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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a drug or discovery promises to slow aging or cure disease, what makes you trust the science enough to act on it?”
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Monogamy v polyamory
Is monogamy better? Is poly better? Is there an overall norm for people, with exceptions? Is it totally pluralistic? Here are some points for monogamy, with some counter points, to convey some of my uncertainty but nevertheless leaning into what I’ve chosen: Point: I don’t know a... Yeah, I’m with you. Although… I think the man and woman genders will always have the specialness of being the OG genders, with a giant history and biological impact, and we shouldn’t ignore or deconstruct this away, while still honoring and including all the genders as equal... Have yall come across "Assembly Theory"?
My first reading is that it's kinda a like a Christopher Alexander process take on what comprises life; eg: "The specific molecules in your body aren’t that old, but the lineage of these objects being reconstructed goes back that far.... - annabeth...
I agree that these frames are pretty wonky and often misused; I get really annoyed by the way many if not most people use the concept in personal growth culture. Most of the assumptions don’t hold across cultures.... How could this not matter?! Wherther it’s instinctual for some and not others, versus whether it’s one way or another, seems to me to matter as much as any instincts!... - kendra...
I have heard that the “mom brain” phenomenon is actually tied to a really big neurological event that happens where your brain is creating space/attuning to that which matters most and requires, therefore, the most brain matter.... PLANTS ARE NOT CONSCIOUS
This is my response to a post to a Facebook group post about the idea that plants and animals without brains have consciousness; that plants, and other life forms without nervous systems like ours, might also have it.... - Klug...
Everyone is a fisherman, just nobody knows anything about fish...
It's funny how many people claim to be fishermen especially with social media these days all you have to do is take a couple pictures with some fish more often than most people in boom you're considered basically unsponsored professional fisherman and sometimes sponsored.... - onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"by
That book explicitly smashes the triune brain theory. Working from memory here, one of the puzzle pieces in the books is: the growth of these different parts of the brain is turned on and off by chemical signalling and otherwise it's a common architecture - so you can induce... Only Women Bleed
Biology isn't bigotry. Women have periods. Men do not. Rare medical anomalies or transitions don't rewrite the rule for the species. If someone claims otherwise, ask the uterus.... - Lateadult...
- Merrengue...
I had a similar response to the first point — the compulsion to procreate is life - it's the least selfish thing one can do. We went from single celled organisms to fish to apes to us because of that compulsion (along with a bunch of other stuff)....