My Too (Many) Cents

 Hello again to a random rant of which the only redeeming factor is in my opinion the fact that it is as unfiltered as I can get. So apart from the fact that the title of the post is the name of a twenty one pilots song which I really like, I also want to talk about some ideas which have been zooming around in my head. I don't really expect anyone to read this however I just want to document these ideas because they seem interesting to me in their own right. So I've recently been reading to and listening to many talks by Gabor Mate. What initially started as a want to closely understand ADHD (after my lowkey insane rant last time about neurodivergence which I almost considered deleting) led me to his book scattered minds (which ironically I didn't finish) but I have also been listening to a lot of his talks. Many of his ideas seem strikingly relevant to me.  One of these for example is how genetics only increase our predisposition towards certain diseases and are not determ...

 Hello again everyone to a rant which is just going to be me talking to myself which I don't expect anyone else to be reading, so read at your own risk. Before even starting this rant I have the meta ironic image of a troll face emoji saying "I WON'T TAKE MY MEDS" or the meme of "This could have been prevented with regular therapy" being presented in my head as a possible satirization of what I wish to say here so I feel I should address that. Ironically satirizing an image to remove the romanticism associated with the perspective of the person in that situation is not an adequate response to their argument.  Okay, here we go. The first point I want to make which seems very counterintuitive to me even as I say it and all the rational parts of my brain scream at me to stop is that in purely intellectual terms or from deductive methods of reasoning, you simply cannot understand the intersubjective experience of someone else's consciousness. Actually on sec...