'Oh, yeah, I used to run a circus.'
The search for meaningful things to do with your body now that software has eaten everything.
by @utotranslucencehttps://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/leaving-our-bodies-behind/ …
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My problem with this has been arbitrariness. There are compounding returns to continuing to learn a specific physical skill, but the physical skill you pick is highly arbitrary and social network dependent. (Maybe I should just become a climber because all my friends are.)
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Seems important to draw a finite-&-infinite-games sort of distinction here. Mountain climbing > soccer because there's more room for the unexpected. But what we could call "improvisational qigong" > mountain climbing because there's less boundary between it and other activities.
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And that the bridge from that to larger meaning is in noticing that the feeling of bodily well-being supports all the other work you do in the world
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I'd go further and say that your mind-body state as a whole has commonality between environments, and learning to notice this can help you bring positive or useful mind-body states into other scenarios where you can use them. Alert defensiveness from a martial art, for ex.
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