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.com
I’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
The Insular Cortex
The insular cortex plays a key role in how the body registers interoceptive awareness. The insula is the "interoception center of the brain" (Mahler, 2017). The insular cortex plays a vital role in several activities:
The insular cortex plays a key role in how the body registers interoceptive awareness. The insula is the "interoception center of the brain" (Mahler, 2017). The insular cortex plays a vital role in several activities:
- The perception of pain
- The primary emotions from happiness, joy, anger, and disgust
- Awareness of bodily states
Megan Anna Neff • What is Interoception?
Re how meaning changed over time, and meaningness and choicelessness
Thinking about what I want my website to feel like. What came up:
An existential labyrinth
Or
Cabinet of curiosities
It means that the really important sort of censorship we ought to worry about pertains less to the management of information, and more to the management of attention.
James Williams • Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
from ‘Stand out of our Light’ by James Wilson Williams
Hypotenuse AI: AI Writing Assistant & Text Generator
hypotenuse.ai
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgStolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari • 3 highlights
amazon.com
As long as we don't know we don't care and so we would rather not know.