Carl-Richard

I am, because I found it distasteful when it was given that much effort

The longer you draw out a metaphor, the less useful it becomes. It can also just be a bad metaphor. Let me demonstrate: Teaching is like taking a shit. You let out something deep inside, and people stare at it with disgust or fascination.

So all teachers fuck their students? Sex is an extreme, like a mindfuck. Using it to describe everything is a bit blunt.

BMI > MBTI

Ah it's an automatic thing. I'll turn it off.

"Changing gene expression" is equivalent with "changing behavior", so it's a redundant distinction.

I think I've met at least one person with BPD in my life (btw I'm not trying to paint all people with BPD under one brush). I heard this story from a friend. One time, one of his friends made a joke in bad taste, then he snapped and told him to leave his house. The three other friends and his gf who were there ended up leaving the house, the gf was crying, and afterwards, he sent messages to his gf with pictures of him cutting himself and threatening to kill himself if she didn't come back.

@Oeaohoo I just got into Dixie Dregs, and the fast stuff in this song (e.g. 2:16 and onwards) is pretty much the type of stuff I'm imagining, kinda like for reference, but it's still not it ?

Oh god, I would probably be better off trying to "sing" it, record it and play it by ear. I can't transcribe for shit ? Hahaha when he runs into that guy at the end and he doesn't give a shit ?

Omg it makes sense ? Yeah, but one problem with mechanistic practice is that it's easy to fall into "easy solutions" (licks, scale runs etc.), exactly because you've practiced them. I guess the way out is to either practice only very rundamentary movements or practice an impossibly huge variety of things to a point where things start to melt into each other. That said, the type of shit I'm able to imagine is pretty inhuman from a technical standpoint, not in terms of "computational density" (as Zappa once said), but simply sheer originality. I think it's generally not compatible with the mandatory constraints of learning an instrument and the prototypical modes of learning (licks etc.) that one has to internalize, at least in the beginning, and that always stick with you to some extent. For example, you can virtually always identify a blues-inspired line or a jazz-inspired line. That has to boil down to technique at some point. Even purely self-taught players will have to emulate music they've heard before, unless they're raised in a black box. Well, I should say that I can easily sit back and relax and appreciate all kinds of music, stripping away different conceptual layers, expectations etc. It's really only when I compare it to that inner perfectionism that I sometimes tap into that I feel that tension, which nowadays is not often (it was much worse before). Sometimes I just need something catchy and groovy like Tool. I really like I.O.U. in that it's generally more accessible, same with Wardenclyffe Tower.

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@thisintegrated Self-help > intellectual > spiritual.

What a weird synchronicity. Yesterday, right after I turned down your Tarot reading (because "fortune tellers spook me out"), I was watching this video where they were suddenly talking about synchronicities, and one of the guys started telling a story about a spooky synchronicity that involved a Tarot reading So maybe my apprehension was highly intuitive 1:31:09 - 1:36:13

I recently watched Bernardo Kastrup touch on this topic (one's relationship to good and evil) which you might find interesting: 37:25 - 51:45

My best ideas tend to be a synthesis of my core values, of what I consider maximally meaningful. My mind is less prone to sporadic brainstorming nowadays. (Systems thinking is of course not my idea, but the visualizations and neologisms came mostly from my own mind).

Nice! One day I'll post my 9 year all natty transformation, both muscles and hairline ?

I probably had something resembling GAD in my high school years. My way out was a spiritual awakening spurred on by meditation. I couldn't recommend anything else.

Very random, but Bernardo Kastrup's wife after taking psychedelics

Welcome! Idk, fortune tellers spook me out

@Scholar I was mostly talking about how intuitive ideas themselves are inherently difficult to express in words, in the sense that anybody would have problems expressing them. You seem to be talking more about a thinking process that is specific to intuitives, which probably has some truth to it as well.

No. Excessive, compulsive and recursive self-criticism can be.

@charlie cho I don't think the most brilliant logicians you can think of ever spent their time doing practices to better their logical reasoning specifically, just like a climber doesn't just do finger crunches all day. In life, logic tends to be a subset of a larger process.

I generally don't believe in reductionistic approaches when it comes to bettering yourself in broad and overarching aspects such as logical reasoning (I'm more "learning by doing"/"practice makes perfect"), but also in this case, learning some philosophy wouldn't hurt.

Well, the raw predictive utility of such science isn't lost just because of its metaphysical packaging. Science works. It's just that the way we talk about it is different (while also adding or omitting some additional conclusions, but again, not in a way that fundamentally negates the science).