Accept Self Pattern penned with Jess Cummins @jesscxc [introduction] Accept: Self Pattern is a notebook written on the move. Accept is Book 13 of The Pocket Series. Accept is available for free at NoLiesPlease.com. This book is dedicated to the public domain. [meta] (author "Jess Cummins" @jesscxc) (pronouns she/friend) (link NoLiesPlease.com) (book_title Accept) (book_subtitle Self Pattern) (pocket_series_book_number 13) (book_version v1 ty21.12.26.7.18.52azm5d7s) (entry_count 5) (word_count 3065) (books_by_jesscxc (misc "Poem Moves the Pen: Haiku of a Nondual Nature" "Natural Will: Freer Than Free Will" "Longgame Hyperdimensional Spacing: Expand Mind and Weave Time" "Ungov: Transcending Will") (the_deeper_series "Book 0: Uncompress: Eternal Appreciation of How" "Book 1: Fortunate: How to Be" "Book 2: Attuned: Be What You Imagine" "Book 3: Capacity: Imagine Being Limitless" "Book 4: Helper: Limitless Mind" "Book 5: Intense: Mind Unleashed" "Book 6: Open: Unleashed Honesty" "Book 7: Universe: Honesty is Eternal" "Book 8: Various: Is to Be") (the_pocket_series "Book 0: Obverse: Abstract Fast" "Book 1: Limer: Fast Color" "Book 2: Dawn: Color of Day" "Book 3: Knight: Day Beyond" "Book 4: Fever: Beyond Dreams" "Book 5: Life: Dreams Evolving" "Book 6: Adventure: Evolving Lands" "Book 7: Battle: Lands Say" "Book 8: Entertainment: Say Ahead" "Book 9: Explore: Ahead Opportunity" "Book 10: Moment: Opportunity Simulation" "Book 11: Imagine: Simulation Twist" "Book 12: Believe: Twist Self" "Book 13: Accept: Self Pattern" "Book 14: Create: Pattern Reflection" "Book 15: Sift: Reflection Match" "Book 16: Probability: Match Experience" "Book 17: Waves: Experience Current" "Book 18: Kernel: Current Functions" "Book 19: Grubby: Functions Dig" "Book 20: Game: Dig Above" "Book 21: Fruit: Above Messages" "Book 22: Endeavor: Messages Spread" "Book 23: Mystery: Spread Expressions" "Book 24: Detain: Expressions Bind" "Book 25: Philosophy: Bind Broken" "Book 26: Demands: Broken Discovery" "Book 27: Subliminal: Discovery Inside" "Book 28: Extinction: Inside Refresh" "Book 29: Control: Refresh Axioms" "Book 30: Ideas: Axioms Mistake" "Book 31: Gallium: Mistake Fuzz" "Book 32: Germanium: Fuzz Friendship" "Book 33: Arsenic: Friendship Reaction" "Book 34: Selenium: Reaction Depth" "Book 35: Bromine: Depth Utility" "Book 36: Krypton: Utility Model" "Book 37: Rubidium: Model Augmenter" "Book 38: Strontium: Augmenter System")) [dedication] To Anthony Jacquin and Kev Sheldrake, for propagating the discovery of the automatic imagination model of finessing awareness. [table_of_contents] (introduction) (meta) (dedication) (entries) ramble_ty12.4.29zm7d7s_nb_13 ramble_ty12.4.30zm7d1s_nb_13 ramble_ty12.5.1zm7d2s_nb_13 ramble_ty12.5.2zm7d3s_nb_13 ramble_ty12.5.3zm7d4s_nb_13 [entries] ramble_ty12.4.29zm7d7s_nb_13 Assume success. Directed effort compounds. When complexity gets to a certain level, it can stifle the emerging complexity that originally led to it. The reason to learn is to have fun. [ What parts of the subjective experience are finessable? Perhaps every bit that can be modified by an external stimulus can be replicated from memory and subjectively experienced as reality. How much can be spontaneously generated in the imagination? What feedback loops can be imagined and applied to lower-level brain structures? Can the neocortex control the experiences of the brainstem? Perhaps the neocortex can control the structure of the environment. Perhaps a neural implant can give more control to the mind and imagination. ] Drafting can speed up development. Love the moment. You are really young. People aren't judging you; they're wondering if you're judging them. Boundaries are abstractions in the mind. They are not real. Drama is in the mind. [ Imagine It's Happening Automatically .meta this is a model Perhaps the essence of hypnosis and mind itself is stories propagating through the neural structures of the brain, all happening automatically, without any effort from a conscious, reflecting awareness. The mind has networks that say when the body is hungry and thirsty, and networks that say how to get food and drink. It's not hardwired, but it is automatic. If you know what you want to imagine, and why it's good to imagine it, and why it's okay to let yourself imagine, then you automatically begin imagining. Congruency of the aspects can affect how successfully you imagine it and how forced it feels. Amplify the positive emotions about why you should imagine. Let yourself feel the reasons and what you want to imagine. Consider why imagining now is worthwhile and acceptable. Deliberately set aside time to imagine. Your imagination is powerful. Minds similar to yours developed the technology around you. You can always apply your imagination to life and make it better. Apply your imagination to questions, and find answers. First let yourself imagine. Be in a comfortable place to imagine. Feel safe and like you can search for deeper patterns within the processes of your mind. Accept that you will be a changed person, with new perceptions and insights and techniques that will aid your ability to live helpfully. Imagine what it would be like to let all of that fear and stress and anxiety and uncertainty go. ] The more congruent the mind, the faster the change. Change the way you imagine. Think of humans as animals. Curiosity creates intelligence. Learn how to observe others and apply it to yourself. [ .meta this is a model How do you continue thinking in order to discover helpful models? This is a deep question for the imaginative being. What's important is creation, and the values of life, love, and truth. Create feedback loops within the mind that propagate evenly and smoothly through the structures. Each bit can be aligned properly and surely. Each method has its own costs and benefits. Each method changes the way nature is perceived and the values it accepts. You can train the skill of imagining. ] Don't go too fast too far. Even when you're rich you still have things you want to make that you don't have the resources for. People care about you. It can be fun to think. Tired people irritate more easily. The universe fits together. Life, love, and truth are what lasts. Imagine that you are automatically imagining what you want. When you have reinforcement, imagine it is automatically getting stronger. When reminders that you are imagining pop up, imagine they aren't important. ramble_ty12.4.30zm7d1s_nb_13 [ .meta this is a model Many ideas promote that they give happiness and joy and contentment. Automatic imagination can be described more succinctly and concretely, and be based in better models of self-awareness. The broad generalizations of "imagine it's happening automatically" can be represented with specific mechanisms and events, even if there is more than one way for a mind to imagine automaticity. Consider awareness of cognitive processes and flexibility of behavior. The magic of automatic imagination is that the mind, through imagination, can have a model of the world and do internal practicing and gain external experience. There is potency in the deletion of a reference that it is imagination. By changing the self-referencing strange loop, the experience can be rewritten from the bottom up. It's like spawning a process chain that then stops the original process, and so on down the line, until all of the original processes declaring an experience being imagination have been deleted and replaced by subtly-different experiences. Many people have concerns and hesitancies with these models of mind. There can be resistance to the model that there is no free will, no controller, nothing binding you to the past. The mind is infinite. You can always grow if you're willing to change. Think of Charles Darwin, the humble developer. Think of how he changed the world with the elegant models of natural selection. He was not the first to consider evolution, but that method of how it can happen is perhaps one of the most helpful ideas known to humanity. Perhaps mind can be understood in a deep way, too, how self-perception and pattern matching and symbolism work. Evolution is a beautiful process, and mind is a beautiful process. The process is beautiful because of the simplicity of the pieces that give rise to the complexity. Be flexible, be adaptable. Think of coming mind-to-mind with the unconscious itself. Instead of a mystery of consciousness peering into the depths of unconscious, the unconscious itself aligns and creates a view pointed back upon itself. The illusion of consciousness can be turned off. There is only the unconscious. The conscious is a story used by the unconscious to perceive in interesting ways. ] [ .meta this is a model It can be easier to change when you integrate that you _can_ change. A limited intellectual understanding cannot completely turn around, twist up into itself and perceive itself. It cannot self-refer until it accepts that it can in fact self-refer and delete itself. Consider the idea that you should turn your own critical factor, your skepticism, upon the model, in order to convince yourself deeply that it's true. When you find questions and hesitancies, you will be able to spot deeper patterns and fix them with your genius; you will be able to improve. You can visualize the patterns and you can see the always-and-continuing deeper meanings. It's an unlocking of the doors to mastery, yet you still must learn to turn the handle, push the door open, and walk through the threshold. The mind is finessable; it is understandable; it is a path to changing the world for the better. Everything is understandable if you're willing to change to understand it. The ideas of advancing the argument, of presuming something _might_ be true and thinking about how to be sure one way or another, those ideas are potent, too. There are no limits, and you don't have to struggle to understand. Become someone who is going to understand, then do it. It's all stories that we believe. _All_ of them are stories. It is not that there is no truth; it's that truth is an abstraction. It's like looking at a bunch of atoms and seeing a "ball" instead of just atoms. Every time you go up in abstractions you gain more expressive power, but you have to use some of this power on the adapter, on how to bring what you've gained to the real world, the shared reality. Every power of mind finessing can be brought back to reality; it can be brought up from the depths of thought and imagination to the world the brain lives in, the world the mind uses to think. I don't want to just hack the little pieces and make a little piece of art; I want to get to the root of self-perception and untangle it. I want to understand the structures of nature that generate subjective experience. I want to know how to finesse them with words and pictures and ideas. I want to know where limits are, and I want to know how to go beyond them with technology. I want to understand reality from the bottom up, I want it all to fit together perfectly, and I want to understand and appreciate the complexities that are interacting. I want to know the processes to boost happiness, love, and joy. Perhaps there are no limits to what the subjective sense of self can experience. The mind is the ultimate playground. ] [ .meta this is a model While the complexities are infinite, so is the mind's ability to understand them. The patterns of perception bubble out of the framework of the mental structure. They are complex, interacting feedback loops, strange loops with infinite expressive power. The loops, the patterns, can model themselves; they can perceive their own loopiness. The loopiness is unlimited, but that does not mean that it doesn't come easier for certain formats of mind patterns. A dog has a certain level of self-perception, a chimp another, a human another, an adapting intelligence another. There are no limits to the amount of perception you can have. Everything is an abstraction, and there are no limits to how boldly you can abstract to find higher patterns. While you're being the void, you can look up and down and all directions and every way you point you find more patterns and more intricacies of nature. There are always better ways to discover patterns. Patience, resoluteness, and persistence, my friend! ] You are going toward perfection. Suppose both are true. Show yourself off. Bet on yourself. The unconscious is finessable. Help people to trust. Complexity is interaction. Different thoughts at different times spark different ideas. The mind crafts its own reality. Be infinitely smooth. You can learn a lot by watching someone's face. Carrots last longer than sticks, and they are cumulative and infinite. [ .meta this is a model What does it mean to imagine it's happening automatically? It doesn't necessarily have to make full sense, but it does need a chain of logic, like in lucid dreaming where the lucid mind suggests Albert Einstein is giving a talk in the next room and how it would be nice to go meet him. The mind as yet doesn't have much experience with magic, so if an idea is portrayed in a plausible manner it can more easily be taken on board. When you give people a plausible story, it's accepted. The mind is not a choice. When something _is_ plausible, you _do_ accept it. As you go further and further into the line of reasoning, you shift further and further into a finessed, changed being, a self-rewriting being, an automatically-imagining storyline. You can't control it, once you accept it. It is who you are. ] Watch yourself in a mirror. The abstract patterns you see are representations of patterns that lead to elements of mind. Explain it in a way that a novice could understand. Admire yourself. Minds advance by increasing the amount of things they can do without thinking. Memories are patterns. You cannot see past a decision you do not understand. You are the universe observing itself. You tend to find more of what you assume. The unconscious is all there is. The conscious is spinning stories based on the unconscious output. The mind is unlimited. Take a longer-term view. Teachers must be patient. Make an effort to step outside yourself and love others. Work on your character. The mind is entirely malleable. The experience is entirely finessable. The conscious mind is a pattern. ramble_ty12.5.1zm7d2s_nb_13 Think in terms of how you can grow. Believing something is hard can make it harder than it really is. You do not need to rush proper development. The difference between growth and maintenance is that growth is doing something new. Imagine and prepare. Seeing a pattern without explicitly naming it can have more conceptual flexibility. The unconscious perceives itself. Accept that it might work. How would you act if that was the truth? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Tell people what they did right. Tell yourself what you did right. ramble_ty12.5.2zm7d3s_nb_13 What do you want your life to look like in ten years? When a new game comes out, play an old one. Use technology to understand technology. You can't do what you're not ready for. Be in your story. Perceive the story of existence. Mystery can arise through evolution, just as humans did. Believe in yourself, believe in your abilities, believe you can help people make a difference. Think about the positive difference you can make. Think about the people you help. Acknowledge the self-awareness before making demands of it. Be honest and up front and help people. Be honest with what you want to have happen and you can make it happen. Give of yourself and you will receive from yourself. Abstractions exist in the mind; reality exists within the mind. Mind is abstractions. Knowledge is abstractions upon abstractions. A beauty of automatic imagination is the ability to redefine abstractions by generating a new pattern and running a buffer overflow on the mind. Go deeper, find deeper abstractions and realizations, and you will eliminate the need to fight at all. Give to yourself. Be careful what you tell yourself is hard. Create a new frame and operate within that. Always remember how good life can be. You can find confidence within yourself. Gravitas is a skill. With practice it can be learned. Focus yourself and direct your passion. Success is not an event. Success is harmony of desires. It is congruence between what you have and what you like. You can help people be better and happier. No matter how prepared you are, there will be things you want to improve. Keep starting. As you become content your congruencies begin to automatically align. The mind is infinitely finessable. The questions are infinite, as are the answers. You can notice self-aware patterns and modify them. Turn over every stone. Work on your internal environment. Treat yourself well. Encourage mental health. Focus on the Now. Experience it. You can be eternally present; you can be totally aware. You can write patterns to live more excitingly. Reality is as real as you make it. You can savor it, feel comfortable in it, and be friendly and positive in it. Music comes from the muse. Create meta programs for the mind. There is no magic to the mind: that is what is magical. The patterns are infinite, and that is magical. The perceptions are infinite, and that is amazing. It's all stories. Consciousness is a side effect of the unconscious. Be friendly and kind. Keep your techniques fresh. Always be improving. Redefine it. See the positive. To teach, build frameworks within frameworks. Have a backup and be independent of it. ramble_ty12.5.3zm7d4s_nb_13 Raise your standards. Meditate and journal. Focus on improving over time. Show your vulnerability and strength. Create reinforcement of positive mental activity. Associate with good people. Craft the end result and operate from that. It will happen when it happens and it will happen exactly as it should happen. To have fun is to grow. You can be content and hopeful at the same time. The conscious mind is automatic and habitual. You have no limits. What does nature want? What framework will you live within? What makes life the sweetest? Everything fits. There is no self. Every memory can be shifted and changed. Be wise, and use what you know. Help others become aware of the adaptability of their mind. The absence of magic is the magic. What is fun? It's all loops, some of which rewrite their loopiness. Everything fits together, a beautiful work of art, like a magical computer that is aware of itself. Ultimate cognitive adaptability is the pursuit of the mind to realize with profound depth that every level of experience is finessable. Work on yourself, and the world will change to fit you. You can invent the future. Shame is illusion. [fin]