I THINK I HAVE A WIN: THE “SOLIPSISTIC – AUTISTIC” ARGUMENT. 🙂
(useful idea) (theory of mind)
Step 1 : Theory (done)
Step 2 : Research (in progress)
Step 3 : Test and falsify (to-do)
MORE: Also, it looks like male brains are created by ‘poisoning’ at every early embryonic stages, and then growing the areas that are not ‘poisoned’. Not dissimilarly to how brain damaged people learn to use other areas of the brain. Coupled with the fact that certain regions and properties can only be grown at certain early stages of development, it’s not possible to regrow some areas. This is why boys take longer to develop. They must develop compensations for ‘poisoned’ features, and girls do not.
The problem for girls, is that they either overdevelop similar areas, or fail to mature them, and solipsism is the result of not enough maturity of development, or too much overdevelopment, to distinguish between their feelings and those of others.
I think narcissism is an attempt to regrow, or obtain functionality that was lost, and can be considered, a property of the Solipsistic-Autistic Spectrum.
Just as Aspies like me are extremely social whenever we can tolerate it, in order to exercise those areas, and gain those emotional rewards. 🙂
We all need a certain level of stimulation to remain conscious, and a certain level of chemical reward to stay happy. The more means of getting those rewards the better. The fewer means of getting those rewards, the more actively we need to pursue those actions which produce rewards.
For me anyway, I get it out of learning and problem solving. And without that particular exercise the obsessive desire of my brain to obtain positive stimulation by the only means possible for it, would crush the ‘me’ that exists in there as an experiential observer and weak influence on that obsessed machine.
This is probably the model we should be looking at. Because at present we tend to see organs and genes as mechanical processes, and the brain as a feat of engineering whose parts are broken or not, rather than as a bonsai tree or topiary the growth of which is shaped by chemistry at precise points in its development.
Humans have very few forms of incentives. I have, in propertarianism, reduced those incentives to statements of property. And while I have a theory of consciousness, I did not yet have an adequate theory of mind. And what this organic representation of brain development means, is that human behavior can be reduced to a small number of reward systems for accumulating experiences (short term) and property (medium term).
Furthermore it is an action-based theory of mind and incentive, developed in time. And ‘action’ always provides greater explanatory power than ‘state’.
We are creatures of action. We act. We must act. And we must act in time.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 05:08:00 UTC
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