I agree that “be Sapient all the time” is not productive; however, I used to live in a zombie haze where I might be at the meta-level making conscious decisions O(1) times a day, and to a first approximation what I needed was just More Dakka. I would guess that this is a common enough issue that installing a general-purpose sapience spell to trap into kernel mode regularly should be large net positive for most people.
I’m still debating whether a felt sense is a better trigger. I will definitely say more about that in the second cycle on TAPs after we’ve done Focusing and are good at noticing such things.
The weird “think about being sapient but then not do anything about it” counterhabit seems like a serious pitfall that happens to me already, I would love to hear thoughts on if it’s possible mitigate it. The best I can say is that in the stressful or emotionally charged situations where I’ve used my Sapience Spell, thinking about being sapient was already a useful step.
Some initial thoughts:
I agree that “be Sapient all the time” is not productive; however, I used to live in a zombie haze where I might be at the meta-level making conscious decisions O(1) times a day, and to a first approximation what I needed was just More Dakka. I would guess that this is a common enough issue that installing a general-purpose sapience spell to trap into kernel mode regularly should be large net positive for most people.
I’m still debating whether a felt sense is a better trigger. I will definitely say more about that in the second cycle on TAPs after we’ve done Focusing and are good at noticing such things.
The weird “think about being sapient but then not do anything about it” counterhabit seems like a serious pitfall that happens to me already, I would love to hear thoughts on if it’s possible mitigate it. The best I can say is that in the stressful or emotionally charged situations where I’ve used my Sapience Spell, thinking about being sapient was already a useful step.