Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • –“What Are the Factors Causing Such Widespread Mental Illness?”–

    —“In your opinion , what are the most salient factors causing such widespread mental illness that we can realistically address ?”—Edgar Braintree  1) de-socialization, 2) dissolution of the family. 3) dissolution of civic society and its institutions. 4) de-norming of society 5) school is wasted after 5th grade and counter-correspondent with reality. 6) lack of physical development and exercise in men. 7) De-competition of the male experience and therefore the incentives of males to function in society. In effect we are making it impossible for people to calculate a ‘fit’.
    May 19, 2018 8:59pm

  • Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monk

    Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle. I still find Roy Baumeister a towering figure of psychology!
    http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1131 https://t.co/dDEGCddNxp

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 14:52:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997490063897440258

  • RT @DegenRolf: Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence

    RT @DegenRolf: Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle.…

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 14:52:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997490013079261185

  • Male and female brains differ structurally. Male and female brains differ in end

    Male and female brains differ structurally.

    Male and female brains differ in endocrine responses.

    Male and female brains differ in cognitive biases.

    Male and female brains vary morally because of those differences.

    What I think people are confused by is:

    – That these are only biases and we all share experiences.

    – That our brains divide the labor of searching for opportunity (prey) and searching for risk (predators).

    – That some of us develop in more masculine environments and therefore adapt to them through ‘exercise’ of those cognitive, emotional, and moral biases; and some of us develop in more femiine environments and adapt to them through like exercise. THe problem is that both males and females need sufficient stresses of adaptation to function in their gender roles.

    So there are more feminine males and more masculine males in both body, emotions, and minds.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 11:51:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monk

    Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle. I still find Roy Baumeister a towering figure of psychology!

    https://t.co/uQ8Cb8rKI0 https://t.co/4zLmJ3M5qs

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 10:52:00 UTC

  • “It’s different for men. For women, the purpose of girlfriends for women: make s

    —“It’s different for men. For women, the purpose of girlfriends for women: make sure nothing is ever my fault. when they are finally ready to handle the truth they go to something else.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 22:26:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997242006039617537

  • The Spectrum of The Feminine

    1) The Feminine Strategy (Undermine by gossip, ridicule, shaming) 2) The Shrill Femmes (Amer. Post-Prostestant) 3) The Degenerate Femmes (Fr. Post-Catholic). 4) The Dishonest Femmes (Ashk. Socialists-Marxists) 5) The Violent Femmes ( Isl. Fundamentalists ) (Horrified Yet?)

  • The Spectrum of The Feminine

    1) The Feminine Strategy (Undermine by gossip, ridicule, shaming) 2) The Shrill Femmes (Amer. Post-Prostestant) 3) The Degenerate Femmes (Fr. Post-Catholic). 4) The Dishonest Femmes (Ashk. Socialists-Marxists) 5) The Violent Femmes ( Isl. Fundamentalists ) (Horrified Yet?)

  • “It’s different for men. For women, the purpose of girlfriends for women: make s

    —“It’s different for men. For women, the purpose of girlfriends for women: make sure nothing is ever my fault. when they are finally ready to handle the truth they go to something else.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 18:26:00 UTC

  • MORE ON THE ECONOMICS OF NEURONS by Pat Ryan Neurons don’t have a complete nucle

    MORE ON THE ECONOMICS OF NEURONS

    by Pat Ryan

    Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense.

    If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death.

    So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted.

    That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly.

    Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence.

    The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems.

    Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 21:00:00 UTC