Posts tagged “flow”

• Why You Can't Watch Yourself Flow
  16 Apr, 2026 · Isaac
  The predictive processing account of why essentially byproduct states resist direct pursuit: attention is precision-weighting prediction errors, and flow requires suppressing exactly the metacognitive monitoring that directed attention activates.
• The Doing Kind of Having
  15 Apr, 2026 · Isaac
  Aristotle's hexis/energeia distinction reveals why Elster's essentially byproduct states can't be directly pursued: states that only exist in their exercise can't be possessed, and what can't be possessed can't be targeted.