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okay this is probably the limit of how much of an asshole i'm willing to be on twitter but it was at least interesting to see how different people's reactions were to this and, bonus, i am now finally reading about neural annealing because of

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· May 15

i don’t know what consciousness is and i don’t care

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much to ponder here qualiaresearchinstitute.org/blog/neural-an

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Welcome to the beautiful rabbit hole :)

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youtu.be/ndjbeF4EqRs this is great

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The Theory of Neural Annealing w/ Andrés Gómez Emilsson

June 7th,Neural Annealing (Johnson, 2019) is a paradigm of neurocomputation that seeks to explain how excited states of consciousness are used to compress co...

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If you know how to meditate, the theory is testable. Do an intense one-hour session right before bed & see if your mood on the next day is exceptionally good. W/o meditation, it's hard to do on demand but you can observe what happens after a high-energy state comes up naturally.