In other words, you push on it, and you feel something solid. And you’re like “ah, there is a thingy there”. But sometimes what actually happened is that by pushing on it, you made it solid. (...Ah I was probably thinking of plex’s comment.)
This is also related to perception and predictive processing. You can go looking for something X in yourself, and everything you encounter in yourself you’re like ”… so, you’re X, right?”; and this expectation is also sort of a command. (Or there could be other things with a similar coarse phenomenology to that story. For example: I expect there’s X in me; so I do Y, which is appropriate to do if X is in me; now I’m doing Y, which would synergize with X; so now X is incentivized; so now I’ve made it more likely that my brain will start doing X as a suitable solution.) (Cf. “Are you triggered yet??” https://x.com/tsvibt/status/1953650163962241079 )
If you have too much of an attitude of “just looking is always fine / good”, you might not distinguish between actually just looking (insofar as that’s coherent) vs. going in and randomly reprogramming yourself.
Hm. I thought I saw somewhere else in this comment thread that mentions this, but now I can’t find it, so I’ll put this here.
Sometimes mind is like oobleck ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7RFC74otGcZifXpec/the-possible-shared-craft-of-deliberate-lexicogenesis?commentId=BHkcKpdmX5qzoZ76q ).
In other words, you push on it, and you feel something solid. And you’re like “ah, there is a thingy there”. But sometimes what actually happened is that by pushing on it, you made it solid. (...Ah I was probably thinking of plex’s comment.)
This is also related to perception and predictive processing. You can go looking for something X in yourself, and everything you encounter in yourself you’re like ”… so, you’re X, right?”; and this expectation is also sort of a command. (Or there could be other things with a similar coarse phenomenology to that story. For example: I expect there’s X in me; so I do Y, which is appropriate to do if X is in me; now I’m doing Y, which would synergize with X; so now X is incentivized; so now I’ve made it more likely that my brain will start doing X as a suitable solution.) (Cf. “Are you triggered yet??” https://x.com/tsvibt/status/1953650163962241079 )
If you have too much of an attitude of “just looking is always fine / good”, you might not distinguish between actually just looking (insofar as that’s coherent) vs. going in and randomly reprogramming yourself.