You may not like hearing this, but a lot of mental illnesses are not healed by being your authentic self. They're healed by acting like someone who's healthy in the way you aren't. It doesn't feel good. You don't fix society. You do it by being strong when you don't feel like it
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Neurotypicals will be like "I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you're able to think about or focus on, but that's not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on." And then demand that they aren't ableist. I'm tired.
They’ve found that sperm whales have such complex language that its structurally comparable to Chinese. They use what are essentially vowels. They have different cultural identity markers for each clan of whales. Thats actually insane.
"15. Whoever you see isn't human, but a fraud;
Whatever people say isn't right, but just lies.
So since these days there's no one you can trust,
You'd better live alone and stay free."
Patrul Rinpoche in "The Heart Treasury of the Enlightened Ones"
As pessoas agem como se literatura russa fosse difícil e densa. Muitas vezes, basta verem nomes compridos que nem querem tentar pronunciar. Aí fingem que é uma bizarrice ilegível e impossível de memorizar.
Curioso que pra muita gente Dostoievski é sinônimo de obra profunda, um desafio intelectual que mostra sua alta cultura, sendo que literalmente eram folhetins, capítulos semanais, pagos por palavras, publicados na Revista Caras da Rússia
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
If you’re into predictive processing and meditation, this paper pushes the Overton window. From the quantum formulation of the free-energy principle, we show that an agent cannot define its own boundary from within. The realization of this irreducible indeterminacy is a principled definition of awakening. Ultimately, this extends to the separability of any object in experience, formalizing emptiness and engendering a “post-dual agent”.
Any persisting agent must minimize surprise by gathering evidence for its generative model. But all evidence available to the agent arrives through its boundary with the world. To prove that this boundary really separates “self” from “world”, the agent would need to step outside the boundary and measure the whole self-world relation. A finite agent cannot do this, as a scissor can't cut itself.
So the self-world boundary can be useful, predictive, and necessary for action, but it can never be known as an ontological fact from within. Meditation, on this view, progressively reveals the self-world split as a modelling prior rather than a structural feature of reality. This naturally shifts the weighting of self (inside boundary) and other (outside boundary), since both are seen to be inferences rather than grounded realities by virtue of an indefinable boundary. A more even-handed and compassionate orientation can arise.
A highly principled finger pointing at the moon!