Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • RT @DegenRolf: Psychotherapists’ effectiveness does not increase with experience

    RT @DegenRolf: Psychotherapists’ effectiveness does not increase with experience; if anything, it deteriorates. https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=WzShDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA152&dq=psychotherapists+expertise+practice+Wampold&ots=SlIHLrHVpq&sig=vHiRllSFNvPNqQ5Uxz-qWWft_hM#v=onepage&q=psychotherapists%20expertise%20practice%20Wampold&f=false htt…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-10 00:12:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1171214743937409024

  • Been working on this topic over the summer: what we presume is a basic property

    Been working on this topic over the summer: what we presume is a basic property of experience (mammal) vs an advanced (human). Reward and Incentive don’t vary. How each organism models its spatio-temporal awareness in real time does. A solipsistic mind can’t grasp it. (Twitter)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-06 12:18:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1169947896265003008

    Reply addressees: @JayMan471

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1169623558462595072


    IN REPLY TO:

    @JayMan471

    More broadly, yes, you can’t always directly translate non-human animal behavior to humans. That doesn’t mean you *never*, or even *usually* can’t.

    Humans evolved from animals. To think that there are no commonalities is effectively being a creationist https://t.co/aIWdTd7Be4

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1169623558462595072

  • Gak. No. Confusing Arousal with Consciousness is like confusing the light switch

    Gak. No. Confusing Arousal with Consciousness is like confusing the light switch with the light. Just ’cause we can turn off the switch doesn’t tell us how the light is created.

    We can… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=459481677982061&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-04 01:45:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1169063967236481030

  • “The real problem with homeschooling is that those smart enough to home school t

    —“The real problem with homeschooling is that those smart enough to home school their kids are usually so productive they don’t have the time to do it.”—Jared Neaves

    That’s because we… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=459440647986164&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-03 23:41:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1169032779671199746

  • “The real problem with homeschooling is that those smart enough to home school t

    —“The real problem with homeschooling is that those smart enough to home school their kids are usually so productive they don’t have the time to do it.”—Jared Neaves

    That’s because we don’t use ‘grandparents’, meaning people who are old enough to know something. We use baby sitters instead.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-03 19:41:00 UTC

  • What Percentage of The Population Can Understand

    (In reference to a post)

    —“If you were to hazard a guesstimate…what percentage of the population can comprehend what you have just written?”–Tom Watt

    Do you mean, CAN, or CAN and would CHOOSE to? I mean, I’m easier to understand than Kant, Menger, and Bohr to pick a few candidates. Many Millions CAN. Of those that CAN, how many would CHOOSE to without some incentive to – well, that’s is something else. That said, you would be very surprised how frequently you could approach some other conservative or libertarian male and ask if they knew about propertarianism…. I mean, I’m not a molyneux or a rothbard or even a hoppe: those are popular thinkers.

    1. If you read the history of the common law it makes more sense.

    2. If you read hayek, then you read my work it starts to make sense.

    3. If you read Epstein’s book on how progressives undermined the constitution it will make even more sense.

    4. If you have a basic grounding in microeconomics more sense

    5. If you have read gary becker’s books on economics applied to social science it will make more sense.

    6. If you know a programming language it makes a lot more sense.

    7. To understand the 20th century you must understand law, economics, programming, and a bit of cognitive science.

    8. If you take my course on foundations you will learn the current state of cognitive science and what it means, what ‘the grammars’ mean, what eprime and operational language means, what sovereignty, reciprocity, and property-in-toto means. Once you have that knowledge, and read my work, and come to understand the failure of the operational revolution outside of the hard sciences, then you’ll understand it all. I don’t write for normies. That’s what John and Eli do.

  • What Percentage of The Population Can Understand

    (In reference to a post)

    —“If you were to hazard a guesstimate…what percentage of the population can comprehend what you have just written?”–Tom Watt

    Do you mean, CAN, or CAN and would CHOOSE to? I mean, I’m easier to understand than Kant, Menger, and Bohr to pick a few candidates. Many Millions CAN. Of those that CAN, how many would CHOOSE to without some incentive to – well, that’s is something else. That said, you would be very surprised how frequently you could approach some other conservative or libertarian male and ask if they knew about propertarianism…. I mean, I’m not a molyneux or a rothbard or even a hoppe: those are popular thinkers.

    1. If you read the history of the common law it makes more sense.

    2. If you read hayek, then you read my work it starts to make sense.

    3. If you read Epstein’s book on how progressives undermined the constitution it will make even more sense.

    4. If you have a basic grounding in microeconomics more sense

    5. If you have read gary becker’s books on economics applied to social science it will make more sense.

    6. If you know a programming language it makes a lot more sense.

    7. To understand the 20th century you must understand law, economics, programming, and a bit of cognitive science.

    8. If you take my course on foundations you will learn the current state of cognitive science and what it means, what ‘the grammars’ mean, what eprime and operational language means, what sovereignty, reciprocity, and property-in-toto means. Once you have that knowledge, and read my work, and come to understand the failure of the operational revolution outside of the hard sciences, then you’ll understand it all. I don’t write for normies. That’s what John and Eli do.

  • Some of Us.

    Some of us change the physical world. Some of us change the social world to change the physical world. Some of us organize the social world to change the physical world. Some of us are stuck with the job of deciding the priority of that which we organize and change in the social and physical worlds. It takes a lot of some of us, to make all of us.

  • Some of Us.

    Some of us change the physical world. Some of us change the social world to change the physical world. Some of us organize the social world to change the physical world. Some of us are stuck with the job of deciding the priority of that which we organize and change in the social and physical worlds. It takes a lot of some of us, to make all of us.

  • Truth, Force, and Agency

    [T]ruth is half the battle (helps develop agency), force (using your agency) is the other half.

    —Alain DwightThe Three Acknowledgments of Agency: 1) I acknowledge that I can exercise some level of control over my thoughts, feelings and actions. 2) I acknowledge that I am responsible to control my thoughts, feelings and actions to the best of my ability (within my natural limits). 3) I acknowledge that I must put in work to develop the mental and physical fortitude necessary to exercise my Agency. The first is knowing the truth. The other two are about action. It’s Action that’s essential.

    —Noah J Revoy