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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
"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.
@hubermanlab
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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-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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@QiaochuYuan
i'm still mad at the people who read about
@sashachapin
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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sasha
@softminus
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@QiaochuYuan
and most crucially — you're not Allowed to try different stuff, not allowed to experiment, not allowed to do anything but whatever is Approved and found to be Useful. it's a tool for agency destruction.
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sasha
@softminus
it's not just "you're mistaken about whether acid helped with anosmia" it's "you're strictly disallowed from trying acid because we don't have Studies showing it helps and a Doctor isn't going to be prescribing it"
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