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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

"mere" perception - one of the weirdest implicit beliefs floating around is that psychology is somehow separate from biology. mind-body dualism runs deep

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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

· Aug 29, 2021

It’s remarkable that, *far more than any of our own behaviors (besides mating)* observing the successful aggression of others we deem “our team” raises our testosterone levels most. This is true for both males and females. The takeaway: mere perceptions can influence hormones.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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there's nothing mere about perception

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you have to be really science-cucked to reflexively speak as if *perceptions* are less real than *hormones*. have you ever seen a hormone? touched one? tasted one? how do you know they exist?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

this is important shit and i'm gonna keep being mad about it. the undermining of direct perception is one of the biggest tools of social control. it is the meta-gaslighting that enables other forms of gaslighting. it's one of the worst parts of the "i fucking love science" meme

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

where the flip side of "i fucking love science" is "i fucking hate anecdotes" - your observations, your perceptions, your experiences, don't count because they're N=1. this is bullshit and you don't have to put up with it. science is not more real than your life

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

i'm still mad at the people who read about

curing his anosmia with acid and were like "well he's probably wrong about his own experience" - jesus fucking christ are you that afraid of pissing off Daddy Science and believing something he didn't give you permission to

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there really is no mind-body dualism. All mental events have physical representations

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Perception has to be labeled this way because most humans will violently disagree that it is even a thing that must be labeled. Humans believe what they see is true.

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yes, or the materialist costume of the same: brain-body dualism

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Roboticists have been forced to contend with this deeply. It is quite difficult to build a robot whose perception system isn’t tightly coupled to its decision process. We can still “separate” them but increasingly the idea is that there’s a feedback loop b/w them.

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Probably also an indication that because nature and physics are unforgiving, we’ll learn more about mind/body problems trying to engineer robotic systems that work in the world rather than by studying biological ones.