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@brentcooper

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Executive Director of The Abs-Tract Organization

steemit.com/@brentcooper
VOTING POWER100.00%
DOWNVOTE POWER100.00%
RESOURCE CREDITS100.00%
REPUTATION PROGRESS19.10%
Net Worth
1.013USD
STEEM
0.000STEEM
SBD
2.034SBD
Effective Power
5.008SP
├── Own SP
0.635SP
└── Incoming Deleg
+4.373SP

Detailed Balance

STEEM
balance
0.000STEEM
market_balance
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savings_balance
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reward_steem_balance
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STEEM POWER
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0.635SP
Delegated Out
0.000SP
Delegation In
4.373SP
Effective Power
5.008SP
Reward SP (pending)
1.782SP
SBD
sbd_balance
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sbd_conversions
0.000SBD
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Account Info

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next_vesting_withdrawal1969-12-31T23:59:59
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last_account_recovery1970-01-01T00:00:00
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last_account_update2017-08-09T06:11:33
minedNo
sbd_seconds0
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savings_sbd_last_interest_payment1970-01-01T00:00:00
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Withdraw Routes

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From Date
To Date
steemdelegated 4.373 SP to @brentcooper
2026/05/17 22:18:48
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares7111.106793 VESTS
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steemdelegated 2.705 SP to @brentcooper
2026/05/11 20:06:39
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares4398.896388 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #105966462/Trx 27d93c9fc88651bacc7310935c7e4b58d0d92d1e
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steemdelegated 4.380 SP to @brentcooper
2026/04/25 21:42:39
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares7123.622549 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #105508836/Trx e76a24a31e455d27b051d337d81053c04c583f72
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steemdelegated 2.730 SP to @brentcooper
2026/01/23 02:41:27
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares4440.443207 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #102845694/Trx 0b8a93ad561f9257da79aec5eed9d8453185be88
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steemdelegated 2.831 SP to @brentcooper
2024/12/16 22:01:00
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares4604.662404 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #91292105/Trx 44d51d7d62189b6db036d797fb8cfaebb5af50af
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steemdelegated 2.935 SP to @brentcooper
2023/11/13 13:45:54
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares4773.795936 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #79846363/Trx 07a6d0020a0dafe4816b7d474bc908e80c4cdd01
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steemdelegated 4.742 SP to @brentcooper
2023/09/21 19:34:33
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares7711.074722 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #78345137/Trx 0f4b31d0e42a43f4655a618e58da64b222c38c99
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steemdelegated 4.878 SP to @brentcooper
2022/11/03 09:37:30
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares7932.756160 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #69110779/Trx 7f1eebba4d6dbab97912539bda1f3f27834be5da
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steemdelegated 5.014 SP to @brentcooper
2022/01/17 09:03:24
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8153.289391 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #60807149/Trx 101d3ba9377bed00d97cbb5750052860244ffc83
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steemdelegated 5.127 SP to @brentcooper
2021/06/13 23:03:21
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8337.058049 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #54605632/Trx a641842a8bf7d4fe2d3da2b972ea1629c73ac738
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steemdelegated 5.242 SP to @brentcooper
2020/12/11 09:24:39
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8524.480023 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #49353159/Trx d4b6fb02f79218f307b70f6719af1dc25636a019
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steemdelegated 1.176 SP to @brentcooper
2020/12/06 03:02:12
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares1912.543513 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #49204730/Trx 6c5948884253c2648616e874e1f906c34e92ba4d
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steemdelegated 5.246 SP to @brentcooper
2020/12/05 10:59:06
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8530.846662 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #49185834/Trx a9174eb5ce127cfbd6f9da8b023fad74f1830e84
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steemdelegated 1.181 SP to @brentcooper
2020/11/02 11:53:45
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares1920.017158 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #48253397/Trx 303673ed659a2c100136f0b078f87d03e3c21d0b
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steemdelegated 5.370 SP to @brentcooper
2020/05/09 03:57:27
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8733.493236 VESTS
Transaction InfoBlock #43214948/Trx ca014d115f4cb5f428f64b92d993d67c14fec828
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steemdelegated 1.201 SP to @brentcooper
2020/05/08 07:17:45
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares1953.311140 VESTS
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2019/08/04 00:26:15
authorsteemitboard
bodyCongratulations @brentcooper! You received a personal award! <table><tr><td>https://steemitimages.com/70x70/http://steemitboard.com/@brentcooper/birthday2.png</td><td>Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 2 years!</td></tr></table> <sub>_You can view [your badges on your Steem Board](https://steemitboard.com/@brentcooper) and compare to others on the [Steem Ranking](https://steemitboard.com/ranking/index.php?name=brentcooper)_</sub> ###### [Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemitboard&approve=1) to get one more award and increased upvotes!
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steemdelegated 5.486 SP to @brentcooper
2019/06/17 06:27:03
delegateebrentcooper
delegatorsteem
vesting shares8921.367596 VESTS
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bodyPlease support my work, and I will post more on Steemit, and format it properly, thank you! Permalinks of original article: http://badbuoy.kinja.com/mindhack-strengthen-your-metaphysique-1819718234 https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/mindhack-strengthen-your-metaphysique-2e67dada741a **Mindhack: Strengthen Your MetaPhysique** **The Quantum Physical Fitness Revolution** You can get ripped abs just by thinking it. But first you need to learn how to think. Then you need to think hard core. This is the science behind the technique of abs-traction, the mystery of The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy, the ultimate metaphysical fitness program. By practicing kinesthetic visualizing through mental imagery of the body, you increase the strength of the neocortical output signal, which activates and increases muscle strength. This doesn’t mean you can literally sit around and manifest muscles, but you can in a sense will yourself to strength. For example, if you break your arm in an accident, you should imagine yourself exercising it, because it keeps the neural pathways strong. This will maintain a higher level of muscle strength, as well as improve recovery time. Visualization also increases proprioceptive (spatial awareness) abilities through the cognitive mapping of the body schema. This gives new meaning to the phrase “know thyself.” Through conscious refinement of one’s body schema and exercise of the imagined self, one can leverage their insight to multiply muscle strength. This technique is supported by four papers on the mind-body interface. Two papers about the mental-muscle connection, and two papers about body schema mapping. Below that, two more papers have been added on the effect of placebos and power posing to enhance fitness. Through proper mental and physical training, one can optimize mind-body fitness, (dis-)embodied in the concept of a ‘MetaPhysique’; the metaphysical/ conceptual self. **Abs-Traction of the MetaPhysique** The first paper From mental power to muscle power — gaining strength by using the mind (2004) concludes that “mental training employed by this study enhances the cortical output signal, which drives the muscles to a higher activation level and increases strength.” More recent research along these lines is carried out in The power of the mind: the cortex as a critical determinant of muscle strength/weakness (2014). “Mental imagery has been shown to activate several cortical areas that are involved with actual motor behaviors” [and] “regular activation of the cortical regions via imagery attenuates weakness and VA (voluntary action) by maintaining normal levels of inhibition.” In laymen’s terms, merely by thinking of the exercise, the motor-neural pathways are activated, and the loss of strength associated with immobility will be reduced. The papers go on to cite that this accounts for up to 50% of strength. The particulars beyond this are quite boring, and one is flabbergasted by the depth of empirical science to prove the obvious, but it highlights the importance of training mind and body together. Most important, it emphasizes the abstract power of the mind, and that it does not labor for nothing. These images help break down anatomy into basic geometric mechanical relationships. It is the lucid abstraction of the human form. Now that we know that we can mentalize our muscular anatomy to such effect, we must map out the body we will be puppeting. The next two papers explain how we construct a mental model of our physical selves; the MetaPhysique. According to the paper Neural representation of human body schema and corporeal self-consciousness (2014), the left fronto-parietal network appears to control the inverse kinematics of movement, while right creates the holographic projection of the self. “Neuroimaging techniques have revealed neuronal substrates for human body schema,” as somatic signals are integrated up through the motor cortex into “higher-order somatosensory parietal cortices… capable of representing a postural model of the entire body.” In order words, scientists are able to measure brain activity representing the imagined self in coordinate space. This latter point is addressed more explicitly in the paper Tactile remapping: from coordinate transformation to integration in sensorimotor processing (2015) “Tactile localization entails the transformation of the initial skin-based location into an external reference frame that accounts for body posture and subsequent flexible integration of these two reference frames… We suggest that spatial localization is best viewed as a process of integrating multiple concurrently active spatial representations rather than a sequential transformation process.” In a way, this is just the banal proof of what we already know intuitively — that visualization is good, and it works — but the point of articulating it allows us to refine the process. The theme of mapping reality from our senses to our minds is one of abstraction, as has been discussed with respect to human evolution and worldview formation in The Abstraction of Jordan Peterson, but here it is of the flesh. We can abstractly start to build this character in our imagination. Take our malformed homunculus and sculpt a superhero action figure. What is human movement potential if not to have the stature of gods? We don’t need to know exactly how it works at the biological level in order to do this (that is the subject of the papers), but we do have to understand the principles and geometry behind it. We aren’t stick people. Fundamentally, movement is figured in terms of the relationship between the skeletal and muscle layers of the body, controlled by the nervous system. Our curved bones and spiralled muscles are part of a dynamic system, mechanically moving 206 bones with over 600 muscles. We need a simple set of rules and first principles to entrain the mind-body projection (what I call the meta-physique). For example, good posture could be defined as optimal spinal balance at maximum height under minimal tension. This is executed by the simple heuristic of keeping the crown of the head up, but it is actually engaged by certain muscle configurations. From such a benchmark of stillness, we can isolate body parts and move others independently, orienting our abstract self. Likewise, by countless more heuristics we can articulate the body in and through space. Actually, this field of inquiry has already been quite established with Human movement potential: its ideokinetic facilitation (1974) by Lulu Sweigard. The term ideokinesis — “imagined movement” — was developed back in 1920, by Mabel Elsworth Todd in The Thinking Body. Todd was one of a handful of pioneers transforming the dance and movement. Sweigard was a dedicated student of Todd who took it to the level of scientific verification. This groundbreaking work systematizes the methodology of optimal movement. It is a conceptual precursor to the “functional movement” turn in sports medicine of this decade. The essence of it is energy conservation and stability achieved through advanced coordination. The scientific studies above make no reference to ideokinesis, reflecting a naivete about this experiential knowledge and qualitative field work. It is typical of science in late capitalism, with it’s narrow focus and data fetishism, to miss the forest through the trees. The origin story of ideokinesis is noteworthy as well. Todd was impaired with childhood illness and later by an injury that forced her to have to literally learn to walk again: “Soon after her graduation from the Keble School, Mabel suffered a back injury in a terrible fall from which it was feared she might never recover. For months, she struggled with pain and debilitating weakness until she found a way to take charge of her own recovery. Her high school study of physics served as the foundation for a rudimentary understanding of body mechanics that she expanded through further reading. Then, concentrating on specific aspects of anatomy and kinesiology as she attempted simple movements, Mabel gradually strengthened her body and improved her walking gait.” — ideokinesis.com **PRIME Movement** The idea of the MetaPhysque is precisely what is captured in The Abs-Tract technique of MetaWalking (tm), the ultimate mobilizing metaphor: I cite those academic papers above not only as ‘proof’ for my claim of the secret of abs-traction (to get ripped abs by thinking it), but to illustrate how easy it can be to exploit and (mis-)construe overly-scientific papers in the context of a marketing gimmick. I’m not saying that’s what I’m doing — I think I’m invoking science within reasonable bounds, but also satirizing bad science. The irony is that no proof is necessary for some things, because its virtually self-evident. The scientific studies are almost made redundant when compared to the intuitive understanding of human movement through ideokinesis, for example. The proof is in the pudding. The complete potential of human movement has been slowly determined by evolution through our exploring (mapping) the range of the physical body. Done in a systematic heuristic pattern to optimize discovery of the most efficient movement, we can discover and create algorithms for human movement. If we imagine early human attempts of this, we are essentially describing the prototypical iterations of yoga — the working of the body in geometric forms, often utilizing the principle of a plane, and rhythmic deep breathing, engaging the three diaphragms or bandhas. As yoga literally means “union” of mind and body, it is the ancient and most abstract form of ideokinesis (I suppose we were ‘stick people’ in the very beginning). What makes yoga spiritual is the breathwork within and between each pose, which we discuss in the technique FlexBreathing. Of course, all of this goes all the way back to the ancient lost manuscript, the Abacus Tractatus. Now in the age of metamodernism, we are reconstructing archaic truths, recovering our lost wisdom, and undoing our psychic complexes that keep us physically inhibited. Cognitively, the process of mapping our movements involves complex computations of inverse kinematics; a coordinate programming system we are now using to teach robots how to move. Luckily we don’t have to think about that — we need only picture exalted imagery and the rest takes care of itself, granted that you actually animate yourself and feel the correspondence between blueprints and body schema. After that long detour into the details of scientific health research, let’s abstract back out to the basic premise: “mental imagery of strong muscle contractions increases strength” (Ranganathan et al. 2004). Something to keep in mind whether you work out or not. Abstraction of the MetaPhysique is all about sharpening the focus of your mind, through imagination and will power, to maximize your fitness gains. Ideokinesis is ultimately predicated on intimate knowledge of the body, and the schematic diagrams give us objective models to internalize. Finally, Abs-Traction is the literal technique of engaging the core by contracting the transverse abdominus, as in to ‘tract the abs.’ It is not wishful thinking, or woo-woo magic, but real power-knowledge — what Foucault really meant. This secret technique enables us to get absolutely shredded without having to waste money and time on fitness gimmicks and expensive equipment. Where this gets next level is that the mind is actually a quantum meat computer, and consequently capable of projecting a resolution of the MetaPhysique far beyond what is implied through ideokinesis, such as in lucid dreaming or astral projection. To achieve these states of consciousness, we must go beyond meditation, abstracting much higher, to Quantemplation. But for the time being, these secrets are only available to initiates of the Core Philosophy. Join for details. **Quantum Physical Fitness** We can think of our ideokinetic holographic projection as a sort of quantum self (see “The Quantum Turn in Social Science” for more on that). The mental projection of our bodies into the world is described in terms of a “kinesphere” (pictured below). It’s like the Vitruvian man, but in a cube-sphere instead of a squared circle, and in even deeper superposition. We have discussed the power of visualization, now we turn to the power of belief. The Science of Steroids reviews several studies that show placebos are as effective as steroids themselves. Dramatic results were achieved by bodybuilders who merely believed they were taking steroids. And when they were told they were taking placebos, their gains were lost. It is a testament to the power of intention and will. Expectations and actions in line with those expectations can produce incredible results. You can manifest muscles much easier if only you have the right mindset and faith. “You’ve heard of the Bowflex. Well, think of this as the PlaceboFlex. And that’s how it works.” — David Vitruvius, The Abs•Tract How can we tie all this together into a practical technique? I refer to Amy Cuddy’s famous paper and TED talk on power posing. It’s basically the act of positioning the ‘MetaPhysique’ — which we are discussing in this post — in an exalted way. It is akin to what we at The Abs•Tract describe in various heuristics such as MetaForm, SuperPosition, and standing in the Abs•Tractor Beam. Amazing that such a satirical fitness system can be based on science and also be better than the gimmicky snake-oily competitors out there. “The results of this study confirmed our prediction that posing in high-power nonverbal displays (as opposed to low-power nonverbal displays) would cause neuroendocrine and behavioral changes for both male and female participants: High-power posers experienced elevations in testosterone, decreases in cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk” —Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance However, of course, this is not really good science, its just using science to prove the obvious. A recent NY Times piece notes that others have failed to replicate Cuddy’s results, and there is a big methodological war within social psychology (of course there is; its at the fault line between psychology and sociology). Now, even one of the co-authors have distanced themselves from the famous paper, saying “I do not believe that ‘power pose’ effects are real.” Well, we have a serious problem here, and we can solve it. The effects of power posing are both real and unreal. Scientists keep failing to frame questions properly. It all depends on other factors, meaning, there are conditions and circumstances which could prove or disprove a given hypothesis, and this is the major blind spot of psych studies: sociological ignorance. Power posing can be useful because of the placebo effect, or to correct posture by holding a better stance, etc. Obvious stuff. You have nothing to lose and much to possibly gain by power posing, just know that that alone may not to radically transform your life. The only thing that will, is will itself. The Abs-Tract Organization is globally oriented meta- think tank, specializing in ‘abstraction’, but also moonlights as a mystery school for metaphysical fitness. Follow us on Medium. If you appreciate the work we do, please support us on Patreon for $1. Learn more and join the conversation at http://www.abs-tract.org and on twitter @tato_tweets.
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      "body": "Please support my work, and I will post more on Steemit, and format it properly, thank you!\n\nPermalinks of original article:\nhttp://badbuoy.kinja.com/mindhack-strengthen-your-metaphysique-1819718234\nhttps://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/mindhack-strengthen-your-metaphysique-2e67dada741a\n\n**Mindhack: Strengthen Your MetaPhysique**\n\n**The Quantum Physical Fitness Revolution**\n\nYou can get ripped abs just by thinking it. But first you need to learn how to think. Then you need to think hard core. This is the science behind the technique of abs-traction, the mystery of The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy, the ultimate metaphysical fitness program. By practicing kinesthetic visualizing through mental imagery of the body, you increase the strength of the neocortical output signal, which activates and increases muscle strength.\n\nThis doesn’t mean you can literally sit around and manifest muscles, but you can in a sense will yourself to strength. For example, if you break your arm in an accident, you should imagine yourself exercising it, because it keeps the neural pathways strong. This will maintain a higher level of muscle strength, as well as improve recovery time.\n\nVisualization also increases proprioceptive (spatial awareness) abilities through the cognitive mapping of the body schema. This gives new meaning to the phrase “know thyself.” Through conscious refinement of one’s body schema and exercise of the imagined self, one can leverage their insight to multiply muscle strength.\n\nThis technique is supported by four papers on the mind-body interface. Two papers about the mental-muscle connection, and two papers about body schema mapping. Below that, two more papers have been added on the effect of placebos and power posing to enhance fitness. Through proper mental and physical training, one can optimize mind-body fitness, (dis-)embodied in the concept of a ‘MetaPhysique’; the metaphysical/ conceptual self.\n\n\n**Abs-Traction of the MetaPhysique**\n\nThe first paper From mental power to muscle power — gaining strength by using the mind (2004) concludes that “mental training employed by this study enhances the cortical output signal, which drives the muscles to a higher activation level and increases strength.”\n\nMore recent research along these lines is carried out in The power of the mind: the cortex as a critical determinant of muscle strength/weakness (2014). “Mental imagery has been shown to activate several cortical areas that are involved with actual motor behaviors” [and] “regular activation of the cortical regions via imagery attenuates weakness and VA (voluntary action) by maintaining normal levels of inhibition.”\n\nIn laymen’s terms, merely by thinking of the exercise, the motor-neural pathways are activated, and the loss of strength associated with immobility will be reduced. The papers go on to cite that this accounts for up to 50% of strength. The particulars beyond this are quite boring, and one is flabbergasted by the depth of empirical science to prove the obvious, but it highlights the importance of training mind and body together. Most important, it emphasizes the abstract power of the mind, and that it does not labor for nothing.\n\n\nThese images help break down anatomy into basic geometric mechanical relationships. It is the lucid abstraction of the human form.\n\nNow that we know that we can mentalize our muscular anatomy to such effect, we must map out the body we will be puppeting. The next two papers explain how we construct a mental model of our physical selves; the MetaPhysique. According to the paper Neural representation of human body schema and corporeal self-consciousness (2014), the left fronto-parietal network appears to control the inverse kinematics of movement, while right creates the holographic projection of the self.\n\n“Neuroimaging techniques have revealed neuronal substrates for human body schema,” as somatic signals are integrated up through the motor cortex into “higher-order somatosensory parietal cortices… capable of representing a postural model of the entire body.” In order words, scientists are able to measure brain activity representing the imagined self in coordinate space.\n\nThis latter point is addressed more explicitly in the paper Tactile remapping: from coordinate transformation to integration in sensorimotor processing (2015) “Tactile localization entails the transformation of the initial skin-based location into an external reference frame that accounts for body posture and subsequent flexible integration of these two reference frames… We suggest that spatial localization is best viewed as a process of integrating multiple concurrently active spatial representations rather than a sequential transformation process.”\n\nIn a way, this is just the banal proof of what we already know intuitively — that visualization is good, and it works — but the point of articulating it allows us to refine the process. The theme of mapping reality from our senses to our minds is one of abstraction, as has been discussed with respect to human evolution and worldview formation in The Abstraction of Jordan Peterson, but here it is of the flesh.\n\n\nWe can abstractly start to build this character in our imagination. Take our malformed homunculus and sculpt a superhero action figure. What is human movement potential if not to have the stature of gods? We don’t need to know exactly how it works at the biological level in order to do this (that is the subject of the papers), but we do have to understand the principles and geometry behind it. We aren’t stick people. Fundamentally, movement is figured in terms of the relationship between the skeletal and muscle layers of the body, controlled by the nervous system.\n\nOur curved bones and spiralled muscles are part of a dynamic system, mechanically moving 206 bones with over 600 muscles. We need a simple set of rules and first principles to entrain the mind-body projection (what I call the meta-physique).\n\nFor example, good posture could be defined as optimal spinal balance at maximum height under minimal tension. This is executed by the simple heuristic of keeping the crown of the head up, but it is actually engaged by certain muscle configurations. From such a benchmark of stillness, we can isolate body parts and move others independently, orienting our abstract self. Likewise, by countless more heuristics we can articulate the body in and through space.\n\n\nActually, this field of inquiry has already been quite established with Human movement potential: its ideokinetic facilitation (1974) by Lulu Sweigard. The term ideokinesis — “imagined movement” — was developed back in 1920, by Mabel Elsworth Todd in The Thinking Body. Todd was one of a handful of pioneers transforming the dance and movement. Sweigard was a dedicated student of Todd who took it to the level of scientific verification.\n\nThis groundbreaking work systematizes the methodology of optimal movement. It is a conceptual precursor to the “functional movement” turn in sports medicine of this decade. The essence of it is energy conservation and stability achieved through advanced coordination. The scientific studies above make no reference to ideokinesis, reflecting a naivete about this experiential knowledge and qualitative field work.\n\nIt is typical of science in late capitalism, with it’s narrow focus and data fetishism, to miss the forest through the trees. The origin story of ideokinesis is noteworthy as well. Todd was impaired with childhood illness and later by an injury that forced her to have to literally learn to walk again:\n\n“Soon after her graduation from the Keble School, Mabel suffered a back injury in a terrible fall from which it was feared she might never recover. For months, she struggled with pain and debilitating weakness until she found a way to take charge of her own recovery. Her high school study of physics served as the foundation for a rudimentary understanding of body mechanics that she expanded through further reading. Then, concentrating on specific aspects of anatomy and kinesiology as she attempted simple movements, Mabel gradually strengthened her body and improved her walking gait.” — ideokinesis.com\n\n\n**PRIME Movement**\n\nThe idea of the MetaPhysque is precisely what is captured in The Abs-Tract technique of MetaWalking (tm), the ultimate mobilizing metaphor:\n\nI cite those academic papers above not only as ‘proof’ for my claim of the secret of abs-traction (to get ripped abs by thinking it), but to illustrate how easy it can be to exploit and (mis-)construe overly-scientific papers in the context of a marketing gimmick. I’m not saying that’s what I’m doing — I think I’m invoking science within reasonable bounds, but also satirizing bad science. The irony is that no proof is necessary for some things, because its virtually self-evident. The scientific studies are almost made redundant when compared to the intuitive understanding of human movement through ideokinesis, for example. The proof is in the pudding.\n\nThe complete potential of human movement has been slowly determined by evolution through our exploring (mapping) the range of the physical body. Done in a systematic heuristic pattern to optimize discovery of the most efficient movement, we can discover and create algorithms for human movement. If we imagine early human attempts of this, we are essentially describing the prototypical iterations of yoga — the working of the body in geometric forms, often utilizing the principle of a plane, and rhythmic deep breathing, engaging the three diaphragms or bandhas.\n\nAs yoga literally means “union” of mind and body, it is the ancient and most abstract form of ideokinesis (I suppose we were ‘stick people’ in the very beginning). What makes yoga spiritual is the breathwork within and between each pose, which we discuss in the technique FlexBreathing. Of course, all of this goes all the way back to the ancient lost manuscript, the Abacus Tractatus.\n\nNow in the age of metamodernism, we are reconstructing archaic truths, recovering our lost wisdom, and undoing our psychic complexes that keep us physically inhibited. Cognitively, the process of mapping our movements involves complex computations of inverse kinematics; a coordinate programming system we are now using to teach robots how to move. Luckily we don’t have to think about that — we need only picture exalted imagery and the rest takes care of itself, granted that you actually animate yourself and feel the correspondence between blueprints and body schema.\n\nAfter that long detour into the details of scientific health research, let’s abstract back out to the basic premise: “mental imagery of strong muscle contractions increases strength” (Ranganathan et al. 2004). Something to keep in mind whether you work out or not.\n\nAbstraction of the MetaPhysique is all about sharpening the focus of your mind, through imagination and will power, to maximize your fitness gains. Ideokinesis is ultimately predicated on intimate knowledge of the body, and the schematic diagrams give us objective models to internalize. Finally, Abs-Traction is the literal technique of engaging the core by contracting the transverse abdominus, as in to ‘tract the abs.’\n\n\nIt is not wishful thinking, or woo-woo magic, but real power-knowledge — what Foucault really meant. This secret technique enables us to get absolutely shredded without having to waste money and time on fitness gimmicks and expensive equipment. Where this gets next level is that the mind is actually a quantum meat computer, and consequently capable of projecting a resolution of the MetaPhysique far beyond what is implied through ideokinesis, such as in lucid dreaming or astral projection.\n\nTo achieve these states of consciousness, we must go beyond meditation, abstracting much higher, to Quantemplation. But for the time being, these secrets are only available to initiates of the Core Philosophy. Join for details.\n\n\n**Quantum Physical Fitness**\n\nWe can think of our ideokinetic holographic projection as a sort of quantum self (see “The Quantum Turn in Social Science” for more on that). The mental projection of our bodies into the world is described in terms of a “kinesphere” (pictured below). It’s like the Vitruvian man, but in a cube-sphere instead of a squared circle, and in even deeper superposition.\n\n\nWe have discussed the power of visualization, now we turn to the power of belief. The Science of Steroids reviews several studies that show placebos are as effective as steroids themselves. Dramatic results were achieved by bodybuilders who merely believed they were taking steroids. And when they were told they were taking placebos, their gains were lost. It is a testament to the power of intention and will. Expectations and actions in line with those expectations can produce incredible results. You can manifest muscles much easier if only you have the right mindset and faith.\n\n“You’ve heard of the Bowflex. Well, think of this as the PlaceboFlex. And that’s how it works.” — David Vitruvius, The Abs•Tract\nHow can we tie all this together into a practical technique? I refer to Amy Cuddy’s famous paper and TED talk on power posing. It’s basically the act of positioning the ‘MetaPhysique’ — which we are discussing in this post — in an exalted way. It is akin to what we at The Abs•Tract describe in various heuristics such as MetaForm, SuperPosition, and standing in the Abs•Tractor Beam. Amazing that such a satirical fitness system can be based on science and also be better than the gimmicky snake-oily competitors out there.\n\n“The results of this study confirmed our prediction that posing in high-power nonverbal displays (as opposed to low-power nonverbal displays) would cause neuroendocrine and behavioral changes for both male and female participants: High-power posers experienced elevations in testosterone, decreases in cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk” —Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance\n\nHowever, of course, this is not really good science, its just using science to prove the obvious. A recent NY Times piece notes that others have failed to replicate Cuddy’s results, and there is a big methodological war within social psychology (of course there is; its at the fault line between psychology and sociology). Now, even one of the co-authors have distanced themselves from the famous paper, saying “I do not believe that ‘power pose’ effects are real.”\n\nWell, we have a serious problem here, and we can solve it. The effects of power posing are both real and unreal. Scientists keep failing to frame questions properly. It all depends on other factors, meaning, there are conditions and circumstances which could prove or disprove a given hypothesis, and this is the major blind spot of psych studies: sociological ignorance. Power posing can be useful because of the placebo effect, or to correct posture by holding a better stance, etc. Obvious stuff. You have nothing to lose and much to possibly gain by power posing, just know that that alone may not to radically transform your life. The only thing that will, is will itself.\n\nThe Abs-Tract Organization is globally oriented meta- think tank, specializing in ‘abstraction’, but also moonlights as a mystery school for metaphysical fitness. Follow us on Medium.\n\nIf you appreciate the work we do, please support us on Patreon for $1.\n\nLearn more and join the conversation at http://www.abs-tract.org and on twitter @tato_tweets.",
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bodyFuck you! Leave the statue of liberty alone! You really think changing the statue of liberty will stop the racists from acting racist? The only thing it would do is give them another step to use when trying to destroy the next historical statue.
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body**We Must Build The Statue of Responsibility** A Monumental Shift in American Values is Needed ![Statue of Resp.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNMKXCFHsmmH2pty83nGgsgDqCAmW25mGSrvjMFwJw81i/Statue%20of%20Resp.jpg) “THE STATUE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS THE ONE THING THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.” — http://responsibilityfoundation.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBSnRcd23Uc No culture on earth is exempt from pathology. The only way to cure it, is to address it head on. We’re living under the shadows of many lies; a founding myth, a political facade, false idols, vicious abstractions, etc… This is more literally the case for those who boat by the Statue of Liberty today, the hostess-turned-mistress of US imperialism. While confederate statues are being torn down and vandalized across the country in a sweep of revisionist jurisprudence, serious consideration should be put into erecting a new monument: the proposed Statue of Responsibility. It is a very abstract consideration, but it is the symbol of hope the country needs. It’s not going to happen under a Trump administration, so this is one of many changes that should be bundled into a 2020 progressive platform or a change.org petition which we started. Think about it. The East coast is adorned with an iconic green goddess who has welcomed many of the world’s desperate migrants. The West coast has a Hollywood sign. The United States, a country known for its ostentatious projection of world power, should rein in what power it has left and show some responsibility. ![cv_93_3558785973540796822.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZbHkbFqw7ERKmqcTVU2LFWUyrYJNVbVjTic4q4k1kCgG/cv_93_3558785973540796822.jpg) “The Statue of Responsibility is a monument and a movement; a dream of Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor and world-renowned clinical psychiatrist. It’s a catalyst for a unifying global project to enshrine and share this fundamental value, Responsibility.” — http://responsibilityfoundation.org ![frankl.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQnEUnUTicPg3kfWBZvPc9fT1MGENX6q5PNo4qMmuVscX/frankl.jpg) Hmm… a holocaust survivor proposed this. Meanwhile, the US is having flare-ups of neonazism and free-speech fascism and the President is behaving like a spoiled child who doesn’t want to eat his responsibility. It is true more than ever that we need to change ourselves. This is the meaning and urgency of metanoia. White-nationalists need to let go of their skin color and fight the abstract problems of economic injustice and racism. Here’s a statue we can all get behind. Sign the CHANGE.ORG petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-abs-tract-organization-build-the-status-of-responsibility?recruiter=6523487&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition When ideas and events like this coincide it could be called synchronicity, and a rather significant one, so we should not hesitate to act. With those dates in mind, you might wonder why it has taken so long to realize, to awaken, to know right from wrong. The short answer is we failed to apprehend the complexity of social problems. The Statue of Responsibilty is a very abstract meta-solution, and needs to be brought out of abstract into the concrete. There is an urgency to this knowledge. While its important not to waste tax-payer dollars on ludicrous ideals, it is necessary to invest in them. A Statue of Responsibility would seem to pay for itself many times over. How many people even know about this proposal? “Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, a Holocaust survivor who went on to publish the best-seller Man’s Search for Meaning, which today is considered to be among the top 10 most influential books in the U.S.” — Viktor Frankl, 1946, http://resultswithreason.com/2017/08/10/statue-of-responsibility/ It’s obvious once you see it: How necessary it is to humble greatness, to speak truth to power, to balance freedom with duty. And for Christ’s sake, to manage an economy with dignity and integrity. And perhaps, if political sociology can work, a healthy marriage between politics and society. The United States has worshipped a one-sided diety in the Statue of Liberty for 131 years since it was gifted from France. Viktor Frankl proposed the Statue of Responsibility over 70 years ago, in 1946. Today, the US is having a psychotic episode on the world stage, tearing itself apart instead of rebuilding and renewing. The two statues are opposites of each other in more ways than coastlines and principles. The Statue of Liberty is a very explicit image literally standing for an abstract principle. By contrast, The Statue of Responsibility is itself an abstraction representing (and reaching for) a concrete moral imperative. The imagery, of the hand from above grasping the hand below, is a monumental metaphor for our collective relationship to the divine, but more importantly a reminder of our duty to help our fellow humans in the real world. Before there has even been time to process the recent conflicts between racist civil war enactors and anti-fascists, a natural disaster has hit Houston, Texas. Much like Bush’s handling of Katrina, before and after, the US government will be ill-equiped to address this crisis in any responsible or humane way. It’s a visceral symbol of humility and a constant reminder of privilege and perspective. “With great power comes great responsibility.” — Uncle Ben, Spider-Man ![sor_top.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXRoFY6Ushs3R7XyZ2ZWzfe1Rw7gdyqKm1V2RUJgVNG1M/sor_top.jpg) The implicit premise of any statue is that symbols mean something to people — and they do. But if you only give them certain symbols and not others, they will be unbalanced. You simply cannot have liberty without responsibility, and thus you should not have a statue glorifying one and nothing standing for the other. The principle of liberty has been true for many, but it has been denied to most. Joe Rogan has a great quote relating to the purity of ideas: ‘if someone gave you a sandwich, and told you there was 1% shit in it, its still a shit sandwich. You wouldn’t eat that.’ So, any honest person should acknowledge that all the pomp and circumstance about American values and exceptionalism has more than a tinge of hypocrisy to it. It’s like a shit sandwich being force fed to the public. I still think the best roast of US foreign policy to date was Team America: World Police. There are valuable lessons in there, that the deep state and the government still haven’t learned. The public debates and culture wars over racism and injustice are demons that won’t die, but they must be cured in real-time now, rather than play out is psycho-historical drama. The everpresent environmental crisis is God’s shrinking Overton window of opportunity. We need to be responsible, which means building peace based on the true collective threats, not each other, but the negative externalities of our social system. Sign the Change.org petition to raise awareness for this project and for systemic justice. “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo --- The Abs-Tract Organization is a meta- think tank for solving the meta-problem, highlighting the utility of abstraction as a critical perspective and knowledge representation framework. If you appreciate the work we do, please support us on Patreon for $1. https://www.patreon.com/metamodernism?alert=2 or here on Steemit!
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2017/08/11 17:43:15
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2017/08/09 22:11:18
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2017/08/09 17:59:54
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2017/08/09 17:26:48
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bodyLet me tell you a story about a man and his best friends. This is the story of Brentano (me): https://www.instagram.com/brentano1/ ![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSEPTbiYDAKjhC32symV96SMfLYAKK78ErdJ1UBfTHAke/1.jpg) But first, let me say I have no idea how to make money on Steemit, and I hope for the community to help me out with that. I am a fledging entrepreneur, with many other projects. I have found its very hard to get people's attention on the internet, but I'm looking at transitioning all my projects to blockchain/cryptocurrency funding, so I can consolidate, find the right followers, get more traction, and make a difference in the world. Brentano is much like Diogenes, the cynic philosopher from ancient Greece who was often compared to a dog. Dog-like Diogenes was a friend to animals, and them to him, because he understood something deeper than his fellow thinkers. That there was more humanity in a dog than in a man, and that through their creation (by man) they came to reflect the best within us. ![2 - IMG_9102 copy.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTd25BXwTRpkat8Cz7nciMWWDCqpquU53yASWJJrkyg4y/2%20-%20IMG_9102%20copy.jpg) From a young age Brentano always had an affinity with animals. He was also an artist at heart, although this was not nurtured and Brentano was a very late bloomer when it came to art and self-expression. At some point in his pursuit of acting, Brentano decided it would be a great idea to take headshots with dogs. It was a passion project, purely motivated by love, but a hidden hope was that it would get enough attention to fund his animal activism (and human rights activism). This did not happen. ![3 - IMG_5327.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb43egcGsVs9XHNxZYzkw3r1quLApkJxbTTWWuQh1krvu/3%20-%20IMG_5327.jpg) I started this photography project over 7 years ago (2009), and posted a few pics on Facebook. It was more popular than anything I'd ever posted, but still not good enough to compete with my Facebook friends banal updates about their shower thoughts, dad jokes, or personal events. I also reached out to some dog magazines, but received no replies. I felt my efforts were not being acknowledged adequately. Then in 2012, someone I vaguely knew for a bit told me that they saw my pics on Reddit. I had no idea. What happened was somebody else that I vaguely knew (through an acting class) took my pictures off Facebook and posted them to r/ladyboners (via Imgur). Here is the link: "A friend of mine posts intense looking pictures on facebook with various tiny dogs that he fosters. I thought that you ladies might appreciate." https://www.reddit.com/r/LadyBoners/comments/104na7/a_friend_of_mine_posts_intense_looking_pictures/ I had over 2000 upvotes. I was at the top of the front page of r/ladyboners, a place usually reserved for meme-hunks like Ryan Gosling. The Imgur link had over 100,000 views in one month. The fickle nature of the internet had proven itself definitely. I had worked hard to promote lots of my own ideas and ventures for years, but nothing stuck, nobody really shared anything. So for this to happen spontaneously was a pleasant surprise but also frustrating. I got some 15 minutes of fame, but none of it traced back to me, and nobody really cared. I'm pretty sure part of the hook was that somebody else (and not me) posted about it; "a friend of mine posts...". I even reached out to her and thanked her, but since there was no consent, asked if she might want to help me with the project. She ignored the offer. The reddit episode faded, and the moment passed, never to return. ![4 - IMG_5669.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZTHMg858d311Jyog3xjY1zwXhvrVnxfn3ReVaLftXp2G/4%20-%20IMG_5669.jpg) But Brentano carried on with the project. Most of the dogs he's photographed with are rescues (or in shelter at the time), many of them from the Dhana Metta Rescue Society (for tiny dogs, mostly). Here is their website: http://www.dhanamettarescuesociety.org Despite my best efforts, I never raised my own profile or a dime of charity to forward to Dhana Metta. Rather, I incurred costs for many of my projects, including this one. I would very much like to continue in this artistic niche (perhaps hold a Guinness World Record one day for the most headshots with animals). Success in this regard would allow me to engage in more animal activism and also fund my other startups. ![5 - IMG_5760.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNgX2538DL7sBEqHHpgWcZt11qZLbd9L9xPoTv3hFuWuu/5%20-%20IMG_5760.jpg) Brentano is mysterious in many ways. Many people ask what the story is with the dog photos. I tell them, the photos are the story. Make of it what you will. There is a quote on the Instagram account that is very telling. “Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.” ― Diogenes I am a philosopher, very unrewarded for my efforts at the greatest good. Likewise, my furry friends diligently serve mankind, doing double duty as diplomats for the animal kingdom, and many are still mistreated or homeless. This is unacceptable, and easily rectifiable with a little compassion and education. It seems people want some entertaining anecdote about the photos, not the truth. The truth is its art, and worthy of your contemplation. But one can still read into the photos another story, about the intimate relationship between human and animal, perhaps owner and pet. I tell people they are just pictures of Brentano hanging out with his friends. Not his friend's dogs, but his friends. The idea is that the animals are his peers, spending quality time together. ![6 - IMG_5830.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY9fTJ7rjSPPX5HwZnNWxqXoQ1ZdBRQPAq5bMUNBH8QLR/6%20-%20IMG_5830.jpg) Some are big, some are small. Some are long, some are tall. But they all love me, and I love all. ![7 - IMG_5433.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZd18zajJTc5D3hWqWghXKeWTvS4x6WHatP78eq3ivNpn/7%20-%20IMG_5433.jpg) With photography, you don't always know what you're going to get. Models/photographers take hundreds of pictures of different nuances and different angles, then they select and edit the best ones. It is no different with animal photography, except that it is even more complicated, because the animals aren't always responsive and cooperative to the needs of the shot. Nevertheless, they are willing subjects, and playful partners for the time being. ![8 - IMG_8433.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTNBB68fMcmKRKoxtgdKgzHGqiSAW9b9igZDeJ8rFHNPM/8%20-%20IMG_8433.jpg) Brentano likes to portray different looks and poses, taking on different clothing styles, and inner moods, but in most of the photos Brentano maintains a subdued, stern, thoughtful, or stoic look. This is after all what models strive for. ![9 - IMG_6328.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYTHctZLSs51zjwc8DpQY2SxeMBHaGFVvyssuPhRqGfBt/9%20-%20IMG_6328.jpg) Brentano's passion for animals goes beyond dogs. While dogs are 'man's best friends' and the main theme of the Instagram, there is also the occasional other species. So far, there is a butterfly, a cat, and a goat. This photo essay has featured 9 photos, but the Instagram so far has 28 posts, so check that out. With your help, it could have a lot more. Or if you want to know about my other projects, we can talk about that too. Please like and share and steemit! Thank you, Brentano
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Most of the dogs he's photographed with are rescues (or in shelter at the time), many of them from the Dhana Metta Rescue Society (for tiny dogs, mostly). Here is their website:\nhttp://www.dhanamettarescuesociety.org\n\nDespite my best efforts, I never raised my own profile or a dime of charity to forward to Dhana Metta. Rather, I incurred costs for many of my projects, including this one. I would very much like to continue in this artistic niche (perhaps hold a Guinness World Record one day for the most headshots with animals). Success in this regard would allow me to engage in more animal activism and also fund my other startups. \n\n![5 - IMG_5760.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNgX2538DL7sBEqHHpgWcZt11qZLbd9L9xPoTv3hFuWuu/5%20-%20IMG_5760.jpg)\n\nBrentano is mysterious in many ways. Many people ask what the story is with the dog photos. I tell them, the photos are the story. Make of it what you will. 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