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Aug 18, 2020

i would love to hear more thoughts and analysis on this "badbrains" meme style, where people depict themselves as separate from their brains and their brains are depicted as antagonistic twitter.com/manicomplex/st

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@lil2np

Aug 18, 2020

I think it is about learned behaviours and/or lack of control of yourself due to different reasons. "You" hold knowledge of how should be, but "badbrain" resists to execute on your plan.

Frederico Costa Galvão

@fredgalvao

Aug 18, 2020

We actually have a cool name for that: Akrasia. It's when you know what to do, but do something else anyway.

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so akrasia is also fascinating to me as a conceptualization of the problem because it locates “you” as the part of you that “knows what to do” and disidentifies with the part of you that “does something else anyway” - this is a learned cognitive behavior IMO

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