Paul Kreiner

@paulkreinerhere

minds, structures, phenomenology

San Francisco
Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2019.

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    prije 8 sati

    i keep trying to write about this and it keeps not quite being fully cooked, but just like... something wild happens when you use an ontology that was designed for the needs of a *bureaucracy* in order to *understand and explain yourself to yourself and others*

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    31. sij

    The paper: Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus

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  3. 29. sij

    We need a term like "common knowledge" but that also includes feelings, orientations, attractions & aversions -- the whole gamut of content of the psyche-in-common that lies between the participants in any interaction or relationship.

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  4. 20. sij

    Working with soft stuff, on the hand, it's much harder to keep your insides from bleeding out. Making art, making music, making conversation. Sometimes that's the whole point (in self-discovery and in signalling).

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  5. 20. sij

    Because of this, it's possible to work with hard things even if what you want / intend / desire / value / fear is tricky, not okay to see clearly. I think this is a big draw of technical subjects for a lot of people (including past and present me).

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  6. 20. sij

    One aspect of hard vs. soft is the "ought vs. is" distinction. With hard things, this distinction is sharp. But softer things are actually open to your intentions, desires, values, etc. Sometimes the thing is even inseparable from that kind of subjective content.

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  7. 20. sij

    E.g. a wineglass: you need to handle it a particular way but it "doesn't tell you that". But also e.g. a delicate argument in math: you're working with content that, because it is so malleable, you could easily get lost in -- therefore you need to thread your path carefully.

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  8. 20. sij

    "Delicate" is a related notion. I think it means: superficially yielding, i.e. it won't push back, but actually having a very particular structure that needs to be respected.

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  9. 20. sij

    I think this is the connection between hard as in hard vs. soft and hard as in hard vs. easy: maintaining strong boundaries takes energy. (I have also heard the term "density" used in I think buddhist phenomenology, which feels similar)

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  10. 20. sij

    Math, for example, can feel hard or soft. Reading a paper with math I don't understand yet is hard -- I have to keep careful track of the meanings. But once I get more familiar with it, it becomes softer -- it's safer to let meanings flow a little, and probably fruitful.

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  11. 20. sij

    How much work I need to put into maintaining the boundaries of a thing. So it's not just about the content, but also how it sits in the rest of my mind.

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  12. 20. sij

    Thinking about a phenomenological axis you could call hard vs. soft. Hard = unyielding, distinct edges; and that needs to be respected in your representations. Soft = malleable, permeable; if nearby stuff bleeds into the representation of the thing, that's okay.

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  13. 18. sij

    Seems easy for this kind of pattern to lead to a problematic relationship with sleep. (I say this as an lifelong intermittent insomniac)

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  14. 18. sij

    It felt like, after ~5hrs of sleep, starting to go down some path in my dreams, which involved relaxing in a certain way; and then going, "No, I don't want to do that", and waking up instead.

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  15. 18. sij

    Inspired by Mike Johnson's (amazing!) essay on neural annealing, which proposes something quite similar about depression.

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  16. 18. sij

    I had this happen to me over the holidays, luckily just for a night or two.

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  17. 18. sij

    Of course getting a poor night's sleep then makes it harder to solve whatever problem the mind is trying to solve (that has it holding an awkward configuration). Which turns this into a vicious cycle.

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  18. 18. sij

    I wonder how common it is for sleeping problems to be caused by a kind of inability to relax -- the mind holding itself in a particular configuration, committed (perhaps for a good reason), unwilling to allow the structural stress to be annealed away.

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  19. 12. sij

    I've never understood icing injuries. If my body wants to be swollen, why would I think I know better than that? (actually curious though)

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  20. 10. sij

    Hypothesis: something that is a good Whole, in the Christopher Alexander sense, also possesses strength, because it can resist deformations by distributing forces well among its components.

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