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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya but what’s something other than concentration that I can do with my attention. A different superpower. That’s what I’m asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the idea, and do have some experience with that, but these days I prefer Vipassana meditation.

  It’s kind of a manual version of tripping.

  It takes practice, slower, smoother, better control, permanent and has no ceiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just started watching it. Presently at s01e03

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Philip Jose Farmer explored this idea in a few of his stories.

  In one there was an alien race. They thought it was tragic that people would die and be gone from the world forever. So they invented an artificial soul (called a “wathan”) hooked it up to all the sentient beings. Then they managed an artificial afterlife too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I will look them up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A natural internet maybe. Discarnate dreamers drifting around, talking, looking for fun, spaceless, bodiless, timeless. Until a really good came catches you. And then there are rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that psycho might be us.

  When you dream at night your dreams tend to take the form of your fears, obsessions, desires, hangups etc. But you return. The physical world could be called a moderator. It keeps you from descending too far into your personal dreamworld.

  But then you die. Same dreamworld, but no moderation. You troll yourself to exhaustion. Might take a million years. Until the physical world draws your attention again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking for the connection between copies.

  My copy lives forever. How does that bear upon me?

  There’s got to be a connection between identical systems. That just feels right. And add consciousness to the mix and it seems inevitable.

  And given that there will always be infinite cases of total entropy reversal, there will always be a “plausible narrative” for resurrection available for every corpse. So if “immortality via copy” doesn’t do it, that will.

  Here are 2 authors who explored the impossibility subjective death. IE while everybody else sees you die, you actually travel to a universe where your survival is explained by a plausible narrative (and progressively less plausible).

  GREG EGAN. Permutation city. He called it “dust theory”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There might even be multiple worlds.

  And maybe a “soul” can be divided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is arguable.

  Any exploration into strange realms of life, memory or consciousness (and there have been many of those) might shed useful light on the subject for speculation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry if that was trite. I was going off your “If we knew what it was then it wouldn’t be the afterlife” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations faithful one. These 72 pure and virginal manta-rays are yours to despoil and plunder to your heart’s content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya but whats an attention-related superpower OTHER than concentration (and its associated powers)?

  One guy here was talking about getting high and laying on his hammock.

  And the Buddhists have an “alternative to concentration” type meditation technique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When playing Super Mario Bros I ignore my job, and vice-versa. That's two realities, oblivious to each other. What separates them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “it’s an attention” thing sounds right to me too. Shift of attention = shift of reality. In the small as well as the large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there was an afterlife, how would it work?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, semantically speaking, it can’t exist. Ok.

• If there was an afterlife, how would it work?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like looking up from your phone to notice the clouds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One might say that the ADHDers (and the autists, spergs and other similar neurodiverse) have a definite advantage here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like meditation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you are getting silence, but you are doing it without concentrating.

  Well this is exactly the kind of alternative superpower that I’m looking for in my OP question.

  Concentration brings silence (and clarity etc), but it also brings some other stuff.

  You are getting the silence, but without that other stuff. That’s a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the OP I asked for something other than concentrating. But all the replies so far refer to the fruits of concentration.

  Like talking about sticking out your index finger, and then talking about all the amazing things that you can poke with it (and yes the horrors of fingercramp etc).

  But what else can I do with my hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A kind of clarity. There would be other clarities too. Clear seeing, thinking, smelling…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah! I never heard of that one. That’s amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about my actual question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly fail to sympathize with the suffering of “normies”. Bound in a web of illusion. Never seeing clearly. I am shocked and appalled. :)

  Also, some can control it. The power of hyperfocus is not exclusive to ADHD. Consider the autist, the sperg, the concentration meditation enthusiast.

  The world is large and you are small. Think on that the next time you feel tempted to wallow in outrage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet it’s true about all the advantages that I listed. You seem to want to avoid that particular very important elephant. Hmm.

  Are you hyperfocusing on the negative?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you left out the rest of the story.

  Hyperfocus allows you to immerse yourself to a profound degree.

  To observe your subject with surpassing clarity. To control it deeply. To see what others cannot see. To create what others cannot create. To solve the hardest riddles.

  We owe much of our great art, science and technology to it.

  If that isn’t a superpower then I don’t know what is.

  Maybe you just lack commitment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self portrait⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who puts a picket fence in their kitchen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gobble gobble⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When nuns do that they also call it a snood

• Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?
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