by Rebecca Edwards
The Mind
The Digital Mind
Digital consciousness and how this interacts with our mind consciousness
Digital consciousness refers to the experience of consciousness as it is mediated and shaped by digital technologies, such as computers, smartphones, and the internet. This can include everything from the way we interact with digital devices and platforms, to the way in which we process and respond to information in a digital context.
The interaction between digital consciousness and our mind consciousness is complex and multi-faceted. On the one hand, digital technologies have the potential to enhance our cognitive abilities and augment our experiences of the world. For example, digital tools can help us to process and analyze vast amounts of data, communicate with others across vast distances, and access information and resources that were previously inaccessible.
At the same time, digital technologies can also shape and constrain our experiences of the world, and can potentially interfere with our ability to process and understand information in a meaningful way. For example, the constant barrage of notifications, alerts, and distractions from digital devices can lead to a fragmented and distracted state of mind, making it more difficult to concentrate and engage in deep thinking.
Furthermore, the use of digital technologies can also have an impact on our sense of identity and selfhood. The constant pressure to present a curated and idealized version of ourselves on social media, for example, can lead to a disconnection from our true selves and a sense of anxiety and inadequacy.
The mind as a computational tool of connection and information dissemination
The mind can be thought of as a computational tool of connection and information dissemination. Through our experiences and interactions with the world, our minds process and organize information, forming connections and associations that allow us to navigate and make sense of our environment.
One way in which the mind serves as a tool for connection is through our ability to form social connections and relationships with others. Through language, social norms, and shared experiences, we are able to communicate and share information with one another, forming complex networks of social and cultural connections that shape our individual and collective experiences.
Additionally, the mind also plays a crucial role in the dissemination of information, allowing us to learn, remember, and share knowledge with others. Through processes such as memory and attention, the mind allows us to store and retrieve information, and to make connections and associations between different pieces of information.
As computational tools, our minds also allow us to process and analyze complex information, allowing us to make decisions and solve problems based on a combination of logical and intuitive processes. This ability to think and reason has allowed us to make incredible advancements in science, technology, and other fields, and has helped us to better understand and shape the world around us.
How is knowledge made, is it calculated, is ML logic or a thought?
Social Media and it effects on our perception of reality and self
The mind in relation to body
Mental health/Illness and awareness
Care through talking practices and genuine listening
Medication / Placebo
Meditation
Mind Control
Dreams
Philosophy and Theories
Hallucinogenic experiences
“there in the darkness of the heart of the Amazon we had been found and touched by this bizarre and ancient life form that was now awakening to the global potential of a symbiotic relationship with technical humanity. All night long strange vistas and insights poured through me; I saw gigantic machineries and worlds of vegetable and mechanical forms on scales inconceivably vast. Time agotized and glittering seemed to pour by me like living super fluids inhabiting dream regions of terrible pressure and super cold and I saw the plan, the mighty plan. At last, it was an ecstasy, an ecstasis that lasted hours and placed the seal of completion on all of my previous life. In the end, I felt reborn but as what I knew not.”
In Jungian terms, the psyche is some sort of malleable mechanism - if you set yourself up as something you will become it, so if you set yourself up as on a quest you will actually find something transcendental and unimaginable.
“what the psychedelic is going to do is it's going to destroy your whole world your whole conception of your world and for some people that is tremendously liberating - they say, “wonderful at last I'm free of it” while other people say, “my god now I'm hopelessly mad I have nothing left to cling to, I've really done it this time”. So that's almost an aesthetic judgment, whether you like watching your world shredded before your eyes and made into nonsense, if that makes you feel liberated and secure then you can sign up for this carnival. If that alarms you i think best to stick to the tried and true, it's not for people of weak psychic constitution”
“I know someone who says of the mushrooms my goal with taking mushrooms is always to be able to stand more - and they don't mean higher doses, they mean more of what it reveals… The mushroom speaks. The strange the confounding fact about these mushrooms is that they speak to you in plain English and this is completely unexpected - by being able to have a relationship to this thing you open up yourself to what is essentially a magical dimension a dimension of allyship”
counter cultures
microdosing - Silicon Valley medication
Conspiracy theories / virus’s of the mind
Consciousness of oneself through thoughts and processing of ideas
Systems of the mind / coding the mind / programming the mind
Other
Networked infrastructure - How can we learn from queer, migrant, crip, and anti-colonial solidarity movements across translocal sites of struggle to re-imagine the networked infrastructures we deservemorality.
In some philosophical traditions, the soul is believed to be immortal, and is thought to persist beyond the physical death of the body. Other traditions hold that the soul is a transient phenomenon, and that it ceases to exist when the body dies.
The question of the soul has been explored by philosophers across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts, and has been approached from a variety of different philosophical perspectives. Some philosophers have sought to understand the nature of the soul through reason and logic, while others have looked to religious and spiritual traditions for guidance.
Sins vs. redemption
Reincarnation
An understanding of how deeply rooted traumas / experiences / histories affect our present
The immaterial
Something existing outside of consciousness, outside of our body, on a different plane of existence
Body related
Essence of a person - memory, nostalgia, identity, personality surviving past our physical body
Resurrection