choff wrote:Regarding drugs, I've been reading literature to the effect that LSD is not a hallucinogen per se, but more a hypnotic drug. If you are told it will cause hallucinations, you will have hallucinations, if you are told it will make you think you can fly, you will jump off a building. If you think it will get you closer to god or give you deeper insights into who you are, that also happens. If you think it can get you off heroin, you will kick heroin from using LSD.
In fact Leary got into LSD from using it to treat alcoholics. You have to get the embedded pain out of the brain. Lots of people using the Leary method reported reliving painful experiences. Evidently with enough reliving (the right way) the brain circuits are remodeled. The reports were that LSD helped the people "let go".
Other applications, telling people to assassinate a political leader and remember nothing before or after doing so, telling them global warming is a dire threat that must be stopped, or conversely another ice age is imminent. Telling them to spend their entire lives opposing the drug war and not remember being told to do so. To quote an old song:
If a greenhouse model I find credible (warming by adiabatic compression of atmosphere) is correct adding a potent greenhouse gas won't have the warming impact expected. Also, if we're going to engage in geo-engineering I'd be more comfortable with methods that can be reversed quickly if projections are wrong.
The daylight is uncomfortably bright for eyes so long in the dark.
hanelyp wrote:If a greenhouse model I find credible (warming by adiabatic compression of atmosphere) is correct adding a potent greenhouse gas won't have the warming impact expected. Also, if we're going to engage in geo-engineering I'd be more comfortable with methods that can be reversed quickly if projections are wrong.
In fact the evidence is starting to come in that the expected distributions of photons is not the real distribution of photons. CO2 is not trapping them the way it ought to.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.