Fantastic overview here! I love looking at the picture of the homunculus that shows the nerve representation to our fingers. It shows what we would look like based on nerve representation.
So there’s definitely something going on in those fingers!
As a body worker myself, I certainly understand how important that autonomic nervous system is with regulation, post trauma, and I’m understanding that polyvagal theory more and more. Thanks so much for this.
Oh wow! Thanks so much for the link, Jamie!! That's certainly a powerful image. .And interesting article on the homunculus.
I think body memory, muscle memory, and cellular memory are valid and important. It's the whole nervous system working together, right? Training the finger memory when learning a musical instrument, for example, it really helps to pay attention to the fingers, which then changes something in the brain too, of course. As far as I understand, this is synergy ~ symbiogenesis in action in the human body.
I love your perspective through the body work lens. 💖🙏
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm, it is an idealized model of a central processing unit (CPU) that controls all data manipulation done by a computer, with the canonical machine using sequential memory to store data. Typically, the sequential memory is represented as a tape of infinite length on which the machine can perform read and write operations . . .
If you have ever noticed when shopping, at the grocer, the gym, the restaurant, or in the common areas of the workplace etc., there is a universal presence of music or television . . . This is because most people are terrified to be alone with their own thoughts and actually afraid of some greater enlightenment and actually desire their memory being programmed as with the aforementioned Turing Machine.
My mathematical theorem that history NEVER repeats itself is contrary to the popular delusions and clichéd commentaries about our reality and often provokes rather fanatical, illogical and esoteric responses resulting from the constant exposure to the sonic radiation we call the media, or more properly, neurolinguistic programming.
History never repeats itself . . . Time is linear, a circle is a line, we use a circular clock to measure time, we used a circular sundial that measures the rotation of the earth before we had the learned machinations of springs and gears, because the earth is not flat . . .
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. . . If you draw a circle (like a clock) with x=cos(t) and y=sin(t) and pull it evenly in z-direction, you get a spatial spiral called a cylindrical spiral or helix.
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The idea that history repeats is in itself wholly illogical, but it serves a propaganda purpose to its users . . . meaning . . . you can’t go back to older cultural ways of doing things because that makes you a sinner, a nazi, or some kind of pagan devil.
This makes me so happy. Even the other, while listening to a podcast about the future of neuron-technology, they discussed how the process of writing might someday simply happen through sophisticated tech that "reads" our thoughts. This feels so wrong to me... I've often said that in my own writing process, my fingertips are doing the thinking. I often have no clue what I'm about to write until the tap, tap, tap starts to happen and my fingers reveal. If that process is bypassed, I worry that human creativity will lose something sensual, sentient and well... symbiotic.
Oh absolutely! I'm so glad you say this. It's the same for me. In the beginning of my writing process (25 years ago, for the first 20+ years or so) I had to write everything by hand first. It was like the writing itself showed me what it wanted me to write... "sensual, sentient,... symbiotic" ~ YES! I'll have to quote you in the chapter on Sentience (I've been working on the last few days) 💕🙏
Great article - and given the interesting and important role of finger-tips in the nerve-system, I now have a greater incentive to practice my piano-playing :)
Fantastic overview here! I love looking at the picture of the homunculus that shows the nerve representation to our fingers. It shows what we would look like based on nerve representation.
So there’s definitely something going on in those fingers!
https://movementum.co.uk/journal/2020/1/23/homunculus-man
As a body worker myself, I certainly understand how important that autonomic nervous system is with regulation, post trauma, and I’m understanding that polyvagal theory more and more. Thanks so much for this.
Oh wow! Thanks so much for the link, Jamie!! That's certainly a powerful image. .And interesting article on the homunculus.
I think body memory, muscle memory, and cellular memory are valid and important. It's the whole nervous system working together, right? Training the finger memory when learning a musical instrument, for example, it really helps to pay attention to the fingers, which then changes something in the brain too, of course. As far as I understand, this is synergy ~ symbiogenesis in action in the human body.
I love your perspective through the body work lens. 💖🙏
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm, it is an idealized model of a central processing unit (CPU) that controls all data manipulation done by a computer, with the canonical machine using sequential memory to store data. Typically, the sequential memory is represented as a tape of infinite length on which the machine can perform read and write operations . . .
If you have ever noticed when shopping, at the grocer, the gym, the restaurant, or in the common areas of the workplace etc., there is a universal presence of music or television . . . This is because most people are terrified to be alone with their own thoughts and actually afraid of some greater enlightenment and actually desire their memory being programmed as with the aforementioned Turing Machine.
My mathematical theorem that history NEVER repeats itself is contrary to the popular delusions and clichéd commentaries about our reality and often provokes rather fanatical, illogical and esoteric responses resulting from the constant exposure to the sonic radiation we call the media, or more properly, neurolinguistic programming.
History never repeats itself . . . Time is linear, a circle is a line, we use a circular clock to measure time, we used a circular sundial that measures the rotation of the earth before we had the learned machinations of springs and gears, because the earth is not flat . . .
-
. . . If you draw a circle (like a clock) with x=cos(t) and y=sin(t) and pull it evenly in z-direction, you get a spatial spiral called a cylindrical spiral or helix.
-
The idea that history repeats is in itself wholly illogical, but it serves a propaganda purpose to its users . . . meaning . . . you can’t go back to older cultural ways of doing things because that makes you a sinner, a nazi, or some kind of pagan devil.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/if-you-draw-a-circle-with-xcost-and-ysint-and-pull-it-evenly-in-z-direction-you-get-a-spatial-spiral-called-a-cylindrical-spiral-or-helix
This makes me so happy. Even the other, while listening to a podcast about the future of neuron-technology, they discussed how the process of writing might someday simply happen through sophisticated tech that "reads" our thoughts. This feels so wrong to me... I've often said that in my own writing process, my fingertips are doing the thinking. I often have no clue what I'm about to write until the tap, tap, tap starts to happen and my fingers reveal. If that process is bypassed, I worry that human creativity will lose something sensual, sentient and well... symbiotic.
Oh absolutely! I'm so glad you say this. It's the same for me. In the beginning of my writing process (25 years ago, for the first 20+ years or so) I had to write everything by hand first. It was like the writing itself showed me what it wanted me to write... "sensual, sentient,... symbiotic" ~ YES! I'll have to quote you in the chapter on Sentience (I've been working on the last few days) 💕🙏
INCREDIBLE work! Thank you
Thank you Sarah 💕🙏
Great article - and given the interesting and important role of finger-tips in the nerve-system, I now have a greater incentive to practice my piano-playing :)
YAY! I look forward to hearing it
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