[FRIAM] speaking of drugs

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Very nice links! I also wonder if Wim Hoff hyperventilating and the borderline pseudoscience stuff surrounding the vagus nerve are relevant, here. There's data surrounding chronic pain that suggest a familiarity with pain, reduces its prevalence. I *believe* (but haven't looked into it), that it's not merely habituation to the pain. I think the mobility fosters some mechanistic processes that reduce both the pain and its causes.

When I used to run long distances, I never really experienced a recognizable "runner's high". But I did go into something like fugue states that may be akin to a psychedelic. Sometimes I'd come out of the run with a solution to a work problem. But there was also a period where I began to believe in magic/witchcraft. I was running like 6 miles per weekday and longer on the weekend days. That feeling/belief faded drastically later in the day (I work out fasted in the mornings) and disappeared completely if I skipped a day. My "sober" self later in the day literally (yes, literally) scoffed at the silly beliefs of my running self.

Despite that story, I think you're onto something with the parallax. Tools (phone apps, sticky notes, etc.) that help remind one of issues/objectives/problems while in multiple various states might be interesting.

On 2/27/20 11:16 AM, joshua at stigmergic.net wrote:
> Only tangentially related,  but I was very struck by the discussion of the “empathy gap” in a recent Hidden Brain podcast (links below).  The empathy gap was described as we aren’t really even able to understand or predict our own decision making process when we are in a different “state”  from that in which we would be making the decision.  
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>  I wonder if armed with the idea of the empathy gap there is a way to take advantage of these different people we become when in different states and if this relates to the different states we can reach through drugs or other means.  I.e. we could focus group a decision (for insight) by considering it in many different states.   
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> https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/empathy-gap/
> https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783495595/in-the-heat-of-the-moment-how-intense-emotions-transform-us

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