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The anonymous Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* spoke of contemplative practice as "a naked, blind feeling of being."
The Buddhists, especially in #Zen, speak similarly of practicing "thusness" or "suchness."
Tonight that came to expression for me as:
the way things are is what does the practice
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(I'll be away on a Zen retreat…
Overwhelmed Software Developers
Lisa-Marie Michels, Aleksandra Petkova, Marcel Richter, Andreas Farley, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04057
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Rank-2 wobbly bundles from special divisors on spectral curves
Duong Dinh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04224 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11717 has been replaced.
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Autism spectrum, feelings and (against all odds) a Witcher quote
"""
[…] Because you're a witcher and you can't feel any emotion. You don't want to fulfill my request, because you think that you care about her, you think that… Geralt, you are with her only because she wants that, and you'll be with her for as long as she wants to. What you're feeling is a projection of her emotion, her interest in you. To all demons of the Pit, Geralt, you're not a child, you know who you are. You're a mutant. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying this to offend or disdain you. I'm just stating a fact. You're a mutant, and one of the basic features of your mutation is your full immunity to emotion. You've been made like this so that you could do your job. Do you understand? You can't feel anything. What you're taking as emotion is actually cell memory, somatic memory, if you know what that means.
"""
(Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia, Okruch lodu, Istredd's words, my own translation)
However the context is different, it made me think of my own problems with emotions.
Am I capable of love? Or perhaps I can merely project somebody else's feelings, return them at the best. Or perhaps just intellectually be aware of what I am supposed to feel.
Was perhaps that, what I used to take for "love", actually gratitude that somebody was nice to me, or that she showed interest?
Or perhaps was it that she fitted into an unrealistic model that I've engraved into my personality as a child?
Or just an attachment, a feeling of safety, stemming from a large data set. A conviction that unpleasant surprise is no longer that likely.
Or just desperation, a need that's been forced into me since I was a child and that now I'm trying to attain based on what the media, books and personal stories tell me about it.
Or even something resembling a Stockholm syndrome. "At least she's paying attention to me. I know the worst she could do to me."
#ActuallyAutistic
NASA’s #Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/06/13/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/ - its four instruments study plasma waves, magnetic fields, and particles; Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft to directly sample interstellar space, which is the region outside the heliosphere — the protective bubble of magnetic fields and solar wind created by the Sun.