PSYCHOLOGY (repost from August ’17) 1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits. As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism). As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive. As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time. Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases. SCIENCE As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit. PHILOSOPHY As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry. MYSTICISM As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality. THEOLOGY As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales. Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance. Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.
Theme: Incentives
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The quest for balance didn’t work because of political malincentives on all side
The quest for balance didn’t work because of political malincentives on all sides, so everyone pushed the extremes.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 23:44:06 UTC
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AMERICAN POLICY IS NOT MORALLY GOOD – JUST PRAGMATIC PURSUIT OF MARKET PROSPERIT
AMERICAN POLICY IS NOT MORALLY GOOD – JUST PRAGMATIC PURSUIT OF MARKET PROSPERITY
Let me put something into perspective. America advocates markets and meritocracy and fixed borders. This sounds very ‘moral’ but it is just profitable for an advanced country to advocate meritocracy. For the same reason it is sensible for a less advanced country to advocate authoritarianism.
We all pursue self intersets. It is just that sometimes, self interest is in everyone’s interest. And America’s self interest is most often in everyone’s interest.
It’s not because americans are good or smart.
it’s because it is more profitable.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 21:12:00 UTC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. PSYCHOLOGY (repost from August ’17) 1) percep
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
PSYCHOLOGY
(repost from August ’17)
1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits.
As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism).
As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive.
As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time.
Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases.
SCIENCE
As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit.
PHILOSOPHY
As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry.
MYSTICISM
As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality.
THEOLOGY
As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales.
Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance.
Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 14:14:11 UTC
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PSYCHOLOGY (repost from August ’17) 1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) catego
PSYCHOLOGY
(repost from August ’17)
1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits.
As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism).
As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive.
As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time.
Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases.
SCIENCE
As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit.
PHILOSOPHY
As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry.
MYSTICISM
As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality.
THEOLOGY
As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales.
Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance.
Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 10:14:00 UTC
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THE ACADEMY LIKE HOLLYWOOD PRODUCES WORSE WORK PRODUCTS THAN INDIVIDUAL CRAFTSMA
THE ACADEMY LIKE HOLLYWOOD PRODUCES WORSE WORK PRODUCTS THAN INDIVIDUAL CRAFTSMAN IN EITHER INDUSTRY
Um. helps to keep in mind that the academy provides funding for thought and obviously subsidizes bad thought. Whereas thought leadership in history did not come from the academy but from wealth sufficient for literacy and time for study. In other words, it is not clear that the academy produces better intellectual work products than individual craftsmen, any more than Hollywood produces better art products than individual craftsmen. And the evidence appears overwhelmingly the opposite: that the academy, entertainment industry, media, and democratic state, produce higher volumes of bad quality everything.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-26 07:39:00 UTC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE FIXED, EQUILIBRIAL, AND UNLIMITED PIES 😉
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
THE FIXED, EQUILIBRIAL, AND UNLIMITED PIES 😉
The left see a fixed pie when convenient and an endless pie when convenient, but they never seem to notice that it is demand for reciprocity and the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, and advocacy along short, medium, and long term time horizons that continuously produces an ever expanding pie.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-25 17:28:23 UTC
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THE FIXED, EQUILIBRIAL, AND UNLIMITED PIES 😉 The left see a fixed pie when conv
THE FIXED, EQUILIBRIAL, AND UNLIMITED PIES 😉
The left see a fixed pie when convenient and an endless pie when convenient, but they never seem to notice that it is demand for reciprocity and the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, and advocacy along short, medium, and long term time horizons that continuously produces an ever expanding pie.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-25 13:28:00 UTC
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Emotions Are Reactions to Changes in State of Capital
To put a bit finer point on the argument below, Emotions are reactions to changes in state of “capital” that we either have, or might have: obtaining it, saving it, or holding options on past present and future utility of it. That utility can reduce our physical, intellectual, emotional, reproductive, or time costs. Our “values” influence us in the sense that the value we attribute to any given form of capital varies according to our gender, class, ability, condition, and inventory of existing capital.
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Emotions Are Reactions to Changes in State of Capital
To put a bit finer point on the argument below, Emotions are reactions to changes in state of “capital” that we either have, or might have: obtaining it, saving it, or holding options on past present and future utility of it. That utility can reduce our physical, intellectual, emotional, reproductive, or time costs. Our “values” influence us in the sense that the value we attribute to any given form of capital varies according to our gender, class, ability, condition, and inventory of existing capital.