Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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Saved this in 2020….
Mentioning machines understanding us better than we understand ourselves. Maybe that is because we do not understand ourselves very well and we have relied too much on machines for that understanding. We increasingly do. Tell me how many steps I took, how deep I have been sleeping…what to do if I am not sleeping. Not saying there cannot be very valuable knowledge gained this way, but if we ignore the other ways that we come to know things of course we will lag behind and will be easily manipulated. One of the big spriritual questions often asked as a form of inquiry is ‘Who am I’, and right now when we ask that question we often turn to machines to answer it. What do I do instead you might say? Humans managed to survive (with fewer comforts you might argue, but also more content in many ways) for a long time without machines. If there isn’t a machine when you ask ‘Who am I’, what comes up? What do your emotions tell you about this? What do the trees say? What do the bugs say? What does your skin say? There are so many answers that have nothing to do with machines and this is a form of intelligence. To have any chance at not being hollowed out by machines we need to turn to this other intelligence and start giving it the value it has in our lives. It comes before machines. It is older and wiser and we would not be here without it.
If normal is linked to some kind of average know that that can and will shift. Will you shift with it? If you stick to this kind of normal and have a fear of being seen as crazy going against the average or what is widely promoted then you are easy pray to being manipulated and being convinced to give up your principles. If this applies to the majo
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AUSTIN: Speaking honestly, all right.
COWEN: We know you work hard. We know you’re smart, yes, yes, but what’s the secret sauce?
AUSTIN: Well, I don’t think I should know that. I think, honestly, the less I know about . . . I think all I should
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The Post-Individual
Find ways to suspend time.
Esther Perel
Prediction: the furious arrival of AI will create a renewed hunger for raw, unpolished, humanity. Invest in documenting your failures. Fact: we live in a time where if you create consistently about something you love or obsess over; it may be a year, or five, but eventually, you'll find a level of success that'll likely make you feel uncomfortable. This is good. And some of the best art you'll ever create will be from your spectacular failures. For example, my most popular podcast episode--What is Trauma--was the result of me realizing and admitting that I had been wrong about 'how to heal the psyche' for the previous 10 years. I thought you could heal through language alone; lol, oh dear little younger Erick! Getting something 'wrong' is literally what stimulates our nervous system to pay attention and attempt to learn something new. Document your process like you're a field biologist studying a wild animal, and share your field notes with us. Despite how sure people pretend to be, we're all trying to figure out just what the duck we are and what the duck we're all doing. Like...are we all contributing to the creation of a new god-like life-form everyday without realizing it because we check our phones 230 times a day, and our phone tracks every tap, pause, eye movement, and sound we make, and all of that will be data for the emerging godlike intelligence? Are we training it right now? Anyways, idk, but, share your notes.
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