Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. *Very few of us have the agency to think with

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    *Very few of us have the agency to think without the animal in us determining the outcome.*

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 16:24:50 UTC

  • AGENCY (FULL DEFINITION IN CONTEXT) —“What is the definition of “agency” as the

    AGENCY (FULL DEFINITION IN CONTEXT)

    —“What is the definition of “agency” as the term is used here?”— Daniel Roland

    —“The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices subject to personal or external limitations. By contrast, *structure* refers to those factors that determine or limit an individual and his or her decisions, such as gender, social class, ethnicity, religion, customs, education, economic institutions, government, propaganda, ability, knowledge, ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. Meaning that one’s agency is determined by the combination of beneficial institutions, abilities, and knowledge and inhibiting institutions, abilities, and knowledge”—

    As an example, God would have perfect agency, because would have perfect knowledge(omniscience), perfect reason, perfect emotions, perfect mindfulness, perfect ability to act (omnipotence), unlimited resources, and no competition, no need to cooperate, and therefore no need for conventions, laws, institutions, or infrastructure.

    As humans we have imperfect knowledge, imperfect reason, imperfect mindfulness, imperfect emotions, limited range of actions, limited resources, and we live in a world where we must compete, must cooperate to compete, and to do so require conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure.

    So, Agency consists of the degree to which one approaches perfect ability to act, when not limited by knowledge, reason, emotions, mindfulness, range of action, available instrumentation, available resources, competition, cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions and infrastructure.

    Given we can never have unlimited knowledge, unlimited resources, and we have limited ability to be free of competition, need for cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure, we can seek largely to improve our knowledge, reason, mindfulness, and assets so that we maximize our agency within the availble limits.

    CONVERSELY (VIA NEGATIVA)

    Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit – all the impediments to agency – and agency will result. Then selecting a philosophy – a means of decidability – by which one can obtain one’s ends, and an aesthetic that values one’s passions in accordance with that philosophy.

    AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY

    by Simon Ström

    Agency = potential energy (PE)

    Force = applied energy (F)

    Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension]

    Consequence = displacement vector (s)

    Action = work (W)

    Externalities = Waste heat (h)

    W = F * s

    SPEAKING IN OPERATIONAL GRAMMAR IS A TEST OF AGENCY

    It is very hard to migrate

    FROM thinking in terms of:

    1 – meaning or experience to your self

    2 – empathy for or meaning to others

    3 – empathy with others intentions

    INTO

    4 – nothing but objective statements of incentives, actors, actions, and consequences.

    Note:

    The degree with which you can do this kind of speech is a direct measure of your own agency.

    SOVEREIGNTY = perfect (exceptionless) reciprocity by perfect (exceptionless) reciprocal insurance, in numbers sufficient to deny violations of reciprocity to all possible (exeptionless) extant numbers.

    PERFECT RECIPROCITY = limiting one’s actions to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer of property – in – toto, limited to productive externalities.

    PROPERTY IN TOTO = That in which one has expended any resource with intent to obtain an interest, without imposing a cost on that which another has expended a resource with the intent to obtain an interest. Synonym: ‘demonstrated property’

    INTEREST: = ergo, leaving only homesteading, transformation, and exchange, as means of obtaining an interest. Synonym: monopoly share (a possession), proportional share (citizenship in a commons), proportional share (private in a common contract), demonstrated share ( a denial of opportunity( such as norms and traditions)

    RESOURCE : life, body, effort, time, attention, kin, material possession, material interest (share), organizational interest, normative interest, institutional interest, informational interest. Synonym: “capital”.

    YIELDS:

    Possession(insured by self defense) > consensual property (insured by reciprocity) > normative property(insured by normative enforcement) > property right (insured by third party enforcement) > natural right(ideal between government and citizens) or human right(ideal between governments). Technically speaking,under rule of law, under natural judge-discovered common law, under perfect reciprocity (sovereignty), natural rights can be brought into existence.

    Under these conditions it is possible to create sovereignty in fact, liberty by permission, freedom by utility, and subsidy by preference.

    (Good luck getting that degree of precision out of parasitic libertines) 😉

    ARISTOCRACY: THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF AGENCY

    Aristocracy: the production of Agency (peers) by the incremental suppression of parasitism, by the use of the common law, leaving no option for survival but market production: the civilization-wide industrialization of the domestication of the animal man, for fun and profit.

    WE ONLY ASK COOPERATION OF THOSE WITH AGENCY OR ITS PROMISE

    We don’t ask cooperation of beasts

    We don’t ask cooperation of domesticated animals.

    We don’t ask cooperation of pets

    We don’t ask cooperation of children

    We don’t ask cooperation of the incapable

    We don’t ask cooperation of those without agency.

    We ask little cooperation of those who request subsidy.

    We ask more cooperation of those who request freedom.

    We ask even more cooperation from those who request liberty.

    We desire the full cooperation of those who possess agency.

    We require and cannot avoid the full cooperation of those who desire sovereignty.

    The few rule the many, to transcend mankind.

    We can rule and transcend, or be ruled and fail to.

    We can possess sovereignty in fact, or something less by permission.

    But to possess sovereignty requires we possess agency.

    And to possess agency we must possess the ability, the knowledge, the fitness and will…

    … the will to fight, kill, slaughter, and destroy.

    There is no transcendence, no sovereignty, no agency for the weak, the cowardly, the timid, or the dim. And no liberty, nor freedom, nor subsidy for others if we fail.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 12:57:00 UTC

  • *Very few of us have the agency to think without the animal in us determining th

    *Very few of us have the agency to think without the animal in us determining the outcome.*

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 12:24:00 UTC

  • REASON MAGAZINE AS THE IMMATURE MALE Reason Magazine is an archetypal example of

    REASON MAGAZINE AS THE IMMATURE MALE

    Reason Magazine is an archetypal example of the selective measurement of ascendant male interests.

    <-Female———-Ascendent Male——-Established Male->

    ….Consumption………..Production………………Preservation…

    ….Short Term…………Medium Term……………..Long Term…..

    ….Socialism……………..Libertarian………………..Aristocracy….

    ….Gossip…………………..Exchange……………………Force………

    (a) What deltas in Capital do Reason Magazine’s editors and authors not account for? (Classical – Jewish Blending)

    (b) How does Mises Differ from Cato and Reason? (Jewish)

    (c) How does Reason differ from Cato Institute? (Classical)

    (d) How does Heritage differ from Cato? (Burkeian)

    (e) Where does each sit on this scale?

    Notice that there are no German think tanks in the USA on the right, only on the left.

    In the end the rider (passenger) is incognizant of the elephant. We are gene machines. And our differences are due largely to genetics. And those genetics are the result of degree of Neoteny and distribution of gender dimorphism, and the degree of uncorrected (not yet selected out) error (defect) in those genes.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 09:33:00 UTC

  • Feels and reals. It’s pointless. Never argue with the mind of a woman regardless

    Feels and reals. It’s pointless. Never argue with the mind of a woman regardless of her gender.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 00:46:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1012135214804602880

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Feels and reals. It’s pointless. Never argue

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Feels and reals. It’s pointless. Never argue with the mind of a woman regardless of her gender.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 00:46:42 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Ever since my discovery that “They” are all c

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Ever since my discovery that “They” are all cognitively female, I’ve had this idea for an experiment where we find gender-typical arguments (naxalt etc) and then put the text under photos of opposite gender but same age and race, and class.

    When I listen to “Them” I realize that they are making cognitively female arguments, but with greater agency.

    I mean, it’s pretty simple: reverse dimorphism

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-28 00:31:56 UTC

  • Psychology

    PSYCHOLOGY (repost from August ’17) 1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits. As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism). As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive. As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time. Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases. SCIENCE As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit. PHILOSOPHY As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry. MYSTICISM As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality. THEOLOGY As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales. Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance. Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.

  • Psychology

    PSYCHOLOGY (repost from August ’17) 1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits. As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism). As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive. As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time. Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases. SCIENCE As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit. PHILOSOPHY As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry. MYSTICISM As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality. THEOLOGY As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales. Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance. Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.

  • The Third Version of Man

    THE THIRD VERSION OF MAN (Nietzsche in Anglo Scientific Language) By Daniel Gurpide Jul 31, 2017 8:27pm –“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”–Friedrich Nietzsche THE THIRD VERSION Nietzsche’s message was one of evolutionary change, of man’s progress toward full consciousness. He taught that the whole value and meaning of a man’s life lies in his participation in this progress – in his contribution to it. Man should not be merely himself and conform to his own ‘nature’. He should still seek to give himself a ‘super-nature,’ to acquire a superhumanity: that superhumanity that Judeo-Christian monotheism’s vocation is to prevent him acquiring. The idea of attaining superior consciousness is one of breeding upwards to the superman. It is furthermore the idea of the self-determined being: self-ordained to take integral charge both of the world and of himself, and to give them a new meaning, a new destiny. The discipline of philosophical anthropology has coined the term Third Man to denote this concept. [CD: the aristocracy: a search for agency: transcendence. To leave the animal man behind. Yet, this is the feminine and abrahamic strategy: “Do not leave us behind, we will drag you down.”] FIRST VERSION Seen in this light, the First Man would be identified with the evolutionary process leading to the development of the characteristics that distinguish hominids from other primates: hominisation. His appearance would coincide with the invention of language, the development of hunter-gatherer bands and the use of magical shamanism, which would allow him to mimic the evolutionary strategies at work in the surrounding environment – and in this way to compensate for the instinctual deficiencies caused by his ethological plasticity. SECOND VERSION Several hundred thousand years on, sometime after the last glaciation, there would emerge for the first time what can be described as the Second Man. He is the inventor of the Neolithic Revolution, of agriculture, and consequently of sedentariness and the first human demographic explosion; the founder of cities and urban life, of politics, religion, the division of labour, and the development of so-called ‘pyric technology’ (implying energy production technologies based on combustion: wood, coal, oil, etc). It is the world of the Spenglerian Hochkulturen – ‘High Cultures’ or civilisations. Depending on the way the Second Man reacted to the challenges of that time, one might then distinguish between: 1. Societies that refused or ignored any sort of historical transformation, thus heading more or less deliberately towards irrelevance and extinction. Examples might include the Australian aborigines and the non-Negroid native populations of sub-Sahara Africa (Pygmies, Khoisan). 2. Cold societies that tried to petrify early achievements in the form of endless repetition. As with the famous Aranda of Levi-Strauss, ‘faithful to their tradition’, such cold societies have become fossils of their ancestors’ history. They no longer evolve except as result of external and contingent ‘events,’ under the pressure of external factors. They are at the mercy of any environmental variation that is not previewed in their programme. In brief, they cannot survive except under the condition of not meeting again the train of history from which they alighted. This is the case of most sub-Saharan and Amazonian cultures: they became the ‘object of history’ – of other cultures’ history – once they came into contact with them. 3. Tepid societies that were active but unwilling ‘preys of history,’ such as the Far Eastern, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and pre-Columbian civilisations (*). The classic example is Japan, with a history marked by external influences which were simultaneously welcomed, rejected, and originally transfigures into what finally became Japanese culture – from the introduction of Buddhism in classical times to the Meiji Restoration after the end of the Shogunate. And finally, 4. Hot societies: these became ‘subjects’ or ‘agents’ of history. Generated by the Indo-European Revolution, they took full charge of the historical dimension of man and have come to express its heroic and tragic character with a project of collective destiny that was consciously assumed. In this broad picture, a final point should be made regarding the particular role played by the birth in the Middle East of an historical tendency – represented mythically by the separation of Abraham and the founding of Israel, and prolonged in a complex way by the other monotheistic religions. Jewish-Christian monotheism introduces a split within post-Neolithic society: while remaining immersed in history, it rejects the effects of the Neolithic Revolution, not this time from a practical standpoint – like cold societies – but from a moral standpoint. It finds driving force in the promise of an eschatological ‘end of history,’ and in constant ‘demystification’ of history’s creations – in particular through reversal of the concept of the divine. From instrument and projection of human creativity, and pride in the process through which the Second Man becomes master of himself and of the world, the divine turns into a ‘transcendent’ condemnation and relativisation of human adventure. The religion of the Bible’s essential effect – if not its express intention – amounted to obstructing man’s capability to fully realise the powers of freedom and creative autonomy arising from humanisation itself, powers that were historically reinforced by the Neolithic Revolution and the development of great cultures. Precisely at the time the Indo-European revolution attained its maximum power and expansion, this messianic tendency – based on the moral rejection of history and civilisation – infiltrated the Roman world and reached a point of synthesis through the so-called ‘Constantinian compromise’, giving birth to ‘the West’. Step by step, it repressed the original European colective unconscious and corrupted the European culture of the time, transforming it into something hybrid. From the two souls living in Europe’s chest since that moment, the Jewish-Christian is evidently that which today, in its secular and more radical form, celebrates global hegemony. (*) It is difficult to disentangle the twisted skein of contacts, exchanges, and influences that tepid cultures originally received from without. Some have hypothesised a role of primer for Indo-European influences and groups by way of imitation, competition, or re-elaboration. For example, Indo-Aryan influences on Chinese culture, and through the latter on Japan; or the complex pattern of contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia on the one hand and, on the other, the different waves of invaders that from Central Europe on several occasions spilled into over the Near East. More uncertain are those hypotheses that suggest a connection of this type with the pre-Columbian empires. There are also hypotheses, more scientific in this case, about the existence of a ‘hyperborean’ Indo-European civilisation which had influences on an almost planetary scale. DG