this feels connected to why I prefer sensory- and qualia-based healthcare approaches.
like, people """"""could""""" spend hundreds of hours learning how to review (often shoddy) academic papers
or they could learn to detect the felt sense of illness & remedy
The place we generally start is with the body. Do you trust it? Are you aware of its signals? Do you know how to take your phenomenology seriously and move your finger? Ironically, putting our minds before our bodies pushes us to a default where our mental pre conceptions pre empt our direct experience. We ignore the reality before us, because it... See more
When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more
stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article
thereās a take i think of internally as the āminimal but respectful takeā on astrology, tarot, magic, etc. which is that nothing is happening that violates known physics, but that the human mind is capable of discerning real signal from more info than the west assumes