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canonical thread about annealing, I didn't understand most of it but seems legit as hell https://twitter.com/metadiogenes/status/1240519189179367424
I love the annealing principle because while it views the brain as an incredibly complex system, it also somehow transcends that complexity with this kind of overarching view that works on all the complexity at once with a simple beautiful elegance???
It's like programmers often talk about "logic" as a mass noun, like "ugh, this module has such a huge amount of logic." The brain has a huge amount of complexity, but the annealing view seems to kind of make the complexity itself into an almost simple thing?
The brain's complexity is like the complexity of broccoli, a natural emergent texture that still has its own regularity and pattern, that actually coheres as a unified organ. And annealing works on all that complexity at the same time, globally
Meditation is lovely because it treats "thought" on a higher level, it doesn't follow and resolve specific thought objects but operates on the entire organ of thinking and feeling, treats all thoughts as basically the same and optimizes globally
After good meditation it's hard to specify exactly how it helped—because you weren't engaging with anything specific, you were doing something with the entire connected system, smoothing and harmonizing all its folded complexities
harmonize all your intentions into the single unified bodhisattvic vision of acquiring a good forest sauna https://twitter.com/meekaale/status/1303764749973442560
