An Alternate Bi-Cameral Mind
In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes famously posits that the peoples of the ancient world were not just metaphorically writing about hearing gods, but that their brains were actually divided into a portion of the mind which “spoke” to the portion of the brain that then acted.
The Game of Risk, Sigmas, and the Big Short
A hodgepodge post. Rick’s Doctor links to the movie The Big Short and calls it a movie with 4 sigmas in it, an accurate description.
Unary Thinking
A user on Social Galactic asked for a guide on binary thinking, and I think the representational bias angle is a solid one to take on it.
And I sat pondering it a bit, and I realized that we can start with an even simpler example, given away by the title of course: Unary Thinking.
Representational Bias In The Wild
A theme of mine here has been the importance of representational bias. Here’s a great real-world example:
People Aren't Cattle
To be sure, there is an important sense in which they are; if the Lord God Almighty sees fit to use that as a metaphor you can be assured there is a good reason.
Will We Have Children In Heaven?
Spoiler: My answer is, I don’t know. My goal here is to attempt to convince you that you may not know as well as you think you do either.
Last night the kids wanted to watch the ball drop. I figured, why not. But we were also watching the college football game and it ran right up to the wire.
The Head of the Conspiracy
One of the perennial arguments of the conspiratorially-minded is who is on top. Is it the Freemasons? Jesuits? Catholic clergy? Illuminati? The Khazarian Mafia? Any of several variety of aliens?
Dreams and the Externality of Spiritual Attacks
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had vivid and complicated dreams. Not just “I ran into my dad at school and he was playing basketball with my old swimming coach and then I noticed that the gym had no roof and I was wearing no pants; how random!
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 14 and 15
I’m just going to quote this chapter, because I find it amusing, and I’ve said what I have to say on the topic of Roman religion.