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
@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.
FEP/Physics of living systems/Eco Psych etc
Good summary of selfhood, perception and body vs brain.
Like conclusion, re story and sensation
Read more about from ‘Seth’
Submissions - founder was also in Planetary Civics meeting
Work with textured objects, especially from nature…
Eg a leaf
Or an apple, orange…
blindfold ppl and give them an orange slice/apple slice
Get them to figure out what it is
Ask them later how they did this
Get them to write the word
Ask them how one experience relates ro the other
Ask them which of the two they would keep if they could only choose one
‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’
Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)

Thoughts: like we are adding new elements to our perception, but still using old frameworks, rigid and resistant to change, and so instead of the new elements (eg AI) falling into place within a restructured mental map they exercise undue impact on the structure, basically contorting it - north is no longer north metaphorically speaking - the mental map is distorted by these elements that don’t fit into it, because the element we are trying to fit into the map affects the map itself. Picture a magnet with a too large gravitational field (in terms of meaning) pulling everything into a different shape - and so it isn’t a question of how we talk about the new element only, it’s a question of how we talk about everything under the influence of the new element. Like being intoxicated? Seeing through a looking-glass?
Second thought: now more NB who is saying what, the context, as the article says…..what would orient us otherwise? Earth, senses, agency. Have we given these away bit by bit, in the name of choice and opportunity and potential and possibility, so that we are focussed on guidance outside ourselves, or we just took the guidance outside such as religion, parents etc and replaced it with pseudo-choice and are therefore happy to place our power in someone out there, still believing this is our choice we are freely-making and to see the power we have given away we would have to see the whole context - all the micro give-aways of our power.
"Interoception gives us the sense that "this is me; this is my body; this is how I feel" -Kelly Mahler
NB re understanding others’ perspectives and relating
Idea that we can leave our body behind and just exist on another plane. As selves, personalities, inside constructs we have built but all that time our bodies are the space actually creating our reality.
Could do meditation imagining not just no language, but also no body, what would we know without a body. What would we share, talk about, think
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