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Depends if it’s a savings or a checking account and whether it’s a bank or credit union and whether local, national, or global institution

Thanks for the insight, just be cautious here and recall: If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. Sharing to highlight the diversity of autism spectrum disorder and the different ways people with autism experience it

How so? What’s the primary tie into the topic here?

What about the second half of your sentence, the part where you dismiss all rich people equally as not gaining peace through their actions? How do you know anything whatsoever about their actions or sense of peace? You don’t. Lots of eat the rich sentiment is in the air. I get it, but that type of thinking is part of the problem. We’re in this together and won’t solve our problems by splitting into us and them or blaming the other.

News flash. Nobody cares

Keep yer woke mind vaccines away from me and muh guns, libtard

Boo hoo

Winning the lottery paradoxically also brings lots of negatives like people trying to take advantage of you, scam you, pretending to be family, never knowing whether the people in your life are there bc of who you are and not just seeking a quick payout, etc. Either way, painting all people with the same brush based on single traits like this is a false generalization and logical fallacy.

So now you’re saying it IS ubiquitous?

Thank you for the update. This wasn’t how it came across when you introduced it:

I wonder if this is valid. It seems more intuitive to me to think that dreams could be an outcome of that denoising process in the thalamus, not necessarily the initiator or cause of it as this sentence seems to imply. Perhaps just an issue with word choice and not representative of your actual position? This next sentence seems to reinforce this: I’m reminded of how the prefrontal cortex modulates the amygdala and in a way suppresses or tempers emotional responses. That tempering or modulation activity could equally apply to thalamus as you’re suggesting.

It can, but the return isn’t likely worth the investment

False

The attack is against truth itself. Classic flood the zone with shit propaganda tool. Manufactured realities micro targeted into specific tribes and groups. The premise being pushed is that nothing can be trusted. That sounds reasonable enough, even almostscientific. Verify everything, right? Except, the verification piece is missing. Stephen Colbert years ago called it “truthiness.” Your facts and my alternative facts are equal because I feel mine’s right… so there! That’s what free speech fights are about… my freedom to choose my own facts and my own realities, not the freedom to avoid punishment from government for saying something. Why bother beating your opponent in chess when you can instead dissolve the board itself and let the pieces fall to the floor. The earth is flat. Birds don’t exist. Trump won the 2020 election. Russia is defending Ukrainians from nazis. Hillary Clinton is raping children in the basement of a pizza place. The Jersey drones are nuclear buses and this $15K device for my muscles is surely not just a placebo. Humans have always been influenced by and vulnerable to such things, but lately the tech is making it easier than ever for the crooks and cronies to outpace and put scale cool headed critical thoughts. This is why the TikTok ban is being considered. It’s a brain tuner like a radio antenna for our cortex and we don’t like who’s controlling the knobs and levers and picking the stations.

Reading again a few hours later and continuing with the idea of guitar strings, it seems a bit to me like you’re suggesting dreams (in their tendency to return us toward homeostasis) act as a sort of a mute button, or perhaps even better as a type volume Down knob or lever on an equalizer board. There to slowly dissipate energy from the system… energy which came in from external stimuli.

I’m tired after a late night but this makes broad sense to me. I’m thinking immediately in terms of guitar or violin stings. The plucking of the string creates a new wave we receive. That’s thalamic. Those strings settling and returning to equilibrium (or even just vibrating passively from another guitar or separate violin string plucked nearby) are the dream part. Need more time to caffeinate and consider. Appreciate the sharing of ideas. Happy new year.

I may not have a good answer to that As opposed to… what, exactly?

Do you have a proposal for a better way to simplify? In many senses, humans are just wet meat machines, not truly different from what you’re dismissing due to poor philosophical capabilities. Most humans I know have poor philosophical capabilities too.

No pardon needed and thanks for the reply. I’m getting slightly hung up on how a mental emotional sense of self is supposed to differ from a physical material sense. My first impression is that both types of self rely on the same underlying neurobiology and processes, but believe maybe you’re implying a relevant distinction between those events happening in the thalamus while awake versus those happening elsewhere in other brain regions while asleep. Is that reasonably well aligned with your thinking, or totally off base? Paths through thalamus triggered by outside stimuli (tactile, smell, sight, sound, etc.) whilst awake, whereas dreams whilst sleeping more involve activity along paths in non-thalamus regions… and these are triggered instead as part of a systematic attempt to return to homeostasis during the pruning/reinforcing of those synaptic paths? Apologies if my language or terms here are remedial or misplaced. It’s been many years since any formal training in this space and I admittedly might be trying to shoehorn what you’re saying into my old outdated models of how the brain behaves.

Perhaps there is hope for humanity after all

The imaginary ones used to sell a book

Sounds to me like a forecast for what to expect in the US these next 4 years