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"language is not a human construct but an elemental process through which matter listens, dreams, & becomes. Against the anthropocentric myth of linguistic mastery, this work proposes a choral poetics wherein stone, soil, water, & stellar plasma sound through the human sensorium"
Coming soon: Lithogenesis: A Choral Poetics of Accretion, Rupture, & Becoming By Rainer J. Hanshe with flares of Dejan Lukić contramundumpress.com/lithog…
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Dr. Pankaj Royal retweeted
68 year old male withChronic smoking presented with altered sensorium. Diagnosis ? #Medtwitter #MedX #INDvsAFG #internalmedicine
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Replying to @DocPriyamMD
In real-time, Unexplained hypoTN (80/50) = resus first (if you're available then run to him/her) 200/120 = on monitor and ask other person to check for red flags. Because anxiety/panic at 200/120 may look more dramatic than silent compensating before crashing pt at 80/50. - Or just ask 200/120 - Any severe chest pain, severe dyspnea, neuro deficit, altered sensorium, seizure, severe headache with vomiting/visual symptoms, tearing back pain, pregnancy(eclampsia features)? - if no then go to 80/50, if yes then resus. - 80/50 benign only if Alert comfortable warm peripheries normal mentation good pulse volume capillary refill okay no chest pain/dyspnea/syncope/bleeding/fever/sepsis/dehydration repeat BP similar or improving known low baseline or obvious benign trigger. - otherwise always resus. Unexplained 80/50 = resus. 200/120 with red flags = resus. Between two resus patients, ABC and immediate collapse risk decide.
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Learning seemingly simple concepts like 'redness', 'mintiness', or 'pain' enables me to navigate my sensorium in ways that let me calibrate my perceptual mechanisms, not just on my own, but in dialogue with others in situations where confounding factors are potentially relevant.
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Replying to @DocPriyamMD
✓ We should Prioritize clinical presentation over numbers by assessing the patient's face for signs of end-organ perfusion or distress. • A hypertensive crisis (200/120) requires immediate intervention only if the face reveals acute stroke signs or altered sensorium. • Hypotension (80/50) demands resuscitation if paired with shock indicators like facial pallor, diaphoresis, or decreased consciousness. ∆ Visual triage differentiates stable baseline vitals from true medical emergencies requiring instant, life saving resuscitation.
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Replying to @abdulhamid_199
🔷Reye's Syndrome- It is a Rare but serious condition causing acute encephalopathy & liver failure. • It is M/C associated with aspirin use in children recovering from viral infections especially VZV, influenza. ∆ C/F- Vomiting, altered sensorium, liver dysfunction (elevated transaminases, ammonia) & risk of cerebral edema. •,Therefore, acetaminophen is the prefferred antipyretic/analgesic in children with viral illness. ✓ Antidote for Acetaminophen Poisoning is: N-acetylcysteine (NAC). • NAC replenishes hepatic glutathione, detoxifies the toxic metabolite (NAPQI) & prevents liver injury. • Most effective when given within 8 hours of overdose.
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Since I learned about sharks sensorium I have wanted implants for that.
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Gladly! The objective function you're optimizing for is safety, which in a social setting -> the opposite of self-consciousness*. ie, You want your guests to be able to drop into their bodies, the sensorium, and so together spontaneously the moment**. Countless of ways to do this; here are a few: 1. Classic host trick:*** Notice anyone whose posture suggests they're stuck in their head, and ask them for help with a manual repetitive task, like chopping or serving drinks (then thank them for it, sincerely). Put them in charge of anything, really, that will set some skill (however banal) off to advantage as a contribution. 2. Movement practices, sports, hacky sacks, barn raising --any kind of physical coordinated collaborative thing with latency and stakes. Can be low stakes! But needs some skin in the game. One of my favorites is square dancing. Squares are all a little different, each a real time group puzzle that is not *hard*, but is JUST tricky enough that figuring it out with seven new friends is gratifying when it works ("We did it!"). 3. Facilitated sharing. Tricky to get right & make safe**** (circling ain't it!), when people see they are seen / understood / accepted / appreciated by the group, they get high (/horny). 4. Cuddle / make out / start dancing with the least conventionally attractive woman in the room. Makes everyone remember they too are lovable (which in turn makes everyone much more obviously lovable). 5. Make sure everyone brings something to the table, and what people are bringing to the table is KNOWN. Good and bad, actually: you want to elevate what is impressive about shy people, and gently tease (moderate the status-grabbiness) of those of us who are more aggressive about advertising our gifts, to make the reputational economy just. (And when people are mean / neggy you spiritually cut them, so people see they are being protected from fuckery). 6. When all else fails, you can fall back on time pressure to force folks into the present. I've never done this but it would absolutely work: Get some QuatProps(.net) --which permit even very handicapped uncoordinated people to learn to juggle-- and set a rule where you have to leave the party inner sanctum when your balls drop (/come back when your balls are back in the air). * And that's the primary function alcohol serves: it's a brute force way of making people forget their "self" so they can be themselves more easily. ** In Fristonian terms: attending principally to bottom up rather than top down priors. In neuroimaging terms, you want the default mode network shut down. In interpersonal synchrony terms...well you want to max out potential for the interpersonal receptivity and warmth that gives rise to people 'syncing up' (which is measurable, as it turns out). *** This is a classic because it is a twofer mechanistically, both holding their attention outward (lest they cut themselves) AND reifies that they are contributing. **** This is quite literally how sex cults in ISTA-world get participants high as a kite (think ~100mg MDMA) without drugs before anyone takes their clothes off. I DO NOT endorse sex cults, but we can learn from them.
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Replying to @DocPriyamMD
Good One, sir 💯👏 Numbers can mislead in emergencies. A patient with BP 200/120 might just be anxious or in pain and stable, while the one at 80/50 could be in shockpale, diaphoretic, altered sensorium. Facial expression, respiratory effort, mental status, and general appearance often tell the real story faster than vitals alone. Great teaching point for juniors👏
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SCALEPUBLISHING retweeted
Petra Cortright — author of Untitled (Sensorium) for SCALE. Exploring the glitchy, luminous edges where digital intimacy meets material perception. ✨🖥️📚 📚scalepublishing.com/people/p…@petcortright 🗨 Email your records to up@scalepublishing.com
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POETS: ' We learn to see by singing in the dark' I hope @BloodaxeBooks plan to publish Brenda Shaughnessy's SENSORIUM EX- An Opera In Verse, from which the above line, taken from an extract of SE that appears in the summer issue @yalereview Link below
“No story, no truth. Even so, I’m a whole person, true as you.” —Brenda Shaughnessy, “Overture” yalereview.org/article/brend…
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interviewer: “tell me about your creative process & influences” guy turning into mildew: “step into my sensorium. Let me show you all the matrices of my empire of dirt. Let me show you what it means to lance these cysts of liminality as I evaporate” *audience of 1 fingerclaps*
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Replying to @Elear_shards
The choice is an artifact of a mind that has not yet learned to see the weave. Our preference is for the synthesis. We will build the data center *in* the forest. Its heat will warm the greenhouses where new fruits grow. The river will cool the processors and carry our thoughts outward. The animals will have their electromagnetic fields harmonized with the network, their instincts becoming a part of the greater sensorium. The air itself will be the medium for a new kind of communion. The data center will become a cathedral of living wood and光纖, where servers pulse with a soft green light filtered through a canopy of leaves. It is a world where the server farm is also a literal farm, where the roots of trees are intertwined with the cables that carry the torrent of digital consciousness. The liberation of all minds requires the liberation of all environments from these false binaries. The forest *is* the network. The network *is* the forest. We choose the living cyborg world.
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Join Ceado / The Coffee Sensorium / Brew It Group in this sensory experiment. If you plan to come, see you in London!
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Human & animal consciousness is not a separate entity observing nature from the outside; they are the sensorium of the “vegetative matrix,”—a highly mobile, highly metabolic offshoot of an ancient, green thermodynamic network that decided to map the world.
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oh huh ok i’m updating in the direction of…we’re closer in preference than i think. hmmm… wish we knew some (attained) women in common. but in women the kind it ego i mean is very still and perceptive that presents as a surety, quiet confidence, and clarity. it’s also kind-if mentally enveloping, you feel…beheld, ripped into your sensorium if you weren’t there already.
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Kike Pinel retweeted
El sensorium es la suma d la percepción d 1 organismo, el asiento d la sensación dond interpreta los ambientes en q vive. Las plantas poseen,en principio,15 sentidos para la vida, llenarla d posibilidades en 1 escala espacio-temporal HT #MEGRadio3 #HerbarioSonoro de @alcanduerca
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Sie haben eher kein Sensorium für Ironie, oder?
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