If you could press a button and become enlightened (something like what buddhist or spiritual traditions talk about), would you do it?
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Yes but does it count if you don’t go through the long mental process? Or is the button the equivalent to LSD?
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Imagine someone has gone through the long mental process and achieved enlightenment through years of hard work. Now snapshot their brain. Now replicate their brain state inside your brain, magically changing around whatever need be in order to reproduce it.
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Trouble is, how would you know it's a 'genuine' Enlightenment rather than a delusion? DMT might not tell the truth....
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Taking DMT felt like it did this but it is an enlightenment of my own creation and completeness so if they was a button that said my enlightenment was good but ‘hey! psst, come here. Hit this button and see the next real trip Holmes, do it’.
I’d hit that button.
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"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless
implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and
the critical mind - I would be the first patient."
Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005)
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If I'm going to get there at all I'd rather become familiar with the road to getting there.
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no, because you will only learn that your life is meaningless in the space of the universe.
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No. I need to get some work done and get paid. I need to do it faster than the next guy. I need to do it better than the next guy. Let the next guy be enlightened.
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While I would absolutely do it I feel like part of enlightenment is walking the path to enlightenment I don't think instantly being enlightened would still be the same.