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.

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The fact that for a second we think robots could replace us shows how little we value who or what we are and where we came from. Our lives, the journey of being here.

They might replace us but because we put them in place of us, that's it. We are creating ourselves away by not realising where creativity actually comes from. Not from us but through

The Case for Conscious Experience Being in Individual Neurons

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FEP/Physics of living systems/Eco Psych etc

Single neurons being a who. This all sounds very cool. Read again in detail and map with other stuff, eg in Obsidian

Interoception and Neurodivergence

Interoception issues are common among ADHD and Autistic people. Until recently, the connection between interoception, autism, and ADHD has been poorly understood. Many of the struggles of Autistic and ADHD people are related to interoception issues; however, we have lacked the appropriate lens for understanding... See more

Megan Anna Neff • What is Interoception?

#psychology

Understanding Living Systems

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I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again

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Build the company you want to work for, that’s how you become an entrepreneur. Write the book you want to read, that’s how you become an author. What you do will become who you are—you become xyz not by watching others, but by doing it yourself. What you create creates you:

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Creating

Interoceptive awareness also has existential dimensions. It creates awareness of our self as a body and provides us with an integrated sense of self.

"Interoception gives us the sense that "this is me; this is my body; this is how I feel" -Kelly Mahler

Interoception provides us with a basic sense of self. The insula (the interoception center of the... See more

Megan Anna Neff • What is Interoception?

#psychology

NB re understanding others’ perspectives and relating

It’s weird being loved in so many different ways at the same time. As if love was something you pin down. As if the one thing we are after is a ‘one thing’. As if that would close the case when everything wants to open. Ha, as if.

And when I practice letting go of how I think things are supposed to look and instead cultivate a trust in the unfolding that is taking place, often in unseen ways, the Here-ness of challenge or pain or depression or grief or (anything) softens even 5%, and that 5% adds up fast when I don’t assume it’s nothing.

To move toward fully living

Creating