Theme: Causality

  • When It Doesn’t Make Sense, Test First for Stupidity and Emergence – Not Intent.

    Apr 15, 2020, 12:26 PM

    —“I have to consciously remind myself to “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity [ignorance]” – that’s “Hanlon’s Razor”. And the similar mantra to “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by emergence”.”—Brad Chambers

    Remember, the female perceives all as in intent. The male perceives all as systems of incentives. Be all the man you can be.

  • I’m a Practitioner of Cycles

    Apr 19, 2020, 8:17 AM

    —“Curt, What do you think of Peter Turchin’s Work”—

    Well I’m a practitioner, right? So I don’t know how to make a higher endorsement than that. Turchin, Kondratiev, Strauss and Howe, Caroll, Toynbee, Spenger, Durant … I mean, my model is a little lower level, meaning military, economic, and demographic, rather than statistical, so I tend to think in supply demand curves rather than statistical correlations, but I’m not just a follower but a practitioner.’

  • I’m a Practitioner of Cycles

    Apr 19, 2020, 8:17 AM

    —“Curt, What do you think of Peter Turchin’s Work”—

    Well I’m a practitioner, right? So I don’t know how to make a higher endorsement than that. Turchin, Kondratiev, Strauss and Howe, Caroll, Toynbee, Spenger, Durant … I mean, my model is a little lower level, meaning military, economic, and demographic, rather than statistical, so I tend to think in supply demand curves rather than statistical correlations, but I’m not just a follower but a practitioner.’

  • I made a necessary inescapable argument: You can invent whatever imaginary causa

    I made a necessary inescapable argument: You can invent whatever imaginary causality you want, but as I said, rights must be brought into existence and envorced. And in response to your nonsense statement. Law has greater force than religion. Religions are resistance movements.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-22 00:26:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1263627270566088704

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  • Emergent Dualism?

    Apr 25, 2020, 10:01 AM —“So emergent dualism? The brain produces mind as an emergent property?”—Andrew M Gilmour Brain integrates information and produces the consciousness spectrum, that produces mind (use of consciousness by regulating attention through recursive searching by auto-association), that produces logical facility, that produces the reason facility, that produces the language facility, that produces the calculation facility, that produces the computation facility and so on. I can explain consciousness just fine. We only really have understood it for a few years now, but it’s rather obvious at this point. There is a reason you can’t introspect upon how you move your arm and consciousness. Because they’re produced by the same process.

  • Emergent Dualism?

    Apr 25, 2020, 10:01 AM —“So emergent dualism? The brain produces mind as an emergent property?”—Andrew M Gilmour Brain integrates information and produces the consciousness spectrum, that produces mind (use of consciousness by regulating attention through recursive searching by auto-association), that produces logical facility, that produces the reason facility, that produces the language facility, that produces the calculation facility, that produces the computation facility and so on. I can explain consciousness just fine. We only really have understood it for a few years now, but it’s rather obvious at this point. There is a reason you can’t introspect upon how you move your arm and consciousness. Because they’re produced by the same process.

  • 7) … catastrophic failures. Personal Depressions, Economic Depression, Politic

    7) … catastrophic failures. Personal Depressions, Economic Depression, Political Conflicts, and Social Conflict, and the resulting (Current) civil wars and wars.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-13 14:46:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582264863416322

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582263407947780


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    6) Meaning that it is very costly to reorganize a neural, economic, political and social economy in response to change, and so we resist adaptation to change. Hence personal, economic, political, social, anchoring. Hence economic, politica, social ‘corrections’ are limited to …

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  • 6) Meaning that it is very costly to reorganize a neural, economic, political an

    6) Meaning that it is very costly to reorganize a neural, economic, political and social economy in response to change, and so we resist adaptation to change. Hence personal, economic, political, social, anchoring. Hence economic, politica, social ‘corrections’ are limited to …


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-13 14:46:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582263407947780

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    5) In other words, brains adapt to the senses they’re connected to and coherence between sense perception as it’s funneled into an integrated model creates a continuous organization of the brain. So neural economies function as political economies. And we have the same problems.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1260582262233542656

  • 5) In other words, brains adapt to the senses they’re connected to and coherence

    5) In other words, brains adapt to the senses they’re connected to and coherence between sense perception as it’s funneled into an integrated model creates a continuous organization of the brain. So neural economies function as political economies. And we have the same problems.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-13 14:46:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582262233542656

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582260559970304


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    4) But Adversarialism(competition) is the only way for systems to continuously evolve without requiring a priori knowledge. As such our brains evolve consciousness through competitive trial and error with consistency of sets of neural predictions between states as the ‘reward’.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1260582260559970304

  • 3) The competition between hemispheres and consolidation of competition for atte

    3) The competition between hemispheres and consolidation of competition for attention, and producing two competitors for attention. The result is a loss of introspection into causation. We don’t think of the brain as a market competition (adversarialism) rather than calculation.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-13 14:46:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582259570216961

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1260582258571968515


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    2) Release of action by Basal Ganglia. Splitting the corpus callosum (hemispheres) prohibits communication in what evolved as a division of labor (predator-action vs prey-perception), thereby limiting …

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1260582258571968515