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"In psychology, a mental state in which an organism forced to bear aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are “escapable,” presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation. Developed by American psychologist Martin Seligman starting in 1967."
#RTM #NeuroScience #Military #Media #Health #Therapy #Experience #Ethics
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Contemporary Art: Collection of Reality Tunnel Management Techniques
Links:
- https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/18/fusion-center-em/
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629918
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Delgado
“The secrecy involved in the development of the electromagnetic mind-altering technology reflects the tremendous power that is inherent in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology can control the minds of men – all men.” - Nexus Magazine (1998)
Or as described by Timothy Leary in 1977:
“Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. Those who control signals control humanity.” - Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (1983)
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Control your perception with your breath (via). Related: https://samim.io/breath/
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Fungus provides powerful medicine in fighting honey bee viruses Mycelium extract reduces viruses in honey bees (Washington State University) (via)
"A mushroom extract fed to honey bees greatly reduces virus levels, according to a new paper. In field trials, colonies fed mycelium extract showed a 79-fold reduction in deformed wing virus and a 45,000-fold reduction in Lake Sinai virus compared to control colonies. The hope is that the results of this research will help dwindling honey bee colonies fight viruses that are known to play a role in colony collapse disorder."
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Book: Dreaming The Future: How Our Dreams Prove Psychic Ability Is Real, And Why It Matters - by Bruce Siegel (discussion). Reminiscent of the classic An Experiment with Time - by J.W.Dunne (1927) (full text)
“Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.” — Zhuangzi
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"Simply saying that more health research is needed on 5G —the latest generation of cell phone technology— can be hazardous to your reputation."
Related: A Fact-Free Hit on a 5G Critic
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Hans Selye (1907 - 1982) was a pioneering endocrinologist of Hungarian origin. He conducted important scientific work on the response of an organism to stress. He is considered the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, both negative and positive (Eustress).
Selye International Institute for Advanced Studies
Docu on Selye and his ideas of medicine based on stress reduction - by Desire' Dubounet
Images from "The New Science of Stress and Stress Resilience" - talk by Elissa Epel
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From Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning", developer of Logotherapy (slides)
According to Frankl, "We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering" and that "everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances"
Documentary: Viktor Frankl und trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen (DE only)
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Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted
“If the goal of such studies is to discover a therapeutic application for humans, experiments on rats and mice are unlikely to produce a useful result because the size of the organ will not be sufficient and the result will be a far cry from humans anatomically” - Jiro Nudeshima, a life science specialist.
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https://psilocybin-research.com
"This website summarizes current cutting-edge scientific research on this extraordinary psychoactive compound with a thematic emphasis on its neurological and psychological effects and their relation to the evolution of consciousness."
Effects of psilocybin on hippocampal neurogenesis and extinction of trace fear conditioning (2013)
"Researchers found that psilocybin can stimulate hippocampal neurogenesis and extinguish conditioned fear responses, making it an ideal treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Even small doses show these outcomes."
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Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father "worked for the CIA", selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America. At one point, Escobar smuggled 15 tons a day into the US, making $420 million per week". Dirty business as usual - things change only very slowly.
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"Technological Masturbation" - by Robert Anton Wilson (1993)
The vibrator — first as shady joke, then a growing fad — has already prepared us for the technologization of sex, so introduction of the artificial sex partner will come as little surprise.
Rudimentary doll-like models are already for sale, one [called the Deep Throat model — naturally] is even capable of performing fairly realistic fellatio. Hedy Lamarr’s autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, reveals that a former lover of hers had a very elaborate imitation Hedy manufactured to give him solace when their affair went on the rocks. Such developments indicate that in sex, as elsewhere, desire plus money equals results — or, as George S. Kaufman once said of a friends‘ new estate, “This is what God could have done, if He’d had the money.”
Are we talking about substitute sex for the crippled, the malformed, the hopelessly ugly or neurotic? Only in the first generation of such technology. Brain-wave and other bio-feedback studies lead inevitably into the concept of cybernetic sex robots programmed to scan neural signals from the human partner and provide exactly, precisely, exquisitely what is desire in every second of sexual union. In fact, reports from Masters and Johnson indicate that their crude and pre-cybernetic [brainless] ACE model [artificial coital equipment] produced no frustration in the women who tried it. Eventually such mechanized substitutes can be programmed for an effect “better than the real thing,” as William S. Burroughs fantasised in his sixties science fiction novel “The Soft Machine.”
In recent years, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Baltimore possessed a 100-pound robot affectionately dubbed The Beast, that knows how to “feed” itself, i.e., to seek electric outlets and recharge its circuits when its power runs low. Sim one, an experimental robot at University of Southern California, has the external features of a man, stands over six feet tall and has a normal pulse rate, blood pressure and heartbeat; is white-skin coloured, moves its diaphragm and chest in simulation of breathing, and even possesses a tongue, teeth, and vocal cords. Sim’s keepers plan improved models that will sweat, bleed, cry out in pain, and eventually replace cadavers in training medical students. The Sim One of today combined with the Masters and Johnson ACE of today would already constitute a crude artificial playmate for women. A more complex Hedy Lamarr doll [or Linda Lovelace, or Raquel Welch or..] cannot be far away. [Recall the movie Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick) where NASA coerced Earth’s inhabitants to leave the planet by providing them with a humanoid playmate.]
Yes; why not a totally programmed sexual environment? Saul Kent, who has described this concept as “multi-media masturbation”, envisions sex tapes for the household computer, programmed for the all- around sexual trip — with or without partner. Already, X-rated motels in California provide water beds and closed circuit TV featuring porn films, so that a shy couple can have a simulated orgy and share their real selves with each other and the images of Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reems, and Marilyn Chambers. The next step, easily obtainable for the rich even now, is to program the whole inner environment of the bedroom for a fantasy that goes well with the sex act. ESB control of brain centres via this computer-programmed artificial environment would give, in Burrough’s perfect phrase, “precise control over thought, feeling, and apparent sensory impression” [his italics]. Reality in that room would be whatever you wanted it to be.
Of course, in a sense we already live inside that room, as the Buddhists know. That is, the human nervous system, properly programmed, can edit and orchestrate all experience into any gestalt it wishes. We encounter the same dismal and depressing experience over and over because they are repeating tape loops in the central programmer of our brains. We can encounter ecstasy over and over by learning the neurosciences that orchestrate all incoming signals into ecstatic tape loops. The contact has already happened right where you are sitting now. Whether it is tuned-in or not tuned-in depends on your skill as metaprogrammer.
Multi-media pornography will enthral millions when it first appears; porn light shows, porn 3-D, and porn holograms are the dawning intimations of a revolution that will climax — certainly by the early years of the next century — when the difference between porn and the artificial sex mate will no longer be visible. Multimedia solipsism and all-channel masturbation will be the pleasure norms.
- Technological Masturbation - by Robert Anton Wilson appeared in TOTAL, Volume 2 (1993).
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#Comment: Fun to discover Wilson discussing the idea of cybernetic/augmented total hedonism. A concept people like Robert Nozick explored in "Experience Machine" (1974) or David Pearce in "The Hedonistic Imperative" (1995) or even Daniel Kahneman "Hedonic psychology". Wilson's post includes a reference to the JHAPL's classic robot "The Beast", that knew how to “feed” itself, i.e., to seek electric outlets and recharge its circuits when its power runs low - an idea somewhat related to Shannon's Ultimate Machine, alas far less genius and fun. In my playbook, "augmented" or "optimized" hedonism is an extremely naive and boring concept, which quickly leads to experience mono-cultures and nonsensical discussions around "artificial love" - deep down in a hyper-commercial total-surveillance simulacra of meaningless bullshit. Growing calls to "end suffering through tech" are a clear sign of a crass misunderstanding of the most basic lessons of Buddhism, which such people love to frequently quote (meanings easily lost in translation and history to the gullible seeker). Somewhat related: Samim’s Law of Diminished Experience.
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Ride-Hailing Apps Have Allowed More Binging and Increased Demand For Bartenders.
"A study published last week analyzed ridesharing's effects on binge drinking and found that it increased heavy drinking by around 20% and increased employment at bars and restaurants by an average of 2%."
#Comment: A nice illustration that every technological augmentation comes with a side of amputation, the topic of a recent talk i gave: "Augmentation, Amputation, Dehumanisation - Towards Life Centered Design". #Augmentation #Health
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Too Much Screen Time May Be Stunting Toddlers’ Brains - Study by Harvard Med
"A new study using brain scans showed that the white matter in the brains of children who spent hours in front of screens wasn’t developing as fast as it was in the brains of kids who didn’t. It’s in the white matter of the brain where language, other literacy skills, and the process of mental control and self-regulation develop, researchers say."
#Comment: Calling Captain Obvious: An entire generation of technologists, designers and business people, who are willingly driving kids into tech addiction to maximize profits, belong in a mental institution and/or jail. Kids hooked on tech is a ticking time-bomb, this is just the tip of a giant iceberg. #Health #Technology
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The Important Gut-Behavior Relationship: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-and-behavior/201911/the-important-gut-behavior-relationship #Health #FFHCI
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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790 Medical Data: A Google Focus for More Than a Decade: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2019/11/12/medical-data-a-google-focus-for-more-than-a-decade/
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George Church and Eric Schmidt Talk Synthetic Biology at SynBioBeta 2019: https://synbiobeta.com/video-former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-talks-synthetic-biology-at-synbiobeta-2019/
#Comment: A ceremony at high temple of materialism, in a country where techno-capital replaced religion, civil society & sanity. The stark irony of super wealthy Jeffrey Epstein friends discussing how to control the wonders of life with machines owned by very few - in search of profits & the illusive ghost in the shell. Joe Mengele laughing from his grave.
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What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-4-day-workweek/ - #Business #Economics #Health
Some results were predictable: Workers were happier and took 25.4 percent fewer days off during the month. There were also savings from spending less time at work. 23.1 percent less electricity was used and 58.7 percent fewer pages were printed. More importantly from a bottom-line standpoint, however, productivity went up 39.9%, as fewer and shorter meetings were held, often virtually rather than in person.
