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Our Pattern of Engaging
Human beings are not naturally “rational” creatures. We will not compromise our sense of our personal wellbeing, usually in favor of having highly accurate data. In the case of my own disorder, my brains inability to screen incoming sensory input for relevant data is even crippling, compromises competent daily function. As my wife says, I…
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Fractal Mirrors
Metaphysics is the school of thought that deals with attempting to refine and clarify the concepts we use to understand reality. Even though we may not be able to see it directly, there is a quality, character or “shape” to the force that leads us to exhibit our cognitive biases, not only us but other…
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Fabric of Consciousness
So in short, there is a fabric of consciousness just as there is of space time. In truth, these two are identical. It’s not smooth. It’s not featureless. It’s not mechanistic. If anything it’s “bubbly”, like blood. So consciousness is the third dimension to space time? It’s dimension zero, the absolute. Space and time are…
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Reality Unzips Your Program
The reason a computer can read anything from a zip file, a file that has been reduced down to the minimal amount of data necessary, is that the greater bulk of information the file requires is implied implicitly to the function of the computer itself. The computer just fills in the blanks. The same happens…
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Will to Compute
What is the benefit of trojans, worms, and viruses on the multiversal level? On the multiversal level, there is a truth to our awareness that is so complex it can only be processed by reverse engineering the web itself. This is done by taking samples, “stealing” code. There is a subset that applies here, and a…
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A World We Imagine
Today we are talking about virtual interaction theory. We tend to convince ourselves that we interact with an objective world, that we perceive and evaluate people places and things exactly as they are. What do you think? Is this true? We see through our own lenses, lenses upon lenses, veils behind veils. We project our…
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Most Human Experience
We behave and react according to what we perceive something to mean to us, and a good portion of that perceived meaning is obtained from simple biological sensation, but an even greater part is obtained socially from communication. We perceive things according to the meaning our social milieu assigns to them, or would you say…
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Interpreting Symbolism
Let’s talk about communal meals. Everyone can understand the concept of a communal meal, yes? We eat with our families as children if nothing else, so communal meals have meaning. They even have meaning for other species. Much of the dynamic behind a communal meal shapes and gives structure to the social hierarchy of pack…
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Your Personal Story
How much of your personal story is about concrete physical experiences? It’s more about subjective so not much on the concrete. How many of our day to day fears are based on concrete things? How much control is exerted over us by concrete presences or potential for direct influence? I’ve been shown how people interact…
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Meaning Behind the Meaning
Should I go further into meaning as it stands now? Or perhaps the meaning behind the meaning? Remember my earlier reference to children seeing everything as an agent? And well, adults do also. They just deny it. It’s actually inescapable. Scientific pretense even collapses under pressure. We understand our world as behaviour. We understand reasons…
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Outside of Borrowed Meaning
Remember I said earlier that we can’t really invent symbols? It’s all already there. Yes. We are already working from a bedrock of meaning. We just dismiss it as childhood fantasy, but you can’t fully and completely ignore it. You just engage in aggressive reinterpretation. You put people into roles, that you originally assigned to…
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Empathic Response
When I am very confused, depressed, anxious, or otherwise bothered, one sure-fire way to get myself out of that “obsessive thought pattern” is Tonglen. And I view that as a form of “projection.” But it always works to put my concerns about myself out there in the interest of someone else, or many people, who…
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Gestures
Shall we get down to the base code? Gestures. Every thing, every event, every stimuli, registers as a gesture, a motion, even before we experience emotion about it. The very first sense our bodies develop is touch, and our primary experience of touch is proprioception, our awareness of our bodies, our sense of pain. Even…
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Feel the Gestures
Shall we get to practice now? In practice, it’s about gestures and agents. Perhaps the first gesture, and I really think it’s one people neglect to make, is respecting the presence of other agents, respecting that things really are as they are. The second gesture is recognizing the relationships between agents, being open in a fully…
Category: Cognitive Bias
Heuristic algorithms fail to adequately model human behavior. We have unrealistic opinions about everything in our world, we need to. Does this simply mean we are all delusional?
Even though we may not be able to see it directly, there is a quality, character or “shape” to the force that leads us to exhibit our cognitive biases. Our bias directs our attention. What successfully models human consciousness is quantum theory. We function according to a matrix of if-then statements. Our behavior is situational looking for if-then cues. Our minds are in constant connection with the world around us.
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized” Benjamin Haydon (English historical painter and writer, 1786-1846)
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.” Charles Curtis