new blog post about my year of rando anxiety and an issue i see with the way some ppl approach solving their emotional problems
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embodied predictive processing rules everything around me
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This is why I think embodied predictive processing is the missing piece to Rationality. @ESYudkowsky's sequences compare our minds (unfavorably) to an ideal Bayesian AI. But brain-minds are a very specific sort of mind, designed to move an animal body and maintain its allostasis. twitter.com/yashkaf/status…
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> we prefer thinking of ourselves as someone who is ‘good’
> they instead look to have an identity of someone who’s solved a problem
We need a cultural separation of Goodness and Identity for the same reasons we need a political Separation of Church and State.
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This post is brilliant in so many ways it's impossible to list even if I could write a book about it. When I was younger I nearly list my mind to anxiety and depression. I was saved by some neo-Riechian therapists who operated from the integrated mindbody approach you pt to.
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I know he's cancelled or whatever, but this: (original tweet is protected now I think)
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RT @alaindebotton: It shouldn't be disrespectful to the complexity of the human condition to say despair is often just low blood sugar
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I wish I could burp or fart or hiccup away chronic headaches. I guess I’ll keep experimenting. French fries help a little.
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As an anecdote, I absolutely developed nonspecific anxiety last year and my therapist had me focus on my embodied feelings and I realized I was laying on my stomach right after eating and had developed reflux. Stopped doing that, anxiety cleared a week later.
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I not infrequently find myself feeling anxious and then realise that it's just that my pants are too tight 🤷
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Hm does this make sense to you? Would be interesting to understand physical processes that can cause anxiety.
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"you identify what you’re afraid of happening, then you inhabit a world where it’s happened to you and then you grieve and come to terms with living this reality"
any more from you/sources from others going into more detail on this kind of process?
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