Category: embodiment
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A Pressing Theoretical Question for Biotensegrity
A Pressing Theoretical Question for Biotensegrity If from the perspective of biotensegrity the scapula is sesamoid bone, does this make it more special or less special? If we say that from the perspective of a biotensegrity structure all bones are sesamoid bones, does this make them more meaningful or less meaningful? A sesamoid bone is…
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The Paradigm Shift Is Perceptual
Metacognition does not mean cognition about cognition. That is a very shortsighted answer. Cognition about cognition is just more cognition. While this answer is convenient for computer science it doesn’t reflect the neurology of the human body. The Greek prefix meta means above and beyond but it also means within and between. There is also…
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The Game Changer
The Game Changer This repost rekindles an old but familiar flame… That’s us! is my response. But maybe this time around we will fight for our rights not against others but with compassion, community, and cooperation, rather than just defiance. Defiance doesn’t always set the best example for people with difficulties in self reflection and…
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Perceptual shift
Perceptual shift happens within. Paradigm shift? Perceptual shift? Cognitive shift? A fundamental shift in the way we understand science and life? This is happening. A new physics of life. This has been going on at least since the 20th century as a continuous development and we now have what looks like the best contender for…
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The emergence of a coherent and transformative vision of health.
Here in the United States there is a kind of collective psychosis or delusion that is embodied in the two figureheads of Trump and Musk. There is a powerful single mindedness of purpose that is driving that destructive process forward. It has to do with power over and extractive wealth and ethnic cleansing. Writing during…
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The substrate is the flesh.
Proposal: a testable haptic theory of the functional anatomy of the human sensory motor Markov blanket, focusing on proprioception. This is major advance in active inference theory. The integrative kinesiological functions of the proprioceptive sensory motor system are the basis of biomechanical active inference. The postural system of the body can be specified accurately biomechanically…
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A Whole New Body Part: The Deep Core.
A Whole New Body Part: The Deep Core. Embodying Musclemonk Day 8 I teach about a whole new body part: the Deep Core. That’s got to be pretty important. It’s a big deal. A game changer. Because it brings with it a new form of cognition. I meditate upon it in these videos. Find out…
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Embodying Musclemonk Day 7, 1-7-2025
The discovery of a radical new body part and with it a radical new form of cognition. This is how to meet the metacrisis head on. Stage Fright I am finding that one of the most difficult things about embodying Musclemonk in addition to imposter syndrome is stage fright. I am looking for an improv…
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The anatomy of the universal patterns of the subconscious.
The anatomy of the universe patterns of our subconscious –The subconscious patterns of our animal intelligence are reducible to a handful of highly metaphorical adaptive micromovements.— In chapter 3 of June Singer’s biography of Carl Jung, The Boundaries Of The Soul, she talks about how Jung, working with others, figured out that the unconscious was…
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The Solution Is Within Each Of Us
The Solution Is Within Each Of Us We are living in a time of crisis. We are dangerously disconnected from the Earth resulting in serious ecological catastrophe. We are also alarmingly disconnected from each other resulting in tremendous polarization, hostility and weaponization. We are also very seriously disconnected from our own bodies, resulting in chronic…
Three Bones Theory 