'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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Replying to @Meaningness @utotranslucence
I was getting a vibe that the activities which "feel meaningful" to her, with the exception of meditation, all scale more easily than the work of deepening one's sense of intertwinement with the physical world one tedious muscle movement at a time. Yes
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Replying to @spearofsolomon @Meaningness
Yep, that's pretty accurate. If you use even a rough heuristic of meaningful = more important to more people, then if you're maxing out on meaning then you're using technology a lot of the time. (And by tech I mean specifically the internet boxes that you touch with your hands)
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I think about this all the time. There is at least a kind of meta-scalability to “physical meaningfulness”—you know that all other humans also have bodies, so any insight into this problem could benefit all of them.
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Replying to @levity @utotranslucence and
“[Mountain climbing etc] may be practicing the values and character traits that allow you to succeed in ‘real life’, but it isn’t real life” I’m tempted to argue that given our evolutionary heritage, there is no substitute for complex physical work within a social context
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Replying to @levity @utotranslucence and
That the pretense for it may seem flimsy from a disembodied analytical point of view, but if it is sufficiently complex and engaging on the body’s own terms, that just doesn’t matter much
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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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