Embodiment

Life is complex. It’s not like an ice cream cone on a warm summer day. It’s more like a multicultural buffet served under a tent, during a rainstorm, but miraculously no one gets wet — even when they walk outside. How does that work? I don’t know. …

Advance callouts, watchouts, out takes and hot takes from our Craft-Building Series Edition #54 on Physical Intelligence (Part One) Authored and hosted by: Sean Moffitt, Founder, Grey Swan Guild, MD, Cygnus Ventures We’re convening a Grey Swan Guild craft-building session #54 on Monday March 27th, 2023 covering the full universe…

The Orthogonal Research and Education Lab participated in the Embodied Intelligence Workshop with three breakout room presentations. Congratulations to Jesse Parent, Amanda Nelson, and Bradly Alicea for their contributions. Overall, the workshop provided an interdisciplinary view of the field. There was a significant focus on soft robotics, including bioelectronics, biomedical…

by Bia Bliss Disconnecting from the body is a common coping mechanism for many people who have experienced childhood trauma. I know this from personal experience, having shut down my emotions and disconnected from my body for decades due to regular physical, emotional and psychological abuse as a child. …

It’s important for us to stand empowered in our truth. Sometimes that truth is that we are living in intolerable circumstances. This can be hard to accept if we are polarized to positivity because many things that are seen as “negative” can actually be seen as “positive” if we adjust…

[Having cups of coffee with Chat GPT: reflecting upon body, avatar, embodiment, and some Anthropology and Phenomenology.] This conversation is surrounded by the haunted winds of the body’s comprehension in the digital transformation era | Cette conversation est entourée des vents hantés de l’interpretation sur le corps à l’ère de…

The Access & the Domain of the Mind — Sometimes I think that I could never really meditate. Sure, I can observe the thoughts, notice them rise and fall, but usually I realize after some time that this is still just my normal thinking and I always find myself still lost in thought. Maybe this is enough. Maybe this…