What does #nurturing #embodied #selfAware fatherhood look like?

Sometimes, it looks like surgically removing all the "green stuff" from your 4-year-old's freezer pizza while your own meal goes cold.

Sometimes it looks like giving her all your french fries, because she's still being picky about the pizza.

And sometimes it looks like eating the picked-over pizza yourself because *somebody* ate half your dinner and your main contribution to the family is being a human trash compactor.

Some thoughts on today's #meditation. Something deep inside teaches us to meditate. It can take the first few years of meditation or magical practice before we learn to pay attention to those #embodied messages. Then they help get you high. Eg my current one: I'm sitting & I notice I'm copping an attitude to an unpleasant state, which begs the question *who* is copping that attitude? Different from or same as the self that's experiencing some unpleasantness? Sometimes that paradox collapses into 'alone with the alone', and a lovely high state. #magick #EmbodiedMagick #AloneWithTheAlone

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3. Applying bio-based material solutions shows substantial #embodied carbon reduction #potential (#CarbonReductionStrategies).
4. A particularly encouraging finding: Carbon budget-based #ClimateTargets for buildings can be met when applying bio-based material solutions in combination with low-tech/high-brain building design.
5. Next, future research is needed on the #implementation and #scaling of regenerative design strategies.

#ClimateChange #Construction #Buildings #NatureBasedSolutions

"We argued that the state of co-embodiment leads necessarily to co-homeostasis (...). Co-homeostasis in human primitive bodies relies upon self-regulatory processes achieved through others". Brilliant! 🎩 👏
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RT @AnnaCiaunica
The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life - ScienceDirect. This paper tries to say something important about our conscious experiences 😎 ⁦@Katlab_UCL⁩ ⁦@ConstantA…
https://twitter.com/AnnaCiaunica/status/1547469128147116033

#Enaction #Consciousness #Embodiment #Embodied

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43784-2_3

#Enaction #Embodiment #Embodied #Existential #Scybernethics

It's beginning, third person educated scholars try to criticize ChatGPT, but they can't do it convincly because they stand on the same level: abstraction. In the end, I'm sure it will be a good thing for embodied paradigms and practitioners.

#Technopolitics #Embodied #Biopolitics #ChatGPT

"body" (noun)
- the physical structure of a human or nonhuman animal
-- the material form
"disembody" (verb)
-- to enact, willing or unwillingly, a distancing of mind and body
-- to seperate or free from it's concrete form

#conferences #cfps #bodies #embodied #disembodied #graduatestudents

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/12/05/disembodied-communications-vulnerable-identities-and-caring-connections-in-literary

"body" (noun)
- the physical structure of a human or nonhuman animal
-- the material form
"disembody" (verb)
-- to enact, willing or unwillingly, a distancing of mind and body
-- to seperate or free from it's concrete form

#CFPs #literature #embodied #disembodied #graduatestudent

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/12/05…

"...but when you build artificial #systems, all the time you are taking inspiration from #biology. I haven't seen anything that is really bizarre, that escapes from that."

@ricard_sole@twitter.com on design #constraints for #embodied #cognition:

This is by way of #introduction. I also help #academics #LeavingAcademia to recover, & find #compassion for themselves so they can enter #altAc work with #boundaries intact, less #stress & more #confidence. I'm a #coach.
I love tuning into #embodied awareness and #InnerWisdom. My ways of doing that are #dancing #yoga #activism & #purpose work.
I have a free masterclass on Transition from Academia.
And I just made a #CV to #resume conversion template. Lmk if you want it!
#AcademicChatter

Tracing odours helped 19th c. US citizens+scientists apprehend environments polluted by the industry.
@MelanieKiechle
suggests a lot can be learned about #power & #dissent fm such #embodied #collaboration Here: https://doi.org/hz4h #publichealth #smell #smellhist #histsci

Great to see our example of low #embodied carbon #Passive house, emerge on the #Marina #Cork

One of my favourite books is #RaymondQueneau's #Oulipo classic sonnet generator. I don't actually read it, because the aesthetical value of the book is the book itself, its cybernetic, magerial form and its user interface. Everytime I get lost with why and what I'm writing, I return to this and start dabbling with the pages. Writing and reading is an #embodied and enactic exercise. It's about #differance and #time, where writers communicate with readers through time. Book is a time machine.

When you are in a situation where you have no agency, you are limited in your ability to change harmful circumstances that are happening to you. You feel trapped because you basically are. So you resort to actions that facilitate survival in such an environment- loudly protesting (fight response), hiding in ways that you can (flight response, though freedom of movement is often restricted), do nothing and feel shut down, defeated (freeze response) or appeasing the powers to try to get them to treat you better (fawn response).

In corporate, hierarchical social media, just like what a child in an abusive household experiences, users lack agency to change the environment.

So we shouldn't be surprised when people who come here from there, instead of taking steps to change their environment in ways that they now can, just complain loudly or defend twitter. They are reacting in ways that people do when they are used to having no agency. Honestly, long-term Masto users do this too, because it's not just in social media where our agnecy get stifled, but in all of the capitalist relations that engulf us.

For abuse survivors, such as myself, there is a long healing process that takes time to be learned in the body. You may cognitively understand that you are in a different place, things are ok now, but it doesn't register in your body and emotional response. It takes practice and reassurance to slowly develop new neural pathways that aren't so reactive or fearful. This is the work of #somatics/ #embodied / #polyvagal practices. I'm no expert in those fields but find those bodies of knowledge to be incredibly applicable beyond individual healing & therapy.

How can we help empower users to step into their own agency and understand the ways in which they can control their user experience, voice their concerns, and create actual change? Are the channels in which change takes place easily understood and laid out for users? Are all users able to voice their input for how this place works? Not just in culture but also in app/interface functionality? (I'm not the most tech savvy so excuse my imperfect terminology.)

In this paper from 2014 (!) we studied what #embodied #language #processing (#ELP) for #intelligent #agents should be.

While arguably a small system (datawise), we demonstrated a number of interesting phenomenon. It could:

1. Use world, task, action constraints to resolve ambiguity in language meaning.
2. Use ambiguity in language to drive interactions focused on that ambiguity.
3. This was implemented in an #agent system that could learn from humans!

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02509

In this paper from 2014 (!) we studied what #embodied #language #processing (#ELP) for #intelligent #agents should be.

While arguably a small system (datawise), we demonstrated a number of interesting phenomenon. It could:

1. Use world, task, action constraints to resolve ambiguity in language meaning.
2. Use ambiguity in language to drive interactions focused on that ambiguity.
3. This was implemented in an #agent system that could learn from humans!

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02509

Time for my #Fediverse #introduction -

Hi - I'm Eric (he/him/his). I'm #healing and #striving to be an #embodied #antiracist.

I'm an #immigration #attorney #lawyer practicing #immigrationlaw and helping folks with #removaldefense and #asylum and #visas and the like. I write lots of #appellate #briefs.

I'm also a #music #composer and #filmmusic #MusicProducer. I maintain a #musiclibrary and #compose #originalmusic for #US #Democratic #politicalMedia.

Links in my bio - Say hi!