Comment by BrtByte

4 hours ago

It also makes the self feel uncomfortably fragile

That fragility is something you have to come to grips with if you've ever known someone that has a brain injury.

The self changes rapidly when dementia, alzheimers, a car crash, or a concussion which rocks someone's world the wrong way.

Who we are is incredibly fragile. You are just one bad infection away from being a different person.

Buddhism has bad news for you

  • I once read “The Joy of Living” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. It should come with a warning. It broke me for a year. I’m actually grateful for the existential crisis it caused me. But it was a brutal experience at first.

This technique is likely to be utilized in some government interrogation methods now.

An excellent example of research that maybe shouldn't have been pursued, although it's possible that there are a large number of potential recuperative applications as well that I'm not aware of.