How we use our brain

[Tero]

I am reading a bunch of human brain books, and as my two classes will carry to December, will just post some stuff here to do with our use of the brain to figure out the world.

[Tero]

Ben Underwood





he died, unfortunately

[Tero]

Not entirely sure it can be taught to older people, but we have an expert. At 17 min it explains that you are able to use the part of the brain that stores and handles space info from the clicks.

[Brian Peacock]

I think you'd like Dan Levitin's "This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession", 2008.

[Tero]

Thanks. Seems that, or a class, gets offered to me repeatedly.

[JimC]

My brain often refuses to do things I tell it to do!

[Tero]

You've had all these years to train it!

[JimC]

I know, I know...

[Svartalf]

My brain often refuses to do things I tell it to do!

So does mine, then again I never got into the habit of using it, so it's underdeveloped and lazy.

[Tero]

1940s movie clip that demostrated..."intentional causality." Autistic brains do not get the plot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8FIEZXMUM2I

[Tero]

Conspiracy Theory believers are dumb. But there are a number of other factors, as there would be an equal number of dumb people on the left and they do not tend to believe these theories.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... pops.12568

[Tero]

There exists a strong assumption both within and outside academia that there is evidence for conservatives being more prone to conspiracy theories than liberals. Some studies support this assumption (Galliford & Furnham, 2017; Miller et al., 2016). Furthermore, several studies (e.g., Bruder et al., 2013; Grzesiak-Feldman & Irzycka, 2009; see also Richey, 2017) reported a link between conspiracy beliefs and right-wing authoritarianism—a dimension of political attitudes characterized by preference for conventionalism, authoritarian aggression, and authoritarian submission to authorities (Altemeyer, 1996). On the other hand, Oliver and Wood (2014a) and Uscinski and Parent (2014) did not find a link between political ideology/party and conspiracy belief, and Berinsky (2012) did not find a link between authoritarianism and conspiracy belief.

How is it possible to integrate these findings? One possibility is that although both extreme left- and right-wingers are likely to embrace various conspiracy theories, the link is stronger at the right side of the political spectrum, as observed by van Prooijen et al. (2015). In other words, although both extreme left-wing and right-wing ideologies foster conspiracy convictions, right-wingers are more predisposed to believe in conspiracy theories because they are also more likely to exhibit the personality predispositions that foster conspiracy thinking, such as the need to manage uncertainty (Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). It is also possible, given that much of the research to date has been conducted on American samples during the Obama administration, that situational factors, rather than dispositional factors, affected the discrepancy between conservatives and liberals.

that link above

[Sean Hayden]

Or your studies are fucked and you're seeking explainations for a phenomenon that just ain't.

[Tero]

What? Antifa? Look how quickly it disappeared. Dogs are in trouble now.

[Sean Hayden]

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9/11 was an inside job man!