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by aaimnr 9y ago
>Being one of the most expressive and efficient (I am not talking about clock cycles here) languages I've used "Productive" seems to be the right word here.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
It may be a creep in the sense that otherwise it would be a truly public space rather than closed private one. The government may be treating it as a kind of 'outsourcing' and public space gets gradually privatised. So it's n
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Well, it's really hard to tell which myth is causing more harm in our culture - myth about rationality or myths carried over from Romanticism. I'm not contrasting rationality with 'romantic' feelings (term that doesn&#x2
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by aaimnr 9y ago
This naive belief in rationality on her part is troubling. It reminds me the simplicity of XVIII century enlightenment thinkers. No wonder that Nielsen, being accustomed with how DNNs work. represents the opposite view. "Rationality&qu
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by aaimnr 9y ago
>> but rather to unify the whole mind around single intention. > If that's the road to samadhi, inherently it's long and maybe painful - because our intentions depend on our memories - and a single intention means somethi
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by aaimnr 9y ago
One possibility is that the awareness is to narrow, and you just don't notice the harm you're doing, being to stuck on the pleasure coming from concentration. Sampajanna is the 'clear comprehension' aspect of mindfulness
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by aaimnr 9y ago
There's so many things wrong in this article... They should just leave the 'take a nap' advice. If the focusing drains energy from the mind, it's the wrong kind of focus. Real concentration (buddhists call it samadhi) do
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Please look up Judson Brewer and Gary Weber (sorry for brevity, I'm on the go). EDIT: actually this is an excellent resource for the HN crowd, 100% BS free. It explains DMN and much more: https://www.coursera.org/learn&
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by aaimnr 9y ago
It's interesting that both building high self-esteem and negative self talk (2 directions, same dimension) seem to be the basic activity of Default Mode Network - the mode of the brain activated during mindless mind-wandering. Usually
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by aaimnr 9y ago
We only spend so much time with our friends, while we talk to ourselves all the time, mostly in very unfriendly manner. This self talk is the basis of Default Mode Network and you can start to notice it after a couple days of total silence
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by aaimnr 9y ago
There's one more component of self-compassion helping with procastination. Procrastination is mostly caused by the fear of failure, - once we feel how serious the situation is, the monkey in us can't stand the tension and escapes
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Not so sure about it. When you are compassionate you often understand how things had to be the way they happened, that everything was determined - at least to some extent. When you see the power of cause and effect there's no place fo
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by aaimnr 9y ago
What always blows me away is when people who've been watching their minds most of their lives and lived through the most amazing insights we can imagine, witnessing directly how the mind creates the world, how self is an illusion etc.
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by aaimnr 10y ago
To predict no 'feeling' need to be involved. You can have prediction without consciousness (any program that simulates some environment to check whether some condition will be met, eg. collision detection in 3d games) and consciou
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by aaimnr 10y ago
> Hard problem solving is not required to create consciousness. Humans can’t solve hard problems but they make children conscious meanwhile human children grown by animals become animals. You're serious? :) Humans can make children
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by aaimnr 10y ago
> This is all just from physically/emotional painful experiences. So I guess just take with a grain of salt. But it's made huge differences in my physical/mental well-being. Even perfectly 'healthy' human being w
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by aaimnr 10y ago
I see what you mean and agree. Actually Culadasa has a very precise way of describing what happens in this case - sustaining attention on a single object allows peripheral awareness to be more clear (in a way that looking at the flagpole al
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by aaimnr 10y ago
It helped me to clarify some stuff in my practice, but I also understand how his goal oriented approach may be detrimental for personalities that put too much effort in concentration (applies to most 'discursive' types here on HN,
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by aaimnr 10y ago
> The entire point of concentrating on your breathing is that your breathing is always there Once you reach some level of mindfulness, you start to notice that your breath is very seldom there. There are all kinds of distractions that yo
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by aaimnr 10y ago
>But then again arguing takes places on a dualistic level, so what's the point (in this specific case)? Meditation is a skill. To practice any skill, you first have to understand it conceptually. So clear understanding is important.
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by aaimnr 10y ago
I don't see how the quote from Suzuki contradicts Culadasa. When concentrating on the breath, the skill is the concentration itself (in fact Culadasa teaches breath meditation). You're not trying to do something specific with the
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by aaimnr 10y ago
The fact that meditative absorptions are a type of Flow experience (very unique one, see below), doesn't mean that any Flow state is meditation. These games may very well induce a flow state (as Flappy Birds can, if you're good at
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by aaimnr 10y ago
This explanation doesn't touch the hard problem. Please have a look at the 'easy' problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#... - you're still within the functional mind
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by aaimnr 10y ago
There's a very distinct experience of being conscious and having completely no thoughts in the mind. To treat thoughts as some kind of basic element is a mistake that neither neuroscientist nor meditator would ever make. Look up defaul
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Well, when you analyse thought as something you experience, you'll come to realise eg. that it can be verbal or visual (check out Temple Grandin) and is always compound. You can talk about thought/belief as something basic on a le
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Sure, fair enough.
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by aaimnr 10y ago
OK, let me rephrase my objection. "This is a constant process reflecting upon the current situation, and upon the recent past of actions and plans. It is like an observer observing itself. This is the root of consciousness, I think.&qu
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by aaimnr 10y ago
If you both want to see the mystery replace 'the real world' with 'noumenon' and read some Immanuel Kant. He wrote awfully lot about the 'supposed mystery' :) BTW. your parent seems to mistake "inside&quot
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Self-awareness and consciousness are different things. Sometimes when you wake up you don't know who you are, where you are, what you are, but there is a conscious experience. Consciousness is much more fundamental than your level of r
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Keep in mind that causality can be understood in multiple ways in your example: 1) consciousness is merely something that emerges from matter (eg. functionalism) 2) consciousness and matter coexist everywhere, but in some configurations of

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