Philosophical Speculations

The Dasher metaphor is superior, because it points at the first-person living flow in the making. It goes in the same direction of thinking, so to say, from meaning to perception. However, I've found this fast reading experiment useful to get a feel for the gesture of relaxing the unpacking reflex ...

By the way, stumbling upon this post, I am reminded that you wished a reminder for this exercise. Thanks! To be honest, I haven't thought about the exercise explicitly (so one may say that I again forgot about its concrete instance), but I think its general mood is apparent in the last three parts ...

Thank you, Cleric. That’s been a fantastic continuation and deepening on the task of concentration and meditation. The Dasher software works like a sort of baby fractal - signposted - and I think it’s an ideal metaphor for the sense of continuity of flow, or increase in stroboscopic rate. For my par ...

The Game Loop Part 8 Continuous Cognition Google Doc version (easier to follow footnotes) Part 1 Mental Pipelines Part 2 Interleaved IO Flows I Part 3 Interleaved IO Flows II Part 4 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs I Part 5 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs II Part 6 Concentration Part 7 ...

Thank you for this part in particular, Cleric, the densest and most precisely articulated meditation guide, full of apprehensible pitch angles. One thing that loosely permeates the experience of trying to rethink the thoughts and exercises, is a kind of absurdity of the situation: very few are ...

The Game Loop Part 7 Meditation Google Doc version (easier to follow footnotes) Part 1 Mental Pipelines Part 2 Interleaved IO Flows I Part 3 Interleaved IO Flows II Part 4 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs I Part 5 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs II Part 6 Concentration Part 7 Meditation Part ...

My Soul motivation to play games, e.g. like certain games that require a high level of concentration, lies in the fact that I obviously improve my ability to concentrate, especially working memory and the like, because it has been terrible for me a while ago. It got better now since I fixed less on ...

Sorry to be the game party pooper here, but all this seems potentially dangerous to me, for the reason you are giving, and even more so because the idea that “the game” should have this or that characteristic, already implicitly gives the game a value that goes beyond its educational value, its val ...

One thing I kept thinking about when watching was: instead of recapitulating the medieval stage of the intellectual soul and its factionizing tendencies (which of course still carry into our time), what if there was a Minecraft experiment that prefigured the late stage consciousness soul in ...

Speaking of this, I'm reminded of a good video that illustrates some of these principles: Thanks for sharing these, Cleric. I have finished part one and feel that I am able to follow along with the explanations pretty well. One thing that immediately struck me was how the ' multilayer perceptron ...