I feel pretty strongly affected by nonalcoholic beer so I guess a lot of the effect of beer isn’t actually due to alcohol. Basically it makes me tired and sleepy. Is it just because of grains or carbs or whatever
Oh, it’s the HOPS?!
“On the basis of this investigation, administration of non-alcoholic beer would be recommended due to its hop content and consequent sedative action, which would be an aid to nocturnal sleep.”
“Humulus lupulus L. (hops) is a major constituent of beer. It exhibits neuroactive properties that make it useful as a sleeping aid.” frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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hmm this is very interesting mh.bmj.com/content/medhum… cc @nosilverv@magicianbrain I should write some threads about it because it links up super generatively with the theme of adhd, theology, hierarchy, narrative, etc
@nosilverv@magicianbrain it's about a research field that emerged from the insight that we experience abstraction as a kind of distance: if something is abstract, low in detail, then it's probably "far away" in a more general way than just in visual perception
@nosilverv@magicianbrain so he's linking that with Ratcliffe's "Experiences of Depression", viewing depression as a kind of abstraction of psychological distance
my dream of building a timber-framed cabin with sturdy joinery is like a desire for a good skeleton, a safe body, peace, boundaries, stable structure, interlocking frames of intelligibility, deep rugged coherence, unpretentious unquestionable beauty, fields of strong centers
embodied embedded enactive extended cognition: it seems to me that to participate in life is to be perpetually dissatisfied with the state of the surrounding environment and continually work on it as if refactoring and optimizing a computer program or editing a book
it's almost like Hegelian idealism: the physical world is part of the mental world, though for me it's been easier to imagine that I live inside of language ("the house of being") than to realize that I live inside of nature and the city
“Ethics, if it is anything, is supernatural and our words will only express facts; as a teacup will only hold a teacup full of water.”
—Wittgenstein
“I will now describe the experience of wondering at the existence of the world by saying: it is the experience of seeing the world as a miracle.”
“Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no science.”