[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

Wed Sep 15 15:12:36 EDT 2021

As you might expect — of course I would buy it. I would attempt to experience each permutation of its settings, systematically, not randomly, and then probably put it on the shelf.

I would also buy a device that delivered variations in pain  stimuli, in the hope that it might lead to an understanding of how pain can induce mystical/transcendent "states." Most mystical traditions have this kind of thread along with meditation, drugs, and others.

I channel my Nietzche via Hesse, e.g.

**"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws.****  ****Others sense their own laws within them." **Herman Hesse.

davew

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 11:20 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Ok.  Imagine a device that would produce, at command, an orgasm.  Imagine further that it had settings that could be tweaked to produce different intensities and kinds of orgasm.  Imagine finally that it has a randomization setting.  Imagine that it costs 49.95, 30 day money back guarantee. 
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> Does this have to do with the Shirley/Kaye Sera dimension Glen and I were talking about? (I think Glen was the one amongst you clods that got that joke.)  We who are in love with Shirley would never touch it;  you Kaye-lovers would buy it, I suppose.  Does it have anything to do with lack of respect for the decisions that Evolution has made for you?  Is the Shirley/Kaye distinction a version of the Apollonian/Dionysian distinction?  I hope that Dave West, priest as he is at the Temple of Kaye, with straighten me out on my Nietzsche.  See also, **Patterns of Culture  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Benedict#Patterns_of_Culture>** 
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
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> I think the Flow TD-NIRS system is like $50k for now, but it isn’t really buyable yet.    The Flux magnetometer system would be in the millions, I think.   Nothing beats implanted wires!
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith
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> On 9/14/21 6:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> See kernel.com
> Yeh, like that...   plenty of what looks like slick pre-release hype-by-allusion, yet undeniably evidence that the development in this area is in a virtuous feedback loop.   A quick gander didn't present me with any numbers but the gear looks pretty pricey...   probably the stuff of a future motorcycle/bicycle/climbing helmet to upload your brain as you go into a skid/fall/tumble!
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>>> On Sep 14, 2021, at 4:40 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>>>  Glen-
>>>> Ha! Well, not for me. I'm a technophile. Even more important than drug-induced experiences are those induced by other technologies like transcranial magnetic stimulation, which I don't regard as fundamentally different from connectivity drugs. Implants would be even better for interacting with that hairball of [intero|proprio]ceptive feedback loops that compose consciousness as well as pain.
>>> I've been dabbling with transcutaneous electro neural stim and electro muscular stim (TENS/EMS) primarily for pain and rehab (Mary's recent back/leg pain/dysfunction), trying to work it into the VR/AR simulacral artifacts I already fiddle with in Visual/Aural/CheapHaptics.  
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>>> The accessibility of VR/AR gear (HUD/HMD/GPU/CPU) has already overshot my wildest dreams of a couple of decades ago   I fiddled with EEG pickups 20 years ago but it was too early or at least there was a metaphorical impedance mismatch of sorts. I've NOT dabbled with transcranial magnetic stimulation...   I don't even know if it is accessible.  I am curious (guardedly hopeful) that these things are maturing at a pop/commercial level faster/better than at the professional level.   There may well be a crowd-sourced ensemble exploration underway right now.
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>>> Regarding your *muscaria/fly agaric* aspirations, I'm hearing something more like homeopathy or law-of-similars since the "fly" in *fly agaric* comes from etymologically the habit of using it to poison flies by infusing it in milk to attract flies.    Maybe this is entirely a tangent (most of my observations here *are* tangents?).
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>>> - Steve
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>>>> So, I'll leave the sweat lodges and eating of wiggling things to more adventurous types like you. But the drugs need not be orally administered. I've always wanted to try to fly by painting myself with muscaria.
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>>>> On 9/14/21 11:03 AM, Prof David West wrote:
>>>>> Glen: /Were I fully liberated, I'd be doing a lot more, and a lot more diverse, drugs than I do./
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>>>>> Diversity of *_/experiences/_*, not just drugs!!
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