(FB 1546093264 Timestamp) Wisdom is not law, not command, just wisdom: advice, and choice. Darwin disapproves if we hinder one’s self-selection out of the gene pool.
Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546043826 Timestamp) Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic Screening examination. The results showed that, on the average, a) pain tolerance decreases with age; b) men tolerate more pain than women; and c) Whites tolerate more pain than Orientals, while Blacks occupy an intermediate position. When the results of this study are compared with earlier work, it appears that, with increasing age, tolerance to cutaneous pain increases and tolerance to deep pain decreases.”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546093264 Timestamp) Wisdom is not law, not command, just wisdom: advice, and choice. Darwin disapproves if we hinder one’s self-selection out of the gene pool.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546037060 Timestamp) —âAnybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.â â Robert Heinlein
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546043826 Timestamp) Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic Screening examination. The results showed that, on the average, a) pain tolerance decreases with age; b) men tolerate more pain than women; and c) Whites tolerate more pain than Orientals, while Blacks occupy an intermediate position. When the results of this study are compared with earlier work, it appears that, with increasing age, tolerance to cutaneous pain increases and tolerance to deep pain decreases.”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546134314 Timestamp) I want to toss out that we are not only seeing stoicism, not only seeing the expansion of plot arcs, but also seeing the conversion of characters from pure archetypes to sets of archetype properties – in which I see the resurrection of our ancient gods – leaving the degeneracy of ideals behind us.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546102000 Timestamp) Humor: when the neanderthal data first came out, I received quite a few insults in pseudo-argumentative form from east asians about western man’s neanderthal content – only to lately discover it’s east asians with the greater presence of neanderthal genes. Ergo. Be careful what you say when the data first comes out.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546200836 Timestamp) A QUOTE: THE PAINFUL TRUTH —“( 1 – The first question upon which all others depend is why not to suicide? One can choose cooperation with the world, conflict and competition with the world, or boycott of the world. Boycott means suicide. This choice is that of personal philosophy. 2 – The second question upon which all others depend is why engage in cooperation rather than boycott, free riding, parasitism, and predation? One can choose cooperation, predation or boycott of others. Boycott means suicide. This question is that of ethics. 3 – The third question is for the group, and one upon which all others depend is why engage in cooperation rather than boycott, or free riding, parasitism, and predation? This question is that of politics. 4 – There is only one reason for the strong not to kill, enslave, or enserf the weak and to take their land, their women and their things. And that is a condition of perfect reciprocity. For it is the only condition more rewarding and lower cost than predation. The fact that reciprocity is mutually beneficial is but an excuse the weak use to grant themselves the illusion of equality with the strong. For the strong it is only a matter of superior returns, not morality. This is the end result of the three questions of life, ethics, and politics. All others are comforting lies. 5 – One BEGS for Liberty by permission. One FORCES sovereignty at the point of a spear, tip of an arrow, blade of a sword, and barrel of a gun. That’s the difference between failed beggars for liberty and successful warriors for sovereignty. Eat The Weak. )”—-
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546366269 Timestamp) THE MALE COGNITIVE LOAD? by Simon Ström How is the male cognitive load operationalized? It isn’t as easily because of greater variation and division of labor among the male population. But the most basic load to which males are predisposed to carry should be the dominance hierarchy and male peer group. It probably goes a lot deeper and varies with class and IQ, and I bet there are actually evolved, discrete, ‘archetypical male clusters’ beyond the random, gaussian normal distribution of psychometric traits traits, (and the male-female division common to all of the animal kingdom.) Whereas the female cognitive load varies in sophistication along the class or IQ axis, I think the lifecycle of the reproductive bottleneck-sex limits the evolutionary plasticity of its physiological cognitive load. Men are not only biologically expendable but also evolutionarily plastic and differentiated along multiple axes of skills and ‘loads’.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546366269 Timestamp) THE MALE COGNITIVE LOAD? by Simon Ström How is the male cognitive load operationalized? It isn’t as easily because of greater variation and division of labor among the male population. But the most basic load to which males are predisposed to carry should be the dominance hierarchy and male peer group. It probably goes a lot deeper and varies with class and IQ, and I bet there are actually evolved, discrete, ‘archetypical male clusters’ beyond the random, gaussian normal distribution of psychometric traits traits, (and the male-female division common to all of the animal kingdom.) Whereas the female cognitive load varies in sophistication along the class or IQ axis, I think the lifecycle of the reproductive bottleneck-sex limits the evolutionary plasticity of its physiological cognitive load. Men are not only biologically expendable but also evolutionarily plastic and differentiated along multiple axes of skills and ‘loads’.