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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions astro.config.mjs
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import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import remarkCollapse from "remark-collapse";
import remarkToc from "remark-toc";
import remarkMath from "remark-math";
import rehypeKatex from "rehype-katex";
import config from "./src/config/config.json";

// https://astro.build/config
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test: "Table of contents",
},
],
'remark-math',
remarkMath,
],
rehypePlugins: [
['rehype-katex', {
[rehypeKatex, {
// Katex plugin options
}]
],
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## Walking the Path

> How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
> How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
Committing yourself to your dharma involves rejecting that which would pull you out of it. On the day to day scale, these are small bouts of laziness, and distractions like Netflix, TikTok, etc. But there's a larger scale element too: now and again you’ll come upon opportunities that might, in one way or another, hinder your ability to execute on your dharma. A teacher offered a job as dean, an engineer offered the job of project manager. Finding and sticking to the path of your dharma may require extreme action, sacrifice, or leaps of faith. Sometimes it may require you to fully cut yourself off from other paths of interest.

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**Limbic Resonance** is a process by which one can tune into another’s emotional state, and physiologically empathize. It affects us with varying degrees of subtlety. Consider **Mood Contagion**, for example. When you see some stranger laughing, it might brighten you up a bit. But when your best friend or significant other is laughing, it can be hard not to laugh with them. The authors argue that this is part of what gives concerts and movie theaters a special feel. It’s not just the big screen and the sound system, it’s everyone in the same room sharing in an emotion together.

> "A symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other’s inner states. It is limbic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multi-layered experience. Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to a limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply...When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achieve a palpable and intimate apposition."
> A symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other’s inner states. It is limbic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multi-layered experience. Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to a limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply...When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achieve a palpable and intimate apposition.
**Limbic Regulation** is the process of changing another’s physiology and vice versa. There are thousands of physiological parameters, (i.e. blood pressure, immune function, oxygen, sugar, hormone levels). And contrary to prevailing belief, there's evidence that many of these systems are on open loops.

In the 40s, research was conducted on sterile nurseries--institutions for orphaned and babies and children. Back then, these nurseries thought it’d be a pretty good idea to minimize contact with and between children to minimize the spread of illness. The study found that children handled this way, despite having all their physical needs met, became withdrawn, weaker, and more sickly. At a time when the outside death rate from measles was 0.5%, the death rate for these children was 40%. The average death rate for all children in these institutions was 75%, and the more “sterile” the nursery, the higher the death rate.

At birth, the limbic brain is totally unregulated. Emotional responses are socialized, learned by watching and interacting with a parent. Though we're most emotionally plastic in infancy and early childhood, we need stability and healthy connections throughout our lives. Positive limbic regulation is not emotional weakness or immaturity, it's physiological necessity.

> Because loving is reciprocal physiologic influence, it entails a deeper and more literal connection than most realize. Limbic regulation affords lovers the ability to modulate each other’s emotions, neurophysiology, hormonal status, immune function, sleep rhythms, and stability. If one leaves on a trip, the other may suffer insomnia, a delayed menstrual cycle, a cold that would have been fought off in the fortified state of togetherness.
> Because loving is reciprocal physiologic influence, it entails a deeper and more literal connection than most realize. Limbic regulation affords lovers the ability to modulate each other’s emotions, neurophysiology, hormonal status, immune function, sleep rhythms, and stability. If one leaves on a trip, the other may suffer insomnia, a delayed menstrual cycle, a cold that would have been fought off in the fortified state of togetherness.
**Limbic Revision** is the process of changing the structure of the limbic brain. This is the basis for psychotherapy. Significant changes can take years to set in.

> In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, as our Attractors activate certain limbic pathways, and the brain’s inexorable memory mechanism reinforces them. Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
> In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, as our Attractors activate certain limbic pathways, and the brain’s inexorable memory mechanism reinforces them. Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
## Loving and Being in Love

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Fjelland’s goal in this paper is to show that Dreyfus’s argument still holds, despite the extensive development of artificial neural networks. He argues that modern methods (e.g. ML) are merely correlative, they know nothing of causation. A higher level of reasoning, with a deeper understanding of the events in question and the context they occurred in is necessary to determine causation. Thus, a machine that is not in-the-world cannot reason about causal relationships.

> We are bodily and social beings, living in a material and social world. To understand another person is not to look into the chemistry of that person’s brain, not even into that person’s soul, but is rather to be in that person’s ‘shoes’. It is to understand that person’s lifeworld.
> We are bodily and social beings, living in a material and social world. To understand another person is not to look into the chemistry of that person’s brain, not even into that person’s soul, but is rather to be in that person’s ‘shoes’. It is to understand that person’s lifeworld.
[^1]: And you’d be in the company of [some experts](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280838978_Future_Progress_in_Artificial_Intelligence_A_Survey_of_Expert_Opinion)!
[^2]: I've always wanted to say this.
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So God tells us what to think (1), how to act (2), and gives us a reason to care about what he says (3). Nietzsche believed that in his day, the ideas and influence of Christianity were beginning to lose their hold on society, and nothing had emerged to take its place.

> God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers
> God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers
### The Origin of Morality

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**Moral Particularism** is the idea that General moral principles cannot be applied to particular moral situations because each moral situation is different. Thus, sweeping moral judgements hold no value. Nietzsche considers it selfish or cowardly to hold others to your own moral judgements.

> "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
> You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
### The Will to Power

**The Will to Power** is a fundamental drive to overcome opposition, and this drive is at the core of all activity. Opposition both in other people, and inside ourselves. The greatest way to test one’s strength is to seek out a worthy adversary. The essence of life which imbues the strong with the aim of extending its power even at great risk to itself. “The essence of life as Will to Power is to seek its own glorious undoing, by pushing itself to, and beyond, its limits.” -Hank Southgate. The will to Power is a meta-drive which influences all of our particular drives, i.e. for knowledge, artistry, military exploits, sexual, social, or economic success, etc.

> That which does not kill us makes us stronger.[^2]
> That which does not kill us makes us stronger.[^2]
Contrary to the Darwinian idea that life is merely about survival, Nietzsche observes that in reality, this is rarely how organisms behave. An organism which is merely subsisting is one we take to be weak or sick--not how life should be. On the other hand, the organism which is strong, ever-growing, and ambitious is understood to be in good health, good at living. As we are all organisms, it follows that the best way to live is to do so vigorously, to grow, to expand our capabilities. This is the meaning of the positive Will to Power, it is “precisely the will of life”. Nietzsche thinks that the basis for the Will to Power is much stronger than the basis of morality. It is grounded in observable characteristics common to all living things. So *power* and *values* are on two different planes. Power is objectively good, it is expressed in the vitality, health, and strength of living things. Values are subjective and individualized. This is an important distinction, because rather than holding people to a certain set of actions, the Will to Power holds them to a more abstract idea, which may be expressed through many different sets of actions. Self-creation, and overcoming require different things from different people. Two people may act in total contradiction with the will of each other, and still be satisfying their Will to Power in their own way.

Nietzsche is not advocating a view like Aristotle on which you have some predetermined essence you have to realize. Rather, in a somewhat [Sartrean](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/) spirit, everything you do (your successes, failures, desires, hates...) all play a part in defining who you are. The self is a changing thing, wish is not just something you possess, but something you achieve through discipline and control and self-mastery. The Will to Power is primarily self-directed rather than directed towards others.

> "No I'll not renounce my views, do what others do.
> No I'll not renounce my views, do what others do.
I'd rather drink the hemlock than be like you, to my soul untrue.
It never gets easier so quit tryin' pleasing her.
Everything is a choice so let me hear your voice."[^3]
Everything is a choice so let me hear your voice.[^3]

### The Artist; The Free Spirit; The Exemplary Individual

The life of the artist is filled with self-control, self-creation and interpretation, and active exploration and generativity. The artist is largely unbeholden to anyone, and when they are, they will still take control of their behavior and their work such that even a specifically requested piece of art serves as an expression of themself. These people are few and far between in Nietzsche’s eyes. On the contrary, most people are weak, characterized instead by subservience, mediocrity, and dispassion.

> ..we delight in all who, like us, love danger, war, adventure, who do not allow themselves to compromise, to be caught, placated, gelded...
> ..we delight in all who, like us, love danger, war, adventure, who do not allow themselves to compromise, to be caught, placated, gelded...
### More on the Positive Account

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- Self-discipline in the service of the Will to Power: foster drives which lead to achievement, and through this exercise of overcoming obstacles and expressing ourselves, we flourish and grow our power.
- Playing with values creatively: free spirits are free because they are not bound to any particular set of values or practices. Those are just different interpretations of existence, none of which are especially right or natural.

> Live at war with your fellows and yourselves!
> Live at war with your fellows and yourselves!
What is most important is satisfaction with oneself. If one is to hold themself together, a positive self-image is essential. Dissatisfaction with oneself is associated with a sick form of existence, in which one is weak and resents themselves and those better than them. This kind of person is the kind who lifts up religion, condemning those achievers who create their own values and exert their own wills.

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import { defineCollection, z } from "astro:content";
import { array } from "prop-types";

// Post collection schema
const blogCollection = defineCollection({
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date: z.date().optional(),
image: z.string().optional(),
author: z.string().default("Admin"),
categories: z.array(z.string()).default(["others"]),
tags: z.array(z.string()).default(["others"]),
spirits: z.array(z.string()).default(["none"]),
bottles: z.array(z.string()).default(["none"]),
tags: z.array(z.string()).default(["none"]),
draft: z.boolean().optional(),
ingredients: z.object({
list: z.array(z.string()).optional(),
qty: z.array(z.string()).optional(),
}).optional(),
instructions: z.array(z.string()).optional(),
}),
});

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---
title: "Drink"
meta_title: "Drink"
author: "Reed Nelson"
draft: true
description: "description"
image: ""

spirits: ["spirit"]
bottles: ["bottle1", "bottle2"]
tags: ["tag1", "tag2"]

ingredients:
list:
- "ingredient1"
- "ingredient2"
qty:
- "qty1"
- "qty2"

instructions:
- "Step1"
- "Step2"
---
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---
title: "Manhattan"
meta_title: "Manhattan"
description: "none"
image: ""
author: "Reed Nelson"
draft: false

spirits: ["whiskey"]
bottles: ["sweet-vermouth", "ango"]
tags: ["classic", "spirit-forward"]

ingredients:
list:
- "rye whiskey"
- "sweet vermouth"
- "angostura bitters"
qty:
- "2 oz"
- "1 oz"
- "4 dashes"

instructions:
- "Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice."
- "Stir until well chilled."
- "Serve neat or on a rock."
---
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bulletpoints:
- "a"
- "b"

---
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import Header from "@/partials/Header.astro";
import "@/styles/main.scss";
// font families
const pf = theme.fonts.font_family.primary;
const sf = theme.fonts.font_family.secondary;
// types for frontmatters
export interface Props {
title?: string;
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<meta name="generator" content={Astro.generator} />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<!-- fonts -->
<link
rel="preload"
href="/fonts/open-sans/open-sans-400.woff2"
as="font"
type="font/woff2"
crossorigin="anonymous"
/>
<link
rel="preload"
href="/fonts/open-sans/open-sans-600.woff2"
as="font"
type="font/woff2"
crossorigin="anonymous"
/>
<link
rel="preload"
href="/fonts/cormorant/cormorant-500.woff2"
as="font"
type="font/woff2"
crossorigin="anonymous"
/>
<link
rel="preload"
href="/fonts/cormorant/cormorant-700.woff2"
as="font"
type="font/woff2"
crossorigin="anonymous"
/>

<!-- responsive meta -->
<meta
name="viewport"
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title={title}
description={description}
slug={post.slug}
folder={blog_folder}
/>
</div>
</div>
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