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The Erotic Button: A Case-Study
Addiction Resources: https://chemicalmind.substack.com/p/addiction-support-resourcesKo-Fi Link: https://ko-fi.com/dopamineNote: This is a true story, taken from one of the many fascinating case…
Sacrificing yourself to save your life
“The common conception that the brain is primarily for thinking, or other cognitive processes, is potentially misleading... neuroscience may benefit from a theoretical structure that centers on basic…
Can A Pill Change Your Morality?
Coffee Fund: https://ko-fi.com/dopamineNote from Author: Yes, the title is slightly click-bait; but only slightly. Welcome to another deep dive.Morality (from Latin moralitas ‘manner, character,…
Gods in a Machine
If you’re interested in further discussion on neuro-integration from all aspects and angles, I’ve set up a discord server here. Come join the fun!WARNING: The following contains MANY spoilers for the…
The Illness That Didn't Exist
“So far, there is no convincing evidence for Abdominal Migraines. Migraines just don’t work like that.”These were the words spoken to me by a Head of Neurology; a very accomplished man at the top of…
Is pro-natalism a political stance?
Note: I’m neither an economist nor a demographist, I’m just some guy with an opinion about everything, and by default, you should assume that everything I’ve written here is wrong.Most of you know me…
Emotions of Mass Destruction
“All the cruel and brutal things, even genocide, starts with the humiliation of one individual.”Kofi AnnanRed. That was all I could see. Red. The colour. The smell. The sound.It saturated my…
Hate From Above & Below
Warning: This post includes references to acts of GenocideNote from the author: Although my voice has returned for the most part, you will have to forgive my hoarseness in the audio narration; my…
[Substack Live] ZOMBIES!!
Huge thank you to Doctors Tommy Blanchard and Gunnar for agreeing to have me tag along to this extremely scientific and highly intellectual discussion on the impending threat from Chicken Zombies.We…
Emperors of Maladies: Augustus
Before we get started…I’ve updated BlockedStack, my Substack Browser Extension, with the ability to export all your Substack notes that you’ve ever posted and download them all into a single giant…
Fathers and Sons
I don’t remember the exact day when he died, or when we heard the news.Memory, for me, has always been a very fuzzy thing. Ill-defined. Blurred. Time gets away from me, and I am rarely able to…
Side-Quest: Thought Experiments with History
Authors note: I wrote this post shortly following the attempted assassination of Trump, in an attempt to explain that hoping or cheering for such events, regardless of who the target is, does not…
Side-Quest: The Internet Is Wide-Open
I’ve got like 6 drafts in the works right now, but I wanted to get this out today because, as a former grey-hat hacker, I feel a kind of responsibility to tell people when I see some crazy things…
The Shadow of Death: Part 1
There's a mushroom, Amanita Ocreata, also called the Destroying Angel. It's one of the most toxic fungi known to man. It contains toxins whose specificity targets the enzyme responsible for reading…
Side-Quest: Healthcare as a Human Right
Transcript:I like to make a point of getting along with as many different kinds of people as I can. I have very few outright boundaries in this regard. Nazis (and neo-nazis, and white supremacists…
[Substack Live] Mind Uploads & Digital Immortality
Ever since computers have existed, humans have wondered what it might be like if a computer could host their own mind and consciousness. Inspired by experiments with Fruit Fly neural networks,…
Weapons of Chaos
TLDRIn my own flurry of baseless* speculation, I invent my own conspiracy theory: that a KGB Active Measures operation (a kind of propaganda) from the 1980s called Operation Denver (a real thing) -…
Violent Threats against Healthcare Workers
I'm sorry that this is the first post of 2025. I was hoping to give you all some more interesting stories from history to kick start the year. Sadly, I've been overwhelmed by a need to raise the…
Breaking Free of Conspiratorial Thinking
Edit: BEFORE YOU COMMENT, READ THIS!I am, at times, flabberghasted by the responses I get to this article, usually suggesting that the response was made before the article was read, or perhaps only…
Side-Quest: The Age of Firestorms
This is a special Side-Quest edition of A Chemical Mind, where we leave the world of Medicine, Chemistry and Neuroscience entirely for one brief moment, to look at some random part of the universe,…
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