A computer screen has clear info you can engage with, but the circuit boards shooting 1s & 0s everywhere have no info we can interact with; it makes no sense to say something like "oh, more 0s came out of this corner of the board, does this correspond to mom emailing me?" 1/
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I feel similarly about very deep psychedelic experiences or very young childhood; something is going on, that *does* end up corresponding to something meaningful, but it's occurring at such a different plane of meaning that squinting at it with computer-screen eyes is useless. 2/
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So I'm sus about things that try to connect current psychological states to your birth experience, or thinking you could do good communication with someone blazed on psychedelics. Seems full of projection to me, viewing through a lens you aren't aware you have. 3/
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If you look at circuit boards and try to figure out if more 0s in one corner corresponded to getting mom's email or not, I'd be like ur looking for information in the wrong place, in the wrong way; you might get a glimmer but you will miss *so much* of the way the system works!
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Possibly related: read about brief strategic therapy (Watzlawick is interesting) for a critique of the idea that current psychological issues can be solved or even explained reliably by tracing a supposed triggering event in the past. BST assumes that what explains a condition is
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My (abandoned) MA thesis was about how our minds reify 1s and 0s into objects that we can have intentions towards. I genuinely think that the reification of digital objects is one of the least appreciated and understood processes to ever radically transform minds and society.