Creatures, TortoiseCVS, TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow, Memrise.
I mostly post about technical and open source stuff here. Find me over on Twitter for mind and post-rationalist stuff: https://twitter.com/frabcus
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Excited to announce we're running a second season of Land Talks! Evenings of lightning talks in London about radical land policy.
Come along to the first one two week's tomorrow (Monday):
https://luma.com/ba8uvclo
Or follow us on Luma for updates as we announce speakers for all of them!
Really happy to interview @michaelashcroft.com on my podcast "Imagine an apple" about the inner experience of Alexander Technique.
What is it like to experience “open awareness”? What’s the difference between doing and non-doing?
Really enjoyed this one!
What is it like to experience “open awareness”? What’s the difference between doing and non-doing? What is “thinking”? Welcome to another episode of “Imagine an apple”. In this episode, Vynn and Francis talk with Michael Ashcroft about what it is like to do Alexander Technique, an awareness-based skill which he teaches. Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Timestamps: 01:00 Michael’s introduction to Alexander Technique 03:00 The origins of Alexander Technique 05:32 Internal Awareness 05:40 Michael Imagines an Apple! 06:44 How does AT make people aware of their awareness? 08:01 Coming back to the world 09:15 Being in the world 11:06 Attention in the world 12:10 Flow states 14:25 Non-doing 17:39 Habitual responding and not responding 19:29 Actively not doing vs just not doing 20:28 Mind and body are one process—Bodymind 23:20 Inhibition 24:26 Practice 26:20 Feeling “it” for the first time 27:31 Letting go of control 28:42 Meditation and Alexander Technique 34:15 Exercises in Alexander Technique 37:34 Thinking 39:54 What do you mean by thinking? 41:52 Conceptual thinking and subconscious thinking 43:10 Conscious cognition and nonconscious cognition 44:20 Parallel processing 45:44 Thoughts, feelings, IFS parts 47:14 AT mode 24/7 50:30 Technology and contracted awareness 52:15 Wrapping up 54:28 Tips about Alexander Technique 55:52 Francis’ experience of AT Links: * South Bank Alexander Centre [https://www.alexandercentre.co.uk/] - school Michael first went to * ”Unthought” [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo25861765.html] - book by N Katherine Hayles * Expanding Awareness [https://expandingawareness.org/] - Michael’s Alexander Technique site * Fundamentals of Alexander Technique [https://expandingawareness.org/courses/] - Michael’s beginner course * Michael’s YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelAshcroft0/videos] * @m_ashcroft [https://x.com/m_ashcroft] on Twitter * Michael Ashcroft [https://michaelashcroft.com/] - personal website Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
Useful description of when "scenius" - Brian Eno's term for a community that collectively acts in a genius way - happens.
I'm organising three lightning talk evenings in Farringdon on Tuesday evenings, about radical land policy and digital tech. They're called "Land Talks".
Please sign up, follow the Luma calendar, and share this with others who want to help improve how property works in Britain!
This CUDA-based virtual organism simulator is pretty impressive artificial life and “winner of the ALIFE 2024 Virtual Creatures Competition”
https://github.com/chrxh/alien
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@alien-project/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwbMGPkoJmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9R6zrdl6jM
Not sure what I think about it in 2024 - my 1990s teenager playing with evolving core wars, and a bit later working for an ALife games company would have loved it. I'm not sure where it goes though if scaled now with GPUs.
