Theme: Agency

  • (I did. But I made a mistake by following those dreams. Because in childhood we

    (I did. But I made a mistake by following those dreams. Because in childhood we are too ignorant to know our choices. If I had instead followed the advice of professors I would have transferred to serious philosophy and law rather than wait until middle age.)


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 17:32:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363542026671783939

    Reply addressees: @LimperScience

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363487088834977792

  • On the other hand we cannot take the simple mind of man, and his unorganized ins

    On the other hand we cannot take the simple mind of man, and his unorganized instincts and make him a fully human agent without a pedagogical sequence. Of narrative, to general rule, to specific prescription.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 17:26:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363540711304486915

    Reply addressees: @Imperius__13 @ThruTheHayes

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363540410073817091


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    @Imperius__13 @ThruTheHayes It is this possibility of disambiguation which allows commensurability between the three sensory paradigms., Its this commensurability and disambiguation and deflation that the mystic and the sophist hates, because it eliminates loading framing and suggestion (manipulation).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1363540410073817091

  • Brilliant. “Hate is a survival mechanism that has helped us compartmentalize ind

    Brilliant. “Hate is a survival mechanism that has helped us compartmentalize indecision” https://t.co/67xt1OvT06


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 13:38:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363483167047491586

  • 1. Conservative males mistake their intertemporal predictive modeling as a need

    1. Conservative males mistake their intertemporal predictive modeling as a need for woo-woo. If you need woo-woo it means that which you are contemplating is beyond your present knowledge. It’s the instinct to patrol the borders of your territory to gain the info to model it.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 13:37:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363482966404583431

  • An Operational Explanation of Schizophrenia

    On Schizophrenia: The brain (neurons, minicolumns, columns, modules, regions, hemispheres) functions by the adversarial (competitive) composition for coherence (overlapping, matching), resulting in the seizure of attention (victory) by the Thalamus (control of attention by the persistence of feedback across the neocortex), which causes recursion( persistence of context). Any sufficiently widespread degeneration of that consolidation into coherence (severely in the hippocampal region, generally across the neocortex), will cause the failure of that recursion. The brain functions by continuous iterations of recursive disambiguation held by the thalamus(auto-associative attention) and anterior (front) cingulate cortext (recursive attention) the prefrontal cortex(goal intention). That’s why language (grammar) is organized as continuous recursive disambiguation: pathfinding. So schizophrenia and all its symptoms in all their forms and severities are easily explicable as general degenerative disorder – most critically of the thalamus -> cingulate cortex -> prefrontal cortex. And even that sequence may simply be the most severe of a spectrum of disorders. So just as Alzheimer’s begins in the hippocampal region preventing the formation of memories, and resulting in the degeneration of memories (sort of top-down failure of the brain), schizophrenia affects the other end of the spectrum (the bottom-up failure of the brain) by the degeneration of control competition for coherence and therefore attention, causing degeneration in the hierarchy of recursion of associations. This is why the initial association formed in the neocortex appears to function but the recursion upon that association fails. I have no idea other than the apparent causal, hierarchical, sequence of depression to schizophrenia hints at some relation to immunological disorders, viral disorders, and developmental disorders – even that is just a suspicion, but the current research certainly takes that position. ( This exposition is a reason why you want to understand my work on the operational explanation of the function of the brain. )

  • An Operational Explanation of Schizophrenia

    On Schizophrenia: The brain (neurons, minicolumns, columns, modules, regions, hemispheres) functions by the adversarial (competitive) composition for coherence (overlapping, matching), resulting in the seizure of attention (victory) by the Thalamus (control of attention by the persistence of feedback across the neocortex), which causes recursion( persistence of context). Any sufficiently widespread degeneration of that consolidation into coherence (severely in the hippocampal region, generally across the neocortex), will cause the failure of that recursion. The brain functions by continuous iterations of recursive disambiguation held by the thalamus(auto-associative attention) and anterior (front) cingulate cortext (recursive attention) the prefrontal cortex(goal intention). That’s why language (grammar) is organized as continuous recursive disambiguation: pathfinding. So schizophrenia and all its symptoms in all their forms and severities are easily explicable as general degenerative disorder – most critically of the thalamus -> cingulate cortex -> prefrontal cortex. And even that sequence may simply be the most severe of a spectrum of disorders. So just as Alzheimer’s begins in the hippocampal region preventing the formation of memories, and resulting in the degeneration of memories (sort of top-down failure of the brain), schizophrenia affects the other end of the spectrum (the bottom-up failure of the brain) by the degeneration of control competition for coherence and therefore attention, causing degeneration in the hierarchy of recursion of associations. This is why the initial association formed in the neocortex appears to function but the recursion upon that association fails. I have no idea other than the apparent causal, hierarchical, sequence of depression to schizophrenia hints at some relation to immunological disorders, viral disorders, and developmental disorders – even that is just a suspicion, but the current research certainly takes that position. ( This exposition is a reason why you want to understand my work on the operational explanation of the function of the brain. )

  • On Schizophrenia: The brain (neurons, minicolumns, columns, modules, regions, he

    On Schizophrenia:

    The brain (neurons, minicolumns, columns, modules, regions, hemispheres) functions by the adversarial (competitive) composition for coherence (overlapping, matching), resulting in the seizure of attention (victory) by the Thalamus (control of attention by the persistence of feedback across the neocortex), which causes recursion( persistence of context).

    Any sufficiently widespread degeneration of that consolidation into coherence (severely in the hippocampal region, generally across the neocortex), will cause the failure of that recursion.

    The brain functions by continuous iterations of recursive disambiguation held by the thalamus(auto-associative attention) and anterior (front) cingulate cortext (recursive attention) the prefrontal cortex(sequence intention).

    That’s why language (grammar) is organized as continuous recursive disambiguation: pathfinding. So schizophrenia and all its symptoms in all their forms and severities are easily explicable as general degenerative disorder – most critically of the thalamus -> cingulate cortex -> prefontal cortex.

    And even that sequence may simply be the most severe of a spectrum of disorders. So just as Alzheimers begins in the hippocampal region preventing the formation of memories, and resulting in the degeneration of memories (sort of top down failure of the brain), schizophenia affects the other end of the spectrum (the bottom up failure of the brain) by the degeneration of control competition for coherence and therefore attention, causing degeneration in the hieraarchy of recursion of associations. This is why the initial association formed in the neocorex appears to function but the recursion upon that association fails.

    I have no idea other than the apparent causal, hierarchical, sequence of depression to schizophrenia hints at some relation to immunological disorders – even that is just a suspicion.

    ( This exposition is a reason why you want to understand my work on the operational explanation of the function of the brain. )


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-20 15:58:11 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105764401390897666

  • Just for fun: it’s demonstrably true that if you take a man and remove all reaso

    Just for fun: it’s demonstrably true that if you take a man and remove all reason and accountability you get a woman. On the other hand, it’s biologically true that you remove all intuition, fear, and unaccountability you get a man. Men are specialized “Super” versions of women.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-19 17:56:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362823445361393665

    Reply addressees: @StevePender @ThruTheHayes

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362812127908626433

  • Intelligence just refers to cognitive innovation and adaptation per moment of st

    Intelligence just refers to cognitive innovation and adaptation per moment of stimulation in time. Human’s evolved to maximize morphological adaptivity, biochemical adaptivity, social adaptivity, and cognitive adaptivity more so than any other creature at the cost of calories.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-19 17:39:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362819232250134529

  • Notes on Dutton’s “Why Rising Schizophrenia and Autism Means Academia Has Gone Literally Insane”

    My Notes Dutton: 1) Yes. Fantastic. This is correct. (schizophrenia<- mutational load ->autism). Although I can’t discern the distribution of influence between load, the effect of those with load, and the effect of those creating ‘nonsense’ to justify their load, and the economic and political conditions that amplify the opportunity for expression of that load. 2) I usually don’t blame the present condition (reversing our historical market eugenics) on load but on the absence of regulatory institutions (a) manners, ethics, morals, norms, traditions, (b) marriage for ‘friendship’ not division of labor, (c) state insured single-parent reproduction vs intergenerational family, (d) mobile labor not provincial families (maintaining interfamilial relations within a territory), (e) Abrahamism v2 in marxism-postmodernism-anti-male-anti-white teaching female relativism, and the failure of Europeans to produce a rational and scientific competitor to Abrahamism v2 because the left was successful postwar in suppressing the eugenics movement, and the right can’t speak of natural selection or evolution in any terms. But increasing load would obviously make a lot of sense. 3) Postmodernism consists of the conversion of rage at natural selection to rage at whites for building a civilization that preserves natural selection via self-determination and markets, and conflating white preservation of natural selection and reaping the benefits, to claims that natural selection is an arbitrary or oppressive expression of power rather than the necessity adapting to the logical, physical, cooperative, and evolutionary laws of the universe. 4) Interesting: so you are saying that midwits (“Island 120 wanna-be’s”) create a status-seeking spiral. So all of these are spirals due to ungoverned limits – the elimination of selection pressure on IDEAS, Behavior, Reproduction, and the social, economic, political, and evolutionary consequences of elimination of selection pressure. 5) (humor) Please help me with your system of measurement. Is it “Witless > Nitwits > Midwits > Wits.” Human vocabulary generally disambiguates dimensions of perception (measure) into three, five, or seven states, so given the fourth, I’m missing the rightmost ‘wit’. 😉 – Curt (controversial) Doolittle 😉