by Pat Ryan Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense. If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death. So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted. That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly. Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence. The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems. Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!
Theme: Science
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Male and Female Similarities and Differences
Male and female brains differ structurally. Male and female brains differ in endocrine responses. Male and female brains differ in cognitive biases. Male and female brains vary morally because of those differences. What I think people are confused by is: – That these are only biases and we all share experiences. – That our brains divide the labor of searching for opportunity (prey) and searching for risk (predators). – That some of us develop in more masculine environments and therefore adapt to them through ‘exercise’ of those cognitive, emotional, and moral biases; and some of us develop in more feminine environments and adapt to them through like exercise. The problem is that both males and females need sufficient stresses of adaptation to function in their gender roles. So there are more feminine males and more masculine males in both body, emotions, and minds.
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Male and Female Similarities and Differences
Male and female brains differ structurally. Male and female brains differ in endocrine responses. Male and female brains differ in cognitive biases. Male and female brains vary morally because of those differences. What I think people are confused by is: – That these are only biases and we all share experiences. – That our brains divide the labor of searching for opportunity (prey) and searching for risk (predators). – That some of us develop in more masculine environments and therefore adapt to them through ‘exercise’ of those cognitive, emotional, and moral biases; and some of us develop in more feminine environments and adapt to them through like exercise. The problem is that both males and females need sufficient stresses of adaptation to function in their gender roles. So there are more feminine males and more masculine males in both body, emotions, and minds.
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Anti Economics Trends
(Re: https://theihs.org/seminars-conferences/policy-research-seminars/new-tech/) I think it’s nonsense. Economics is a very immature, that by accident of history has had an opportunity to replace property, law, reciprocity, and markets as the western means of government – because of the world wars, and the destruction of the traditional european order of small state monarchies with houses as markets for the commons, all under traditional common law of torts (reciprocity). All immature sciences have been problematic due to human rush to judgement and over enthusiastic use of new insights to gain advantages over others. Marxism, scientific socialism, keynesian monetarism, feminism, postmodernism are all attempts to use the violence of government to extract from others by force as a means of circumventing traditional exchanges between the classes – producing predictable results. Economics is repairable just as all sciences are repairable. Economics is rife with cherry-picking the way that social science is rife with attribution bias. ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Social_biases ) The Human desire that economic science advance their interests in politics is prohibitable. But the MATERIAL differences between the genders, classes, and sub-races is not ‘fixable’, other than by small-state nationalism, because all the alternatives -searching for equality- eventually result in castes(hinduism/brazil) or imperial tribalism(islam). And they must. Because no polity can survive competition for leadership without dependence upon its upper classes. So the problem was not economics, but the REPLACEMENT of rule of law, markets for exchanges of commons between the classes, with monopoly government using pseudoscientific methods of measurement to impose a war of transfers upon the classes – each of which rebels against it. May 19, 2018 11:21am
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Anti Economics Trends
(Re: https://theihs.org/seminars-conferences/policy-research-seminars/new-tech/) I think it’s nonsense. Economics is a very immature, that by accident of history has had an opportunity to replace property, law, reciprocity, and markets as the western means of government – because of the world wars, and the destruction of the traditional european order of small state monarchies with houses as markets for the commons, all under traditional common law of torts (reciprocity). All immature sciences have been problematic due to human rush to judgement and over enthusiastic use of new insights to gain advantages over others. Marxism, scientific socialism, keynesian monetarism, feminism, postmodernism are all attempts to use the violence of government to extract from others by force as a means of circumventing traditional exchanges between the classes – producing predictable results. Economics is repairable just as all sciences are repairable. Economics is rife with cherry-picking the way that social science is rife with attribution bias. ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Social_biases ) The Human desire that economic science advance their interests in politics is prohibitable. But the MATERIAL differences between the genders, classes, and sub-races is not ‘fixable’, other than by small-state nationalism, because all the alternatives -searching for equality- eventually result in castes(hinduism/brazil) or imperial tribalism(islam). And they must. Because no polity can survive competition for leadership without dependence upon its upper classes. So the problem was not economics, but the REPLACEMENT of rule of law, markets for exchanges of commons between the classes, with monopoly government using pseudoscientific methods of measurement to impose a war of transfers upon the classes – each of which rebels against it. May 19, 2018 11:21am
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It’s Just Science.
You see, let a thousand nations bloom, and let a thousand philosophers bloom. Propertarianism is just science. What you do with that science is not my business – other than to enjoy the works you make with it.
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It’s Just Science.
You see, let a thousand nations bloom, and let a thousand philosophers bloom. Propertarianism is just science. What you do with that science is not my business – other than to enjoy the works you make with it.
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Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monk
Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):
Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle. I still find Roy Baumeister a towering figure of psychology!
http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1131 https://t.co/dDEGCddNxp
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 14:52:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997490063897440258
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RT @DegenRolf: Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence
RT @DegenRolf: Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle.…
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 14:52:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997490013079261185
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Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monk
Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):
Aping recent results in humans, Capuchin monkeys show no evidence of ego depletion, the exhaustion of the willpower muscle. I still find Roy Baumeister a towering figure of psychology!
https://t.co/uQ8Cb8rKI0 https://t.co/4zLmJ3M5qs
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 10:52:00 UTC