Daoism & the Involuntaries (Part 3): Thinking & Predictive Debt

Dare Carrasquillo   Debt in this article means that you have overdrawn on your resources and are now consuming more than you recover, store, or generate. Part 1: Background Part 2: Sleep & Movement Debt   Predictive Debt The brain is largely a predictive processor. It generates/predicts perceptions, thoughts and feelings (emotions). It does this […]

Daoism & the Involuntaries (Part 1): Background

Dare Carrasquillo Alternative title: Story, State, Action Model for a Collapsing Mythology (part 1) Index of articles related to Story, State, Action model can be found here.    This is in conversation with my 2023 year of the dragon article on Daoism, Degrowth & Decolonization.   Hi. I’m going to assume you know some things […]

Cartoontra (Deathclown Rules #3)

Dare Carrasquillo   Tantra: The Sanskrit word ‘Tantra’ derives from the verbal root tan, meaning ‘to weave’, or ‘compose’, and refers to a type of instructional text, often written as a dialogue between a god and a goddess1. According to Padoux, the verbal root Tan means: “to extend”, “to spread”, “to spin out”, “weave”, “display”, […]

See Me So I Can See Myself

Nick Konow       View this post on Instagram   Some audio on seeing and being seen, on the stories we tell others and those stories we tell ourselves. The visual, meaningless. I am a screensaver. I am a dolphin swimming in the ocean. A post shared by N I C K K O […]