [[adhd rewired 2021-03 - Novel Advice for Perfectionism and Writing]]
  • [[Perfectionism is not feeling that you miss the last 10 per cent – it's feeling you barely did 10 per cent]]

Neuroscience

• [[autism - adhd - ocd - not separate disorders]]

• [[lex fridman podcast - 164 - andrew huberman - sleep, dreams, creativity, the limits of the human mind_rev2]]

  • [[Notes/adenosine]]
  • [[circadian cycle]]
    • [[The circadian cycle is a temperature oscillation]]
  • [[Circadian rythm is controlled by the superchiasmatic nucleus]]
  • [[testosterone]]
    • [[Testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol]]
  • [[dopamine]]
  • [[tyrosine]]
  • [[l-dopa]]
  • [[androgen]]
  • [[Tryptophan]]
  • [[intermittent fasting]]
    • [[Eating when the sun is up is best]]
    • [[Low amounts of complex carbs increases alertness]]
  • [[Salt is great]]
  • [[1 000mcg of fish oil works as well as an SSRI antidepressant]]

• [[lex fridman podcast - 129 - lisa feldman barrett – counterintuitive ideas about how the brain works]]

  • [[there is no lizard brain]]

• [[huberman lab 6 – how to focus to change your brain]]

  • [[acetylcholine]]
  • [[epinephrine]]
  • Cholinergic drugs
  • [[NSDR – Non Sleep Deep Rest]]
  • [[nootropics]]

• [[Huberman Lab 8 – Optimize Your Brain with Science-based Tools]]

  • [[Deliberate, linear implementation is best done during highly focused states]]
  • [[Creative work is best done when relaxed]]
  • [[Morning light advances your circadian rythm slightly]]
  • [[Evening light delays your circadian rythm slightly]]
  • [[Minimize light exposure in the evening - especially from overhead light]]
  • [[Your body wakes you up right before bedtime]] – That fucker! A dose of anxiety just before sleepytimes. Is that enough evidence against intelligent design and evolution resulting in the most efficient beneficial biological systems?
  • [[carbohydrates]]

• [[Huberman Lab 11 – How Foods and Nutrients Control Ourt Moods]]

Cosmology, Quantum Physics

• [[lex fridman podcast – Leonard Susskind – Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes]] Is time emergent or fundamental? Space is emergent, and we think time might be too.
• [[multiverse - one universe or many]] #cosmology
• [[Beyond einstein - in search of the ultimate explanation]] #physics #cosmology
  • [[j.Cosmology makes me cry - and thats why i like it]] #cosmology
• [[principle of mediocrity]]
• [[fine-tuning hypothesis]]
• [[anthropic principle]]
• [[rare earth hypothesis]]
• [[Particle chauvinism]]
• [[Hamilton Morris]]
  • [[5-meo-dmt]]
• [[amphetamine]]
  • [[Captagon]]