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- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
Ya but what’s something other than concentration that I can do with my attention. A different superpower. That’s what I’m asking.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
I appreciate the idea, and do have some experience with that, but these days I prefer Vipassana meditation.
It’s kind of a manual version of tripping.
It takes practice, slower, smoother, better control, permanent and has no ceiling.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Just started watching it. Presently at s01e03
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Philip Jose Farmer explored this idea in a few of his stories.
In one there was an alien race. They thought it was tragic that people would die and be gone from the world forever. So they invented an artificial soul (called a “wathan”) hooked it up to all the sentient beings. Then they managed an artificial afterlife too.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Thank you. I will look them up.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
A natural internet maybe. Discarnate dreamers drifting around, talking, looking for fun, spaceless, bodiless, timeless. Until a really good came catches you. And then there are rules.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
I think that psycho might be us.
When you dream at night your dreams tend to take the form of your fears, obsessions, desires, hangups etc. But you return. The physical world could be called a moderator. It keeps you from descending too far into your personal dreamworld.
But then you die. Same dreamworld, but no moderation. You troll yourself to exhaustion. Might take a million years. Until the physical world draws your attention again.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
I’m looking for the connection between copies.
My copy lives forever. How does that bear upon me?
There’s got to be a connection between identical systems. That just feels right. And add consciousness to the mix and it seems inevitable.
And given that there will always be infinite cases of total entropy reversal, there will always be a “plausible narrative” for resurrection available for every corpse. So if “immortality via copy” doesn’t do it, that will.
Here are 2 authors who explored the impossibility subjective death. IE while everybody else sees you die, you actually travel to a universe where your survival is explained by a plausible narrative (and progressively less plausible).
GREG EGAN. Permutation city. He called it “dust theory”
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
There might even be multiple worlds.
And maybe a “soul” can be divided.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
That is arguable.
Any exploration into strange realms of life, memory or consciousness (and there have been many of those) might shed useful light on the subject for speculation.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Sorry if that was trite. I was going off your “If we knew what it was then it wouldn’t be the afterlife” thing.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Congratulations faithful one. These 72 pure and virginal manta-rays are yours to despoil and plunder to your heart’s content.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
Ya but whats an attention-related superpower OTHER than concentration (and its associated powers)?
One guy here was talking about getting high and laying on his hammock.
And the Buddhists have an “alternative to concentration” type meditation technique.
- Comment on When playing Super Mario Bros I ignore my job, and vice-versa. That's two realities, oblivious to each other. What separates them? 11 months ago:
“it’s an attention” thing sounds right to me too. Shift of attention = shift of reality. In the small as well as the large.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
So, semantically speaking, it can’t exist. Ok.
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- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
do you crave powerlessness?
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
That is arguable. Depending on the person the control can vary. And with practice (which is what meditation is all about) the control can improve. And meditation (one form anyway) is all about cultivating depth and control. So yes, hand and glove.
But that much is either ambiguous or obvious. So wtfe. I swear you people fetishize this shit and its associated victimhood. I blame society.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
But what about hyperfocus?
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
His point is that people with ADHD can be especially good at meditation.
You need to address his actual point.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
Like looking up from your phone to notice the clouds.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
One might say that the ADHDers (and the autists, spergs and other similar neurodiverse) have a definite advantage here.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
Like meditation?
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
So you are getting silence, but you are doing it without concentrating.
Well this is exactly the kind of alternative superpower that I’m looking for in my OP question.
Concentration brings silence (and clarity etc), but it also brings some other stuff.
You are getting the silence, but without that other stuff. That’s a big deal.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
In the OP I asked for something other than concentrating. But all the replies so far refer to the fruits of concentration.
Like talking about sticking out your index finger, and then talking about all the amazing things that you can poke with it (and yes the horrors of fingercramp etc).
But what else can I do with my hand?
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
A kind of clarity. There would be other clarities too. Clear seeing, thinking, smelling…
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
Woah! I never heard of that one. That’s amazing.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
But what about my actual question?
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
You clearly fail to sympathize with the suffering of “normies”. Bound in a web of illusion. Never seeing clearly. I am shocked and appalled. :)
Also, some can control it. The power of hyperfocus is not exclusive to ADHD. Consider the autist, the sperg, the concentration meditation enthusiast.
The world is large and you are small. Think on that the next time you feel tempted to wallow in outrage.
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 11 months ago:
And yet it’s true about all the advantages that I listed. You seem to want to avoid that particular very important elephant. Hmm.
Are you hyperfocusing on the negative?