Gonna have to agree with you on that one.
But, if you have your own apartment, your own gym equipment in it, 24 hour food delivery, digital work to do, continuous digital entertainment, and socialization by digital communication, a digital ai waifu, what’s the point of going…
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-04 20:40:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632118862190714903
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?? Neoteny is the direction of nearly all human morphological and behavioral evolution.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-04 11:14:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631976409198411776
Reply addressees: @statusquarrior @Dek01907133 @whatifalthist
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631904847917379584
Neoteny. The origin of human differences.
Gracile Form, Fair Coloring.
IMPORTANT: this allows westerners to look more neotenous than we are.
Conversely east asians are more neotenous than europeans are – and appear so: lesser sexual development and lower sexual dimorphism included.
And old europeans were more neotenous than agrarians and stepp herders. But ANE brought light coloring into europe.
ANd it spread rapidly and thoroughly.
Because they killed the men and bred with the women.
hence greater diversity of europeans.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-04 02:02:37 UTC
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“YES VIRGINIA, WE HAVE A SUBCONSCIOUS”
(how the brain works)
It might be defined incorrectly in some cases, but the subconscious exists.
The brain runs full time 24 hrs a day, running vast parallel, complex, loose to concrete, auto-associations, caused by momentary neurological stimulations, and if an association is valuable enough raises via the thalamus that network to our attention. And the brain shuts down consciousness to rest, store long-term memories, and do other housekeeping that if we don’t do eventually leads to our death. The brain never stops ever. Only our awareness, consciousness, and attention do.
The brain is complex only because it consists of many many complex variations on essentially one simple structure. But it forms a potentially infinite set of connections and networks that COMPETE for our attention. When our it satisfies our attention given our current state of stimulation, we realize it, and then can make use of it, by focusing our attention on the loudest so to speak set of ideas that are competing in the networks below.
So, the spectrum of unconscious, semi-conscious, and conscious exists. And the difference is just what is elevated to our attention by the thalamus so that it’s available to the prefrontal cortex, so that we can choose to work with it – and control the direction of those auto-associations. Or not.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 22:14:18 UTC
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–“I feel like I’m where I ought to be.”– @ScottAdamsSays
(3 March 2023)
Well Scott, you’re climbing the Maslowian pyramid because you’re old enough, successful enough, and secure enough to seek fulfillment as your first priority.
And so being ‘canceled’ was liberating you enough to climb another step on that pyramid. (BTW: it won’t last)
I would assume your influence will continue to increase. And despite your left-of-center or perhaps classical liberal leanings, you will attract a right-leaning audience, for one reason: You don’t tolerate dishonesty – or stupidity very well. And the right can tolerate admitting their failings – but the left can’t.
Because the right favors truth over approval, and the left favors approval over truth. And it’s inescapable because that’s the difference between the male and female brains, which are expressed as a distribution of more masculine and truthful or more feminine and agreeable, regardless of the sex of the body that biased brain is carried by.
I for one approve of your liberation. 😉
And I’m looking forward to your contribution to our future.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 19:15:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631735160910610438
THE CHILD MIND
by @LukeWeinhagen
As dependence undermines the dynamic of our interactions being exchanges of value, the part of our brain focused on survival demands we produce another answer to the unavoidable question (even if it is a lie to ourselves that we hope others also believe) –
The fist principle of ethics:
Q: “Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff?”
A: “Because I am valuable”
Becomes –
Q: “Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff?”
A: “Because I am special”
The first principle of childishness.
The child mind expressing their entitlement to your attachment to them as a child, dumbfounded that you would even question that expectation.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 18:03:19 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631716898508349453
That’s like saying gravity has been known for two and a half millennia. Well. Sorta. Turns out, like most things in nature, the subconscious is pretty simple, just like consciousness. If you mean what MEANING can we take from the subconscious – it can tell us only a little about our instincts (jung), and what ‘errors’ we have idiosyncratically accumulated in life.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 14:38:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631665306471997442
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THE REAL PROBLEM IS DESOCIALIZATION: OR WHAT NOW IS ANTISOCIALIZTION.
(the consequences of individualism over familism)
From Whatifalthist @whatifalthist
-“I was reading what Google said the causes of mental health were among Gen Z and they said stuff like climate change, school shootings and I was thinking damn, I see why society is so broken where people can’t even see clearly what the problems are.
I mean the answers are:
1) nihilism
2) loneliness
3) lack of role models
4) family breakdown
5) social media
6) bad economy
etc..”-
Correct.
The interesting question is why the media forwards the political narrative instead of the truth. The answer, as always, is that you can blame others for the narrative, but you have to blame yourself, change your behavior, change your political bias, and actually DO something to fix the real problem.
The media hooks your attention with moral outrage, and then sedates your moral outrage by justifying it, by blaming others, and letting you continue to decline without changing your behavior, understanding, or values.
If you know anything about baiting individuals into the spiral of addictive decline – that’s how.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 14:18:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631660244689362946
RT @DegenRolf: The reverse Flynn effect, the decline of the long-rising intelligence quotient, is also making itself felt in the USA. https…
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 11:05:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631611681670418432
RT @Steve_Sailer: @pmarca Current Wokeness is driven by female modes of thought, whereas most earlier peak leftist periods, such as 1968 or…
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 11:04:34 UTC
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