I second the recommendation of Somatics—it’s a good simple explanation of Feldenkrais Method, and the exercises are good for my lower back.
I think there’s a rejuvenating effect because Feldenkrais reverses a lot of accumulated movement habits, but it’s plausible to me that gene therapy might have the same effect. On the other hand, we have Feldenkrais and we don’t have anything like that level of gene therapy.
As far as aging goes, Aubrey de Grey lists aging as being about a bunch of factors. He proposes if we fix those factors through techniques like gene therapy we can get 1000 years old.
Aubrey de Grey’s list misses “bad movement habits” or as Thomas Hanna calls it Sensory-Motor Amnesia (SMA). I think it’s important for the discourse about fighting aging to understand that Grey’s list isn’t complete.
One thing I’d add to the list of Aging factors is a generalization on the unnecessary tension and lack of sensation noted by somatic practitioners—feedback loops and signal transduction pathways pegged into insensitive operating points.
Some signal gets too large, which tamps some sensitivity down, when then leads to positive feedback making the original signal even larger. Hormones, neurotransmitters, muscle actuation/sensing. System compensation helps in the short run, but they lead to getting trapped at suboptimal operating points that are local minima, that require some “kick” to get you out.
With the latest post on Neoreactionaries, I felt the urge for some Moldbuggery.
He had an example of the human organizational version of the principle described above, which I realize now is largely his whole Cathedral analysis as well. When the feedback loops get screwed, so do you.
Nearly every scientist in a field can be working together to promote a falsehood because they all get their money from Joe Romm and company. And if the falsehood is exposed rather than promoted, there is no field left. It is no more surprising that all USG-funded scientists are unanimous in promoting AGW as a global emergency, than that all Philip Morris-funded scientists are unanimous in promoting tobacco as a vitamin.
I second the recommendation of Somatics—it’s a good simple explanation of Feldenkrais Method, and the exercises are good for my lower back.
I think there’s a rejuvenating effect because Feldenkrais reverses a lot of accumulated movement habits, but it’s plausible to me that gene therapy might have the same effect. On the other hand, we have Feldenkrais and we don’t have anything like that level of gene therapy.
I like Somatics, but think that it’s a very thin skim on what Feldenkrais had to offer.
Feldenkrais have very interesting stuff on volition and action in The Potent Self. Body and Mature Behavior is good too.
As far as aging goes, Aubrey de Grey lists aging as being about a bunch of factors. He proposes if we fix those factors through techniques like gene therapy we can get 1000 years old.
Aubrey de Grey’s list misses “bad movement habits” or as Thomas Hanna calls it Sensory-Motor Amnesia (SMA). I think it’s important for the discourse about fighting aging to understand that Grey’s list isn’t complete.
One thing I’d add to the list of Aging factors is a generalization on the unnecessary tension and lack of sensation noted by somatic practitioners—feedback loops and signal transduction pathways pegged into insensitive operating points.
Some signal gets too large, which tamps some sensitivity down, when then leads to positive feedback making the original signal even larger. Hormones, neurotransmitters, muscle actuation/sensing. System compensation helps in the short run, but they lead to getting trapped at suboptimal operating points that are local minima, that require some “kick” to get you out.
With the latest post on Neoreactionaries, I felt the urge for some Moldbuggery.
He had an example of the human organizational version of the principle described above, which I realize now is largely his whole Cathedral analysis as well. When the feedback loops get screwed, so do you.