[ExI] video which changed my perspective

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 5:43 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Like I also said, it makes you think more expansively.  You can think
> multiple things at once, think faster, in more intuitive and strange ways.
>

I don't need psychedelics to do that, and I doubt most people need them to
do that.

You can comprehend entire ideas that would take hours to even begin to
> think about sober.
>

>From what I have observed of other people under the influence, you gain the
illusion of being able to do so, without actually being able to do so.

The illusion can be doggedly persistent - the part of your brain that
believes whether or not you know a thing insists that the knowledge is
there, coming up with all manner of justifications as to why the knowledge
can't be used right now in the particular way you happen to be trying to
use it at this instant, or that the inability is unimportant and can be
ignored - but it remains an illusion.

By analogy, someone under the influence might think, and declare, that they
suddenly know kung fu.  They mean "know" as in "grok", not as in "are a
master of", but they do not quite understand the difference.  Someone else
asks them to demonstrate on a training dummy.  The person makes a weak and
sloppy punch.  Subconsciously they know that was not nearly what they meant
to do, so they make a second punch - which is better, but still not master
grade.  They shrug, thinking the point proven, and turn their attention to
other matters - but their audience has seen no understanding demonstrated.
The next day, when the effect has passed from their system, they might have
a dim memory of having thought they understood, but there is rarely enough
remaining to grab onto and analyze, let alone to achieve or re-achieve any
sort of understanding beyond what they had before they went under the
influence.

Why otherwise intelligent people reject just this one incredibly useful
> tool is, again, a testament to how effective propaganda is
>

You say propaganda, I say observed evidence.  In my case this includes
personally observed evidence, though I grant that most people don't have
that.
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