Using context-awareness to learn better: Embodied cognition

[zurew]

22 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

So yeah, I really do appreciate the kind words - but it’s not something I value about myself the way you might think. If someone tells me I’m funny, or kind, or protective - or notices some small, human thing - that means a lot more to me.

Sounds like a human thing - You want to be appreciated for , recognized by and framed by more than just by one metric (in this case intelligence)

The other "metrics" that you listed there are better to connect with people and to create less transactional, more authentic, more meaningful relationships for sure, so im not surprised that you care about those more.

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[zurew]

45 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

daemon that possesses me from time to time and makes me manically read, think, and write at this abstract level

Do some IFS (internal family systems) and then tame that motherfucker .

For John Vervaeke it was Hermes.

 

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, Nilsi said:

This is the loop I’m trying to describe: every ideal that claims to free you already carries the seed of its own imprisonment.

 

Quote

The struggle to free myself of restraints

Becomes my very shackles

Meshuggah - "Disenchantment" from the album "Catch 33" (2005). Metal strikes again 😝

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[Nilsi]

54 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

 

Meshuggah - "Disenchantment" from the album "Catch 33" (2005). Metal strikes again 😝

Honestly, I’d take a book on the philosophy of metal over most of what passes for the “great philosophical traditions” any day. 

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, zurew said:

Sounds like a human thing - You want to be appreciated for , recognized by and framed by more than just by one metric (in this case intelligence)

The other "metrics" that you listed there are better to connect with people and to create less transactional, more authentic, more meaningful relationships for sure, so im not surprised that you care about those more.

When I take an IQ test, I will hang it on my wall, next to my height, penile length and biceps circumference (all below average) 🙂

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[zurew]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

When I take an official IQ test, I will hang it on my wall, next to my height, penile length and biceps circumference (all below average) 🙂

Well, luckily then you will have at least two to even things out. (IQ and competence in playing the guitar). 

 

Any updates on the Dual n back training?

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[Nilsi]

4 hours ago, zurew said:

Do some IFS (internal family systems) and then tame that motherfucker .

For John Vervaeke it was Hermes.

 

Sorry, I’d rather down a bottle of red and pop a Valium than sit in a candlelit circle with the divorced parts of my soul while they take turns trauma-dumping.

[Carl-Richard]

4 hours ago, zurew said:

Well, luckily then you will have at least two to even things out. (IQ and competence in playing the guitar). 

Heh maybe 🫠

 

4 hours ago, zurew said:

Any updates on the Dual n back training?

This is the last picture I took (two days ago):

I have been consistent at it (25 mins in-game time every other day), but I probably haven't been progressing as much this year, but I think I'll start progressing again now (I had to extend my thesis delivery date lol; let's just say doing 70 pre-post fNIRS measurements on my own is a bit much, and that's only the beginning of the story 😂). I want to hit over 80% on 7-Back so I can get registered on the hiscores for 7-Back (and then I would be pretty highly ranked at least on Brainscale.net; rank 82 on all-time highscores, rank 2 weekly, as of today).

I also want to see if replacing half of my sprint days with 4 x 4 intervals ("the Norwegian method", ironic name 🤪) could be beneficial. I tried some when I hurt my toe last week (literally thought I broke it and went for an x-ray, but I'm made of steel), and I could see it having some beneficial effects on cognition that sprints don't give. It's also probably slightly less fatigue-inducing and also healthier long-term (VO2 max, resting heart rate, etc.). I was about to make a topic on how Sadhguru and Bryan Johnson have converged on low heart rate being a panacea measurement for health and longevity.

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[Nilsi]

5 hours ago, zurew said:

Do some IFS (internal family systems) and then tame that motherfucker .

For John Vervaeke it was Hermes.

 

Again, I’m sorry - maybe I sound like this too - but I can’t help laughing when two grown men solemnly discuss the “archetypal presence of a psychopomp,” like they haven’t spent the last decade bathing in the collected works of Jung and taking Tarot cards way too literally.

[Carl-Richard]

4 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

Again, I’m sorry - maybe I sound like this too - but I can’t help laughing when two grown men solemnly discuss the “archetypal presence of a psychopomp,” like they haven’t spent the last decade bathing in the collected works of Jung and taking Tarot cards way too literally.

Idk. Bernardo Kastrup also talks about being "possessed" by a daemon. Maybe it's just something you start believing when you consume too much philosophy 😂

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[Nilsi]

4 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Idk. Bernardo Kastrup also talks about being "possessed" by a daemon. Maybe it's just something you start believing when you consume too much philosophy 😂

When you consume too much Carl Jung, probably.

This man’s been turning straight men into crystal-collecting astrologists faster than the CIA’s been turning frogs gay. 

[Nilsi]

Just now, Nilsi said:

When you consume too much Carl Jung, probably.

This man’s been turning straight men into crystal-collecting astrologists faster than the CIA’s been turning frogs gay. 

Something’s definitely sus about spiritual gurus named Carl 🤨

[Carl-Richard]

2 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

Something’s definitely sus about spiritual gurus named Carl 🤨

[zurew]

4 hours ago, Nilsi said:

When you consume too much Carl Jung, probably.

This man’s been turning straight men into crystal-collecting astrologists faster than the CIA’s been turning frogs gay.

Idk, from listening to how he described it in another video, it doesnt seem to be like he wanted it to happen or that he expected it to happen - it seemed to happen on its own (while doing IFS) and it wasn't just a 1 time thing , its a regular weekly thing for him now (now he  has some control over it, he can consciously decide  when he wants it to happen)  - and it also seems that this is not a new thing and Socrates and many others talked about shit like this way before Jung.

Also from reading a limited amount of psych studies on AVH-s (Auditory verbal hallucinations) , they don't easily map on to psychosis.

But, regardless how one wants to categorize these experiences/hallucinations - they seem to be very useful to people and life-changing in a positive way.

 

And just to be clear - I am not sold on the idea that these are separate entities existing in a different realm, but there seem to be pragmatic value there.

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[zurew]

10 hours ago, Nilsi said:

Again, I’m sorry - maybe I sound like this too - but I can’t help laughing when two grown men solemnly discuss the “archetypal presence of a psychopomp,” like they haven’t spent the last decade bathing in the collected works of Jung and taking Tarot cards way too literally.

WIth that for some reason you made me remember a funny moment from an old Destiny stream, where he stated that the reason why he started to get into philosophy is becuase he tried to overwrite the madness and the lack of foundational certainty after doing shrooms.

(timestamped)

 

Maybe the same way how the dude in the video is not ready to do the "philosophical investigations" using psyhedelics , the same way you are not ready to do IFS to do the necessary investigations about daimons  😂

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[Rigel]

Coming at this from the perspective of teaching normal people.

This is only true to an extent. I have thought guitar & piano to many people & what you are suggesting is not realistic to a beginner. At the point where I am I can learn anything at speed but that is only possible because my mind & ear can keep up & know exactly what’s happening even when it’s fast.

To play fast you need to imagine the music fast in your mind & then train your body to execute what your mind tells it to. So from high level perspective you are right. Newbies go at it completely backwards though. They see the fretboard, play something & then hear it. I agree that in theory it makes more sense to just go for fast because when you know fast it just comes out. When I think fast I speak fast.

But how do you get a beginner to that state when they don’t know fast AND don’t have muscle memory isn’t straightforward at all. And even if they know fast! They could have been listening to bebop for 20 years & intimately know the syntax already but even then it doesn’t mean that their hand is able to execute at all.

I think playing fast straight away is just the natural conclusion of learning slow & then speeding up. It’s like you are building your capacity for hearing & reacting fast. That shit’s not innate. But over time it’s easier to learn hard & harder things. You really can’t expect a beginner to play fast first. Remember where YOU started?

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Malmsteen just has a nice story that reframes all the practicing he did as playing. Which is very innocent & sweet & I want to agree but the truth is no one is born with the capacity for playing what he plays & I don’t believe that his mind was limited to what his hand could immediately execute. You hear a line in your head & you want to play it but your hand just won’t be able cause you haven’t burned that in muscle memory yet. So you play it a few times until you can do it effortlessly & you move on with your playing. That’s how technique is built & that’s called practice. I guess we are just shuffling definitions for the word practicing but I think what he says is just a nice story for the camera. It’s a great story. It sounds cool.

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[Carl-Richard]

@Rigel Yes. It sort of assumes you have the basics. Just like you can't practice writing an essay for an exam if you can't write.

[zurew]

On 2025. 05. 30. at 5:15 PM, Nilsi said:

freely, without constraint, without guilt, without pre-approved images of what life should look like. No ideals to answer to, no script to follow. Just life unfolding on its own terms.