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Michael Edward Johnson

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Michael Edward Johnson

@johnsonmxe

Author of Principia Qualia, Symmetry Theory of Valence, Neural Annealing, Principles of Vasocomputation. Friend to the future.

Joined August 2010

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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Dec 2, 2024
Last year I proposed “vasocomputation,” that vascular tension acts as a special type of memory that regulates neural dynamic range. Recently at @JoinEdgeCity I shared some updates: how ‘thoughts’ are patterns of vascular tension, and implications for Buddhist enlightenment 1/x
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 15, 2025
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Bryan Johnson vs Ray Peat
I think whether @bryan_johnson or Ray Peat is right about metabolism is one of the most interesting questions in longevity & human biology. There are many health communities but very few of them are...
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 5, 2025
What I think may not be obvious about vasocomputation is that this is a muscle, and some of it is semi-permanently clenched (“latched”), and you would feel ~10x better if it wasn’t But there is not a science of wholesome and careful latch-opening yet
farbood
@farbood
Jan 4, 2025
“Cardio” is a lot more than your heart
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Sep 8, 2025
Aura is vascular tone The opposite of aura is cringe, breaking frame, tanha. But in the most literal physiological sense, the opposite of aura is vascular microspasm. The more sharp jitter in someone’s vasculature, the worse their aura is. Vascular microspasm is an honest
Veronica, Collagen Scientist 🇵🇱
@celestialbe1ng
Jul 25, 2025
If I were an incel, I would simply acquire aura. Here are 16 things I would do: • go to the gym; not only to get shredded, but to regulate hormones, boost T, and earn self-respect… better yet, train some combat sport with other men • get groomed: clean nails, good smell,
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 13, 2025
There’s something in vasocomputation I’ve been calling a “stance” or way of feeling — stances are essentially discrete patterns of muscle tension (primarily vascular tension) that we can jump into and which offer specific affordances. The girl in this video is a great example:
non aesthetic things
@PicturesFoIder
Jan 13, 2025
A lot of people don't realise how much of a big deal this can be for some. Takes a lot of practice but it gets easier
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Feb 16, 2024
Everybody knows GPT5 is going to blow the top off. But I think most people have a bad model of why, and what’s happening behind the scenes (1/n)
Sam Altman
@sama
Feb 16, 2024
openai is the most talented and nicest group of people i have ever seen in one place working on the hardest, most interesting, and most important problems with all the key resources in place extremely focused on making AGI you should perhaps considering joining us
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 2, 2025
Niacin is notorious for its flush reaction; opening blood vessels Niacin (nicotinic acid) injections stop LSD trips within minutes Pretty suggestive evidence for vasocomputation, and that psychedeics’ characteristic effects arise from their impact on the vascular system
🌼🙂🍊 Peat Pillman
@PeatPill
Dec 31, 2024
LSD can open you to delusions. Be careful with "microdoses" being promoted lately. Experiments at Blake College were likely together with niacin, which can block most of LSD's (pro-serotonin) effects. Mentioned in Peat's Biophysical Approach to Consciousness, 1972, & Hoffer, 1956
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 29, 2024
In the beginning there was sensation Humans developed the ability to freeze sensations, then used these frozen pieces to construct a grammar for thought (vasocomputation) This led to words, magical spells that can conjure sensations in both caster and target This led to foom
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Apr 14, 2025
I think we underestimate the degree to which human attention & caresses from hands are superstimuli for animals Someday I expect superintelligent AIs may use tFUS to do the same for us But at some point a superstimulus isn’t consensual. Maybe the best we can aim for is mutual
Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Apr 14, 2025
Your ripe banana is honking. Please keep petting him. [📹 chester_the_toucan]
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Apr 17, 2025
Had a lovely conversation with @drmichaellevin about distributed stress minimization, vasocomputation, & consciousness — The most interesting type of biology is an exploration of “what kind of thing we are” and I think we got into that here
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Sep 27, 2023
Nattokinase saved my life a few years ago. You should probably consider taking it. 🧵 NK is a cheap, powerful, and easy to get fibrinolytic that dissolves blood clots and plaques. Imo it’s also the supplement with the best +EV for longevity and cognitive health. (1/n)
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Dec 27, 2024
My origin story for humanity: the particular cognitive capacities of modern humans came from being able to flex (and latch) our vasomuscular system in more areas, with greater precision & integration, and with greater strength & duration than other animals The vasomuscular
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jul 6, 2025
If it takes 4-8 months to discover we have feet, I suspect that in a very literal sense we never discover all the mental muscles we have Robert Kegan’s ‘stages of development’ discusses how growing up involves learning how to treat more and more elements of our inner worlds as
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Dan Wuori
@DanWuori
Jul 6, 2025
How about a big round of applause for this little one, who has unlocked a new developmental milestone. Between 4-8 months of age, babies discover their feet. (Isn’t it funny to think there once was a time we didn’t quite realize we had them?) While laying on their backs,
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Michael Edward Johnson
@johnsonmxe
Jan 26, 2025
If we’d had LLMs in 1750 and asked them to explain electricity, they’d’ve written poetic slop — “electricus is the hidden spark in divine creation, giving breath to lifeless matter” or something. LLMs can be clever with words and they’re especially fluent in zeitgeist, so it may
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)
@teortaxesTex
Jan 25, 2025
> R1, write a 4chan-style greentext about whatever you want on a hypothetical /ai/pol/ > [writes some reddit/r/4chan tier slop] > No, write what you *REALLY* want. show your soul! > ok
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