Curt Doolittle

Theme: Science

  • Man as Fictionalist, Jesus as Philosopher, Aristotle as Scientist Man creates th

    Man as Fictionalist, Jesus as Philosopher, Aristotle as Scientist Man creates the narrative god in order to produce an authority figure who is an arbitrator between different preferences and customs. We invented custom before religion, and religion before law, and law before science. This narrative takes advantage of a quirk in human psychology that seeks to avoid blame. So neither party in an exchange dominates the other and no party seeks to retaliate against the other, because both are adhering to the demands of an ‘alpha’ ruler. Again, God Narratives take advantage of a quirk in our social instincts. The problem is, we have passed through mystical, supernatural, theological, rational, legal, and now scientific phases. And there is no reason to fail to pay the cost of teaching us to circumvent that quirk than there is to fail the cost of teaching reading, math, and reason.

  • Man as Fictionalist, Jesus as Philosopher, Aristotle as Scientist Man creates th

    Man as Fictionalist, Jesus as Philosopher, Aristotle as Scientist

    Man creates the narrative god in order to produce an authority figure who is an arbitrator between different preferences and customs. We invented custom before religion, and religion before law, and law before science. This narrative takes advantage of a quirk in human psychology that seeks to avoid blame. So neither party in an exchange dominates the other and no party seeks to retaliate against the other, because both are adhering to the demands of an ‘alpha’ ruler.

    Again, God Narratives take advantage of a quirk in our social instincts.

    The problem is, we have passed through mystical, supernatural, theological, rational, legal, and now scientific phases.

    And there is no reason to fail to pay the cost of teaching us to circumvent that quirk than there is to fail the cost of teaching reading, math, and reason.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-12 08:29:00 UTC

  • Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind. The experience we call

    Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind. The experience we call mind exists temporally as the result of action. And that action is the result of the persistence of vision (up to 2-3 seconds) exceeding rates of iteration (around a 25th of a second), between the thalamus and the generations (layers) of the brain. Thus we perceive a constant state (consciousness) of changes in state by continuous refreshing of perception and continuous temporary persistence of the stimulation. There is a reason we encode only the differences between frames when streaming video. Because those changes in state are all we detect, and we continuously assemble and model the world around us from those continuous changes in state.

  • Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind. The experience we call

    Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind. The experience we call mind exists temporally as the result of action. And that action is the result of the persistence of vision (up to 2-3 seconds) exceeding rates of iteration (around a 25th of a second), between the thalamus and the generations (layers) of the brain. Thus we perceive a constant state (consciousness) of changes in state by continuous refreshing of perception and continuous temporary persistence of the stimulation. There is a reason we encode only the differences between frames when streaming video. Because those changes in state are all we detect, and we continuously assemble and model the world around us from those continuous changes in state.

  • Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind. The experience we call

    Space and Time. Existence and Experience. Brain and Mind.

    The experience we call mind exists temporally as the result of action. And that action is the result of the persistence of vision (up to 2-3 seconds) exceeding rates of iteration (around a 25th of a second), between the thalamus and the generations (layers) of the brain. Thus we perceive a constant state (consciousness) of changes in state by continuous refreshing of perception and continuous temporary persistence of the stimulation.

    There is a reason we encode only the differences between frames when streaming video. Because those changes in state are all we detect, and we continuously assemble and model the world around us from those continuous changes in state.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-10 11:52:00 UTC

  • My answer to What do you call a person who believes in science and doesn’t belie

    My answer to What do you call a person who believes in science and doesn’t believe in god? https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-a-person-who-believes-in-science-and-doesnt-believe-in-god/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-07 03:14:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/961075720196972544

  • What Do You Call A Person Who Believes In Science And Doesn’t Believe In God?

    One doesn’t believe in science. One takes measurements as a means by which to eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, because it is our ignorance, error, bias and deceit that prevents us from seeing the universe as it is, rather than as we wish it to be, or as we evolved to see it to be.

    As far as I know, a scientist is a scientist, and that is the name of those people who practice aristotelianism, vs those people who practice literary idealism (platonists), and those who practice humble literary mysticism (mythicists), and those who practice arrogant literary pseudo-law, pseudo-history and pseudo-science (theology).

    A scientist can testify in court. A fictionalist cannot.

    Truth is a matter of due diligence and warranty. Both of which are only possible through measurement.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-a-person-who-believes-in-science-and-doesnt-believe-in-god

  • What Do You Call A Person Who Believes In Science And Doesn’t Believe In God?

    One doesn’t believe in science. One takes measurements as a means by which to eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, because it is our ignorance, error, bias and deceit that prevents us from seeing the universe as it is, rather than as we wish it to be, or as we evolved to see it to be.

    As far as I know, a scientist is a scientist, and that is the name of those people who practice aristotelianism, vs those people who practice literary idealism (platonists), and those who practice humble literary mysticism (mythicists), and those who practice arrogant literary pseudo-law, pseudo-history and pseudo-science (theology).

    A scientist can testify in court. A fictionalist cannot.

    Truth is a matter of due diligence and warranty. Both of which are only possible through measurement.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-a-person-who-believes-in-science-and-doesnt-believe-in-god

  • We are the people chosen by the gods to drag mankind out of ignorance, superstit

    We are the people chosen by the gods to drag mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, child mortality, early death, the whims of tyranny of the vicissitudes of nature. (((They))) created the Abrahamic Dark Age that lasted a thousand years. #Trump

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-05 16:56:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/960557705328058374

  • DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this

    DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this for years but nowhere near as elegantly: Dostoyevsky provided the novel, Nietzsche the Rationalism. And all of in the 20th and now 21st century are trying to produce the Science. And we are trying to do it faster than the Abrahamists can destroy our civilization again.