Woebot
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I'm only familiar with valerian root as a sort of sleep aid.
yeah it's one of those insider knowledge things. very good for "grounding" supposedly. i liked it.
I'm only familiar with valerian root as a sort of sleep aid.
It's not all about chemicals. Nothing is.
remember Matthew the boring answer is always the wrong answer.
Or are you just focusing on experiencing the difference these herbs bring?
Yeah hunches are our leads here. Mine is that it is all chemicals, so to speak, but in such a way that they combine to be greater than the sum of their parts. Which may seem like its not all chemicals, hence the paradox of emergence.
All of the spiritual/mystical techniques involving this or that herb, just the results of stochastic experimentation with ingesting damned near whatever could be ingested, under these or those circumstances, bearing these or those results. More of a gnosis than a science, but science seems to be getting there.
Chemicals are boring science is boring.
By dopamine precursors, you mean molecules that are just a reaction or two away from becoming dopamine? What role would that play in mental illnesses? Just excessiveness?it's like a big soup isn't it. inputs and outputs. certain physical processes affecting that soup.
my current pet theory is that meat (especially red meat consumption) is one of the big issues behind the growth of mental illnesses in the west.
BECAUSE (drum roll) meat and fish contain the highest levels of dopamine precursors.
stands to reason dunnit.
science is boring - as a method. and pointless. but chemicals? that's like saying nature is boring. chemicals are just stuff, right?
I think that says more about school than it does about science.I've got no time for science whatsoever. Hated it at school. Absolutely hated it. It's death.