Curt Doolittle

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  • THE BRAIN, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, PSYCHOSIS The reason emotional trauma is so problem

    THE BRAIN, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, PSYCHOSIS

    The reason emotional trauma is so problematic for the brain, is that we develop procedural (neural pathway) means of circumventing the traumatized memories. If we could block access to them (right now we can only block conversion of them into long term memory) then we could avoid having to create ‘agents’ to circumvent them.

    Unfortunately, later traumas that are physical, pharmaceutical, or emotional, can damage the agent, leaving the remaining brain fewer pathways to work with.

    We see for example, in people with incremental (slow, cumulative) brain damage, that the brain can pretty amazingly compensate for loss of almost everything except the brain stem.

    But physical loss we grow around is not affected by later traumas that we have not lost, only created an immunity response to.

    So over time the mind is consistently occupied by the maintenance of these firewalls, and then when the individual resorts to drugs for relief, the brain’s only alternative is psychosis.

    Meaning there is no calculative means of discovering a stable (peaceful and low energy) state.

    And we cannot maintain such a state any more than we can go without sleep, indefinitely.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:46:00 UTC

  • Minor Traveller’s Life Improvement: Colored Cords. White: electricity, Red: soun

    Minor Traveller’s Life Improvement: Colored Cords.

    White: electricity, Red: sound, Blue: iphone/ipad

    Hunting through your magic bag of many things is so much easier.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:29:00 UTC

  • TALKATIVE WOMEN ARE AWESOME I love women who ‘talk too much’. I don’t understand

    TALKATIVE WOMEN ARE AWESOME

    I love women who ‘talk too much’. I don’t understand men who want a quiet woman. Women talk about all sorts of nonsense, giggle and laugh a lot, and it’s little of it is important, and it’s like birds singing, or flowers in the room.

    Nagging isn’t talking. I mean talking to you, to friends, to everyone.

    Possibly because I”m pretty verbal also. But at least for me, I find it wonderful.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:27:00 UTC

  • CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND JUSTIFICATIONISM: JUST THE BEGINNING The critical ratio

    CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND JUSTIFICATIONISM: JUST THE BEGINNING

    The critical rationalists are vocal about the ever present effects of ever present justificationism. yet they do not take this into behavior, manners, ethics, morals, politics, and economics to the same degree that they do to verbal argument, statistics, and physical sciences.

    The world is built subtractively: we seek to make things cheaper. We cannot make time and energy, we can only save them. We cannot make liberty we can only suppress parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:14:00 UTC

  • A SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE TRANSLATION WORTH REPEATING —Humans are adapted to w

    A SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE TRANSLATION WORTH REPEATING

    —Humans are adapted to want traditional forms of governance. They want law. They want to be ruled by legitimate, worthy, and trusted authority. They want a leader who commands the force of the nation to represent them to the outside world.”— Adolphus Völkermord

    Yes … and we want them because we want low opportunity costs (a dense population), low transaction costs (trust), low-cost information(homogeneity language, and interests), low-cost negotiation (stable norms: manners, ethics, morals), high returns on our work effort (a market and competitive commons), insurance against defection and defectors(law), and insurance against our failure (insurer of last resort), and insurance against the loss of all of the above (military defense).

    What I have learned to say is that we want a low cost of ‘calculating’ probability of success in our endeavors, and high returns on our efforts expended:

    *The greatest return, in the shortest time, for the least effort, with the greatest degree of certainty, at the lowest risk*

    In other words, we are like every other creature, object, molecule, and particle in the known universe.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:07:00 UTC

  • Losing your thyroid does affect you. You lose the abilty to call on your body to

    Losing your thyroid does affect you. You lose the abilty to call on your body to produce energy for you. And so you absolutely must eat. I find that as long as I have ‘nibbles’ I can work indefinitely. But in the work I’m doing now, I’m back to restaurants, and it’s making me fat, and ocillate between full and hungry.

    Being an endurance-thinker, is not that different in many ways from being an endurance athlete.

    I know far too many writers who do it with caffeine and cigarettes. But it’s better with water, sleep, food, and walking (oxygenation).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 04:01:00 UTC

  • SLEEP AND PROGRAMMING I was waaaaay too tired to work last night, but kept worki

    SLEEP AND PROGRAMMING

    I was waaaaay too tired to work last night, but kept working until almost midnight. But woke this morning and the answer popped into my head with the first bit of awareness – and I felt stupid for not watching a movie instead of working.

    it’s that feeling of “i want to do the right and heroic thing” when in fact the right and heroic thing to do is eat, drink water, and sleep.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 03:57:00 UTC

  • MARKETS: DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED, OR EVOLVED? It’s that men did in fact create mar

    MARKETS: DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED, OR EVOLVED?

    It’s that men did in fact create markets by forcible suppression of alternatives (parasitism) in all walks of life. Now this is different from ‘designed’. The market arises as a consequence of this suppression. So we ‘liberate’ the market as well as man, from parasitism. we construct liberty and market by the same means: suppression of its alternatives. So it’s not that we design the market, it’s that the market evolves from the design of suppression of parasitism. but reality is that market towns were established as were shopping malls today. So trade may exist prior to suppression – but markets are made. cooperation may exist prior to suppression – but liberty is constructed.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 03:42:00 UTC

  • ANCAPISM CANNOT SURVIVE MARKET COMPETITION ***”anarchism lacks institutions for

    ANCAPISM CANNOT SURVIVE MARKET COMPETITION

    ***”anarchism lacks institutions for construction of decidable law, and the production of commons necessary for the continuous development of suppression of parasitism and continuous development of competitive commons. It’s an ethic for disasporic people who free ride upon nation states, but it cannot serve as the institutional basis of a voluntary polity because one cannot create a polity that can compete for members with other polities. in other words, ancapism cannot produce a polity that can survive in the market for polities without a host polity and institutions that it parasitically lives within”***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 03:37:00 UTC

  • Damn our software does a lot of stuff

    Damn our software does a lot of stuff.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 16:18:00 UTC