Natasha Tori Maru

Gross. Not for me.

I'm okay with it. Provided there is less of Zendaya's one trick pony scowl face. I AM DISSATISFIED WITH THIS! face

@integral Agree. And yep there is some twisted shit in the manipulation of man and dog. There are some breeds that shouldn't exist. And continuing to breed them is abuse and wrong.

@trenton I make a distinction between sexual harassment and sexual assault/rape/abuse. Most women speak from the frame of sexual assault/rape/abuse inferring a physical transgression has transpired. Sexual harassment is more the verbal transgressions and objectification. I do understand there is overlap in interpretation, though. Especially in more clinical circles. I have never experienced any sexual physical violation - only extensive violence/assault. Being beaten, hit and thrown around has a different effect to being sexually violated from what I can tell. I am lucky to have only experienced physical assault. I have experienced verbal sexual harassment. I have a way about me that really shuts men down quickly when I do not welcome it. Mostly this is in my professional life, from hardened construction workers. I don't let it effect me, although I know for many women - it does.

I'm keen for this! I listened to his recent interview on Huberman's podcast - he goes into the painstaking process of writing everything by hand there. I love how he dives into the experience and phenomenology of becoming an 'ink fetishist' after having to write so much - colours, feel etc. I resonate a lot with his story as his suffering has been immense - suffering culminated to produce my first really big enlightenment breakthrough. I experienced a permanent shift of consciousness. I have never been the same since. Greene has such a powerful mind to reframe, his gratitude and appreciation have deepened and he has made the best of the result of his existence following his stroke. He isn't afraid to face the darkness of humanity - his own - and the light, also. He is also a lovely orator with a rich, well paced speaking voice. I think haters mostly don't understand him.

@Psychonaut Of course!

Hits bad in the feels. Bad feel. The WORST feel. Tears

Jesus Christ. The runtime on this is 2hrs 30 mins

@integral something so unique was formed in the connection between man and dog when we domesticated them from wolves. My girl is trained on hand signals and clicks for commands. Even small head movements. She knows. Best part of the day is being assaulted by a frenzied, explosive and uncontrollable happy tail to the face

Laika - first being to orbit the earth in space Relevant. It is this pups anniversary today. This story makes me cry. She died of overheating. Alone. I love dogs

I have never been sexually abused or raped. This is received as a surprise and shock to every women I have ever met Between women it is spoken of with more openness. Not one women I know has avoided sexual abuse of some type (my mother, my sister, my grandmother & cousins included). I would approximate a quarter of these women were raped by someone they knew. This is just my own anecdote as people I meet and speak with are generally more comfortable being open and vulnerable when I speak to them one on one. Sometimes I cannot hold space emotionally for the stories. It's not good. It breaks my heart. These women mostly walked away thinking it was their fault. Internalised shame. None of them reported anything. Victims end up going through life in various states of disrepair. It also makes me realise how blessed I have been.

For those who need an external moral/ethical framework when it isn't inherent from within. This is how I see it. Which is from a pragmatic framework. In terms of epistemology ... yuck!

I never claimed this, though.

I think dogs can pattern match sequences. They can observe and know or guess what might occur next. My pup will know it is time to leave the house in the morning based on a sequence of sounds I make. There are cognitive processes involved in being able to do the above: associative learning (sound cues), sequential pattern recognition (she will only motion to go when things happen in a rough order, instead of all events being independent), anticipation (predictive processing I think it is called) and generalisation (the sounds I make might change a bit, but the overall pattern signals we are leaving). I think this implies a "thinking" although it might not be anything like we experience thinking to be. Much less distinct from feeling. Perhaps one big soup.

I don't think there is a way for us to test this - is there an experiment you could construct that could give some more data? Even when we scan peoples brains for regional associations, the scans can vary by a substantial portion. Do you think it is our language that creates this division between object <-> feeling ? Maybe the distinction we're attempting to investigate is partly an artefact of our own conceptual and linguistic framework? Sometimes how we think about things is literally formed in how we compress or expand on language. As an example of how language can compress observation, interpretation, needs, feelings and thoughts: You're always dismissing what I say. You never actually listen, and it's becoming really frustrating. When I was explaining my perspective and you interrupted me several times, I felt frustrated because I need to feel heard and have my perspective considered. Would you be willing to let me finish before responding? The above marked in red contains observation, interpretation, needs, feelings and thoughts. So does the blue - but it is the uncompressed version illustrating all these elements concretely. The abstraction alters our perception dramatically (think about how these two phrases would be received). In this way the language we use might a distinction that isn't even there - well, it isn't there is it? huehuehuehue emptiness/nothingness/absolutetruth I digress - got sidetracked with language possibly altering perception