brevitae comments on Suffering as attention-allocational conflict - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brevitae 01 June 2011 07:29:25AM *  0 points [-]

I've also been thinking about how to resolve 2 conflicting systems, as of late.

Seems like there are 2 paths to this:

  1. Alternation: Take turns, each half gets it's fair share of time. Speed up or slow down frequency of alternation as best suited to teach situation. Digital.

  2. Synthesis: Hegelian Dialectic. Put the 2 together, and break them into parts/colors/spectrum. Find the matching contextual patterns in both, and use that to form a new greater thing. Leave the individual content patterns alone. Turn the black and white into a grayscale gradient, some individuality, some shared. Analog.

Also, as for actual physical pain, I've been playing with this: * If your back hurts, imagine and feel pleasure on your front (sternum). * If your neck hurts on the left, invert it, and imagine/feel pleasure on the right. In general: Invert it. Flip the bits entirely. Same thing (contextually), but different thing (contentually).