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Wrote a new thing. This time I'm trying to show what you are open and closed to, how much, how to modulate it, and how this has secretly been ruling your life. Enjoy! https://t.co/RRXhNKk1Bb https://t.co/XJ25fsW2vL
@ LessWrong people: it was never about āHeuristics & Biasesā and it was always about your lack of grounding in your own body by being cut off from it because youāre overwhelmed because your body is excessively open to the outside.
Have you noticed how all of the favourite authors of our space - Venkatesh, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Jordan Peterson, David Chapman - are men who are preternaturally grounded in their own bodies? And how that comes across in their writing and demeanour?
Corollary: people who are obsessed with understanding themselves are just compensating for not having access to info coming from their body - due to being closed to it - through modelling themselves using their mind
@mechanical_monk @nosilverv You gentlemen may be interested in the neural correlates of vibing literature. tl;dr 'getting on the same wavelength' is measurable. Search terms you want are 'interpersonal <x> synchrony', where x = gamma, skin conductance, <some others I'm forgetting> or ''.
@mechanical_monk @nosilverv Sadly, EEGs are expensive, cumbersome, and a hard sell at most parties, so two practical heuristics I like: 1. Simultaneity of responses to shifts in mood, e.g., laughing and/or crying at the same moment. 2. Tingles (chi) b/t people. Can be whole body, hands are esp. sensitive.
@mechanical_monk @nosilverv And while it can be spontaneous, it can also be induced with eye contact, open posture, synchronizing breathing, singing, HT agonists, prayer, meditation, touch, and shared activities including,(in one study), cooperative tasks *over a network*.
@georgejrjrjr @mechanical_monk 1. is exactly what dogs do! without looking at each other they turn around at the same time, or both spontaneously stop on their tracks, or start running, or what have you
@nosilverv noticing that my "above the neck"-ness /uptightness is built up out of to discrete muscular contractions that switch on one at a time, eg left foot, calf, butthole, tummy, chest, throat, usually in sequence bottom to top, like pulling up back and away from something scary