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Dear curious reader, if something has caught your attention on this account I would like to announce that this is my final LW post and elaborate on my reasons for stopping writing. In short, LessWrong made me less wrong. Why did I decide to write it formally? Partly to discipline...
Rationality involves understanding the hidden structures of our own cognition and motivation. A common failure mode is conflating symptom-relief with genuine problem-solving. Buddhist sources offer a stark, 2,500-year-old model of this, which I'll explore here using Nāgārjuna's potent analogy to reveal how pleasure relates to suffering. The first noble truth...
This post is based on a presentation by Robin Arnott Video Games as Meditation[1]. I would like to reflect on a topic of using video games as a meditative experience. First of all, I would like to show that almost any experience we have can be reduced to a trance....
There are common misconceptions concerning mindfulness meditation, what it even is and whether it leads to awakening or not. I've spent some years doing mindfulness meditation and would like to reflect on this topic based on some research papers to untangle this knot. I'll start with two sources. One is...
This post is a reflection on the Critical Meditation Theory[1] by lsusr. I find it interesting as an attempt to integrate all states of consciousness into the matrix of experience. As someone who has experienced both states, it got me thinking: what are the similarities between them and what are...
What is thinking? That inquiry can be approached in many ways: physiologically, psychologically, phenomenologically, etc. But I would argue that none shed light on thinking in the way physiology does. This text is written with a purpose to consolidate my understanding of the ideas from a seminal tractate "Reflexes of...
This post is a reflection on the topic of self-knowledge which was triggered by Curt Jaimungal's philosophizing about it in The Most Terrifying Philosopher I’ve Encountered. Curt argues that "Know Thyself" has become a slogan that is so misunderstood that it's turned into a nuisance. He equates self-knowledge with introspection...