Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Exploring consciousness as felt uncertainty, its plural forms, and the bodily roots of conscious experience and feelings.
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I want to get at another theory of what consciousness is for. I think the language in the book is consciousness is felt uncertainty. Yeah, isn't that beautiful? That is very beautiful, although in practice I find it very unpleasant. But what does that mean?
So the phrase comes from a scientist named Mark Soames who is a neuroscientist and a
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Using slow, inefficient practices in writing and reading to cultivate the mind and invite serendipitous insights.
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So the goal isn't to optimize it. The goal isn't to make this the most searchable thing possible. I just need to like get to some new level awareness. So like that's how I use paper notes. That's how I use texting friends about what I'm working on.
And then if it produces some written artifact, like if I produce a newsletter or a book review or
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Today I am scanning my brain before I spend a year without screens
Doctors expect brain function to change, but whether the structure itself changes, nobody seems to know
All the data will be public: baseline, 6-month, and 12-month scans included https://t.co/X09rYf79Fb
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t fault their grammar, semantics, or syntax. But good writing requires an additional bit of juju that makes the prose live and breathe, a light on the inside that can’t be quantified or checklisted. And... See more