#bio150 — Public Fediverse posts

@numberonedonaldtrumpfan though i do subscribe to depressive realism generally there's some strong arguments against some form of illness being equivalent to sanity in sopolsky's #bio150 course not sure which lecture tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

@amerika @Humpleupagus and this is okay

i hear that there's an equivalent thing that happens in churches - that every week, they repeat the same passages, they have weeklyish meetings after church and argue the same apologetics, reviewing the same arguments, and they view it as cyclical and boring because of it

i think we're a little better off out here on the internet (and slightly better off in closed, but intellectually diverse communities) because there is so many wacky and different people out here -- even if the threads repeat word for word, there's something different about them based on what we bring to the table

and maybe I'm falling too much in the pomo rabbit hole by saying this - but I can't shake the notion, from sapolsky's #bio150 course, that environment matters *a lot* in determining the full meaning of utterances, now.

...but even in those churches - - they repeat the words, and do what they can to incorporate it into themselves - to make the memes real, as it were. People talk smack about virtue signalling all the time - but if you *actually want to be virtuous* one of the ways, if not the only way to do this consistently is to position yourself in the direction of virtue, and then start walking. And part of positioning yourself and your group is going to be in the direction of virtue is communicating this, and working your way through the implications through words

#humanbehavioralbiology #bio150

takeaway #1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome

not saying that there is a god, but if there was, there'd be a syndrome like this in the holy land where he keeps trying to touch the brains of people and they keep getting put in the nuthouse

#bio150 lecture 24 #humanbehavioralbiology

takeaway #1

majority of homeless street people in US are schizophrenics

#bio150 #humanbehavioralbiology Lecture 23 takaway #1 : there exists poetry in american sign language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOQgY1tqrU&

takeaway from lecture 20 of #humanbehaviouralbiology / #bio150

1) when he says 'desert people' think #islam. ie : monotheism, desert culture both hallmarks of aggression as default.

2) "cultures that have strong histories and/or myths of victimization, and strong values of retribution are extremely violent societies and really bad news as neighbours" #SJWs

3) all cultures seemed to converge on a rate of #altruisticpunishment - ie punishing cheaters.

4) antisocial punisning: punishing people who are too generous:

high: greece, UAE <- more willing to punish someone for being generous than for someone cheating on a social contract, very low social capital

middle: slavs, most of the middle east, korea, turkey

low: US, scandinavia <- higher social capital????

5) https://youtu.be/BqP4_4kr7-0?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D&t=3531
this real "wag the dog" story circa 1990

Takaway from #humanbehavioralbiology 19 is that

someone really needs to rewrite karl popper's works on historicism / psychologicism (term?) in terms of the other like 20 buckets in this course

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