Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • 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

  • Scale of Demonstrated and Permitted Agency

    Scale of Demonstrated and Permitted Agency https://ift.tt/32l9r1p

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-31 01:02:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1167603483329085440

  • Scale of Demonstrated and Permitted Agency

    by Ferdinand Pisaro 

    Scale of Demonstrated [& Permitted] Agency*
|———————------------—>|(+)
(5).(4).(3).(2).(1).(0)
... ... ... ... ... (0) Sovereign (Aristocracy)(Peerage)
... ... ... ... (1) Vassal (Nobility)
... ... ... (2) Tradesman (Burgher) 
... ... (3) Craftsman (Freeman) 
... (4) Laborer (Serf)
(5) Dependent (Slave)

    *With an increase in agency (demonstrated by the scale that an agent can act in) an agent rises through the spectrum of classes. And as an agent gains status the scope of his action increases because he has demonstrated to his peers that he posses the agency to act at his respective scale without producing negative externalities.SELF-DEFENSE Retaliation against impositions upon that in which an agent has invested (paid a cost). As an agent rises in the spectrum of demonstrated-agency, the portfolio of his property increases, and so to the permitted defense he can field. The cost of Peerage/Sovereignty is paid by a deposit of violence and the granting of reciprocal insurance against impositions of cost upon property-en-toto. Complete-Peerage requires perfect reciprocity, including the requirement for symmetrical information. Thus dispute-resolution between peers requires warrantied, truthful testimony—that is, decidability in dispute resolution amongst peers requires the construction of judicial defense. Aristocracy limits the self-defense of non and semi-peers to the scale merited by the agent’s respective scope of action and thus property. Thusly, just an agent moves from: 

    slave > serf >freeman > burgher > vassal > sovereign

    …he is permitted to engage in self-defense from: 

    none > body > body & parcel (home)> body & productive capital > 
body & territorial capital (fiefdom) > body & polity.

    And as we decrease in scale, legal decidability is provided by the proportional immediacy of the risk/treat/cost posed to body & property. Extending beyond one’s permission to defend property in a manner proportional to scale is met with (judicial) retaliation. So those granted limited self-defense, by permission of the sovereign, must do so under the conditions deemed appropriate by the sovereign. And since retaliation-cycles decrease the value of the sovereigns holdings, the sovereign has an incentive to suppress the cost imposed on his holdings by requiring that disputes be settled by jurors (peers) & judge.

  • Scale of Demonstrated and Permitted Agency

    by Ferdinand Pisaro 

    Scale of Demonstrated [& Permitted] Agency*
|———————------------—>|(+)
(5).(4).(3).(2).(1).(0)
... ... ... ... ... (0) Sovereign (Aristocracy)(Peerage)
... ... ... ... (1) Vassal (Nobility)
... ... ... (2) Tradesman (Burgher) 
... ... (3) Craftsman (Freeman) 
... (4) Laborer (Serf)
(5) Dependent (Slave)

    *With an increase in agency (demonstrated by the scale that an agent can act in) an agent rises through the spectrum of classes. And as an agent gains status the scope of his action increases because he has demonstrated to his peers that he posses the agency to act at his respective scale without producing negative externalities.SELF-DEFENSE Retaliation against impositions upon that in which an agent has invested (paid a cost). As an agent rises in the spectrum of demonstrated-agency, the portfolio of his property increases, and so to the permitted defense he can field. The cost of Peerage/Sovereignty is paid by a deposit of violence and the granting of reciprocal insurance against impositions of cost upon property-en-toto. Complete-Peerage requires perfect reciprocity, including the requirement for symmetrical information. Thus dispute-resolution between peers requires warrantied, truthful testimony—that is, decidability in dispute resolution amongst peers requires the construction of judicial defense. Aristocracy limits the self-defense of non and semi-peers to the scale merited by the agent’s respective scope of action and thus property. Thusly, just an agent moves from: 

    slave > serf >freeman > burgher > vassal > sovereign

    …he is permitted to engage in self-defense from: 

    none > body > body & parcel (home)> body & productive capital > 
body & territorial capital (fiefdom) > body & polity.

    And as we decrease in scale, legal decidability is provided by the proportional immediacy of the risk/treat/cost posed to body & property. Extending beyond one’s permission to defend property in a manner proportional to scale is met with (judicial) retaliation. So those granted limited self-defense, by permission of the sovereign, must do so under the conditions deemed appropriate by the sovereign. And since retaliation-cycles decrease the value of the sovereigns holdings, the sovereign has an incentive to suppress the cost imposed on his holdings by requiring that disputes be settled by jurors (peers) & judge.

  • The Rules of Consciousness

    The Rules of Consciousness https://ift.tt/2ZCoK43

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-30 19:06:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1167513964626030592

  • The Rules of Consciousness

    The Rules of Consciousness

    Whereas 1. Our attention rotates in a competition between sensation(observation and construction by prediction and reward identification), imagination (possibility by association), holding attention on a goal (possibility by continuous opportunity seizure), and releasing predicted actions (in pursuit of the goal). Whereas 2. We rotate between sensation (observation and construction by prediction), anticipating (goal prediction), and storing (remembering by stimulating and rehearsing), on a 1/10th of a second rotation (Theta) creating competition and choice. And Whereas 3. There is no observer, other than memory of an observation. 4. There are no observations other than sequences. 5. There is no comparison of observations other than to previous sequences. 6. There is no order in sequences other than that created by sequences. 7. There are no sequences other than those of sensations. 8. There is no existence sensed, other than those changes in time. 9. Without change we cannot sense time. Therefore Existence is a verb Experience is a verb Imagination is a verb Consciousness is a verb. Because Acting is a verb – and we can only act in time. And Therefore Without action, we produce no existence, no experience, no sequence, no memory, no consciousness. And Therefore There is no observer other than the observations (hierarchy of increasing of sequences of memories in time. And Therefore We see what the camera sees. We do not record images, but sequences of related stimuli. “I Am, Meaning, I Exist As, the Hierarchy of My Memory in Motion”

  • The Rules of Consciousness

    The Rules of Consciousness

    Whereas 1. Our attention rotates in a competition between sensation(observation and construction by prediction and reward identification), imagination (possibility by association), holding attention on a goal (possibility by continuous opportunity seizure), and releasing predicted actions (in pursuit of the goal). Whereas 2. We rotate between sensation (observation and construction by prediction), anticipating (goal prediction), and storing (remembering by stimulating and rehearsing), on a 1/10th of a second rotation (Theta) creating competition and choice. And Whereas 3. There is no observer, other than memory of an observation. 4. There are no observations other than sequences. 5. There is no comparison of observations other than to previous sequences. 6. There is no order in sequences other than that created by sequences. 7. There are no sequences other than those of sensations. 8. There is no existence sensed, other than those changes in time. 9. Without change we cannot sense time. Therefore Existence is a verb Experience is a verb Imagination is a verb Consciousness is a verb. Because Acting is a verb – and we can only act in time. And Therefore Without action, we produce no existence, no experience, no sequence, no memory, no consciousness. And Therefore There is no observer other than the observations (hierarchy of increasing of sequences of memories in time. And Therefore We see what the camera sees. We do not record images, but sequences of related stimuli. “I Am, Meaning, I Exist As, the Hierarchy of My Memory in Motion”

  • THE RULES OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHEREAS 1. Our attention rotates in a competition bet

    THE RULES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    WHEREAS
    1. Our attention rotates in a competition between sensation(observation and construction by prediction and reward identification), imagination… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=457220154874880&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-30 18:51:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1167510207968272384

  • THE RULES OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHEREAS 1. Our attention rotates in a competition bet

    THE RULES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    WHEREAS

    1. Our attention rotates in a competition between sensation(observation and construction by prediction and reward identification), imagination (possibility by association), holding attention on a goal (possibility by continuous opportunity seizure), and releasing predicted actions (in pursuit of the goal).

    WHEREAS

    2. We rotate between sensation (observation and construction by prediction), anticipating (goal prediction), and storing (remembering by stimulating and rehearsing), on a 1/10th of a second rotation (Theta) creating competition and choice.

    AND WHEREAS

    3. There is no observer, other than memory of an observation.

    4. There are no observations other than sequences.

    5. There is no comparison of observations other than to previous sequences.

    6. There is no order in sequences other than that created by sequences.

    7. There are no sequences other than those of sensations.

    8. There is no existence sensed, other than those changes in time.

    9. Without change we cannot sense time.

    THEREFORE

    Existence is a verb

    Experience is a verb

    Imagination is a verb

    Consciousness is a verb.

    Because Acting is a verb – and we can only act in time.

    AND THEREFORE

    Without action, we produce no existence, no experience, no sequence, no memory, no consciousness.

    AND THEREFORE

    There is no observer other than the observations (hierarchy of increasing of sequences of memories in time.

    AND THEREFORE

    We see what the camera sees.

    We do not record images, but sequences of related stimuli.

    “I AM, MEANING, I EXIST AS, THE HIERARCHY OF MY MEMORY IN MOTION”

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-30 14:51:00 UTC

  • Disgust

    Just Tell the Truth – They’re Disgusting

    —“The Leftist tendency is to conflate the Rightist Disgust response to various things as phobias. In other words, the Left confuses Disgust for Fear.”—

    [T]he right is just too well mannered to say: “Actually it’s because we find your/their ____________ behavior disgusting and revolting because it is a genetic defect, and harmful to the tribe.” I mean. Why can’t we just say that? “You know, We don’t like dogs dragging their anuses on the carpet, or ___________ doing ________.”  Genetic defects are disgusting to us. And you’re advocating for genetic defects that are disgusting. (We have a purity instinct. They don’t. Hence women’s fascination with the discussion of children’s bodily fluids and excrements.)

    Higher Disgust Sensitivity

    Conservatives(empiricists) have a higher level of disgust sensitivity. Conservatives are the population’s means of detecting and purging harm – the white blood cells of the social order and polity. Progressives (consumptivists) have low sensitivity to disgust, but high demand for consumption, novelty, experience, and fear of being ‘left behind’. That does not mean that our disgust sensitivity is always right. It means that we must test whether than harm actually exists by tests of reciprocity.

    —”There is a distinction between endocrinological & neurological conservatives, driven mostly by disgust, which tend to be within a SD left of the mean, and market driven (agency) conservatives who recognize cost on longer time-horizons & are able to organize a body law which facilitates the cooperation & trust, necessary for the functioning of enterprise. The former group are right for the wrong reasons & the latter group are right as a matter of agency & incentive.”—Ferdinand Pizarro

    We Can’t We Just Tell the Left the Truth?

    1) Our civilization has succeeded because it’s been eugenic in every era – right up until the industrial revolution. 2) We find you disgusting. 3) and it’s because you’re unfit. 4) and you are unfit because you lack agency. 5) and you lack agency because you’re still undomesticated. 6) and as undomesticated still an animal. 7) and it isn’t any more complicated than that. 8) We cannot cooperate with you on equal terms any more than we can cooperate with any other animal – you lack the agency. 9) We don’t grant barn animals equality which is why we don’t grant you equality. And we don’t want barn animals in our homes, business, or our commons. 10) This is what we mean when we want to separate from you. Because you’re disgusting.