Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • (NLI Insights) Why Have We Formally Defined the Existing Sixth Sense Man Has Alw

    (NLI Insights)
    Why Have We Formally Defined the Existing Sixth Sense Man Has Always Had?
    (cognitive science, neuroscience)
    In our work over the past week we’ve separated the classical categorization of internal(interoceptive) and external(exterosensive) sensory systems into three, the third consisting of Spatial-Navigational Senses, which splits off Proprioception(position of body and limbs) and Vestibular Sense(orientation, particularly in response to gravity and present direction of movement) to join with the world model produced by the disambiguation of objects, spaces, and backgrounds (by the parietal lobe) necessary for movement, vs the disambiguation of objects with spaces necessary for manipulation, whether risk or opportunity (from the temporal lobe).

    Both of which, along with the other senses, feed into the organization of objects(action) and spaces(movement, navigation) into scenes, (the cortices that feed into the hippocampal region).

    And indexing the inputs to those scenes into episodes, storing those indexes (cumulative pattern of neural firings) creating memories of episodes and associating those episodes with other episodes (hippocampal region).

    Allowing us to predict potential consequences (futures), some of which capture our attention (thalamus), for immediate reaction by the amygdala(emotion), basal ganglia(threat), or delayed reaction by release into our prefrontal cortex (conscious control: short term memory, problem solving, goal pursuing, by recursion (feedback into the next moment of stimulation).

    Together producing the experience we call consciousness, which consists of a three dimensional body (muti-sensory system) and the dominance of a two dimensional sensory facility (vision) which it must self organize through training (repetition) into three dimensional spatial relations, and project upon it, a three dimensional approximation of objects(interests), space(navigation), and limits(backgrounds), using ‘invisible’ (intuitionistic) triangles (our facing direction), and hexagons of those triangles (bodily spaces), combined with eye direction, head direction, body direction, limb position, speed of movement, rate of turn, given internal bodily state, and together used to predict possible actions we can take in those spaces, with the bodies we have, in the condition were in, in the time we have to act given those circumstances.

    The result is another example of the universe’s use of ternary logic to gradually through hierarchies use simplicity to create extraordinary complexity through the competition between cells for coherence “neurons that fire together wire together”, so that those that ‘agree’ not only in the moment but over very short sequences (pulses) in time, that they are identifying similar stimuli extant in the real world wether internal external, or eventually, in the imaginary world of our auto association, imagination, memory, and fantasy.

    THE ARGUMENT
    Given our exteroceptive senses, our interoceptive senses, there are three interoceptive senses that reflect our homeostasis (visceroception, thermoception, and nociception), but the other two: proprioception(position) and vestibular sense(orientation) and the unstated sense that is perhaps the most important: three dimensional disambiguation in to objects, spaces, background and motion, appear to categorize a third category of related senses that we should logically separate from the historical categorizations.

    The traditional division into exteroceptive (external stimuli), interoceptive (internal state), and proprioceptive (body position) senses does capture a broad spectrum of our sensory experiences.

    Therefore, we propose to consider a separate category that specifically addresses spatial and navigational senses, because it adds clarity to the sensory processing framework, and illustrates the physical nature of the construction experience from first causes to intuitions to consciousness.

    TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES
    • Exteroceptive Senses: Detect external stimuli (e.g., vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell).
    • Interoceptive Senses: Monitor internal physiological states (e.g., hunger, thirst, the need for air, pain, internal temperature).
    • Proprioceptive Sense: Provides information about body position through receptors in the muscles, tendons, and joints.

    SUGGESTED THIRD CATEGORY:
    “Spatial-Navigational Senses”
    • Proprioception: Although traditionally categorized under proprioceptive senses, your suggestion to consider it in a separate spatial-navigational category emphasizes its role in spatial awareness rather than just body position.
    • Vestibular Sense (Balance and Orientation): Crucial for understanding body orientation in space, particularly in relation to gravitational forces.
    • Three-Dimensional Disambiguation: This involves the cognitive processing necessary to interpret and organize visual information into comprehensible structures like objects, spaces, backgrounds, and movements. It underpins our ability to navigate and interact effectively with our environment.
    (Note: we simply MUST come up with another totally incomprehensible term for this sense just so it’s consistently as obscure as the others.) 😉

    JUSTIFICATION FOR A NEW CATEGORY
    • Spatial Coherence: These senses collectively contribute to a coherent understanding of the body’s position and movement within three-dimensional space. They provide critical data not just on the body itself but on its relationship to the surroundings.
    • Cognitive and Behavioral Relevance: This grouping reflects their interconnected roles in facilitating cognitive functions such as navigation, motion perception, and spatial orientation, which are fundamental to survival and interaction with the environment.
    • Neurological Integration: These senses are deeply integrated at the neurological level, with significant interplay in areas of the brain involved in spatial memory, navigation, and motor coordination (e.g., the hippocampus, inner ear, cerebellum, and motor cortices).

    IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW CLASSIFICATION
    • Research and Understanding: A reclassification might lead to more targeted research into how these senses interact and influence each other, potentially unveiling new insights into spatial perception and cognitive mapping.
    • Clinical Applications: Improved classification can enhance diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in neurology and rehabilitation, particularly for conditions affecting balance, movement, and spatial orientation.

    CLOSING
    By considering these senses as part of a dedicated spatial-navigational category, we could deepen our understanding of how humans interpret and maneuver through space, recognizing the complex interdependencies of these sensory systems.

    This approach respects the complexity of sensory processing and could refine our understanding of neural integration across different sensory modalities.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-06 23:27:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1787625307492470785

  • INDIVIDUAL-ISM IS A PRODUCT OF COMMONS-ISM IS A PRODUCT OF HERO-ISM FOR THE COMM

    INDIVIDUAL-ISM IS A PRODUCT OF COMMONS-ISM IS A PRODUCT OF HERO-ISM FOR THE COMMON GOOD
    –“I try to think of genetic “self” preservation like Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics”–

    (Ethocentism)

    Unfortunately while individual maximization of potential is both practical in individual, economic, and political application, and as such is an optimum product of the commons of a polity, no man is an island, and as such all human achievement of potential is and always will be a product of his participation in and regulation by a commons produced by a polity. As such, as with many sophistries in philosophy, Asimov’s three laws depend upon a polity to produce and necessitate them as a commons.

    And secondly, because this is another sophistic metaphysical presumption, the time preference of one’s criteria for decision making such as you’ve demonstrated by the choice of the limit of genetic persistence of the group genome, morphology, phenotype, civilization, and culture, is also a product of the capacity of the polity to produce commons sufficient to extend both individual and group time preference to that limit.

    While at first glance this may seem contrary to your ambitions to preserve an ethnostate, the opposite is true. It’s a vindication of it.

    As such, justifying the pursuit of power to institutionalize delay of gratification by extending time preference in the production of the optimum discovered and known commons for both past present and future: Whiteness: the institutional demand for the individual responsibility for the spectrum of private to common for shared producers of that commons, and responsibility for the past debt to ancestors, present cost of commons for one another, and transfer of that inheritance and cost as investment for future generations: producing continuous evolution in duty to truth, excellence, beauty and the institution of discounts on complex cooperation, stress, uncertainty, and mindfulness and culture of heroism in their production.

    If you understand this it is both science, profound, inspirational, the foundation of a natural religion of European people for their ancestors and nature, and the criteria for the foundations of law to persist our people.

    Cheers
    CD

    Reply addressees: @radiofreenw

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-06 20:16:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1787577132022915073

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1787544074200773072

  • WHAT KILLED OUR SEQUENCE OF RELIGIONS? –“Paganism was killed by philosophy, pag

    WHAT KILLED OUR SEQUENCE OF RELIGIONS?

    –“Paganism was killed by philosophy, paganism represents human whim and emotions”–@VRfutureop
    And;
    –“Organized religions killed disorganized (unsystematic religions”–(CD)
    And;
    –“I would say in a similar, way science killed Christianity, or at least weakened it to a point where it can be replaced by some even more abstract alternative.”–@NeoPV_

    Technically, while overly pejorative, this is a good argument. In other words, philosophy is systematic, and idiosyncratically evolved distributed mythology is at best metaphysically consistent, but not sufficient for deduction, discussion, debate, argument. In other words unsystematic religion can’t survive competition and scale.

    That doesn’t mean that a natural religion for an ethnicity in a geography isn’t possible, just that it would need to be somehow consistent. And I’m pretty sure that’s possible to constitute. Not really difficult at all. And easily instituted.

    IMO, despite that Aquinas synthesized the ancient world with the high medieval restoration of Classical Knowledge in to the natural law, but still unfortunately dependent upon divine causality, and then the scholastics and then the church adopted and promoted natural law.

    Unfortunately the Catholic Church, despite it’s history of thought leaders, it’s accumulation of dogma, and justification for natural law, failed to produce a reformer in response to Darwin, Maxwell, Menger, Spencer, Nietzsche and the rest who explained the natural world as absent requirement for intentional design and management.

    It should produced an obvious reform that only required the Church to claim ignorance and impossibility of knowing whether God created the laws of the universe from outside the universe, or whether God is the universe, or God is a product of the universe – because regardless of his mode of existence, the evidence of his laws both physical, behavioral and evolutionary, is the same.

    As such we know the word of God.

    So the church could have claimed victory, stating that in christian forgiveness and in natural law, the church had discovered the evidence of the laws of god – not the words produced by man inspired by them, and as such the church was correct and thus the most successful and ‘right’ religion.

    Now oddly enough, we can defend this argument against all comers. 😉 Because it makes no false assertions or assumptions, and instead discredits those who try.

    All it requires is yet another anthropomorphism as a means of saying we do know now the answer. Which is the basis of all myth, philosophy, and science: reduction of the unknown to an analogy to human experience. 😉

    Affections.
    CD

    Reply addressees: @NeoPV_ @VRfutureop

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-05 01:32:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786931822011518976

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786924716567241135

  • SEX DIFFERENCES DISCUSSIONS ARE SILLY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS This is silly. We keep

    SEX DIFFERENCES DISCUSSIONS ARE SILLY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS
    This is silly. We keep trying to frame sex differences in the context of economic productivity and political influence, instead of why the sexes evolved as the do. Women need to mature enough to reproduce quickly and to extend their nervous systems by hyper empathizing to account for the challenge of mentally observing, caring for, and regulating the minds, behavior, and development of thier offspring and to do so by the spectrum of ‘seductive’ care taking and emotional regulation.
    The males (who are unfortunately, more disposable, and replacable) have to instead, mentally track the condition of territory, resources, and assets that must be systematically understood because it’s partly beyond their perception. This is the opposite need of the female.
    So, women mature earleir and LESS than men, who mature later and more. But what does later and MORE mean? It means instead of empathizing with what’s in front of you IN-TIME, men systematize what’s NOT in front of the OVER-TIME. So the sex differences effectively result in a division of labor in time given sex roles. This plays out as women favor attention and consumption and externalization of resonsibility (for status) and men favor accumulation of capital and responsibility for it (for status) and status is just the measure of the discount on opportunities for cooperation, and cooperation is a discount on time, whether in-time(short term) or over-time(long term).
    Now, what I suppose my work has taught me, is that all human developmental behavior occurs because of minor – very minor – bias in biochemistry, neurological composition, and most importantly neurological organization (what connects to what and how much).
    So, it’s perhaps easier for me to understand and explain sex differences in development and maturity because I understand the (very simple) set of rules that cause sex differences and variation between us in addition to those sex differences.
    At present we’re writing this section of the book, but somehow I feel it’s not as good as my courseware becasue there in slides I can use graphics, illustrations, diagrams, and videos.
    But really, In my foundations and methods work, I try to list ‘dimensions’ which are the ‘levers’ that cause variation between us. And the variation between the sexes is just a few of those ‘levers or knobs’ and our vast diferences in behavior, especially at the extremes, are the product of just variation in those dimensions.
    It’s disturbingly simple.
    BUT it’s only disturbingly simple if you seek to know what is and why FIRST instead of justify what you want or wish it was.
    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @FeminaStudiosa @AutistocratMS

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-01 19:59:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785761000135741442

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785757633191834060

  • We all perceive possibility given our perception of our own agency. In other wor

    We all perceive possibility given our perception of our own agency. In other words do not project your ability and judgement onto the ability and judgement of others, who, for various reasons, are more able to compromise with others, follow demonstrated leadership, bear costs and risks, and bear the burden of bringing about change.
    In other words, black pills are just an attempt to ‘guilt’ others when it is the speaker of the black pills that is guilty. 😉
    -Hugs

    Reply addressees: @Raudenbusch1 @alexandrosM

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-01 17:28:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785722917499678720

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785717426564260237

  • DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Girls mature earlier than boys. Bo

    DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
    Girls mature earlier than boys.
    Boys mature earlier than autists.
    Autists mature later than the rest.

    –“In ASD, Full Scale (FSIQ) and Verbal (VIQ) Intelligence started lower in childhood and increased at a greater rate with age relative to the control group. By early adulthood, VIQ and working memory stabilized, whereas nonverbal and perceptual scores continued to change. Our results suggest that in individuals with ASD, IQ estimates may be dynamic in childhood and young adulthood.”– (2021)

    Why? Female hemispheric integration, male hemispheric compartmentalization, autistic regional hyper compartmentalization in males on the spectrum.

    Ergo just as domestication syndrome produced longer childhood, adaptation, and lifespan, cognitive domestication was extended because given differences in starting position, males, and autistic males take much longer to fully integrate a brain, BUT in doing so produce higher intelligence (if successful) or total failure (if not). This is why there are 4x more high IQ men on the spectrum than neurotypicals.

    IMO, given what I have learned from my work in evolutionary computation, ‘being on the spectrum’ is the direction of the brain’s neotenic evolution. Just as neotenic evolution is the direction of ALL human evolution.

    There are other consequences like the result of longer maturity in relational, social, and family roles which do require attachment and as such necessitate the preservation of feminine. Meaning … differences in the sexes should continue to diverge as they have over three million years or more.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-01 16:01:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785700973278642176

  • HOW TO LOVE MANKIND – HELP IT. 😉 Despite our vast genetic and cultural differen

    HOW TO LOVE MANKIND – HELP IT. 😉
    Despite our vast genetic and cultural differences, if we all grant one another self determination by self determined means, a framework of natural law jurisprudence to ensure them, states to produce them, and federations to insure all of the above, then we can in fact all cooperate at global if not interplanetary scale, and live in relative peace and love of humanity.

    That’s what I’m about. Eliminate the bads and the diversity of demographically useful goods will emerge in each polity – because that’s all that is possible to emerge.

    This is why I can love all the crazy humans despite their limited ability, limited agency, limited understanding, and resulting chaos and folly.

    Evolution just calculates.
    We help it or not.
    Helping it turns out to be easy.
    “No more lies”

    Hugs all.
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-04-30 18:18:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785373055511900160

  • WHY IS ISLAM FEMININE IN COGNITION? Femininity like masculinity has both positiv

    WHY IS ISLAM FEMININE IN COGNITION?
    Femininity like masculinity has both positive and negative behaviors. For historical reasons dating back to christianity, then to the age of chivalry, then to the victorian counter-reaction to the edwardian, the west has created a ‘unique’ mythology of the feminine as virtuous where throughout most of history women were considered the root of most public evils.

    We tend to overlook that feminine behavior is more aggressive and violent than male – just less capable. Additionally Islam (like Judaism) is feminine in cognition, in expression, in justification, and even islamic aggression follows the feminine instincts and behaviors. to ‘drag everyone down to equality at the bottom’. Low capability, low trust, demand for equality obtained by authority and imposed by threat of violence.

    Why? low competitiveness by strategic, military, and economic means requiring high trust organization, combined with low trustworthiness, familial and tribal prioritization rather than national bias. Hence ‘why can’t islam organize anything of any scale in any dimension requiring any truth, trust, contract, and scale?

    Why are semites in general, muslims in particular, low trust, untrustworthy, permissive with lying cheating and corruption, and as such unwilling to bear costs for the common good, and thus unable to do anything organized at any scale?

    Well start with diversity, an average IQ of 84, Islam as encouraging ignorance and obedience, and a long history of institutional failure, and you have a population that is capable of aggression and raiding and conniving and undermining using the false promise of freedom from being members of the world’s lower class, and the resulting inequality, combined with the relief of the cognitive burden of european reason, evidence, and science, and then you have a recipe for the state of affairs.

    Thankfully (at least somewhat) (a) the internet has solved problems insular islam has made (b) the slow progress of development and gradual education is creating incentive for nation-states to replace the arbitrary borders of both the ottoman imperialists and the european colonialists.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @BanninYaqoobi

    Source date (UTC): 2024-04-30 16:13:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785341751449772032

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  • DON’T MISUNDERSTAND MY OBJECTIVE I suppose that since I work on incentives which

    DON’T MISUNDERSTAND MY OBJECTIVE
    I suppose that since I work on incentives which means the use of indirection (bouncing the cue ball off the rail for every shot), and that since my purpose is indirect also, it’s easy to fail to grasp my meaning and intention: we are in a period of integrating the lower classes, then women, the jews, then third world immigrants, and even muslims, all of whom have lower desire and much lower capacity to bear the responsibility of whiteness, unless men AND women form families that depend on ‘whiteness’ (responsibility for self, private, and common) to maintain a low cost high trust polity where we require less income for higher quality of life, and can support single parent families.
    So, I work to outlaw hostility to, competition with, undermining of, sedition against, and treason against ‘whiteness’ meaning the group strategy and tradition of western civilization: the maximization of individual responsibility for mind, self, family, private, and common.
    Very few others groups can do so. And even our own women, unless heavily insulated from social, economic, and political conflict, fall victim to the seduction into the false promise of the evasion of that massive burden of responsibility necessary to bring about and maintain a hight trust polity, and all the benefits to ourselves our people, and mankind that have resulted from it.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-04-29 21:20:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785056637591470081

  • WHY ISN’T THE SIMPLICITY OF THE BRAIN COMMON KNOWLEDGE? I wonder why the rather

    WHY ISN’T THE SIMPLICITY OF THE BRAIN COMMON KNOWLEDGE?
    I wonder why the rather simplicity of the process is such uncommon knowledge when 3d video games using points, vertexes, triangles, planes, and patters applied to those triangular planes, then distinguishing by classes between backgrounds, objects, and actors, and composing scenes within a visual horizon distance, and decreasing resolution with distance – well that’s pretty much what the brain does?

    I mean, computers do it the way they do because it’s frankly the only way to do it and it’s partly because it’s impossible to increase the efficiency by any other digital means. The same is true of the neurons which are just on or off, and in frequencies, and together must describe the world to us with those limited resources quickly and efficiently.

    I mean, abstractly, what the brain does is kind of simple at it’s first principle, but there is just a LOT OF IT in a VAST hierarchy that uses competition to produce both filtering and coherence.

    So why is this nonsense that the brain is complex really persisting. Even consciousness is just a memory effect of a hierarchy of memories re-experienced by current stimulation

    I mean, while it’s an analogy it’s a very close one. And can serve as a valuable educational tool, demystifying the brain’s operations by comparing them to more familiar technologies like video games – helping teach complex biological processes in more relatable terms, making this “uncommon knowledge” more accessible.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2024-04-29 15:49:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1784973373937688577