Curt Doolittle

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  • The Scientific Explanation of The Spiritual

    November 5th, 2018 10:32 AM THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF THE SPIRITUAL

    —“What do you tell people who have had very spiritual experiences that they attribute to their religion? Tell them they just imagined it? I don’t see how that’s going to work.”— Mitchell Ryan

    They had the experience. They felt it. That it was produced by imagination is no different than if they imagine a ghost in the dark, or a car coming around a corner that isn’t there, or an argument with a loved one that didn’t or might happen. We feel all these things. We experience both the imagination of the context, the imagination of what might happen, or is happening, and the feeling of being in it, and we remember it. Our brains work all the time by filling in with memory or prediction the ‘model’ our senses are continuously composing for us out of sense, memory, and prediction, with continuous recursion of the context. Those Experiences existed. The conditions that cause them are either real or imaginary. We possess the ability to predict or forecast. That is the purpose of memory. We can predict all sorts of outcomes and then ‘feel them’ (imagine ourselves in them). The fact that you can imagine yourself in a ‘religious experience’ or imagine yourself as king arthur and feel that experience, is just a matter of context you imagine and practice. Most ‘intense’ experience I ever had was being very ill with a fever, reading a conan novel, and then experiencing myself in his place. it’s STILL the most intense experience I have had. Is it a religious experience, or is a religious experience just a different story in just a different dream? The question is only whether you are an addict reinforcing your addiction or not. Most of us no. Some of us yes. The question is whether you retain your agency (and experience) or retain your addiction in lieu of agency (and experience).

  • Why Do Our Brains Construct Two Opposing Explanations?

    November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM —“Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— Question: “Why have our marvelous brains formulated two diametrically opposite explanations?” Answer: Cognitive Division of Labor: Predator (action, dominance, science) — vs.– Prey (mindfulness, submission, religion). Problem: Demand for mindfulness increases with uncertainty. Post tribal life removes resource uncertainty at the cost of social uncertainty (female herd equality, male pack hierarchy). Scale increases uncertainty. Production cycles decrease availability of positive reinforcement (status signals, fitness signals). Consumerism buys signals, at cost of increase in isolation. Diversity (market polity) increases isolation. Choices: (a) Personal Rituals: Stoicism (Self Authoring) > Sophism (Philosophy) > Pseudoscience (“Church of TED, Marxist Economics”) > Religion (Old Age) > Magic (New Age) > Occult (literature – post-reason). (b) Social Rituals: Hunting > Sport > Commerce > Civic Groups and Clubs > Politics > Religion (academy, media, cult) > Fringe Movements (outcasts) > Occult (‘escapists’). What’s the Underlying Problem?Neural Economy. (Physical Economy(Stress), Emotional Economy (Stress), Neural Economy(stress)). Regularity provides certainty and decreased neural cost. Plenty provides personal decrease in neural cost but increase in cost of collective coherence, consistency, correspondence, and (frame) decidability. In other words, manageable neural cost provides anti-fragility (mindfulness) and suppressed neural cost (infantilization) increases fragility. The problem we face satisfaction of demand for predatory ( consumption, acquisition, opportunity, signals/status) vs prey ( consumption, insurance, certainty, not-sticking-out/equality). Markets (Economy) in everything: Unfortunately we have constructed a cognitive model of monopoly under both universalist abrahamic religion, justificationary philosophy, universal democracy, legislation (rather than tort law), and constructivist mathematics (and positivist logic). Despite the fact that the uniqueness of western civilization’s ‘salvation’ of mankind from superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, endemic violence, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature – was the product of anti-monopoly “Markets in All Walks of Life” under individual sovereignty, tort law of reciprocity, evidentiary (testifiable) truth regardless of cost to face, status, dominance, or competence hierarchy, duty of the commons regardless of station, decision jury, judge and rule of law, leaving the only remaining method of cooperation “as markets in all aspects of life” that resulted in our innovations of reason, empiricism, and science. Ergo, between religion, philosophy, (and that counter-empiricism we call the ‘enlightenment’ and it’s capture of power) democracy, followed by the revision of monopoly Abrahamic Monotheism( judaism, christianity, and islamism), that we call Marxism(Pseudoscience), Socialism(Monopoly Property), Postmodernism (monopoly sophism), and Feminism (monopoly female control vs compromise familial control) – we repeated the same process as the ancient era (resulting in the destruction of every civlization of the ancient world) and attempted in the current era to undermine (destroy) that social order that made our salvation from natural condition possible: non-monopoly markets of competition (calculation) using discovery by trial and error at the cost of soft eugenics (suppression of the reproduction of those who force burden by moral hazard onto others). The questions are one of knowledge and one of choice. Lacking knowledge one cannot make a choice. Possessing knowledge what choice does one (or all) make? The answer is divided between the predator and pack’s preservation, or the prey and herd’s submission. 😉 Maybe that will add to the discourse. 😉 -Cheers

  • Why Do Our Brains Construct Two Opposing Explanations?

    November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM —“Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— Question: “Why have our marvelous brains formulated two diametrically opposite explanations?” Answer: Cognitive Division of Labor: Predator (action, dominance, science) — vs.– Prey (mindfulness, submission, religion). Problem: Demand for mindfulness increases with uncertainty. Post tribal life removes resource uncertainty at the cost of social uncertainty (female herd equality, male pack hierarchy). Scale increases uncertainty. Production cycles decrease availability of positive reinforcement (status signals, fitness signals). Consumerism buys signals, at cost of increase in isolation. Diversity (market polity) increases isolation. Choices: (a) Personal Rituals: Stoicism (Self Authoring) > Sophism (Philosophy) > Pseudoscience (“Church of TED, Marxist Economics”) > Religion (Old Age) > Magic (New Age) > Occult (literature – post-reason). (b) Social Rituals: Hunting > Sport > Commerce > Civic Groups and Clubs > Politics > Religion (academy, media, cult) > Fringe Movements (outcasts) > Occult (‘escapists’). What’s the Underlying Problem?Neural Economy. (Physical Economy(Stress), Emotional Economy (Stress), Neural Economy(stress)). Regularity provides certainty and decreased neural cost. Plenty provides personal decrease in neural cost but increase in cost of collective coherence, consistency, correspondence, and (frame) decidability. In other words, manageable neural cost provides anti-fragility (mindfulness) and suppressed neural cost (infantilization) increases fragility. The problem we face satisfaction of demand for predatory ( consumption, acquisition, opportunity, signals/status) vs prey ( consumption, insurance, certainty, not-sticking-out/equality). Markets (Economy) in everything: Unfortunately we have constructed a cognitive model of monopoly under both universalist abrahamic religion, justificationary philosophy, universal democracy, legislation (rather than tort law), and constructivist mathematics (and positivist logic). Despite the fact that the uniqueness of western civilization’s ‘salvation’ of mankind from superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, endemic violence, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature – was the product of anti-monopoly “Markets in All Walks of Life” under individual sovereignty, tort law of reciprocity, evidentiary (testifiable) truth regardless of cost to face, status, dominance, or competence hierarchy, duty of the commons regardless of station, decision jury, judge and rule of law, leaving the only remaining method of cooperation “as markets in all aspects of life” that resulted in our innovations of reason, empiricism, and science. Ergo, between religion, philosophy, (and that counter-empiricism we call the ‘enlightenment’ and it’s capture of power) democracy, followed by the revision of monopoly Abrahamic Monotheism( judaism, christianity, and islamism), that we call Marxism(Pseudoscience), Socialism(Monopoly Property), Postmodernism (monopoly sophism), and Feminism (monopoly female control vs compromise familial control) – we repeated the same process as the ancient era (resulting in the destruction of every civlization of the ancient world) and attempted in the current era to undermine (destroy) that social order that made our salvation from natural condition possible: non-monopoly markets of competition (calculation) using discovery by trial and error at the cost of soft eugenics (suppression of the reproduction of those who force burden by moral hazard onto others). The questions are one of knowledge and one of choice. Lacking knowledge one cannot make a choice. Possessing knowledge what choice does one (or all) make? The answer is divided between the predator and pack’s preservation, or the prey and herd’s submission. 😉 Maybe that will add to the discourse. 😉 -Cheers

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1541958944 Timestamp) WHY ISN’T NEGLIGENT GENOCIDE A CRIME? by Eli Harman If “negligent homicide” is a thing? Why not “negligent genocide?” It’s possible that some misguided fools genuinely believe that a world teeming with “crossbreeds” with no identity and no culture is a good and beautiful thing. I never thought of it that way. I always appreciate the historical accomplishments of Western, meaning white, civilization and mourned their possibly inevitable future loss. I say “possibly inevitable” because when I gave my loyalty to individualist principles, similar to Jordan Peterson’s, I didn’t see any way to prevent it. Nothing to do but make that leap and hope for the best. But we have all the evidence we need now to banish hope. Not one great, city, nation, or civilization has been improved by the inclusion of dependent, third world, hordes. And everywhere the process has gotten suitably advanced is a total disaster. London used to be capital of a great empire. Now it’s the capital of acid attacks. Detroit used to be an unmatched industrial center. Now it’s rotting back into the weeds. Multiculturalism doesn’t lead to “Star Trek.” It leads to Brazil or South Africa. But it turns out that preventing that is a simple matter of abandoning unworkable and undesirable individualist principles. If any fools still don’t understand, it’s because they are willfully ignorant. That is not a valid excuse any longer. All the evidence one needs is readily available. But some of our would-be genociders are not ignorant, misguided, nor foolish. They are deadly serious. For them, “Star Trek” was never the point. Only the destruction of Western Civilization.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542050623 Timestamp) —“Why do we allow areas of the country with the highest crime rates hold such sway in statewide and national elections? If your locals elect govt that can’t suppress violent crime, your per capita ability to govern the nation as a whole is demonstrably deficient, like a child.”— Steve Pender

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542209201 Timestamp) COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY What degree of indirection is required in order to produce new networks (routes) that attached different weights (emotions, values) to the same (similar) phenomenon? EXPERIENTIAL TERMS (Neurological) “Just tell me” “Just show me ” “let me have a little distance, so I can learn by analogy” “I can’t go anywhere near it, so I have to learn ENTIRELY by suggestion.” LOGICAL TERMS Some things are self evident. (just tell me) Some requires a bit of analysis (just show me) Some requires some deduction (just let me have distance…) Some requires inference. (can’t go there, need suggestion….) MATHEMATICAL TERMS Numbers Addition Geometry Algebraic Geometry Same problem. Same Solution. Literary suggestion using archetypes combines the possibility of SUGGESTION combined with SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF,

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542209201 Timestamp) COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY What degree of indirection is required in order to produce new networks (routes) that attached different weights (emotions, values) to the same (similar) phenomenon? EXPERIENTIAL TERMS (Neurological) “Just tell me” “Just show me ” “let me have a little distance, so I can learn by analogy” “I can’t go anywhere near it, so I have to learn ENTIRELY by suggestion.” LOGICAL TERMS Some things are self evident. (just tell me) Some requires a bit of analysis (just show me) Some requires some deduction (just let me have distance…) Some requires inference. (can’t go there, need suggestion….) MATHEMATICAL TERMS Numbers Addition Geometry Algebraic Geometry Same problem. Same Solution. Literary suggestion using archetypes combines the possibility of SUGGESTION combined with SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF,

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542474255 Timestamp) NEAR ZERO CONSUMER INTEREST 1) let’s assume there is only one consumer lender: the treasury. what happens to default rates? And 2) under single (consumer) lender, with limits by rolling income, why are defaults a problem? And 3) now let’s distribute liquidity via those same accounts, and what happens? And (4) if those ‘rents’ on state-secured interest aren’t available where does investment capital seek longer term returns instead? With the exception that; (5) black market ‘loan’ might increase (not for sizable), because there is always an unpredictable ‘lottery payment’ coming from insertion of liquidity to maintain the money supply, with zero delay.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542474255 Timestamp) NEAR ZERO CONSUMER INTEREST 1) let’s assume there is only one consumer lender: the treasury. what happens to default rates? And 2) under single (consumer) lender, with limits by rolling income, why are defaults a problem? And 3) now let’s distribute liquidity via those same accounts, and what happens? And (4) if those ‘rents’ on state-secured interest aren’t available where does investment capital seek longer term returns instead? With the exception that; (5) black market ‘loan’ might increase (not for sizable), because there is always an unpredictable ‘lottery payment’ coming from insertion of liquidity to maintain the money supply, with zero delay.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1542551183 Timestamp) REVERSING LOW RATES OF REPRODUCTION —“I would like to hear your opinion on that. What are your suggestions to reverse low fertility rate? How much are you concerned about this? Any idea on how to improve incentives for women to have more children?”—-Paulo Eduardo Marques If you reverse the disincentives to middle class reproduction and reverse the incentives for underclass reproduction and you reverse immigration, restore the family as the insurer as a unit of measure, and zone areas of economic opportunity for families then the problem will sort itself out.