In the beginning there was sensation Humans developed the ability to freeze sensations, then used these frozen pieces to construct a grammar for thought (vasocomputation) This led to words, magical spells that can conjure sensations in both caster and target This led to foom

claudia ! My theory of the last 80 years: Strong men make Better Living Through Chemistry BLTC makes -1SD grip strength -1SD grip strength makes hard times (I expect physical grip strength <=> mental grip strength)

Having a really great time at Edge City! Will post my talks soon

If we play our cards right future civilizations may someday make similar videos about humans Humans are already amazing *and* there’s a lot of untapped latent beauty, especially once we’re able to ‘see’ nervous systems

If it takes 4-8 months to discover we have feet, I suspect that in a very literal sense we never discover all the mental muscles we have Robert Kegan’s ‘stages of development’ discusses how growing up involves learning how to treat more and more elements of our inner worlds as

I’ll be here! I expect Edge City Patagonia to be the center of research for vasocomputation & several other corners of consciousness research

Red light (sunshine, campfire) penetrates skin, but most artificial lighting (LED, CF) doesn’t. So for 99.99% of human history our organs were bathed in light, but now unless we make a special effort most of our cells sit in darkness A really simple hack here is to switch (back)

The modal dollar supporting “consciousness research” may be -EV because in pre-paradigmatic fields it’s easier to add noise than signal. But the avg dollar is hugely +EV because it’s such an important topic Winslow has been a great champion of research & I expect great things