05/21/2026
at the start of this week i was fortunate enough to spend time with and .braden in discussions about our humanness in the day in age of AI.
a few takeaways i’d like to share:
💫 the mind is like a tuning fork being impacted by the environment (body) that tune into sensations & feelings
💫 if your mind is like a broadcast channel, what channel would you want to automatically tune to when turned on (awake)?
💫 our internal state of being, including our beliefs and emotions, broadcasts out into the world around us defining our perceptions of the world
💫 a reminder that genes are not self-actualizing. genes are sequenced to require cellular development, regulatory networks and environmental signals (stress, toxins, etc) that then express as traits
💫 if we know that we spend most of our awake time in the subconscious state, in fact 95% of it, how can we aid the nervous system in the architectural design of our lives?
💫 as mammals with iron-based hemoglobin as blood, rather than cooper-based in arthropods, similar to the iron in earth’s core which shaped our biochemical evolution with geochemistry. what significance does this provide us in our existence and ability to adapt?
i honestly walked away with a lot more reflections and am still spending time digesting all the concepts discussed.
ultimately i have felt empowered and humbled by the gnarly trip in which the human experience is while moving on a rock in an infinite amount of space.
sometimes it feels heavy and expansive, but in community i’m reminded that i love my fellow humans, yes even the weirdest of ones — because isn’t it the coolest experience to be a functional biochemical development called human with a meat suit and internal processing system inside of us all. that’s similar but uniquely different with an imprint that no one else has or ever will have, only variations.
