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IF fiber-supplements reduce the amount of PFAS in one’s system,

THEN high-fiber foods would do this without one’s buying bottled pills/capsules of supplements, right??

I don’t get why fiber would have to be in pill/capsule form, for it to work.

( it’s a culture-difference, or ideology-difference, obviously )

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Comically, there is a Scientifically-Testable-Prediction in the Christian bible’s book of Revelation, about ecological-collapse:

it stated that both marine & terrestrial food-webs would collapse, simultaneously.

That wasn’t possible before the Industrial Revolution, & ( in my opinion ) the Industrial Revolution became inevitable as a result of the Roman Empire ( which was its own Industrial Revolution, in my eyes ).

It just took 2 millenia to happen, is all…

So, this century ( closer to the end of it ) we get to see exactly what John of Patmos predicted, about 2 millenia ago…

Won’t stop the “that can’t happen” zealots from prohibiting that such an ancient prediction could ever come true, will it?

There’s an American Indian saying: only when all the food is gone, will Whites understand that money isn’t food. ( very coarse paraphrase ).

Identity’s actually the root problem: All non-Indigenous cultures, that I know-of, have prejudice against Indigenous cultures/people, along the lines of…

" they are native to Earth, we are divorced from Nature/Earth, & that makes us better than their kind. "

Certainly what I grew-up in…

it’s lie-based, though: as 1 American Indian man pointed-out: “We’re ALL children of Mother Earth.”

How the hell could that statement be somehow “wrong”, as it is deemed to be, among most “civilized” cultures??

Identity-based-“validity” is the root problem.

India’s “advaita”/nonduality’s a good direction: understanding that the ecology we are participating in, affects us, is affected by us, & it is symbiosis between it & us, not some kind of “oh, we’ll just buy a replacement planet when we kill this one” kind of reality…

would be progress!

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Fucking “links” that you have to click-through, to get more click-through “links”…

Here’s the actual paper:

blob:https://spb.psychopen.eu/88ccf9d6-3ec1-48ba-aa32-1b41794d5b92

Willingness-to-act remained, even when people couldn’t, but learned-helplessness set-in, from what I can see, exactly as it does in real life…

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It isn’t the number-of-studies that makes it insignficant or significant:

it is the number-of-lives-altered-by-the-condition, & the degree-of-alteration, which combine to make it either insignificant or significant.

I think that if that quote rightly represents what they did, they may be guilty of malpractice “science”.

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“Conflict-of-interest is the root of all corruption.” a paraphrase of the now-disgraced Dan Ariely, which I have found consistently to be true…

The teacher-lobby won’t tolerate any displacement of their authority, or centrality, from “education”.

I have read the words of teachers who rail against institutional-policies which sabotage learning for sake of institutional-position, too:

apparently some schools now have a “it isn’t POSSIBLE to fail any test” policy, such that students handing-in blank sheets of paper, in their tests, gets them 51% passing-grade.

In order to make the institution have a higher ranking in the set-of-institutions grading, of course…

UNTIL learning & certification are segregated-from each-other ( like segregation of church from state: required in government ), THEN corruption will continue ruling “education”.

Teachers have to be accountable to objective-standard, re their competence in autonomizing & empowering the learners.

Why would they tolerate such a threat, though?

etc…

It’s a whole huge discussion, & since humankind has decided that socio-political-consensus outranks evidence, & I’m including Scientism in that, … I see zero reason why humankind would change-course, in this, The Great Filter ( this century, when combined-arms conflict-manufacturing forces ALL force humankind into either growing-up or self-extinguishing ).

Escalation, but not changing-course, if you see what I mean…

The alteration of education would have to be sooo fundamental, that many kids got Mission Command style education, & that won’t happen, while I’m alive, that’s fersure…

( Mission Command meant that Nordbat 2, in the Balkans, was ordered, their mission, was to prevent the murdering of Muslims within the population…

& when political-sabotage, meant to protect the “helplessness” of the intervention, to enable the genociding, happened, they directly disobeyed orders, in order to hold-to their original mission.

They rightly were deemed heroes, when all was said & done.

Education would have to orient to that degree of autonomizing, for all who were responsible-enough to earn it, & then surviving this century’s heap-of-compounding-tests would be possible. )

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The whole thing’s a misframing-problem:

IF mind-ness ISN’T a property of universe, as Time & Space are,

THEN matter creates mind-ness from nothing, in a universe which doesn’t innately contain mind.

That is Scientism’s view.

The fact that entanglement is MEASURED to not have any information-transfer speed-limit proves that entanglement isn’t moving through space!

It’s in a dimension perpendicular to space.

Entanglement & knowing both are immaterial, & both alter the behavior of matter: they are the same substance, just at different scales.

Identically, quantum-probability-wave & will both are immaterial properties, & both alter the behavior of matter: ditto.

The force which makes child-violinists, like Einstein, have a knob grown-into their right-motor-control-strips, in their brains, isn’t electromagnetic, gravitational, or nuclear, it is mind, it is the systematic alteration of the atomic-probability-waves that build that portion of those brains. Unconscious-mind is mind, just as conscious mind is.

( & all who adamantly insist that there is no proof that entanglement works at any scale greater than the atomic: entanglement’s proven to distances of over 100-km, & has been for years. Ignoring/disallowing that fact for sake of belief is ideology/scientism, not evidence-based science )

Matter only amplifies universally-latent mind.

Mind, Time, & Space ( I don’t mean mind-as-in-cognition-or-awareness, I mean the fundamental that is underlying awareness, that also is underlying unconscious-ignorance )

IF mind-ness IS a property of universe, as Time & Space are,

THEN matter’s arrangement only amplifies it, or amplifies some subset-of-its-spectrum [ or equivalent ], not creating-it-from-nothing-in-a-universe-not-containing-mind.

Then evolution’s having begun makes sense.

If mind never existed until after it evolved its basis, to sufficient complexity, then you’ve got a permanent & absolute catch-22:

evolution couldn’t happen until after it had evolved.

Ideological idiocy.

What is the cause of the molecular-process/behavior difference between a disintegrating-corpse vs a growing-organism?

It certainly isn’t “a corpse of a human doesn’t have the same neutrons, or protons, or electrons”, is it?

It isn’t “they have different atoms in them”, either.

It isn’t “the atoms are arranged differently, & it is the arrangement which decides whether something is alive, or not”, either. ( what force-in-physics would “arrangement” produce?? )

What is the cause of the difference in atomic behavior??

Mind.

Unconscious mind still is mind.

The idiocy/prejudice of insisting, as Scientism does, that proving that unconscious-mind has will somehow “proves that free [ conscious ] will doesn’t exist”…

Proving that white swans exist doesn’t prove that Australian black swans don’t exist.

Proving that unconscious-mind’s will exists doesn’t prove that conscious-mind’s will doesn’t exist.

The existence of aerospace engineering proves that will has to exist!

( unconscious-mind tends to be the lower-forebrain’s imprint->reaction system, whereas considered-reasoning, including much programming, is upper-forebrain.

The existence & operation of 1 circuit doesn’t somehow “prove” that no other circuit exists.

But ideologies are ideologies, of course, & should be expected to behave as ideologies do, right? )

I find the quote you provided of the article to be … sufficiently mushy-minded that I don’t want to read any more of that article.

Thank you for providing it.

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PS: for all who axiomatically know that mind isn’t a property of universe, as time & space are, that instead it is created from nothing by specific evolved arrangements of matter, feel free to denigrate, block, etc, all I say, everywhere:

I’ve learned that axiom-based “science” which identifies as “evidence-based”, is a major prejudice among this world ( I grew up in it, & was proud of embodying it, for membership in that exclusive culture, when I was young ).

Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” demonstrated that formal-systems, ideologies, prejudices, & religions, all axiom-based, are incapable of knowing any meaning that universe is asserting if it contradicts the axioms of the knower:

the only “valid” evidence is authorized by the already-believed-in axioms.

Which makes-obvious a rule that differentiates actual Science from Scientism:

IF one’s worldview outranks evidence, THEN no matter what one “identifies” as, one isn’t doing Science, but ideology.

IF one’s worldview keeps getting rewritten as universe falsifies one’s axioms, THEN one’s adapting is itself showing that one is doing, being-loyal-to, actual Science.

That mind is real, in spite of what physicalism/materialism/existentialism believes-in, is testable:

both cities & aerospace-engineering wouldn’t exist if mind weren’t significantly altering the behavior of matter.

That mind is an instrument which can be refined, polished, made clear-of-obscurations, etc, is something the Hindus & Buddhists both have been insisting for millenia.

To force the mind into tranquility, so that its deformities/ignorances/assumptions/addictions are forced to dissipate from it, allowing it to become deeper, clearer, stiller…

But, of course, all who hold it to be axiomatically valid that mind can’t possibly be improved by any such thing, know what they know…

& they’ve zero need to ever honestly do any experiment, to test what they know, of course…

Want an experiment?

https://www.drawright.com/before-after

SEE the difference-in-mind-substance that 5 DAYS of her training can do to someone’s mind.

Invest in her book “Draing on the Right Side of the Brain: the 4th Definitive edition”, & some charcoals-assortment, toothy paper, kneaded eraser, etc, & do the experiment, yourself, & discover if there’s a kind-of-mind, kind-of-knowing, that Scientism prohibits from being real, or valid…

A wordless kind of mind, that is total, at-once, & makes one’s health measurably improve, if one intentionally makes it a significant part of one’s life…

Once one does that experiment ( I’m a braindamaged autistic: it took me 3 years, not 5 days, to get far-enough to understand the experience she’s aiming people into ), there is no going back: one’s worldview is forced into changing, by evidence.

The whole “BEing” vs “mechanism/cognition” contrast gets amplified up to 11, at least, by the experience…

Anyways, for anybody who lives to earn more understandings, of greater & greater diversity, that experiment is the greatest gift your life is likely to know, in whatever year you earn her book’s meanings.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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