To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
Looking forward to a walk this weekend, and as we say 'bye bye' before I head to the SF Bay Area on September 1 2023.
Your mentioning your current right hip issues and re our upcoming walk leads me to share some Iyengar Yoga with you and, as a Yoga teacher with a 2 year certificate from the Iyengar Yoga institute of SF - IN TERMS OF Alignment AND what poses you might gently do, gradually explore and also adapt (even for the centuries ahead with emerging aging reversal genetic drugs potentially) ...
Searched on -
'alignment for hip issues Iyengar yoga'
and found this video potentially helpful, many poses practiced on one's back restoratively -
Might there be someone with Yoga knowledge at Longw... (or in Oakmont or Verona) who could help you explore these poses or asana with attention to alignment, balance, and detail?
Love, Scott
PS
Would love to teach you these Yoga pose explorations INTERACTIVELY online via the internet further perhaps after exploring these in person once or twice before I depart - on Cuttyhunk even? You've occasionally mentioned hip pain in recent years, Ma, and doing Yoga asana can help relieve this, with many other benefits.
I also practiced these five asana this morning after Yoga meditation first thing upon rising -
Baddha Konasana
Ardha Matsyendrasana
Ananda Balasana
Gomukhasana (Head of a cow pose)
Viparita Karani
(Due to an old right shoulder injury, I have some further explorations in releasing the arms in Gomukhasana (Head of a cow pose) I just discovered ... the legs in Gomukhasana help with alleviating hip pain).
Added this Tweet to - the Yoga wiki subject or school at World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga - as I and friends continue to update and teach to and learn from these wiki schools, a long lifetimes' project !
AND
Excited for when we can add first genes back into our body minds, FDA approved, & have them #ReverseAging of some part of us, or system wide & per https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk (@ 45 secs fwd) per @geochurch @BillGates
to me, Jane, John, Joan, Alden, Ed, John, Pin, Linda, chalmers, Henry
Ma, (John Sargent MD, Ed Smyth MD) All,
Thanks for your email regarding your private hip issues, which I won't mention again!
Again -
"Ma,
Did you say on the phone last night "Glad you wrote that" or similar and were you referring to these questions about the Oedipus complex + here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/07/yellow-elder-tecoma-stans-flower-bs.html - and newly regarding Lacan and 'bringing this' into the "symbolic" register, rather than the 'mirror/imaginary,' or 'real' (and re Sandy MacLeod especially)?
Love, Scott
Yellow Elder, Tecoma stans , flower (BS - National flower of Bahamas): Moving to Canyon 94516 on 9/1/23 concerns * Some concerns along Oedipal question lines * * John Sargent MD, Ed Smyth MD, Don Tatzin (former mayor of Lafeyette CA 94549) - In my and MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch calling for abolition especially and growing an abolition movement, how best to begin to plan to move back into Canyon 94516 on 9/1/23, and out of this possibly murderous house 210 East End avenue Pgh PA 15221 on July 31, 2023? * * * * Here's a synopsis of the 'Oedipus complex' (per Freud) * * Also what are your thoughts about the Oedipus complex re psychiatry, Lacan & this 'Yellow elder flower ... blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/07/yellow-elder-tecoma-stans-flower-bs.html?m=0 ?
So sorry your right hip is a challenge these days!
Some further thoughts for perspective and your own thinking -
Angela Farmer has had serious hip pain for probably more than 2 decades, and as a great Yogini has chosen to work around it, live with it, with her and Victor's amazing knowledge of the self-healing body through asana and similar rather than seek any procedure or operation (wisely I think too). She's probably been able to consult with many expert MDs as well in Germany, the US, and elsewhere too through contacts of people who come to their Yoga courses. Yogis can also use injuries or ailments like your right hip challenge as learning opportunities on a journey of life, but which may come out of an ascetic history tradition before modern allopathic medicine ... but when there are no helpful MD solutions informs this old Yoga approach to bodymind ailments like your hip.
Would you want to get a second or third MD opinion? Would you want to get one even at Harvard Medical School or at Tufts Medical Center in Boston for example? In a related vein, re Tufts' John Sargent MD - with whom I talked with from Canyon 94516 for around 1.5 years possibly 10 years ago, but now with whom I am in just a little email and phone contact with (and he's good and a person too) - would you want to communicate with John Sargent MD about some of the concerns you've shared with me? Send him an email or call him up - (617) 636-8768.
He's a good MD therapist too, as well as a possible contact for you,, listens, knows the benefits of talk therapy, is smart, and knows the law, both federal and state of MA and ME and has legal counsel, - and may have MD oversight and networks regarding Maine health systems too since Tufts' Med Ctr is in Maine MD psychiatrically too (and re Sandy's possible homicidal inclinations even ... &:Re Cuttyhunk house) - and am glad George Alexander MD referred me to John (after George's 'assault' on me for example too). It cost money to talk with John Sargent MD but this talk therapy could even also partly be leading to a free house, newly safe, in Canyon 94516 - and with my and WUaS calling for abolition.
And re Friendly plain speech, if your right hip challenges could also somehow and obliquely refer to your son Sandy MacLeod and your challenges with him too - re his moving possibly to the right politically??? (sadly too if this means overlooking people's human rights, or making victims of people) ... or his hippy responses to the law both federal and state, MA or ME, and re our Cuttyhunk house too ... keeping this Sandy right hip issue (re illegal behaviors sexually too?) private makes much much sense. Thanks for letting me know re privacy and your right hip challenges, Ma!
Or if your right hip issues could refer to your relative conservativeness regarding paraphilia or kinky sex (some definition and thinking here -
and the illegal sex industry internationally, and their latent networks of violence, and even our Cuttyhunk house - and your growing consciousness of all of this - thanks for this opportunity to communicate using plain speech about these issues too.
- could be a really great workaround to a currently unsolvable right hip pain (until genetic drugs come along?) , - and regarding Yoga in other ways too.
Looking forward to our walk this weekend if your right hip is walkable. :)
Restorative Yoga ONLINE: 'Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations' "Yoga is the inner releasing action, meditation {#relaxationresponse}, of the bodymind/brain for we language-using human primates"
AND especially (and for our protection even, Ma and All) ~
"Hi Ma,
So sorry your right hip is a challenge these days!
Some further thoughts for perspective and your own thinking -
Angela Farmer has had serious hip pain for probably more than 2 decades, and as a great Yogini has chosen to work around it, live with it, with her and Victor's amazing knowledge of the self-healing body through asana and similar rather than seek any procedure or operation (wisely I think too). She's probably been able to consult with many expert MDs as well in Germany, the US, and elsewhere too through contacts of people who come to their Yoga courses. Yogis can also use injuries or ailments like your right hip challenge as learning opportunities on a journey of life, but which may come out of an ascetic history tradition before modern allopathic medicine ... but when there are no helpful MD solutions informs this old Yoga approach to bodymind ailments like your hip.
Would you want to get a second or third MD opinion? Would you want to get one even at Harvard Medical School or at Tufts Medical Center in Boston for example? In a related vein, re Tufts' John Sargent MD - with whom I talked with from Canyon 94516 for around 1.5 years possibly 10 years ago, but now with whom I am in just a little email and phone contact with (and he's good and a person too) - would you want to communicate with John Sargent MD about some of the concerns you've shared with me? Send him an email or call him up - (617) 636-8768.
He's a good MD therapist too, as well as a possible contact for you,, listens, knows the benefits of talk therapy, is smart, and knows the law, both federal and state of MA and ME and has legal counsel, - and may have MD oversight and networks regarding Maine health systems too since Tufts' Med Ctr is in Maine MD psychiatrically too (and re Sandy's possible homicidal inclinations even ... &:Re Cuttyhunk house) - and am glad George Alexander MD referred me to John (after George's 'assault' on me for example too). It cost money to talk with John Sargent MD but this talk therapy could even also partly be leading to a free house, newly safe, in Canyon 94516 - and with my and WUaS calling for abolition.
And re Friendly plain speech, if your right hip challenges could also somehow and obliquely refer to your son Sandy MacLeod and your challenges with him too - re his moving possibly to the right politically??? (sadly too if this means overlooking people's human rights, or making victims of people) ... or his hippy responses to the law both federal and state, MA or ME, and re our Cuttyhunk house too ... keeping this Sandy right hip issue (re illegal behaviors sexually too?) private makes much much sense. Thanks for letting me know about privacy and your right hip challenges, Ma!
Or if your right hip issues could refer to your relative conservativeness regarding paraphilia or kinky sex (some definition and thinking here -
and the illegal sex industry internationally, and their latent networks of violence, and even our Cuttyhunk house - and your growing consciousness of all of this - thanks for this opportunity to communicate using plain speech about these issues too.
- could be a really great workaround to a currently unsolvable right hip pain (until genetic drugs come along?) , - and regarding Yoga in other ways too.
Looking forward to our walk this weekend if your right hip is walkable. :)
In asylum from CA in PA, and with the potential murderous run through of me by craven, psychopath? soldier, criminal murderer? frederic khayat, abolitionally, Thanks, Friendly Greetings,
Bring the abolition movement next to the Stanford Hoover criminal folks, and in an ongoing way regarding all of Stanford and UC Berkeley, and all the University of Californias, CA state universities, and community colleges too ?
And what role could a craven psychopath? criminal soldier? murderous run through of me being part of this - and the illegal sex industry internationally ...
and regarding a hsiwej Stanford President and many Ivy league college presidents too for example ... Time to bring back the naitsirhc highest achieving university presidents ... yes ... they're changing the guard at Buckingham palace again ...
And re MIT OCW- centric wiki World Univ & Schs too ?
PPS Just texted this to Ed Smyth MD, and my mother -
Hi Ed! How are you? How is Theo? Might we see each other in early September if I'm able to move back into a newly safe Canyon 94516 thanks to your precipitation? Fond regards, abolitionally, still quite a lot in limbo, hoping to see you, Scott (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/07/flax-linum-usitatissimum-by-national.html?m=0 ... might have to hike together physically since World Univ & Sch and no one else seem to have created 'hiking together in digital masks VR headsets and glasses' like with AllTrails on PCT or with Google Street View! ,Scott
Ma, just shared this with Ed: "Hi Ed! How are you? How is Theo? Might we see each other in early September if I'm able to move back into a newly safe Canyon 94516 thanks to your precipitation? Fond regards, abolition-ally, still quite a lot in limbo, hoping to see you, Scott (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/07/flax-linum-usitatissimum-by-national.html?m=0 ... might have to hike together physically since World Univ & Sch and no one else seem to have created 'hiking together in digital masks vr headsets and glasses' like with AllTrails on PCT or with Google Street View!
Scott" What do you think about hiking together in digital glasses remotely ? Love, Scott
Thanks for your support and encouragement of daily Yoga meditation (think Angela and Victor inspired, and relaxation response meditation as well ~ and as exploring consciousness), which I find salutary and so gravitate to this for the inner releasing action first thing in the morning, and of playing Piobaireachd classical Scottish bagpiping music these days, just before going to bed, and prettiest Piobaireachd (which sing to me) that I can find :)
Ma, so we can do Yoga asana together for your hip, shall you and I head up to Cuttyhunk in 2 cars on July 31st or August 1st and spend much of August there (especially since my lease is ending on M July 31, 2023), coming and going? (I may explore, for example, heading up to Antigonish, Nova Scotia to see if I can talk with John Walsh bagpipe maker about tuning all 3 chanters - B flat, A and D - to the 4 drones (and with the combo drone) maybe even seeking a lesson or a chat from great Scottish Small Pipes' maker John Walsh himself.)
Exploring further and creatively questions about consciousness, studying consciousness regarding philosophy of mind (possibly insoluble body-mind questions), studying Yoga consciousness scientifically and with a Realistic Virtual Earth For Species, Realistic Virtual Earth For Consciousness, a Realistic Virtual Earth For Brain Science, ~ and with the joy of meditating first thing in the morning -
How to study #consciousness re #Yoga as #Awareness of #SubjectiveExperience as #YogicMeditation & model in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords? eg how to add #RelaxationResponse scientific lit. https://relaxresponse.com/research/ >#GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider #TextInTheSidebar as #LLMs?
How to study #consciousness re #Yoga as #Awareness of #SubjectiveExperience as #YogicMeditation & model in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords? eg how to add #RelaxationResponse scientific lit. https://relaxresponse.com/research/ >#GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider #TextInTheSidebar as #LLMs?
1/2 Is echolocation a good proxy for #BatConsciousness as its #SubjectiveExperience @davidchalmers42 & #TomNagel? How best to iteratively model this as #EcholocationConsciousness as "something it is like for the organism" as #AvatarBats in #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness?
2/2 Begin to model #BatConsciousness in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies @WorldUnivAndSch? Think veterinary #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords BAT #AvatarBots #AvatarBats from #Pegman in #StreetView #GoogleCellView #GoogleMoleculeView w #TimeSliders ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F ~
i'd like to publish "could a large language model be conscious?", the written version of my 2022 neurips talk, before it's entirely obsolete. any suggestions for where? it's a little informal for an academic journal and a little academic for general media.
i'd like to publish "could a large language model be conscious?", the written version of my 2022 neurips talk, before it's entirely obsolete. any suggestions for where? it's a little informal for an academic journal and a little academic for general media. https://t.co/lNpoPAXgkm
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' seminal 1974 #PhilosophyPaper by #TomNagel Can we ask key consciousness questions including re "possible insolubility of the mind–body problem" w #LargeLanguageModels ? ...
'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' seminal 1974 #PhilosophyPaper by #TomNagel Can we ask key consciousness questions including re "possible insolubility of the mind–body problem" w #LargeLanguageModels in a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor Consciousness Brains etc ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F ~
tom nagel's keynote talk at @ASSC26NYC: "psychophysical monism as an ideal". this is a rare video of tom discussing consciousness. now emeritus at NYU, tom rarely speaks at conferences, but this one was just two blocks from his home so he couldn't say no.
Youtube
tom nagel's keynote talk at @ASSC26NYC: "psychophysical monism as an ideal". this is a rare video of tom discussing consciousness. now emeritus at NYU, tom rarely speaks at conferences, but this one was just two blocks from his home so he couldn't say no. https://t.co/gufG86QieY
Google collects Street View imagery (data) by driving, pedaling, sailing and walking around and capturing imagery with special cameras that simultaneously collect images in multiple directions. The images are later overlapped and stitched together into a single 360-degree image. Where is Street View?
Mary Dunn was an Iyengar Yoga teacher I sought to study with after she moved from San Diego in around 1986 to NYC, and moved across the country to do so, from Portland, Oregon, not long after graduating from Reed College (with an interest in hippy communities too, like Alpha Farm in the Oregon coastal range, and in Quakers / Friends), but the dynamic, amazing Yoga teacher (Yoga philosopher in a sense as well) Mary Dunn hadn't quite become established in NYC, so she said she wouldn't become my teacher, and instead (thanks in part to my uncle Bruce Macleod) I enrolled at Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation for 3 terms (and worked in the Pendle Hill Bookstore and Publishing House for 2.5 years after this), SW of Philadelphia PA, near Swarthmore College and a fascinating Quaker community that began in the 1930s, and outside the organizational structure of Quaker Monthly Meetings, Quarterly Meetings, and Yearly Meetings for example. Mary Dunn passed on with cancer not long after she moved to NYC
Here's the remarkable Mary Dunn talking about her mother, and travelling together, and so much more, with her mother present (interesting!) -
Glad Angela and Victor are still alive (and are visionary old hippy Yoga teachers too) ... They left Iyengar Yoga quite dramatically in the 1980s I think ... with Victor publicly denouncing, I think, the institutionalization of Iyengar Yoga in SF at a conference there. (He's an artist too, and made some interesting T-Shirts about this and with reasons, photos of which I still have).
VR modeling of bat brain activity echolocation film to 3d youtube - Twitter
'#VRModeling of bat brain activity echolocation #FilmTo3D' "Batlab studies E-L to learn how animals "see" w sound - Sci. Nat." #NSF https://youtu.be/xJwd1eCHbBk
w #LargeLanguageModelsForBiology #LLMs #GoogleProteinView w #TimeSlider trained on protein sequences #Consciousness #wuAsVR?
'#VRModeling of bat brain activity echolocation #FilmTo3D'
"Batlab studies echolocation to learn how animals "see" with sound - Science Nation" - NSF - https://youtu.be/xJwd1eCHbBk
w #LargeLanguageModelsForBiology
#FilmTo3DApps GoogleProteinView w #TimeSlider
Protein language models”—LLMs trained not on English words but rather on protein sequences
solution to the mind–body problem holds that whatever "consciousness" is - might be explained by digital processes - a realistic virtual earth for brain science in 1 realistic virtual earth
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solution to the mind–body problem holds that whatever "consciousness" is, it can be fully described via physical processes in the brain and body.[5]
Protein language models”—LLMs trained not on English words but rather on protein sequences
Other groups have even broader aspirations, aiming to build generalized “foundation models for biology” that can fuse diverse data types spanning genomics, protein sequences, cellular structures, epigenetic states, cell images, mass spectrometry, spatial transcriptomics and beyond.
The Next Frontier For Large Language Models Is Biology
Rob Toews
I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence.
In his article, “What is it like to be a bat?” Thomas Nagel argues that there are facts about conscious experience that are subjective and can only be known from that subjective perspective. Even if we know all the objective facts about bats, we may not actually know what it would really be like to be a bat.
#Consciousness re #PhilosophyOfMind & #WUaSMeditation #YogicConsciousness #AandVYoga questions in #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness too Code for #AwarenessExperience as #SubjectiveExperience in #GoogleCellView w #AvatarBots?
Flax, Linum usitatissimum (BY - National flower of Belarus): alignment & gentle poses for hip issues - Iyengar yoga * 5 Yoga Stretches To Provide Relief From Hip Pain ~ Baddha Konasana Ardha Matsyendrasana Ananda Balasana Gomukhasana Viparita Karani * * #Consciousness re #PhilosophyOfMind & #WUaSMeditation #YogicConsciousness #AandVYoga questions in #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness too Code for #AwarenessExperience as #SubjectiveExperience in #GoogleCellView w #AvatarBots? https://relaxresponse.com/research/ * * * Is #GoogleStreetView with #TextInTheSidebar pot. a #LargeLanguageModel to study consciousness? Add paper below, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F as it is here http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness & code for #Consciousness #SubjectiveExperience in #GoogleCellView #GoogleMoleculeView w #AvatarBots? * * VR modeling of bat brain activity echolocation film to 3d youtube - Twitter * * * Excited for when we can add first genes back into our body minds, FDA approved, & have them #ReverseAging of some part of us, or system wide & per https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk (@ 45 secs fwd) per @geochurch @BillGates https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geneticshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity @WorldUnivAndSch ~
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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