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@nickcammarata
Oct 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Maybe contrarian opinion but we would learn 100x more about neuro if we put every dollar going towards connectomics towards psychedelics (also, learn way way more about mental health). Dynamics & interventions >> topology
Or maybe it’s the kind of contrarian opinion most good researchers agrees with but doesn’t feel safe bringing up at lab meetings. I care more about reducing the occurrences of these than I do about connectomics or psychedelics, as it controls the derivative of science
I don’t know a single neuroscientist that who thinks connectomics is a good dollar to insight investment, yet I don’t know of any who have written about this publicly. I don’t know what they’re say at intra-lab meetings but I suspect they keep quiet there too
I should add that I do think mapping low level neural mechanics is incredibly important, I just think connectomics is cargo cult mechanics

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May 4
years ago when jhana started working I realized I’d never fully relaxed into pleasure. most pleasures are fleeting, and I’d learned to grasp at it when it showed up out of scarcity. It was healing to instead just let it soak into my body for hours, slowly letting it flow around
I’m sure other people learn how to go from feel good scarcity to surplus mindset in other ways, but for me I can’t imagine another way than jhana. The dose and length of time I needed feelingly abundantly good was a lot, hundreds of hours resting in it before I started to let go
It had to heal two decades of believing that feeling good had to come from shaping the world to match all my constantly-changing desires. That’s stressful. Desires can change and the world is always changing. To have to get both aligned perfectly to feel good is terrifying
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We should integrate getting a glimpse of samadhi into the basic educational curriculum. The world would look different if every person knew from experience how much richer life can be, without changing material conditions at all, just from tasting the present moment more fully
It’s one of those things you can’t unsee. Increasing the richness and resolution of present moments in general is just by far a more powerful lever than trying to shape the present moment into how you like it while it’s low resolution, cloudy, and frazzled
If jhourney can get on the order of 70% of participants into jhana in a week, we can help teenagers (far less karma / gunk built up!) glimpse light samadhi over the course of months. It’s a much lower bar over a longer period of time. It makes a good coming of age experience
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Feb 20
pretty much every meditation technique ends up in infinite low-viscosity space if you do it well enough

the reason it's not already infinite space is because of feedback loops caused by resistance, and so if your meditation is anything but that those loops should wind down
vipassana all the contractions -> infinite space
jhana all the way -> jhana 8 -> infinite space
metta -> love dissolves contractions -> infinite space
concentrate on breath -> everything else falls away -> infinite space
do nothing -> contractions let go -> infinite space
for most of these more important than what you're doing is what you've stopped doing. the million habits and conditionings we do throughout the day that causes the contractions to happen in the first place

i think even just walking in nature with no phone does 80% of this
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Feb 3
the vast majority of thoughts are about ourselves because vast majority of our attention is spent pointing us towards the inside of our head
the attention there is so strong it congeals into a block and we think we “are” behind our eyes, floating. Which obviously doesn’t make any sense. The mind is generated and you’re all of it, the whole scene, not just one part
ime if you look at your shoes while the center is still there then your thoughts revolve around your shoes relationship to you (eg i need new shoes)

if you let the center detach and just attend to shoe the thoughts focus on the shoe itself, you aren’t part of the picture anymore
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Jan 18
Is there any good research on this question: do the best romantic relationships get there mostly because it was an effortless awesome fit, or because they’re really good at working together to make it awesome
personally all my best work relationships (3) were an effortless awesome fit, and vastly better than all the other ones, the other ones were so far behind I can’t imagine any way we could have made them as good as the first set. But maybe work and romance are different?
with ex bosses/cofounders/employees I took a half nurture half nature stance in terms of fit, and in retrospect I would have done better if I just leaned 100% into nature and destiny and assumed things that didn’t effortlessly work were unsalvalgable
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one odd but surprisingly useful advice I got when I started meditating is to have an (imaginal) "spiritual board" that you can ask for help on your path

mine had hayao miyazaki, leonardo, and a few other people I've read a lot of. If I could do it again I'd add steve irwin
it's similar where if you imagine what your smart friend would do in a situation you somehow get smarter. Like putting on different hats, seeing from different perspective. Asking an imaginal X what to do is magically more effective than trying to answer yourself in their style
obv i think having an actual non-imaginal support system (teacher, friends, etc) is important too, but i think the imaginal board is underrated and you kind of get it for free
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