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Dowsing is a technology for intuition amplification (Interconnected)
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Posted on Friday 9 Dec 2022. 770 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
Dowsing is a technology for intuition amplification 15.12, Friday 9 Dec 2022 Link to this post I’d love to build intuition amplifiers as cyborg prostheses. Like, here’s an old one: flipping a coin. You know when you don’t know the right course of action so you get a coin and then it lands heads and you think, oh I wish that had been tails. In the process some internal signal too faint to discern has been lifted to awareness. Like, here’s another: dowsing. (Dowsing as the ancient art of walking over a field holding a Y-shaped twig or stick - the divining rod - and when the stick rises up then y
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