That is very kind of you to say.

The hero’s journey is the path less travelled ..:

Very sharp writing with a delicious pun at its conclusion. Well done mate

As for wisdom and IQ: if you have the most powerful engine in your car, does it mean you will get to a destination faster? If the map you follow is wrong, you might get there after a less powerful car with a better map. Further, you could go in the wrong direction much faster

RE: more content - He's posts his entire class lectures under his "Buddhism and Cognitive Science" channel

:D

I personally think that they're very different, although i've seen them together agreeing on various propositions. They appear to support each-other's general stances, but i suspect that in private honesty they each have their criticism. Jordan is immersed in different subjects (myth, religion, ideology, swjs), has a very peculiar personal approach, he uses manipulation techniques to win his public, while John is more interested in the mind proper (not going so much into its religious mythological dimensions), he's more influenced by a daoist perspective than a monotheistic perspective, he doesn't teach his audience how to ”be better” by invoking stories (like Pinocchio or Noah for example) but by going into scientific concepts and relations, he's more technical. You cannot tell which one is better but i personally cannot listen to Jordan's type of exotic thinking anymore, i’ve become sick of it, while being in constant awe towards John's style of connecting different aspects of the human being through different disciplines. They're both extraordinarily intelligent indeed, but Jordan manages to be very ignorant nonetheless (see his personal brand of Truth, the fact that we’re living in the era of the 'Earthlings' documentary but he nonetheless boosts meat eating, and not just any meat but the most pollutant and having the greatest carbon footprint of them all, he doesn't cease to offer excuses to things which don't need excusing like capitalism or donald trump, he's probably the principal catalyst for mindless internet aggressivity by the way he's introduced ”great threats” again in the public sphere, etc). Jordan is clever, well read, but not wise.

@@raresmircea Exactly. JBP is lacking sorely in that essential quality, wisdom. For a guy who talks so much about the dangers of ideologies, he seems strangely oblivious to his own.

The hippies had no defence against bullshit.

UofT holds these yearly conferences about medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and cogsci called Mind Matters, I think this was part of that.

A very simple start to answering your question may be found in the interaction of ADHD and levels of protein in the diet. A rationalisation could come from evo psych; how agent-utility is derived from altering perceptual mapping and attention weightings depending on resource availability. 'Nutrition' falls under a particular paradigm of science, it may be better to think of substances (in a widely inclusive sense) as behavioural attractors for a body in an environment. 'Mental performance' can also be misleading, as performance is conceptually limited to measurement constraints. The 'no free lunch' rule might apply; greater performance in one presumably beneficial area may rule out even simple recognition of another area. Basically I think it's clearly true that diet alters states of consciousness, but I think we should be careful with idealising diet arrangements relative to some performance metric. I take the view that states of consciousness only exist as 'altered'; isolating variables to do empirical deduction in this area can be fools errand, depending on the level of resolution you're working with. It might be fruitful -excuse the pun- to see how diet affects a specific task; such as a participant-based study controlling large food groups/particular vitamins and seeing how they affect reported and observed results (MRI?) on a meditation course. Though dietary changes are extremely difficult to enact personally and perhaps even evo biologically, as above.

This is a big topic in regards to psilosybin mushrooms - look up the stoned ape theory.