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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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How to Accept Your Thoughts

Kurt Vonnegut: I don't have enough self love or self acceptance. Last night I was using a rubber band for my thoughts like self administered, aversive conditioning when you snap yourself if you're performing a bad habit. So then last night I was telling myself, you know what, try that out. Accept these thoughts. He says he's not exactly sure what it means to accept them but at least meet them 'not with horror and dread and avoidance' But after five minutes of this quote unquote acceptance therapy the first time in three weeks since he've had this, felt absolutely like his regular self. And then I woke up this morning felt like my regular self, like

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