brent
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phenomenology appreciator. founder. dancer. chop & carry.
Joined August 2012
the set point theory of chronic illness in four images https://t.co/Zf8QiBIXX4
Levin’s latest paper is the most articulate I’ve come across on “disease as a stuck prior”. some comments: the key emphasis in the paper is about the window of plasticity after some “reset” is introduced. the body has excellent coordination and problem solving (‘healing’)
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I am starting to strongly suspect that a good meditation system ultimately turns you into a horny extrovert with a lot of optionality around “need for cognition.” If your meditation system does not turn you into a horny extrovert possibly return it to the store and get a new one.
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the last month has been an active rebalancing my relationship with the US, europe, family, economics, ambition… I’m surprised both by the amount of grief and by my willingness to consider moving back. I miss my country. I miss ambition. I miss abundance. I feel this pain
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the first year you leave home is a thrill; so much life happens! and your home is frozen in time - still the same the second brings much of the same, but you catch new wrinkles on your parents faces the fourth is when the grief sets in; time has marched on, so much missed
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5️⃣ as the space of awareness, love the energy body as a mother might love her child 6️⃣ relax into any pleasure like a hot bath
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i like this critique. i think speedrunning suffering is great if you want to get in, get out, and spend your ambition elsewhere. on the other hand, proper mysticism is Good & seems to be served by going slow, smelling the roses, feeling their thorns https://t.co/hE6WlaBBBp
i basically think speedrun meditation culture is for the spiritually unambitious
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i’m just a tweet, but i’d consider staying away from any path that frames waking up as anything but a return home
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which is to say, i'm on episode 86 of one piece after starting 2 weeks ago
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every october / november, as my energy shifts inward and downward, i'm hit with a fresh wave of novel-seeming thoughts like i learn how to play league of legends! and maybe now's the time to watch all of one piece and you know, youtube shorts aren't _that_ bad for me
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Just realized nuclear energy is actually stored gravitational energy—just as fossil fuels are stored solar energy. In fact... I've had a hard time thinking of a kind of energy that isn't originally from gravitational compression!
@michael_nielsen The mathematical expression of this is called the ‘Jeans Criterion”. At a given temperature and density, only gas bodies of a given mass or above can collapse. The colder and denser, the smaller this “Jeans mass”. Smaller bodies smooth themselves out. As larger scales
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and yes, we would loooove to megatax your 8 year old startup equity so let us know when that exits 🤩
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living in europe is cool & all till your first tax bill comes out to 51% of gross income. hope you enjoy your 21% VAT on all purchases too!
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my adhd meds allowed me to titrate into and out of attentional chaos so the two modes could harmonize
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i love the matcha high. coffee is like a hand that grabs my cardiovascular system and says “go faster! now! not slower no!” matcha is a full body rising tide of soft white light that says “creative now king?”
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Good do-nothing is allowing the brain to naturally seek out the largest available prediction error and revise that. Bad do-nothing is running circles in a self-reinforcing bad attractor state.
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im like the worst stand up comedian, only got one bit jerry seinfeld of happiness "what's the deal with trying to change a sensation with a thought haha"
the oddity of 'happiness independent of conditions' is there's not much to say about it. hundreds of hours and hundreds of tweets of mostly saying the same things
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