The problem with theories like mirror neurons or IIT is not that they are wrong, but that they are superstitious. Their proposed elements have no way in which they could actually produce the result they pretend to explain.
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Replying to @Plinz
Mirror neurons are not ‘theories’. You are embarrassing yourself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron …
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Replying to @CryptoMunger
Embarrassment is in the eye of the beholder; I am gracefully protected by the Dunning Kruger effect. Though I am aware that Gazzaniga's group regretted coming up with the name due to the widespread popsci reception, and recommend
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Applying the Dunning-Kruger effect to yourself is an oxymoron. If you believe it applies to you, you then have the self-awareness that you are an outsider without the knowledge of experts, and that any superiority you feel is illusory. Thus, Dunning-Kruger doesn't apply to you.
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Replying to @AbstractMonkey9 @CryptoMunger
How would I know that? Being stupid is like being dead: you won't notice it yourself, and it only embarrasses the people around you. (I suspect that impostor syndrome is largely the subjective experience of Dunning Kruger :)
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How does that work? DK is overconfidence from unawareness of one's ignorance. IS is underconfidence from awareness of one's ignorance.
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DK is usually diagnosed by others, IS by yourself, based on the same symptoms.
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Aha! The cause of IS is exactly self-diagnosing DK: "I was overconfident bc of my unaware ignorance". But that results in a pathology with both opposite symptoms and aetiology to DK (under- vs overconfidence; awareness vs unawareness).
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I think that's exactly what
@Plinz is saying, but I also believe there are people with impostor syndrome who were never overconfident or unaware of their ignorance. In fact, lacking confidence in general probably predisposes to IS.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Please don't take me too seriously here. I wrote this mostly tongue-in-cheek. I am not even sure that Dunning Kruger and impostor syndrome would meet proper diagnostic criteria.
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What do you suspect to be wrong with the criteria I mentioned?
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Both syndromes are probably more folk lore than medical conditions, but we love them because they graphically describe phenomena that most of us are familiar with.
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