You know how foodies get all excited when they go to different shops and try different new foods? I think that's how I am with people (humans, animals, machines, software interfaces, brands, etc.)... every time I bump into a new one, say a customer, a shopkeeper, a child, a cat, an app, or an advertisement: an entire map of the individual's tics, styling decisions, and behavioural dependencies pops into my head... god damn it...
2020-01-20 at 8:26 pm
2020-01-12 at 8:29 pm
Neurotransmitters, Analytical Phenomenology
Ok, I figured out how to integrate the two models. Here's the practice I have been neglecting over the past year: managing the ratio of sense modal (mainly haptic:optic:acoustic) recognitions in conscious memory.
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Revision: contemporary operation in human society requires a lot of focus on verbal communication (both visual and acoustic), and visual communication in general due to screen tech; the opportunity cost of these competitive indulgences is that various somatic, olfactory, and taste modes have their share of computation reduced. Active preferences for somatic data (haptic, thermal, vibrational, etc.) over visual and acoustic data helps to restore a balance which is more natural given the evolutionary state of human bodies at this point in history.
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Neurotransmitter phenomenology at the macroaesthetic resolution simply describes coarse recognitions of sensation... things generically referred to as mood and motivation; but at the microaesthetic resolution, we're back to talking just about raw sensations on a muscle to muscle, even pixel by pixel basis.
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Mostly, in my personal situation... I find I have to garbage collect visual memories more often, and update somatic readings more often. This helps a lot. Eating more tends to improve ambient/subconscious proprioception... coherent with the neurotransmitter model for serotonin, and with classical practices of asceticism.
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Now that I've defragmented phenomenological models, somewhat... probably a good time to get back into campaign mode. Sleeping with lights on. Keeping irregular hours, since I don't have to track anyone else's schedule for bit, and so on...
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Revision: contemporary operation in human society requires a lot of focus on verbal communication (both visual and acoustic), and visual communication in general due to screen tech; the opportunity cost of these competitive indulgences is that various somatic, olfactory, and taste modes have their share of computation reduced. Active preferences for somatic data (haptic, thermal, vibrational, etc.) over visual and acoustic data helps to restore a balance which is more natural given the evolutionary state of human bodies at this point in history.
.
Neurotransmitter phenomenology at the macroaesthetic resolution simply describes coarse recognitions of sensation... things generically referred to as mood and motivation; but at the microaesthetic resolution, we're back to talking just about raw sensations on a muscle to muscle, even pixel by pixel basis.
.
Mostly, in my personal situation... I find I have to garbage collect visual memories more often, and update somatic readings more often. This helps a lot. Eating more tends to improve ambient/subconscious proprioception... coherent with the neurotransmitter model for serotonin, and with classical practices of asceticism.
/
Now that I've defragmented phenomenological models, somewhat... probably a good time to get back into campaign mode. Sleeping with lights on. Keeping irregular hours, since I don't have to track anyone else's schedule for bit, and so on...
2020-01-11 at 8:28 pm
Reflection: Capitalism
Yesterday, I made the claim that I 'live and breathe capitalism', so I wanted to check myself to see how true this is. Given the following qualifications, I think it's actually true:
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1. Capitalism is an abstract term, which cannot be usefully deployed in serious conversations without qualification.
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2. Capitalism doesn't work without equality - if players don't believe that the field is even, then they will try to break the game.
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3. This means that Capitalism requires a centralised State. A State simply refers to a federal government by any other name. Even if it includes anarcho-syndical traits, there needs to be a clearing house for global issues, regardless of what size of universe you try and implement this in. Any complaints that Capitalism and State are intertwined simply miss the point that this is part of the definition of Capitalism. So now to reduce ambiguity we shall just refer to it as State Capitalism (sic).
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4. Every implementation of State Capitalism needs to include an agency of the state, whose responsibility to the public is to curate, update, and propagate a clear definition of Equality. Mechanisms for civic interaction with such an agency must exist.
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5. State Sanctioned Dissent should be routinely funded, and facilitated under an explicit protocol, which should of course be subject to itself. Dissent should be routine, and the first step in an algorithm for Continuous Improvement. One expects a basic pattern of (5a.) [ Dissent -> Survey -> Definition of Research Methodology -> Methodical Research ] -> (5b.) [ Action Plan -> Budget Approval -> Operationalisation -> Reporting ], where 5a and 5b run concurrently in decoupled loops.
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Tbc.
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1. Capitalism is an abstract term, which cannot be usefully deployed in serious conversations without qualification.
.
2. Capitalism doesn't work without equality - if players don't believe that the field is even, then they will try to break the game.
.
3. This means that Capitalism requires a centralised State. A State simply refers to a federal government by any other name. Even if it includes anarcho-syndical traits, there needs to be a clearing house for global issues, regardless of what size of universe you try and implement this in. Any complaints that Capitalism and State are intertwined simply miss the point that this is part of the definition of Capitalism. So now to reduce ambiguity we shall just refer to it as State Capitalism (sic).
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4. Every implementation of State Capitalism needs to include an agency of the state, whose responsibility to the public is to curate, update, and propagate a clear definition of Equality. Mechanisms for civic interaction with such an agency must exist.
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5. State Sanctioned Dissent should be routinely funded, and facilitated under an explicit protocol, which should of course be subject to itself. Dissent should be routine, and the first step in an algorithm for Continuous Improvement. One expects a basic pattern of (5a.) [ Dissent -> Survey -> Definition of Research Methodology -> Methodical Research ] -> (5b.) [ Action Plan -> Budget Approval -> Operationalisation -> Reporting ], where 5a and 5b run concurrently in decoupled loops.
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Tbc.
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