MargaretC
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MargaretC
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
Neuroplastic healing must be sequenced in the right order for maximal effect
Imagine running a very large voltage of energy through old tattered wires that can’t hold the charge. It might handle it for a little while. But sooner or later, it’ll blow.
The human system is no different.
If the early nervous system foundations weren’t built well and... See more
Imagine running a very large voltage of energy through old tattered wires that can’t hold the charge. It might handle it for a little while. But sooner or later, it’ll blow.
The human system is no different.
If the early nervous system foundations weren’t built well and... See more
An Epidemic of Chronic Illness: How Stress, Trauma & Adversity Early in Life Impacts Our Capacity to Heal
somatics and
Do all of these before moving to talking therapy.
1. Basic health stuff. Regular exercise, healthy diet. That stuff. (That alone doesn't do much, but you need vitamins and proteins and stuff to repair the cellular damage done by nervous system dysregulation)
2. Neurostimulation (thoughts, yoga, nature, Feldenkrais, and stuff. Basically letting the brain and and know you are going to learn something soon, get ready, wake up
3. Neuromodulation (Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Practice, and stuff, letting out all the trauma)
4. Neurorelaxation (a lot of sleep and downtime after you release trauma – you can now be regulated)
5. Neurodifferentiation/ Learning (Which is basically where talk therapy would belong)
I still think that we are thinking about scaling of network-based intelligence looking at this particular network. An extended network of machines and humans in larger networks facilitated by smaller and increasingly embodied devices might in themselves add an AI-augmented neocortex to our (human-machine) systems. Intelligence will continue to... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
Tedium is a regular part of my job. But today the graphs and calculations fall away as I inhale the scent of dirt and spruce needles. Out here, I am half scientist, half disciple. I’ve left the laboratory far behind and, with it, the need to quantify and contain. In its place, I’ve reconnected with the simple act of observation.
Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Scenarios expand your thinking
You will think more broadly if you develop a range of possible outcomes, each backed by the sequence of events that would lead to them. The exercise is particularly valuable because of a human quirk that leads us to expect that the future will resemble the past and that change will occur only gradually. By... See more
You will think more broadly if you develop a range of possible outcomes, each backed by the sequence of events that would lead to them. The exercise is particularly valuable because of a human quirk that leads us to expect that the future will resemble the past and that change will occur only gradually. By... See more
The use and abuse of scenarios
We support Bengio’s call for principles-based legislation and international agreements, an approach in line with UK regulatory philosophy and one that is well suited to the current uncertainty of AI development. Unlike the rules-based systems favoured in the US, China and much of the EU, this governance model focuses on outcomes rather than... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Volt revolution; AI’s Magna Carta; digital Trojan horses; physi-maze madness ++ #482
Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this... See more
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Godin: I think most people who are stuck are so because they're attached to the outcome and they're reverse-engineering from the outcome. They're saying, ‘Well, my calling is to make this’. No. Actually, you've just reversed it. What you want is that, and now you've announced that that's your calling, not the other way around. To ship the work is this practice of saying, ‘I don't know yet what change I can make in people. I have some assertions. I have some beliefs, but I don't know yet. And if I hoard it and I don't expose it to other people, I will never know. And so if we're truly here to do generous work, I think a big part of that generous work is sharing it.’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrahbrustein/2020/11/20/seth-godin-on-why-having-a-consistent-practice-is-the-birthplace-of-creativity-not-a-muse/