Niffe Hermansson

Mathemagician doing research at the Trace institute. Boundless love for nature and curiosity about experience.

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@RogerThisdell @cube_flipper So, again, i don't know. But if I were a betting man, I would bet that the amount of time you can step back in to the post-murk state without the reset is short, and I wouldn't bet on complete absence of the peripheral effects. [7/7]

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@RogerThisdell @cube_flipper When it comes to the psychological/emotional/physical discomfort that can come along with this state, I'm not sure whether this would tend to recurr. All of this is highly non-linear, and differs a lot from retreat to retreat... [3/?]

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@RogerThisdell @cube_flipper Maybe it partially is, and at least the same material might be less likely to cause issues. And familiarity with the terrain can be helpful. But overall, the thing is multidimensional and complex, and I would expect it to have huge variance along multiple dimensions. [6/?]

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@RogerThisdell @cube_flipper I think in some sense expecting those aspects of the murk to be avoidable/monotonically decreasing with increased proximity to last retreat etc is a bit like expecting that having gone through a bad trip on some other psychedelic would be innoculating against bad trips. [5/?]

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@RogerThisdell @cube_flipper ... and I could see that some of the benefits one gets from going through it could carry over, and soften future ones for some time. But I wouldn't expect this to be anything loke a predictable or monotinic effect. [4/?]

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@Noah_B_Clark Click here to have already learned the secret Big Causality doesn't want you to know.

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@algekalipso Wait... you're not a p-zombie now?

I don't know how I feel about this.

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If there were more kiwis in this data set, the distribution for "average" would look very different.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

A chart showing how positively or negatively people interpret different words and phrases.

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@leahprime

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Using the term "interioririty" or "internal experience" interchangeably with "consciousness" has a nasty way of tricking us into forgetting that the rest is occuring in consciousness too.

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@punk_utopian @timcolbourn Currently recovering from the flu, but should be back on my feet by the end of the week.

So, let's say Friday to have the best chance!

Looking forward to hearing your detailed thoughts on this!

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@punk_utopian @timcolbourn As soon as they can do it in a way that improves their ability to do this very thing, at all, it's all go. Right?

Modulo invisible ceilings, and other unlikely obstacles.

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Farewell Sir Patrick.

I'll miss you.

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@algekalipso *maybe

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@algekalipso How to count this is a but tricky, and I had never thought to try before. Turns out no matter how I do the counting, the result was somewhere between surprising and shocking.

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@Pulpnonfictio @DannyGoler @donalddhoffman @thetraceinst He laid it out way before that, but other than that we're on the same page.

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@metta_dev @stephen_wolfram Neat. I'm off to make some math entities.