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there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes
I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important
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when you look for it you cannot see it; when you listen for it you cannot hear it; but when you use it, it is inexhaustible
- one of the wildest case studies I've seen: "Diagnosis by hallucinatory voices" > winter 1984 > woman starts hearing voices in her head saying things like, "Please don’t be afraid, we would like to help you." > goes to doctor, is given psychiatric medication for hallucinations >
- one source of relief as I've gotten older is realizing it's possible to find people who are very ambitious and also exceptionally kind and attentive
- appreciating again that 99% of making & keeping friends is just messaging people unabashedly we've only met once? idgaf I'm inviting you to my thing haven't spoken in 3 years? idgaf I'm inviting you to my thing didn't respond to my last text? idgaf I'm inviting you to my thing
- honestly my one piece of advice is that you should try to develop enough self-understanding so that you can identify and ignore the 90% of advice out there that is not applicable to you
- man...a lot of people are just a little bit of encouragement away from making enormous progress on the things they wanna do
- Replying to @kasratweetssome proposed explanations for this from the article: - some form of telepathic communication lol - the patient made it all up, she already knew she had a tumor and wanted to get free health coverage (author says it's unlikely, given her initial relief from the voices subsiding +
- I am obsessed with hofstadter's "surfaces and essences." it's a 500 page book on the nature of thought. he basically gives you a very long list of examples demonstrating that all thought is fundamentally driven by analogy. at first I was skeptical but
- haven't been able to stop thinking about these two paragraphs the past month
- the most effective therapists are 10x better than the average therapist the least effective therapists actively make their patients worse
- ok this is blowing my mind – apparently genes are a read-write system?? your genes edit themselves?? the majority of genetic variation is from this self-editing rather than from random mutations??
