yoga and intersubjectivity: let's invent a language

[gustavolacerda]

(originally posted Oct 25, 2012, 01:40)

Perhaps one of the defining traits of "nerds" is a low level of body awareness, which comes with "spending too much time in the head". This may explain why yoga has been so revealing for me. I have been learning which sensations correspond to stretch, strain, and pain; and how to move muscles

Comments

[ledflyd]

I agree regarding taste/smell although, my approach to a good craft brew is to treat it like a work of art. Usually when I tell people that they think I'm crazy (or drunk).

[random_walker]

otoh, there's a lot of engineering of gustation and olfaction... there is signal.

[gustavolacerda]

this is cool: Similarity‐Based Perceptual Feature Identification for Active Sonar Signal Classification
<< We develop several new methods for learning a perceptual feature transform from human similarity measures. In addition to providing a more fundamental basis for uncovering perceptual features than previous approaches, these methods also lead to a greater insight into how humans perceive sounds in a dataset. We also develop a new approach for learning a perceptual distance metric. This metric is shown to be applicable to modern kernel‐based techniques used in machine learning and provides a connection between the fields of psychoacoustics and machine learning. >>

[gustavolacerda]

A more realistic idea is to try to train individuals to recognize and communicate their sensations to a doctor. But the feedback would have to be rather indirect, e.g. looking at X-rays of oneself. Instant biofeedback to the rescue!

I also believe that one could become good at this by introspection and very indirect feedback.

[gwillen]

I think most people, most of the time, drastically underestimate the tremendous positive effects of a rapid feedback loop. On practically anything.

[bluebear2]

I think nerds still have a type of body awareness but yes, don't naturally have precision with it. I was once shown a long list of emotions, very subtle differences between similar ones too. It was meant to help people with barely noticeable emotions learn to recognize which one they're experiencing in the hopes that they will be able to use them to inform them where they're at with things instead of logic alone.