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@mwiik
One can see massive evidence of mental shallowness on this very platform
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Tiago Forte
@fortelabs
1/ My summary/interpretation of the remarkable book by @NickJChater The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain Affiliate link: amzn.to/2KBEZJd
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@Triquetrea
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It is an interesting argument because is both hilariously and obviously wrong, AND was already defeated once in living memory after decades of hegemony.
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Honestly curious because it seems to me that almost all discussion on twitter is on a level well below what's required to actually get closer to solving social ills
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@mwiik
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I hadn't read thru the thread yet Does't help that I have too many interests to do the learning required to know anything deeply Sometimes I can look back & see the key points where my thinking adjusted course to where it is today Perhaps that is shallowness justifying itself
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@mwiik
Mimesis in the wild Ok, so I feed the birds, and bird 2 comes along to try & take bird 1's morsel, even though there's more food about Is it that straightforward?
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@Triquetrea
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We just have millennia of cultural programming conflating mind phenomena with all sorts of other phenomena. When you notice that it's bad myth, about on the level with Hindu reincarnation myths, it becomes easy to go too far the other way.
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