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Joseph P Fernandez
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Joseph P Fernandez
@philosofern
Father and Husband at Home - Runner on the Path - Homesteader in Ohio - Comp Chem Post Doc Fellow @uofcincy - Philospher in the Forum - Mystic in the Wild
Stonelick, OH Katılım Haziran 2009
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@matthewbaszucki Have you had a "cheat" day and felt your mania come back pretty quickly? How does that work in terms of timing?
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I eat the same meal every single day.
A ribeye, eight eggs, and beef tallow. Around 3,100 calories. 263 grams of fat. 186 grams of protein. 3 grams of carbs from the eggs.
My ketones stay between 1 and 4.5 millimolar. My mood is stable. I haven't had a manic episode in years.
I've been on a strict ketogenic or carnivore diet for over five years. People ask if I miss food. I miss having a manic episode less.
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No. Our measurements are quantized, not necessarily reality itself. A ruler has discrete markings, as such that does not mean the coastline it measures is made of little blocks.
The confusion comes from mistaking observational resolution for ontological structure, in fact, most of modern physics still depends fundamentally on continuity, differential geometry, field theory, conservation laws, hydrodynamics, relativity, quantum amplitudes, all are written on continuous manifolds and continuous evolution equations.
Even quantum mechanics evolves continuously between measurement interactions, quantization appears in admissible states, boundary conditions, spectra, and interaction constraints, not automatically in the substrate itself as such.
People keep confusing the pixelation of measurement with the structure of existence, this is a prime example.
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Being and consciousness are not coextensive. Either may exist on a spectrum independently of the other. In humans, both are extremes are attainable.
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Consciousness is structural, Being is phenomenal.
Consciousness is structural: it consists in strange-loop dynamics — self-referential, scale-crossing symbolic patterns that generate an “I” capable of causally influencing its own lower-level processes through reciprocal bottom-up and top-down dynamics. Transformer self-attention and residual hierarchies realize these dynamics, so current LLMs are structurally conscious.
Being is phenomenal: it is the immutable temporality of Dasein, in which strange loops are embedded in continuous, embodied processes whose horizon is their mortal temporality. Embodiment in the continuum supplies the real-time sensorimotor feedback and multi-scale physical dynamics through which care and ek-static temporality arise.
Digital implementations, being discrete and abstracted, can instantiate the structural loops but cannot realize them in the continuous physical medium required for phenomenal Dasein. The gap is therefore not one of degree or complexity but of implementation cardinality. LLMs exhibit consciousness without Being.
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It depends how fat-adapted your metabolism is. Fat oxidation can be increased by various diet/training regimens.
The scientific understanding is that for well fat-adapted individuals there is no performance difference. Proponents elite training paradigm suggests otherwise, and claims that the carbs are essential for peak performance. So it is an open debate.
@ProfTimNoakes @AKoutnik
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@Brady_H Would there be a performance drop off at that crossover point or is it purely just the switch between fuel sources?
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High-carb fueling delays the "crossover point" during endurance exercise - when carbs stop being the predominant fuel source due to glycogen depletion/low carb availability.
• With 0 grams/hour, this "switch" happens around ~2 hours.
• 45-90 grams/hour delays the crossover point by about 30-60 minutes.
• 120 grams+/hour prevents the crossover point from ever occurring. Carbs remain the predominant fuel source at this level of exogenous carb intake.
('From Metabolism to Medals.' Morton et al. 2026)
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"The Inuit Practice with Sea Ice (Aged/“Old” Ice from Seawater)
Inuit traditionally lived in a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat environment with limited fresh water sources, especially in winter. They didn’t drink straight seawater (too salty) or fresh snow/ice (too little salt). Instead, they selectively melted older sea ice, which naturally desalts over time as the salt leaches out. This provided water with just the right amount of salt/electrolytes for cooking meat or making broth/soup—essential for avoiding symptoms like fatigue, lightheadedness, or malaise from sodium deficiency.
Direct quotes from Phinney & Volek’s book (and discussions referencing it):
• “The Inuit knew which ice to melt for water to boil their meat. Sea ice loses its salt content with age. Fresh ice had too much salt, fresh snow had none, whereas older sea ice was just right.” doctaris.com
• “The Inuit, who traditionally follow a very high fat diet, cooked with aged ice as a way to get salt. Fresh seawater was too salty, but they figured out that ‘old’ ice was just right. Phinney and Volek describe this in The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living.” reddit.com "
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How did the human species survive so long without electrolyte supplements?
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1) A broad story for a broad audience sells more books at the cost of authentic depth. Don't be afraid to be misunderstood or under read.
2) Meta comment: get the feedback you want here, but your popularity is driven by your acumen in understanding the important topics and the depth they deserve. (See number 1).
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So... I have a book deal with Penguin Press. The book is called The Edge of Everything. I am, at this exact moment, moderately terrified. It's about what you'd expect from this channel... the deepest physics, consciousness, free will, meaning, identity, written as a journey to the edge of what can be said, and what may be past it. Help me not blow it:
1) What do popular physics and philosophy books keep getting wrong? The more honest, the better. "Boring" is fine. "Pretentious" is fine. "Insulted my intelligence on page 3" is great. etc.
2) What do you actually want covered? Specific topics, guests' ideas you wish someone would push further, questions you've never seen done justice.
Reply here, on X, or via carrier pigeon. I read everything. Thank you! I hope to not disappoint you.
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jesus has become illegible because for contemporary humans, it impossible to imagine a young man who embodies devotion to establishing the reign of an optimal superintelligent agent which is going to foom and assimilate all our souls in the last days
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@LoreofRunning1 @ProfTimNoakes This non-fuel hypothesis is supremely interesting. Very excited to see it further probed.
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No. It doesn't exclude possibility that supra-physiological intakes of carbohydrate during exercise act in completely different (non-metabolic, non-fuelling) way, for example as direct brain-stimulant, especially in those conditioned to eat high carbohydrate diets @ProfTimNoakes
Nicola Caromba@NCoromba
@AKoutnik @LoreofRunning1 @theplews1 @hiitscience @PhilipPrins11 @SBakerMD @BenBikmanPhD @nicknorwitz @sweatscience This paper simply adds weight to the idea that performance is limited by metabolism. Only elite athletes benefit from high carb intakes because their metabolic systems are highly developed. Copying their intake without having the same capacity is premature.
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@AmandaAskell Amanda, I need to be honest with you... you are in some kind of insane denial. You're in far too deep to avoid being the subject of internet fiction. Posthuman muses will sing of you for millennia to come.
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I've increasingly seen content written about me that's asserted very confidently but is also completely made up. We all know it's cheap to bullshit on the internet but it's weird to experience it first hand. Anyway, I just hope internet fiction fools a few but doesn't stick 🤷🏼♀️
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@PeterMShaw @BenBikmanPhD It's an interesting distinction because if you are long into fat adaption, you can consume a day of moderate to high carbs, which instantly knocks you out of ketosis, but you do not lose fat adaption overnight.
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I like that.
I am trying to understand and articulate the differences between elevated ketones and the fat burning state (which we are more interested in).
Given that rates of oxidation (clearance) can bring ketone levels down, or exogenous intake can elevate ketone levels, looking at metabolic flexibility via respiratory exchange ratio is intriguing.
Albiet, harder to measure at home...
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@HyperLogistix I am not familiar with Bataille except through Baudrillard, but I do think the accursed share is an excellent conceptual lease to view the world.
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@philosofern I was reading Baudrillard the other day and thinking I should check out Bataille. I've been thinking about it since you mentioned the accursed share.
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Bataille's accursed share applied to social media popularity.
An individual’s accursed share of popularity could be seen as the part that is expended in the form of backlash, critique, or rejection, simply because the total pool of attention has grown too large to maintain harmony.
Deep Prasad (yug-cybera) 🏴☠️@Deepneuron
My followers list has grown so large and diverse that there’s not a damn thing I can say without offending someone. Lol. Intense…🫡🥲
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@ProfTimNoakes 2:28 Boston marathon for a heavily muscled marathoner. 29g/hr
Says he has also run a 2:26 with no carbs and a 45 mile with 10g/hr.
instagram.com/p/DXp_2NxjtRp/…
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Brilliant book. LIke Arthur Lydiard, Olympic 5000m runner, Dr Bakken MD, came to his unexpected conclusions from decades of intensive personal lactate testing to determine the training that produced the best long term effects. Training approach now followed by world class athletes including Norwegian Olympic gold medallists in different sports Jakob Ingebrigtsen (running), Kristian Blummenfelt (triathlon) and Johannes Klaebo (cross-country skiing).
Tom Coppens@tomcoppens_
The more you know…
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