Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Rich Roll" channel.

  1. Such excellent content: on an ongoing bases. Kudos and many thanks. Concerning the carnivore and keto movements: The whole keto diversion should have been settled when it was found out that Inuits worldwide developed a genetic mutation that prevents ketosis. If you don't think that that fact settles the question: think about it until you do -- because it does.
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  2. Psychedelic experiences and actual liberation are not even close to the same thing. If you ever actually have an experience of awakening, you should not talk about it or try to associated it with any system or philosophy or even think about it unless you want to destroy its reality in your life, and be diverted away from the next more permanent ignition, by the same old prison of conceptualization.
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  3. Prey animals have it rough all over. Killed by a sledgehammer or bolt gun, or ripped apart while still alive by a pack of wolves. Personally I would rather have a clean death dealt by a responsible hunter after living free in the wild. Though I personally am not going to hunt or eat animals, I think that disregarding what will happen to animals in the wild is disingenuous: no hunting with few predators results in slow starvation in winter, so either reestablishing predator levels or sport hunting are necessary to prevent overpopulation and starvation. Face it, if you are a cow or deer there is little chance you will die of old age, or in a painless manner whether in a factory farm or in the wild. A least in the wild every moment is not dismal.
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  4. The meta analysis of double blind clinical studies does not show any health benefits from intermittent fasting, no matter what the pop health gurus believe. Real water fasting for five days or so is another matter.
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  5. The trillions of beneficial microbs need plants. The hundreds of harmful ones love your steak diet. And it contributes all those lovely endogenous advance glication end products to your rapidly aging metabolism.
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  6. Been looking for another Roll to roll. Too bad. But seriously just considering the window dressing: what's wrong with this picture? The problem is, if you don't know, you can't know, and there is no telling you.
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  7. Rich has it wrong about decreasing resources and over-population. The population is crashing in all first world countries. If we can keep people alive it is much more efficient than educating and training new people over and over to learn the same darn things as old people already know. And there is no such thing as decreasing resources if you start industries in space.
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  8. Allow me to quote Carlos Dwa, at least paraphrase him from The Unwriten Book: Xellex. (Probably the most esoteric Sifi novel ever written.) "The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness can be traced to the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster." In other words the concept of consciousness is an illusion. It has the same relationship to being conscious as the ridiculous concept of "runningness" does to running. If you can't see this you will forever be lost in the thought-centric associative mind which you refer to as "I" but which is not only not you but has no actual existence outside of it's quite automatic functioning.
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  9. The most dangerous thing about fasting is starting to eat again. Re-feeding syndrome is real and it is deadly. During fast you must keep up your potassium levels and electrolytes. If you get cramps in your muscles when you break a fast you are doing it wrong.
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  10.  @grahamhiggins1816  Don't know what kind of oats you are eating but I can assure you, you will have the opposite of a crash if you eat high quality organic oat groats, soaked for a day or two. You will have long long lasting energy and hunger satisfaction. These is exactly what your microbiome wants to eat. Of course if you use sugar or syrup or crap nonorganic quick oats all bets are off.
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  11. That's one story here's another. A story about stories and how they rule our lives. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  12. AI will never be conscious: for much the same reason that the automatic thought-centric associative mind that most wrongly refer to as "I" is not actually conscious.
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  13.  @brenda44414  Hmmm. . . I almost feel like writing some kind of "be not troubled" response. But personally I am much more likely to be debilitated by my own awareness of the repetitious and and quite mechanical nature of my own thoughts than by some primal survival mechanism of nature. Humans have been prey for far longer than they have been at the top of the food chain. Far far longer. I imagine that racial memory affords a certain empathy regarding the situation of other victims of organisms that adopted a predatory genetic strategy.
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  14. There are beings and things that are conscious, however there is no such thing as consciousness. Being conscious is a verb, consciousness is a noun. Consciousness is just a stand in for the "spirit" as in the table turning, seance attending, NDE fantasized spirit that was invented by the conscious mind, which is itself quite automatic as in the thouight centric associative mind. Talking about consciousness is tantamount to talking about "runningness" in a runner who is sitting on a park bench. What you are actually taking about is apperception. This is only "confusing" because you are confused. This is because a system cannot comprehend itself on its own level. If you are able to ignite a level above the automatic thought centric associative mind you would see that the source of your misunderstanding is this very automatic associative function. Your whole idea is thousands of years old and the same mistake is found in Tantric Savism and other eastern philosophies.
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  15. Consciousness exists to the same extent that "runningness" exists in a runner that is sitting on a park bench.
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  16. I would be quite careful in the use of the word hybrid when referring to the offspring of different ethnic or "racial" groups. While the offspring of two dissimilar human strains like Norweigan and Cambodian who were formerly line breed due to locality and lack of any significant migration will certainly exhibit "hybrid vigor" due to less chance of detrimental recessive combinations, people do not generally refer to to the offspring of two different breeds of dogs as hybrids, while the offspring of two different subspecies or species like was used to produce the Bengal cat is considered a hybrid. Their are no different human species, or even subspecies, all humans are simply different varieties of the same species, like all truly domestic dogs are. While it could be loosely considered correct in a non scientific use of the word, those children are really no more a hybrid than the offspring of a union of a linebred Amish person with a Spanish person from an insular background. Or like the many results of the first unions of the various ethnic groups that migrated to America, like a Swede and an Italian.
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