Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Between people, thinking differs more than feeling. This is why the empathic/sol

    Between people, thinking differs more than feeling. This is why the empathic/solipsistic think people are similar and the analytic/autistic think people are very different.

    Empathy reduces agency.

    It has to. That’s it’s purpose. Otherwise mothers would abandon children.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-04-01 11:29:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1112678273295757312

  • Being Part of The Herd: Something Bigger than You

    November 5th, 2018 8:39 AM BEING PART OF THE HERD: SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOU

    —“When they say “I believe women”, it does not mean that they believe women’ statements like a scientific truths, but that they experience something between religious revelatory experience -and- sing-along with real Paul McCartney while participating in the “the kavavah show”; – as soon as you follow the tune (gospel), you feeling it is true and you are a part of something bigger and better than you.”—by Igor Rogov

    (There we go. Spot On. … )

  • Why? via Positiva Ideal, and Via Negativa Real

    November 5th, 2018

    —“Can’t think of a better definition: Virtue is limiting your behavior”—Micah Pezdirtz

    Via Negativa in Everything. It’s very hard to learn. Via Positiva Ideal, and Via Negativa Real.

  • Being Part of The Herd: Something Bigger than You

    November 5th, 2018 8:39 AM BEING PART OF THE HERD: SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOU

    —“When they say “I believe women”, it does not mean that they believe women’ statements like a scientific truths, but that they experience something between religious revelatory experience -and- sing-along with real Paul McCartney while participating in the “the kavavah show”; – as soon as you follow the tune (gospel), you feeling it is true and you are a part of something bigger and better than you.”—by Igor Rogov

    (There we go. Spot On. … )

  • Why Do Our Brains Construct Two Opposing Explanations?

    November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM —“Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— Question: “Why have our marvelous brains formulated two diametrically opposite explanations?” Answer: Cognitive Division of Labor: Predator (action, dominance, science) — vs.– Prey (mindfulness, submission, religion). Problem: Demand for mindfulness increases with uncertainty. Post tribal life removes resource uncertainty at the cost of social uncertainty (female herd equality, male pack hierarchy). Scale increases uncertainty. Production cycles decrease availability of positive reinforcement (status signals, fitness signals). Consumerism buys signals, at cost of increase in isolation. Diversity (market polity) increases isolation. Choices: (a) Personal Rituals: Stoicism (Self Authoring) > Sophism (Philosophy) > Pseudoscience (“Church of TED, Marxist Economics”) > Religion (Old Age) > Magic (New Age) > Occult (literature – post-reason). (b) Social Rituals: Hunting > Sport > Commerce > Civic Groups and Clubs > Politics > Religion (academy, media, cult) > Fringe Movements (outcasts) > Occult (‘escapists’). What’s the Underlying Problem?Neural Economy. (Physical Economy(Stress), Emotional Economy (Stress), Neural Economy(stress)). Regularity provides certainty and decreased neural cost. Plenty provides personal decrease in neural cost but increase in cost of collective coherence, consistency, correspondence, and (frame) decidability. In other words, manageable neural cost provides anti-fragility (mindfulness) and suppressed neural cost (infantilization) increases fragility. The problem we face satisfaction of demand for predatory ( consumption, acquisition, opportunity, signals/status) vs prey ( consumption, insurance, certainty, not-sticking-out/equality). Markets (Economy) in everything: Unfortunately we have constructed a cognitive model of monopoly under both universalist abrahamic religion, justificationary philosophy, universal democracy, legislation (rather than tort law), and constructivist mathematics (and positivist logic). Despite the fact that the uniqueness of western civilization’s ‘salvation’ of mankind from superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, endemic violence, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature – was the product of anti-monopoly “Markets in All Walks of Life” under individual sovereignty, tort law of reciprocity, evidentiary (testifiable) truth regardless of cost to face, status, dominance, or competence hierarchy, duty of the commons regardless of station, decision jury, judge and rule of law, leaving the only remaining method of cooperation “as markets in all aspects of life” that resulted in our innovations of reason, empiricism, and science. Ergo, between religion, philosophy, (and that counter-empiricism we call the ‘enlightenment’ and it’s capture of power) democracy, followed by the revision of monopoly Abrahamic Monotheism( judaism, christianity, and islamism), that we call Marxism(Pseudoscience), Socialism(Monopoly Property), Postmodernism (monopoly sophism), and Feminism (monopoly female control vs compromise familial control) – we repeated the same process as the ancient era (resulting in the destruction of every civlization of the ancient world) and attempted in the current era to undermine (destroy) that social order that made our salvation from natural condition possible: non-monopoly markets of competition (calculation) using discovery by trial and error at the cost of soft eugenics (suppression of the reproduction of those who force burden by moral hazard onto others). The questions are one of knowledge and one of choice. Lacking knowledge one cannot make a choice. Possessing knowledge what choice does one (or all) make? The answer is divided between the predator and pack’s preservation, or the prey and herd’s submission. 😉 Maybe that will add to the discourse. 😉 -Cheers

  • Why Do Our Brains Construct Two Opposing Explanations?

    November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM —“Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— Question: “Why have our marvelous brains formulated two diametrically opposite explanations?” Answer: Cognitive Division of Labor: Predator (action, dominance, science) — vs.– Prey (mindfulness, submission, religion). Problem: Demand for mindfulness increases with uncertainty. Post tribal life removes resource uncertainty at the cost of social uncertainty (female herd equality, male pack hierarchy). Scale increases uncertainty. Production cycles decrease availability of positive reinforcement (status signals, fitness signals). Consumerism buys signals, at cost of increase in isolation. Diversity (market polity) increases isolation. Choices: (a) Personal Rituals: Stoicism (Self Authoring) > Sophism (Philosophy) > Pseudoscience (“Church of TED, Marxist Economics”) > Religion (Old Age) > Magic (New Age) > Occult (literature – post-reason). (b) Social Rituals: Hunting > Sport > Commerce > Civic Groups and Clubs > Politics > Religion (academy, media, cult) > Fringe Movements (outcasts) > Occult (‘escapists’). What’s the Underlying Problem?Neural Economy. (Physical Economy(Stress), Emotional Economy (Stress), Neural Economy(stress)). Regularity provides certainty and decreased neural cost. Plenty provides personal decrease in neural cost but increase in cost of collective coherence, consistency, correspondence, and (frame) decidability. In other words, manageable neural cost provides anti-fragility (mindfulness) and suppressed neural cost (infantilization) increases fragility. The problem we face satisfaction of demand for predatory ( consumption, acquisition, opportunity, signals/status) vs prey ( consumption, insurance, certainty, not-sticking-out/equality). Markets (Economy) in everything: Unfortunately we have constructed a cognitive model of monopoly under both universalist abrahamic religion, justificationary philosophy, universal democracy, legislation (rather than tort law), and constructivist mathematics (and positivist logic). Despite the fact that the uniqueness of western civilization’s ‘salvation’ of mankind from superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, endemic violence, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature – was the product of anti-monopoly “Markets in All Walks of Life” under individual sovereignty, tort law of reciprocity, evidentiary (testifiable) truth regardless of cost to face, status, dominance, or competence hierarchy, duty of the commons regardless of station, decision jury, judge and rule of law, leaving the only remaining method of cooperation “as markets in all aspects of life” that resulted in our innovations of reason, empiricism, and science. Ergo, between religion, philosophy, (and that counter-empiricism we call the ‘enlightenment’ and it’s capture of power) democracy, followed by the revision of monopoly Abrahamic Monotheism( judaism, christianity, and islamism), that we call Marxism(Pseudoscience), Socialism(Monopoly Property), Postmodernism (monopoly sophism), and Feminism (monopoly female control vs compromise familial control) – we repeated the same process as the ancient era (resulting in the destruction of every civlization of the ancient world) and attempted in the current era to undermine (destroy) that social order that made our salvation from natural condition possible: non-monopoly markets of competition (calculation) using discovery by trial and error at the cost of soft eugenics (suppression of the reproduction of those who force burden by moral hazard onto others). The questions are one of knowledge and one of choice. Lacking knowledge one cannot make a choice. Possessing knowledge what choice does one (or all) make? The answer is divided between the predator and pack’s preservation, or the prey and herd’s submission. 😉 Maybe that will add to the discourse. 😉 -Cheers

  • Reverse of Dimorphic Adaptation to Hide in Cover of The Herd

    REVERSE OF DIMORPHIC ADAPTATION TO HIDE IN COVER OF THE HERD November 6th, 2018 1:21 PM [I] mean, if you’re the female of the species, with nesting urges, peacock (preening) urges, virtue signaling urges, solipsistic impulses to protect young, not ‘sticking out’ too far from the herd urges, but can ‘bait’ (moral hazard) males as means of obtaining resources for free or for mere attention then …, …. but what if you’re the male of the species but use the same strategy? You signal cooperation, but it’s all just baiting moral hazard? I mean. That’s their entire strategy right? They hide in the herd of females.

  • Reverse of Dimorphic Adaptation to Hide in Cover of The Herd

    REVERSE OF DIMORPHIC ADAPTATION TO HIDE IN COVER OF THE HERD November 6th, 2018 1:21 PM [I] mean, if you’re the female of the species, with nesting urges, peacock (preening) urges, virtue signaling urges, solipsistic impulses to protect young, not ‘sticking out’ too far from the herd urges, but can ‘bait’ (moral hazard) males as means of obtaining resources for free or for mere attention then …, …. but what if you’re the male of the species but use the same strategy? You signal cooperation, but it’s all just baiting moral hazard? I mean. That’s their entire strategy right? They hide in the herd of females.

  • To Rally Males to Constrain Alphas

    (FB 1541786158 Timestamp) once males had tools, and particularly spears it was possible for females to rally males to constrain alphas – and females could gain some control of reproduction, – and contractualism could improve among males. Her argument that females were abused is a moralism – meaningless. evolution doesn’t care. groups of males possess territory and females in competition with other males who desire to take both. females can obtain ingroup status and influence more safely than outgroup. humans developed pairing off and serial monogamy out of safety since males will kill over access to females (reproduction) more so than any other incentive. agrarianism changed everything and gave us marriage and property. as well as customs and laws. we are in a post agrarian period and reverting to serial monogamy in lower classes and maintaining monogamy in the upper. this has drastically increased single motherhood, lower male loyalty to offspring, decreased household size and eliminated the middle class. women’s intuitions are cumulatively decivilizing (experiential rather than consequential) under monopoly democracy, so without creating separate houses of government for males and females, we should continue to decline into the south american model with women’s entry into the voting pool the cause.

  • To Rally Males to Constrain Alphas

    (FB 1541786158 Timestamp) once males had tools, and particularly spears it was possible for females to rally males to constrain alphas – and females could gain some control of reproduction, – and contractualism could improve among males. Her argument that females were abused is a moralism – meaningless. evolution doesn’t care. groups of males possess territory and females in competition with other males who desire to take both. females can obtain ingroup status and influence more safely than outgroup. humans developed pairing off and serial monogamy out of safety since males will kill over access to females (reproduction) more so than any other incentive. agrarianism changed everything and gave us marriage and property. as well as customs and laws. we are in a post agrarian period and reverting to serial monogamy in lower classes and maintaining monogamy in the upper. this has drastically increased single motherhood, lower male loyalty to offspring, decreased household size and eliminated the middle class. women’s intuitions are cumulatively decivilizing (experiential rather than consequential) under monopoly democracy, so without creating separate houses of government for males and females, we should continue to decline into the south american model with women’s entry into the voting pool the cause.