Curt Doolittle

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  • Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM —“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciproc

    Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM

    —“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciprocate by being responsible to maintain the commons.”—Christopher Kilgore

  • Faith Is a Fairly Easy Thing to Explain.

    Oct 14, 2019, 9:29 PM FAITH Faith is a fairly easy thing to explain. In other words we know what causes the feeling we call ‘spirituality’ and why it’s so influential to some and not at all to others. But we can’t introspect into it. So you can’t introspect into how you raise your arm. And you can’t introspect into the feeling you get from faith, but that doesn’t mean we cant explain how you raise your arm (I certainly can) or that we can’t explain the feeling of faith (I certainly can). It’s that the ‘magic’ is due to our inability to introspectively analyze it. There are some tricks we can use (visual illusions) to experiment with vision. There are similar tricks for spirituality. The feeling is not complicated. The free association we can conduct in that state is not complicated. And mastering the ability to freely associate emotionally by repetitive practice is not complicated. So whether you specialize in pre-rational emotion, pre-rational intuition, physical performance, or rational thought, or rational calculation, is just a matter of your ability and interest. And your developmental arc since that series is simply the developmental hierarchy. And just as there are many fragile points in your sexual development there are many fragile points in your social development there are also many fragile points in your cognitive development, and some of us are biased to the sensory, to the motor, to the social, to the verbal rational, and some to the calculative spatial. It’s not that faith isn’t an excellent way of developing mindfulness by supplying your own sedation. It’s not that the buddhist meditation and philosophy isn’t. Or the stoic. It’s that there are consequences (costs) for each of those methods and only the stoic produces your adaptation rather than avoidance.

  • Faith Is a Fairly Easy Thing to Explain.

    Oct 14, 2019, 9:29 PM FAITH Faith is a fairly easy thing to explain. In other words we know what causes the feeling we call ‘spirituality’ and why it’s so influential to some and not at all to others. But we can’t introspect into it. So you can’t introspect into how you raise your arm. And you can’t introspect into the feeling you get from faith, but that doesn’t mean we cant explain how you raise your arm (I certainly can) or that we can’t explain the feeling of faith (I certainly can). It’s that the ‘magic’ is due to our inability to introspectively analyze it. There are some tricks we can use (visual illusions) to experiment with vision. There are similar tricks for spirituality. The feeling is not complicated. The free association we can conduct in that state is not complicated. And mastering the ability to freely associate emotionally by repetitive practice is not complicated. So whether you specialize in pre-rational emotion, pre-rational intuition, physical performance, or rational thought, or rational calculation, is just a matter of your ability and interest. And your developmental arc since that series is simply the developmental hierarchy. And just as there are many fragile points in your sexual development there are many fragile points in your social development there are also many fragile points in your cognitive development, and some of us are biased to the sensory, to the motor, to the social, to the verbal rational, and some to the calculative spatial. It’s not that faith isn’t an excellent way of developing mindfulness by supplying your own sedation. It’s not that the buddhist meditation and philosophy isn’t. Or the stoic. It’s that there are consequences (costs) for each of those methods and only the stoic produces your adaptation rather than avoidance.

  • Consiousness

    Oct 14, 2019, 9:35 PM Consciousness: awareness of change in state of self (non-body), of spatial model of self (body), of space around self, of objects in the space around self, of place and location, of others, as the spatial movement of others, and the model in the mind of others. This is the sixth sense (biologically it is, this is how the mind constructs experience – just like a 3d video game.). We can imitate (act masculine bias), sympathize (incentives), empathize (feelings – feminine bias). We divide the the world into locations, boundaries, objects, places within the location (space), direction of movement, head direction, speed, and distance. We do this all predictively with about two seconds to compose a context, and updated about every tenth of a second. So we are continually predicting everything including the actions (imitation), thoughts (sympathy) and feelings (empathy) of others. The male brain is specialized from back to front (speed) independent of empathy, and the female brain is specialized laterally (context) independent of speed. All of us vary from masculine to feminine brain structures. This difference is large, and I think it’s on the scale of 1.5SD. Empathizing is time consuming. And it biases you to consensus, just as systematizing is consuming but biases you to truth. This is why women are better at telling you what an individual thinks or feels, and men are better at predicting the behavior of groups. (about .2-.6SD) averaged, with wide variation in individuals. So the female mind process vastly more information and communicates vastly more information between individuals and the male mind is far more concerned with groups and urgencies. In other words, ancient stereotypes are correct. Like all stereotypes – they are the most accurate measure in the social sciences.

  • Consiousness

    Oct 14, 2019, 9:35 PM Consciousness: awareness of change in state of self (non-body), of spatial model of self (body), of space around self, of objects in the space around self, of place and location, of others, as the spatial movement of others, and the model in the mind of others. This is the sixth sense (biologically it is, this is how the mind constructs experience – just like a 3d video game.). We can imitate (act masculine bias), sympathize (incentives), empathize (feelings – feminine bias). We divide the the world into locations, boundaries, objects, places within the location (space), direction of movement, head direction, speed, and distance. We do this all predictively with about two seconds to compose a context, and updated about every tenth of a second. So we are continually predicting everything including the actions (imitation), thoughts (sympathy) and feelings (empathy) of others. The male brain is specialized from back to front (speed) independent of empathy, and the female brain is specialized laterally (context) independent of speed. All of us vary from masculine to feminine brain structures. This difference is large, and I think it’s on the scale of 1.5SD. Empathizing is time consuming. And it biases you to consensus, just as systematizing is consuming but biases you to truth. This is why women are better at telling you what an individual thinks or feels, and men are better at predicting the behavior of groups. (about .2-.6SD) averaged, with wide variation in individuals. So the female mind process vastly more information and communicates vastly more information between individuals and the male mind is far more concerned with groups and urgencies. In other words, ancient stereotypes are correct. Like all stereotypes – they are the most accurate measure in the social sciences.

  • I See Evidence of It All Around Me.

    Oct 15, 2019, 2:15 PM

    —“I can believe in natural law in itself because I see evidence of it all around me. That’s what I attribute all the beauty of creation to.”—Martin Štěpán via Alain Dwight

  • I See Evidence of It All Around Me.

    Oct 15, 2019, 2:15 PM

    —“I can believe in natural law in itself because I see evidence of it all around me. That’s what I attribute all the beauty of creation to.”—Martin Štěpán via Alain Dwight

  • Deception: “higher knowledge”

    Oct 15, 2019, 10:19 AM (higher knowledge meaning the ability to practice free association(knowledge) and sedation(happiness) through pursuit of the ecstasy of surrender-of-the-will-to-running-with-the-pack (spirituality), and to habituate that feeling as one’s ‘normal’ condition is not unscientific nor mystical. It’s that the feeling of occult, and mystery is the feeling of running with the pack which is about the safest feeling we can experience, and it’s why animals run in packs, or flocks, or whatever other order they group into.So whether you story-tell some silly stuff, or simply practice it as a discipline, is only material to the externalities caused by the fiction or the truth.)

  • Deception: “higher knowledge”

    Oct 15, 2019, 10:19 AM (higher knowledge meaning the ability to practice free association(knowledge) and sedation(happiness) through pursuit of the ecstasy of surrender-of-the-will-to-running-with-the-pack (spirituality), and to habituate that feeling as one’s ‘normal’ condition is not unscientific nor mystical. It’s that the feeling of occult, and mystery is the feeling of running with the pack which is about the safest feeling we can experience, and it’s why animals run in packs, or flocks, or whatever other order they group into.So whether you story-tell some silly stuff, or simply practice it as a discipline, is only material to the externalities caused by the fiction or the truth.)

  • Scale and The Store of Trust

    Oct 15, 2019, 2:22 PM Jonathan Haidt on his book The Coddling of the American Mind standard.co.uk https://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.html? SCALE AND THE STORE OF TRUST by Luke Weinhagen ( CD: I’m Sharing because of this bit of genius:

    —“The system can not scale beyond its ability to generate and store trust and begins to fail immediately when the extraction of stored trust exceeds the production of trust. That store can act as a buffer during a period of backsliding (and can enable a lot of really destructive behavior in the guise of “tolerance”), but it will not save us.”— Luke Weinhagen

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    —-“We came out of a century that had some of the worst horrors in history but which made extraordinary progress on almost every conceivable front in the decades afterwards, and now we’re backsliding.” — Jon Haidt

    Putting this in the context I’ve been building over the last couple weeks, the “progress” Haidt is describing (from my perspective) are the mechanisms we developed to foster the development of trust that became possible through the shared exposure to those horrors. I agree with both Haidt and Doolittle in that the outcome of this backsliding in inevitable should it continue. The lesson will impose itself. Whether we learn from it, kindly or not, is another matter. Looking at Curt’s response in the same context I’ve been using –

    “…conspicuous consumption of compromises between genes, gender, class, and interests” = extraction of trust. “…cooperative necessity in social orders…” = mechanisms for the production of trust

    The system can not scale beyond its ability to generate and store trust and begins to fail immediately when the extraction of stored trust exceeds the production of trust. That store can act as a buffer during a period of backsliding (and can enable a lot of really destructive behavior in the guise of “tolerance”), but it will not save us. “Domestication” is the process of transcendence from each of the lower foundational rules of human interaction to the next higher form of interaction/expansion of the capacity to store trust. THE FOUNDATIONS 1. Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule. 2. Via Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule. 3. Via Logica: ……….The Natural Law of Reciprocity. 4. Via Existentia: …. Rule of Law, ………………………….. … The Jury, and ………………………….. … Markets in everything. 5. Via Violentia: …. The Iron Rule. Might Makes Right. Both of these texts are worth a read when you get a chance. – Luke Weinhagen