Mind

https://ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day/

http://www.flowgenomeproject.com/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realizing-it/

Some people can differentiate between orders of magnitude more colors than other people. You can test yourself here: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-well-do-you-see-color-173018
I once had a long argument with a group of friends about why vision was more interesting than sound. Turns out all the ones who sided with vision could differentiate between far more colors.
You can also test if you’re tonedeaf: http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

https://tasshin.com/blog/optimizing-mindfulness/

https://twitter.com/bohendo/status/1198072891528667137

If my theory of consiousness is correct, then it's impossible to process info normally but be unconscious.

https://twitter.com/MuhammadPuter12/status/1114525993069203457

I wish everybody on Twitter could each go ultra-viral because it's actually a very eye-opening and humbling experience. I feel like it would be worth listing out some thoughts from the various occasions where my timeline blew up, even if it gets interpreted negatively

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realizing-it/

That first thing sounds like anhedonia.

Same here. More than once a week when I was a kid, once a week as a teen, now it's about once every few months in my late 30s. I have correlated it to body temperature though - the more blankets I use and the hotter I am over night, the more dreams remembered, lucid dreams, and nightmares I get. Although they're fun, I value my sleep more, and so these days sleep with the thinnest donna with the windows open (even in winter).

todo
from ip Can Meditation Improve Your Attention? Self-Experiment into Mindfulness and Cognitive Testing - Mark Koester

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842040

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why sentient organisms have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how and why it is that some internal states are felt states, such as heat or pain, rather than unfelt states, as in a thermostat or a toaster.[1] The philosopher David Chalmers, who introduced the term "hard problem" of consciousness,[2] contrasts this with the "easy problems" of explaining the ability to discriminate, integrate information, report mental states, focus attention, and so forth.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1311207887293812736

@naval: Highs that don’t lead to subsequent lows:

• Meditation, gratitude, prayer, journaling, unconditional love.
• Yoga, exercise, play, nature walks.
• Creating art, reading for fun, singing, poetry.
• Practicing a craft, pursuing curiosity, work done for its own sake, flow.

huh, so simplicial complexes in (human?) brain are not random

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Conceptual_thinking

Thoughts cease to be spoken by an internal narrator and are instead “felt” and intuitively understood.

guy that doesn't have color vision and that developed a device that converts color into sound. Interesing, he claims he can sense more colors now than average people, however the thing when he drew 'picture' of hitler's voice and asked people what did they think of it is quite stupid…

Pollan: "But I did not have a powerful desire to do it again."
Alan Watts, on why he stopped taking LSD: "When you've gotten the message, you hang up the phone."

By dullness I mean a subtle lack of clarity of awareness, which, if nothing is done about it, tends to gradually increase to the point of tiredness/drowsiness, and eventually sleep. A lot of people succeed in stopping gross dullness but continue to meditate in subtle dullness. A good way to tell if you're meditating with subtle dullness is if a background sound causes a "startle" effect, where your body or even just your mind will have a sudden "jolt" caused by the sound. If you meditate frequently you probably know what I mean. As clarity of awareness increases, sounds are less likely to startle you.

See http://dharmatreasure.com/wp-content/uploads/LightOnMeditationHandout.pdf
- that's where I got these ideas and having worked with them I find them very useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5Qv9tUObI&list=WL&index=24
if you're going to the gym and it's easy you are cheating. same with meditation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5Qv9tUObI&list=WL&index=24
interesting, his wife doesn't meditate! even though she's a scientist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1lqFXHvqI&list=WL&index=52&t=0s
cool stuff!
sensory substitution
e.g. they claim that deaf person with a vibro vest can regain hearing similar to how blind person can read braile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

Bicameralism (the condition of being divided into "two-chambers") is a hypothesis in psychology that argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys — a bicameral mind. The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,[1] wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Mediterranean bronze age. 

https://www.eagleman.com/research/sensory-substitution
substitute tactile sensing for hearing.
interesting, sweeping patterns seem to be recognized by skin better than linear or poking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC1o9CjeefI&lc=Ugw8vQhoKJC59GNEJf14AaABAg.8m3I3TaBkHg8m9iVIZ8FDe

guess I should read his vk

https://gitlab.com/tslocum/meditationassistant

https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/22pafg/problems_with_siting_up_straight_a_graphic_that/

hmm, actually I'm sitting in quite a similar way to the second picture.. so I'm fine I suppose?

https://github.com/RomanPlusPlus/mindfilesResources

https://twitter.com/_vanswan/status/1102690190408253440

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM39qhXle4g&list=WL&index=45&t=1s

1. daily work
2. volume, not perfection
3. 'steal'
4. conscious learning
5. rest
6. get feedback
7. create what you love

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/

https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_cognition

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https://www.abolitionist.com/multiverse.html

https://nplus1.ru/news/2018/06/14/psychedelic-depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes

That's why I'm learning more about nature of human mind and why we humans in general need to solve it

https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/10/29/lsd-and-quantum-measurements-can-you-see-schrodingers-cat-both-dead-and-alive-on-acid/

The argument against Myers-Briggs is that it’s not scientific. The argument for Myers-Briggs is that I’m also the kind of person who did some looking into it and realizes that MBTI is neither scientific nor consistently applied, and I also test consistently as INTJ, so clearly something is going on here. And every time I read a description of INTJ I have to facepalm because I so consistently recognize myself in it.

Telescopes are not about telescopes; they are about stars.
When you focus on learning optimally about stars, you’ll naturally come to use your telescope well.
Meditation is not about meditation; it is about THIS.

Building a New Science of Consciousness
Qualia Research Institute is a nonprofit research group studying consciousness in a consistent, meaningful, and rigorous way         

it’s weird how many people respond to “meditation has risks” with “no!!!! meditation is good!!!!!!!!”
like yea sex is good too but it has huge risks too that should be acknowledged and taken into consideration

ugh annoying website, pops up a sign up thing, I can't even join.

See, this is good, but why wouldn't they mention the Ship of Theseus method? Where you replace bits and pieces of your brain over time until you've moved entirely from meat to metal. Doing so would, hopefully, preserve continuity of the mind. So it wouldn't just be a copy of your mind. It would genuinely be you.