# mental contractions — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mental contractions. Page: Feed: --- ## [Consciousness Is Very Likely Not Something You Get for Free by Preserving a Pattern](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/consciousness-is-very-likely-not) _2026-04-22 · Pawel Pachniewski · Mental Contractions_ Start with the empirically grounded point, not with slogans. ## [Future technology and products (part 1): exobiological barriers and filters](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/future-technology-and-products-part) _2026-03-17 · Pawel Pachniewski · Mental Contractions_ Our evolved filters, linguistic processing, skin, taste, smell, even the blood-brain barrier, will not be enough to keep bad, hostile, deceptive, or unknown things from affecting us. ## [Five new basic future rights of generally intelligent sentient beings](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/five-new-basic-future-rights-of-generally) _2024-09-28 · Pawel Pachniewski · Mental Contractions_ Because I have rather particular ideas with respect to governance, rights, and the overall structure of our civilization in the next decades, I won’t go into details about how these rights would work exactly.