Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Face says “I am costly, I do not compromise, I wait for opportunities to be pres

    Face says “I am costly, I do not compromise, I wait for opportunities to be presented to me”. Having sex and having reciprocal relationship are two different things. And frankly, once sex has lost its novelty, the character is at least as important as the vessel.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-04 22:56:22 UTC

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  • Animals, Sentience, Consciousness, Reason, And The Illusion Thereof.

    Animals don’t reason other than it is clear that the very smartest can in fact do so (Corvids) and many predators. And the demarcation between sentience and consciousness is the mirror test. And some animals can pass it – even possibly pigeons. Many animals dream so they must ‘think’ at whatever level it is that they dream. But when we say ‘think’ we can mean ‘feel your way thru something’, visualize your way thru something, plan your way through something using tools, reason (talk) your way thru something, and explain to others how to act through something. To say animals are sentient is true, to say they are conscious – well there are some that appear to be. To say they are rational, it is not clear that all people are rational, or that we are fooled that they are rational because they are capable of language, and language creates the illusion of similarity. The more we learn the more the gradual progress from nervous system to sentience, to consciousness is just as continuous as the spectrum from feminine pschosis to feminine solipsism to normal balanced personality, to male aspieness, to male autism.

  • ANIMALS, SENTIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, REASON, AND THE ILLUSION THEREOF. Animals don

    ANIMALS, SENTIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, REASON, AND THE ILLUSION THEREOF.

    Animals don’t reason other than it is clear that the very smartest can in fact do so (Corvids) and many predators. And the demarcation between sentience and consciousness is the mirror test. And some animals can pass it – even possibly pigeons.

    Many animals dream so they must ‘think’ at whatever level it is that they dream.

    But when we say ‘think’ we can mean ‘feel your way thru something’, visualize your way thru something, plan your way through something using tools, reason (talk) your way thru something, and explain to others how to act through something.

    To say animals are sentient is true, to say they are conscious –

    well there are some that appear to be.

    To say they are rational, it is not clear that all people are rational, or that we are fooled that they are rational because they are capable of language, and language creates the illusion of similarity.

    The more we learn the more the gradual progress from nervous system to sentience, to consciousness is just as continuous as the spectrum from feminine pschosis to feminine solipsism to normal balanced personality, to male aspieness, to male autism.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-04 17:50:00 UTC

  • Animals, Sentience, Consciousness, Reason, And The Illusion Thereof.

    Animals don’t reason other than it is clear that the very smartest can in fact do so (Corvids) and many predators. And the demarcation between sentience and consciousness is the mirror test. And some animals can pass it – even possibly pigeons. Many animals dream so they must ‘think’ at whatever level it is that they dream. But when we say ‘think’ we can mean ‘feel your way thru something’, visualize your way thru something, plan your way through something using tools, reason (talk) your way thru something, and explain to others how to act through something. To say animals are sentient is true, to say they are conscious – well there are some that appear to be. To say they are rational, it is not clear that all people are rational, or that we are fooled that they are rational because they are capable of language, and language creates the illusion of similarity. The more we learn the more the gradual progress from nervous system to sentience, to consciousness is just as continuous as the spectrum from feminine pschosis to feminine solipsism to normal balanced personality, to male aspieness, to male autism.

  • RT @Outsideness: Formal state-based eugenics programs weren’t great, but the inf

    RT @Outsideness: Formal state-based eugenics programs weren’t great, but the informal state-based dysgenics programs that replaced them are…

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-03 15:59:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/959818702819659776

  • Is It Racist To Not Want To Date A White Man? I Am Half White Half Native, And I Really Don’t Experience Attraction To White Men.

    No. Follow your genes. The are more likely acting in your interest than your intellect. For the simple reason that they can’t be persuaded by propaganda.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-racist-to-not-want-to-date-a-white-man-I-am-half-white-half-native-and-I-really-don-t-experience-attraction-to-white-men

  • Is It Racist To Not Want To Date A White Man? I Am Half White Half Native, And I Really Don’t Experience Attraction To White Men.

    No. Follow your genes. The are more likely acting in your interest than your intellect. For the simple reason that they can’t be persuaded by propaganda.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-racist-to-not-want-to-date-a-white-man-I-am-half-white-half-native-and-I-really-don-t-experience-attraction-to-white-men

  • (read this) by Bill Joslin Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellect

    (read this) by Bill Joslin Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellectual cost of framing the world. Consequence (accountability) forces higher investment out of interpretive, justificationary, of explanatory frames into operational frames. The later reorder the contingencies properly, meaning utility proceeds or grounds aesthetics (a trade elevating to a craft elevating again to an art – the progression of mastery) opposed to floating aesthetics (borrowing from rands floating concepts) which can be pleasant and inspiring but devoid of any substantive value. The initial critism attempt to invert that relationship , isolating aesthetics from more fundemental forms of value and then assert it’s function as what drives reasoning. In this later case the only value aesthics obtains remains as a means to acquire power through motivation (inspiration) of others. Then claims this outcome as the causal agent. We must value first in order to reason (valuation drives motivation) and therefore reason is contingent on aesthetics – aesthetics drives human action… Yet I fail to see the tiler, convenience store owner or floor sweeper to be driven by aesthetics. But find the carpenter, mason, and machinist elevate their skills to obtain aesthetics quality. And what drives their progression to mastery is the combination of the grammar, logic, rhetoric and ethics (desire for pride in work, desire for good standing and reputation) which leads to the aesthetic.

  • (read this) by Bill Joslin Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellect

    (read this)

    by Bill Joslin

    Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellectual cost of framing the world. Consequence (accountability) forces higher investment out of interpretive, justificationary, of explanatory frames into operational frames.

    The later reorder the contingencies properly, meaning utility proceeds or grounds aesthetics (a trade elevating to a craft elevating again to an art – the progression of mastery) opposed to floating aesthetics (borrowing from rands floating concepts) which can be pleasant and inspiring but devoid of any substantive value.

    The initial critism attempt to invert that relationship , isolating aesthetics from more fundemental forms of value and then assert it’s function as what drives reasoning.

    In this later case the only value aesthics obtains remains as a means to acquire power through motivation (inspiration) of others. Then claims this outcome as the causal agent.

    We must value first in order to reason (valuation drives motivation) and therefore reason is contingent on aesthetics – aesthetics drives human action…

    Yet I fail to see the tiler, convenience store owner or floor sweeper to be driven by aesthetics. But find the carpenter, mason, and machinist elevate their skills to obtain aesthetics quality.

    And what drives their progression to mastery is the combination of the grammar, logic, rhetoric and ethics (desire for pride in work, desire for good standing and reputation) which leads to the aesthetic.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-01 22:24:00 UTC

  • (read this) by Bill Joslin Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellect

    (read this) by Bill Joslin Ideological and religious frames reduce the intellectual cost of framing the world. Consequence (accountability) forces higher investment out of interpretive, justificationary, of explanatory frames into operational frames. The later reorder the contingencies properly, meaning utility proceeds or grounds aesthetics (a trade elevating to a craft elevating again to an art – the progression of mastery) opposed to floating aesthetics (borrowing from rands floating concepts) which can be pleasant and inspiring but devoid of any substantive value. The initial critism attempt to invert that relationship , isolating aesthetics from more fundemental forms of value and then assert it’s function as what drives reasoning. In this later case the only value aesthics obtains remains as a means to acquire power through motivation (inspiration) of others. Then claims this outcome as the causal agent. We must value first in order to reason (valuation drives motivation) and therefore reason is contingent on aesthetics – aesthetics drives human action… Yet I fail to see the tiler, convenience store owner or floor sweeper to be driven by aesthetics. But find the carpenter, mason, and machinist elevate their skills to obtain aesthetics quality. And what drives their progression to mastery is the combination of the grammar, logic, rhetoric and ethics (desire for pride in work, desire for good standing and reputation) which leads to the aesthetic.