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Held in Motion

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Held in Motion: Breaking boxes, blurring lines, & imagining the possibilities. These recordings are my sense-making explorations of humans & their systems. Think, the multidimensional intersections of things like science, tech, psychology, sociology, language, the practice of philosophy, etc. No expertise, here. Just a curious mind that thrives on wrestling with the complex whys, because anything else isn"t nearly as fun. If this sounds interesting, welcome! Hear something you"d like to chat

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4:53

April Fool's: "Why so serious?"

Held in Motion ·

2024/04/01

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "What isn't, what is something that someone is believing, but it's just something they're believing that's not true. Or is it? They're pretending to believe it, but it's a prank. You know, people will say, you know, they understand that autistics take things literally and they think that. Maybe we think that when it's raining cats and dogs, we actually think it's raining cats and dogs. No, we don't think that."

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4:59

Naming the concept doesn't magically eliminate the...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/30

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It's like it shuts everything down and I don't understand why they would do that. And I'm sort of a deer in the headlights of. Great, thanks. You've given me this language, but what do you want me to do with that? I've asked you questions, and I'm saying in response to what you're talking about, what about this? And what about that?"

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5:00

Huberman: Choosing to ignore one's character, says a...

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2024/03/27

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And is potentially a dark triad and reframes science and facts, et cetera, for it to be more accessible, why in the world should we believe he's not lying to us, that he's reframing something in a way that's even accurate, that he's giving us information, advice that is helpful, and not exploiting us in some way for his own personal benefit, at the very least, this should serve as a warning to be very cautious about what he's putting out there and how much we

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4:42

When does a human body lose its sanctity? And why? 🪦

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/24

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But we wouldn't do that today. We wouldn't make a spectacle of them, and we would find it really inappropriate to do that. But somehow or another, once they die, it's okay to do this. If there's going to be an expiration date on the sanctity of a body, why do we bother the pomp and circumstance or the ritual or the stone that has their name on it and the dates on it, or any of the other burial practices that are done?"

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4:58

If society leaned into determinism, how would that...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/24

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what if we shifted it to be a thinking of very much deterministic? How would that change what we think, what we say, the systems that we've created, et cetera, et cetera."

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3:24

Watching the "magic" of snowfall & its universal...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/22

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And apparently it found, despite the different shapes of snowflakes, despite the turbulence and how that varies, there are patterns to the velocity and distribution of the snowflakes, which is wild. It's one thing to look at it and watch it and say it looks like there's patterns there, but it's something else to be able to measure that and say, yes, there are actual patterns there. I mean, it's fascinating in a sort of magical way, right?"

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3:32

When an error goes from too inconsequential to...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/21

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I try to reflect on so many different things of, like, I've seen this happen in TV shows, movies and books where an author or a writer will stick in an error that can slip under the radar, but the purpose is to facilitate moving the plot along. Drives me nuts. But this isn't one of those, because you could very easily fix it without it affecting anything."

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4:58

"Watching paint dry" • Alcohol ink art a la...

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2024/03/16

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So in another conversation, I mentioned that something I really enjoy doing is watching paint dry. At least that's what I call the kind of art that I do. But it's not paint. It's actually a kind of ink. And several questions came up, so I thought I would address them here first. Many inks have a base of different kinds. Some are water based, some are alcohol based, and some are a number of other things."

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4:50

"Dear Diary, I've become immortal. To journal or not...

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2024/03/15

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay. Morning. My medication just kicked in and the world is spinning. However, I am rereading a book by one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson. And there's this line that stopped me in my tracks. And once you hear it, you're going to be like, what? But just stick with me, okay? The line is, keeping a journal for one's posterity becomes somewhat redundant when one is going to live forever, I think."

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4:58

Fascinating: 🤔 "Without music, life would be a...

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2024/03/14

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "That means that the higher power had music in their lives, that they listen to it, experience it, feel it, are influenced by it, which is an interesting thought, right? If we look at this portion of the quote instead from the perspective of humans, it's interesting when I think about closing my eyes and taking in all of the sounds that we hear, whether that's in nature or humans making inadvertent or intentional sounds, we could create or perceive that

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5:00

When compassion "goes wrong"? 🤔

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/13

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I think the way that I form my thinking around compassion is that it's done in response to somebody else's suffering, or it's done when we're having to tell somebody something that's going to cause suffering. But I don't think talking about ideas or about ourselves needs to be done in any particular way to address the possibility of someone suffering, because we simply don't know. Right?"

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3:12

The Royal Panjandrum learns who holds the REAL power.

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/09

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Well, here, let me show you. On this device we call a cell phone, I have a ridiculous number of photos of my cat because I can't get enough of him. And of course, whenever we meet each other, we have to show one another our photos of our cats and see, look how cute they are and how much we worship them and how much we can't give them enough because, well, we're overflowing with how much we care about them."

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5:00

Autism Edition: "Irrational" or only perceived...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/08

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "From sensory input to interactions with other people and environments and language and communication and concepts. And it is a lot. So it's like our brain, our computer is overclocked by comparison to an alistic brain. And so when someone from the outside looks at some of the behaviors that, for example, I do and calls them irrational, to me, it's like, why do you not bother to ask questions or try to understand, right?"

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4:59

When a trip to a theme park, led me to think my mom...

Held in Motion ·

2024/03/05

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Not at all embarrassed, just proud. I also think I somehow thought that maybe I could gain some sort of a cool factor by association, which is kind of funny to me now, because as an adult, I look at situations where people take photos of themselves next to either famous destinations or next to celebrities, and then they share these photos everywhere. And I've often wondered about that. Why do we do this?"

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