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Our daughter is the first US baby born from an automated IVF lab.
I wrote the first check into Conceivable, & eventually, they gave us our daughter. Watching the robots work felt like a moon landing. @sarahfrier captures the heartbreak, joy, life & death of this journey in @BW
A new robotic lab that makes human embryos using AI is now responsible for 19 babies. Is it better at IVF than humans are? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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i love having a little family. i love cooking and the trampoline and reading harry potter. i love picking up lego. i love when my little toddler learns a new word or discovers kimchi is spicy. there is almost infinite reward in the banal & quotidian and its your job to get it out
"And that's why somebody like Milarepa can say if you work with pain with emptiness practice and you push it to its limit, pain is like bliss. It's not negative anymore. It's just strong sensation. It's terribly interesting... It's just not pain anymore."
... emotional processing... in Jack Hilgard's original terminology we would say, you still have the sensory component, sometimes even stronger, but you don't have the suffering component...
"So, mindfulness is actually affecting the pain completely differently from hypnosis. In hypnosis, you basically stop any higher processing, both emotional processing and sensory processing, but with mindfulness you're simply more aware of the sensation, but you shut down the...
"I needed to show myself that I could actually have this mind-body effect with hypnosis, and I didn't feel anything. In fact, the surgeon gave me a running commentary on everything he was doing and I found it terribly interesting. I simply focused on what he was doing...
"It was a six hour operation, and I went through the whole thing by hypnotizing myself. And I lasted about four hours into the post-op and then it was [hurting] a little bit, and after ten hours I was tired, so I took one Percocet. That's all I took.
for all the novocaine talk in the tl… fearlessness for yourself is rare but fearlessness for the collective is rarer
Aike Ho retweeted
Most spiritual people seeking enlightenment would be better served seeking existential maturity instead: The ability to answer the deepest questions of existence for one's self, without wrapping yourself in defense or delusion.
The skills you need to get you there will also serve loftier paths! But you'd avoid a lot of pitfalls by setting your sights appropriately to begin with
