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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-???)

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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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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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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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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@learning_sprite

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worst part is, neither jesus nor daddy science really want you to deny your own life, but plenty of middle managers with a tepid understanding of both do. for no good reason either, it's just more convenient to them if you act a certain way.

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Mmmm, no, but I am pretty afraid of believing cranks? Of which there are many. If I didn't know of Sasha before, I would probably also disbelieve the singular story and I think I'd be right to. (not that he's wrong about his experience, but that he's wrong about the conclusions)

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There are vast differences in quality of evidence between my perception, a friend's perception, a stranger's perception, and a perception of someone in the news. And even my own perceptions lie to me regularly in ways I have to consciously correct for.

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Funnily, Daddy Science actually does give you permission to believe that very thing, but most people making that criticism are not up to date with Daddy.

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:) gonna write about this in a couple of days

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@RomeoStevens76

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They're that afraid of a disintermediated experience of reality, and the horrifying thought that they could/should have been having that the whole time. So reject those who do or try as deluded.

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The disability crowd have a cool saying - when doctor says “don’t think you can substitute one Google search for my 10years of medical training” to which they reply “don’t think you can substitute my 10 years of living with this condition for your half hour class in med school”

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