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, [email protected] 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. > > 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. > > 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 -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
