Thanks, hadn't come across this one before, and I feel there is some truth to this - that when the inner processes slow down or atrophy, collapse begins.
However, I think the rapid collapse probably refers to what is observable on the outside
> I don't think I could survive an amputation on modern cannabis alone, however.
It's not an all-or-nothing proposition.
My dad was a cancer patient with severe chronic pain. Cannabis did not eliminate the need for opiates for chronic pain, but reduced the amount of opiates he needed by about half. Using cannabis actually allowed him to be MORE lucid.
I had a motorcycle accident a few years back that left me hooked on opiates for a while, so I have some first-hand experience there. You can cut your use about 50% pretty nicely a couple of times at first, but the lower you go the more that hurts, and I couldn't mask it with cannabis. At that point, you're going to have to get some medical help or go through pure hell.
I think in your father's case, it was cutting the opiates by half, but cannabis does help smooth anxiety and helps with nausea, it's just not as strong as getting some xanax, for instance, which would explain why medicinally cannabis wasn't and isn't used (like at hospitals).
The more meds you take, the more it can give you side effects, so it does make sense for people to switch to cannabis to help out
True, but only trapped within alternating N/S permanent magnetic poles... so it's possible to fool other people, but you won't be fooled yourself. Just don't use that magnetic setup. Superconducting materials will levitate in the field of a single magnetic pole.
This notion reduces the totality of human interaction to language. Do you think proto-huminoids who hadn't developed complex language felt lonely because they lacked an ability to explain themselves?
If I become a duller and less complicated person, will I be able to more easily explain myself, and therefore less lonely? Absurd.
There are many ways to bond with others that are non-verbal.
Thank you for mentioning J. Nathan Kutz! Reading through this article, I saw similarities to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (I am not literate enough on the topic to elaborate). His Coursera courses and book were a fascinating dive into orthogonal basis functions, lower-rank approximations like PCA... I'm not sharp enough anymore (over a decade since grad school) to fully grok it, but damn his work is so cool!
Yeast has been genetically modified to produce psilocybin ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761... ). Researches have yielded the equivalent of about 60g dried shroom in only 1 liter of solution. When psychedelics become as easy to produce as beer, the world is gonna be a whole lot weirder.
Media controls are difficult there, but still, this is just a guy on the internet who does his own polling apparently (both links about same). Would be good to have more data.
Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays —
'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —
Ruin is formal — Devil's work
Consecutive and slow —
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crashe's law —